Firewatch was meant to spark a subgenre but its influence didn't spread. A decade on, we ask why Roblox and Minecraft are more ...

UCLA men’s basketball coach Mick Cronin is becoming a master at creating viral moments. During and after Tuesday night’s 82-59 blowout loss at No. 15 Michigan State, Cronin created two of them. First, ...

Nioh 3 is the first game in the series to adopt an open-world approach, where you can explore pretty much wherever you like. There are some constraints to that, as each subregion within the game's ...

My journey to becoming a worthy opponent in Crossplay, The Times’s first two-player game. By Deb Amlen I don’t really care who wins or loses a game. I just want to have fun and hang out with my ...

bedrock wither VS java wither!! Im a minecraft java player but people constantly tell me how insanely hard the bedrock wither is, so today i fought both to compare them. I scored them based on ...

Survival games have been around for a while, and for good reason. Games that challenge you to stay alive by gathering resources, battling enemies, and slowly building up your defenses offer a gameplay ...

Gaming subscriptions have reshaped how players engage with games, moving from owning single titles to accessing vast libraries instantly. Services like Xbox Game Pass, EA Play, and PlayStation Plus ...

The New Scientist Book Club moved from the dystopian near-future imagined by Grace Chan in Every Version of You in November to the utopian far-future imagined by Iain M. Banks in The Player of Games ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

The long, dark stretch of winter break is the perfect moment to crack open the game cabinet or dust off your console for some quality game time. In honor of the Year of Games—a yearlong celebration of ...

The single player vs multiplayer debate highlights why solo experiences often outperform competitive online modes. Single-player games provide narrative depth and tension-free pacing, allowing players ...

Publisher 3goo and French developer Vision Reelle have announced arcade racing game 4PGP Four-Player Grand Prix. It will launch for Switch 2 and Switch on February 5, 2026, followed by PC via Steam at ...