Author: Charles Harte

When Xbox revealed the date of its summer showcase, it included a mysterious teaser. Immediately following the presentation, there will be a second livestream to highlight an upcoming game in a “beloved” series. Today, the subject of that showcase has been revealed, and surprising no one, it’s a new Call of Duty game. Call of…

Hades II has taken the gaming world by storm, and I’m not just saying that because it’s the subject of our current cover story. But while many have been surprised by the sheer volume of content available so far, it’s still in Early Access, so the team at Supergiant will be updating and patching it…

Stray Gods: The Role-Playing Musical, a creative and ambitious attempt to fuse musical theatre with interactive fiction, launched last August, but that’s not the last time fans will get to experience that modern take on Greek myth. Announced today at LudoNarraCon, the game is getting DLC called Stray Gods: Orpheus, which follows the titular character…

As part of this month’s exclusive coverage of Hades II, associate editor Marcus Stewart sat down with two of the lead developers at Supergiant to bombard them with 78 questions. How many endings does the game have? Could Melinoë beat Kratos in a fight? What’s the difference between Chronos, Cronus, and Cronuts? Creative director Greg…

If you’re a fan of a popular movie or TV show from any time in the last several decades, chances are, they’ve made a Funko Pop figurine of the main characters. The brand is ubiquitous in pop culture, so it was only a matter of time before it got a big video game adaptation. This…

Dragon’s Dogma 2 launched a little over a month ago and has already managed to sell 2.5 million copies, but Capcom is still releasing updates to patch minor issues with the game. While a large volume of complaints have been about the lack of a performance mode, this update (like the last update) does not…

Taming a wolf in Minecraft is one of the game’s simplest joys, and no matter how many times I start a new world, I always hoard bones in case I encounter one. But once you’ve adopted a canine companion, you probably hide them away in a house for safe-keeping, shielding them from the horrors of…

In Tales of Kenzera: Zau, the debut game from Surgent Studios, the use of the word “Tales” is more literal than it initially seems. To kick off the events of the game, protagonist Zuberi reads a book written by his late father about a place called Kenzera. He uses fiction to cope with his grief,…