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Andre Rebelo, better known as “Typical Gamer” to his millions of followers on YouTube and Fortnite, was one of several creators paid to promote PlayStation’s now-failed live shooter. “I was actually sponsored by Concord. I actually enjoyed the game,” Rebelo said. “It was lacking in some parts, for sure, but I enjoyed the game at the core.”

The cat adventure Stray (finally!) lands on the Nintendo Switch today. The adorable 2022 game was originally available on just PlayStation and PC.

Longtime fans of Netflix animated series Arcane rejoiced when paramours Caitlyn and Vi got together for their first kiss, followed by their first time hooking up in Season 2. The League of Legends adaptation and fandom had been building up to this moment for years, even the better part of a decade. But apparently, the version viewers got to see was milquetoast compared to the original. When Vi kissed Caitlyn in Episode 8 and reaches down, the camera cuts to nothing.

For nine years, the video games industry gets together on one special night to celebrate itself and crown a few winners. Like a wilder, more unfettered version of the Oscars, the annual Game Awards in Los Angeles recognizes outstanding video games of several genres, and brings on celebrities from Hollywood and the games industry alike on stage.

Is Singed the true mastermind behind 'League of Legends'? What can we expect from the Arcane spinoffs?

What if you could pull off grand heists while facing off against other thieves and security guards? What if the scope of the game was massive and contained a main storyline, plus side objectives? Those are the questions that OtherSide Entertainment studio co-founder and chief creative officer Warren Spector and his co-founder Paul Neurath are asking with the announcement of their new game Thick As Thieves, slated for 2026.

The creator of 'It Takes Two' is back with another imaginative and wild couch co-op you won't want to put down in 'Split Fiction.'

This year has come and gone by in the blink of an eye, and with it, a huge slate of video games has arrived on our doorsteps. It’s tempting to define a year by one single game. Sure, 2024 was the year we all anticipated Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and the year that Astro Bot surprised us all — and took home the big prize at the Game Awards. But the game industry is massive, and the tastes of gamers are more varied and particular than ever. No one game can define it.

Video games feel front and center to the action, in heralding in 2025, at the Rebirth concert in Carnegie Hall on a freezing New York night, where attendees dressed as Aerith or Sephiroth. Arnie Roth, the spirited conductor headlining the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth orchestral performance, peppered his speech with gamer jokes.

The Venn diagram of people who play Grand Theft Auto and enjoy Shakespeare must be small, a character in the upcoming documentary Grand Theft Hamlet says, in a passing comment. After all, if your guilty pleasure is blowing up people and stealing cars, then would you really want to hear the tale of a turmoiled man tasked with murder? What does Shakespeare have anything to do with America’s most popular video game in the 21th century?