Phantom Blade Zero, a martial-arts action RPG from the Chinese studio S-GAME, launches October 29, 2026 on PlayStation 5 and PC. The release moved from September 9, and Wikipedia’s entry says the studio wanted more time to improve quality. Details here are current as of October 13, 2026, and no review scores exist yet. This … Read more
The Blood of Dawnwalker launched September 3 as the debut title from Rebel Wolves, a studio founded by veterans from CD Projekt Red. It’s a 14th-century vampire action RPG built around a single mechanic: you have 30 days to save your family before they’re sacrificed. That pressure shapes everything. Critics largely agree the concept works. … Read more
Beast of Reincarnation is the most interesting thing Game Freak has done in years, and that has nothing to do with Pokémon. This is the studio’s first major original game outside that franchise and its first release ever on PlayStation and Xbox. Published by Fictions and out since August 4, it is a mature action … Read more
A note on timing before anything else: Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster releases on Nintendo Switch 2 on July 23. Critic reviews specific to this version aren’t out yet. What follows is an assessment built on two things that are solid: the extensive, well-documented critical and player history of this exact package across PS3, PS … Read more
World Order asks you to run a global superpower. Not metaphorically, specifically: you play as the United States, China, Russia, or the European Union, competing for influence across seven regions using a mix of area control, deck-building, and hand management. It’s designed by Vangelis Bagiartakis and Varnavas Timotheou, the team behind Hegemony: Lead Your Class … Read more
Where Winds Meet is one of the more ambitious free games you can download right now, and its arrival on Xbox with a new expansion makes this a fair moment to assess it. It is an open-world wuxia action RPG, meaning it draws on Chinese martial-arts fiction, with swordplay, roaming heroes, and a historical setting. … Read more
Dave the Diver: In the Jungle released June 18. It’s worth being precise about what this is before getting into the reviews: this is a paid DLC expansion for the 2023 game Dave the Diver, priced at $9.99, not a new standalone release. Reviews have settled enough now to give a fair read on how … Read more
James Bond had not had a proper video game in over a decade. 007 First Light, IO Interactive’s origin story following a 26-year-old Bond fresh out of the Navy, released on May 27 and has landed the best review scores any Bond game has received since GoldenEye 007 in 1997. This is a synthesis of … Read more
The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series defined a particular kind of early-2000s gaming — fast, musical, technically rewarding, and broadly accessible. The 2020 remake of Pro Skater 1 + 2, handled by Vicarious Visions, was received well enough that a follow-up felt inevitable. That follow-up arrived in July 2025, developed this time by Iron Galaxy … Read more
Smoothie Wars sets players up as rival smoothie entrepreneurs competing on a tropical island across a simulated week of business. The premise sounds light, but the economic structure underneath it is genuine. For the right group, it works considerably better than the cheerful packaging suggests. The game was designed by UK entrepreneur Dr Thom Van … Read more