Gen Con opens in Indianapolis on July 30 — one month from today — and for four days the Indiana Convention Center becomes the closest thing tabletop gaming has to a world capital. Last year drew a record 72,000 attendees. This year’s lineup gives them good reason to return. What Gen Con Is Gen Con … Read more
The best browser games of 2026 share one feature that no console title can match: you can be playing within ten seconds of deciding you want to. No downloads, no accounts in most cases, no hardware requirements beyond a modern browser. Whether you have five minutes or five hours, something on this list will fit. … Read more
Gaming has its own language, and not knowing it can make reviews, online discussions, and other players harder to follow than they need to be. This guide explains the most common terms you will encounter, grouped by topic. No prior knowledge is assumed. Health and Progression HP stands for hit points, sometimes called health points. … 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
In April 2025, four figures from India’s gaming and esports industry gathered at what appears to be a business conference to discuss where the sector is heading. The panel includes Wamsi Krishna, founder of The Esports Club; Anurak Kurana, founder and CEO of New Gen Gaming; VJS, a legal professional working in gaming policy; and … Read more
At CONvergence 2025, the Talking Cardboard channel hosted a 45-minute panel with four working tabletop game designers: Jeremy and his collaborators from Sophisticated Cardboard, the studio behind horror game Stifling Dark; Liz, a designer and former public school teacher whose games include Night Witches and Queen of Spies; Adam, a former Fantasy Flight and Asmodee … Read more
The Nintendo Switch 2 has more built into it than the menus suggest at first glance. Taking 20 minutes to go through System Settings properly will surface several features you would otherwise stumble across months later. Here are the ones worth finding early. Protect your battery from day one Nintendo has built in a setting … Read more
Free-to-play has a credibility problem. Years of games that offered a free entry point and then charged for everything that mattered have made players understandably cautious. The titles below earned inclusion by offering a complete experience at no cost, with any paid elements limited to cosmetics or optional convenience. None require spending money to be … Read more
Sony Interactive Entertainment confirmed on June 25 that it is laying off a significant portion of Bungie’s workforce, affecting most of the Destiny team and some Marathon staff. The studio, which Sony acquired for $3.6 billion in 2022, will simultaneously end all live content updates for Destiny 2. The game will remain playable, but no … Read more
Hollow Knight: Silksong launched in September 2025, crashed every major digital storefront on day one, sold seven million copies, and won awards at the Golden Joysticks, The Game Awards, and the Steam Awards. That part of the story is settled. What is new is what comes next — and there is enough of it to … Read more