Author: Karen M. Menke

Let me introduce you to Drag x Drive, a wheelchair basketball-themed sports game that is mostly controlled by the Joy-Con 2’s mouse mode, if you’re among the Nintendo enthusiasts who are concerned that the firm lost its creative spark after playing it safe with the Switch 2. Even after 20 years of playing every weird motion-controlled game from the Wii onward, I can honestly say that this is something I’ve never seen before, even though it has a surprisingly flat personality given that it comes from the company that has given us some of the most recognizable characters and gaming…

As you level up your battle pass in the most recent season of Fortnite, you and your team must defend yourselves against insectoid alien adversaries known as Bugs. If that sounds familiar, you’re not the only one. The creator of Helldivers 2, another shooter in which you team up against insectoid alien adversaries known as Bugs, Arrowhead Game Studios, has now addressed the similarities and implied that copying is flattering. On the game’s Discord (thanks, Videogamer), community manager Katherine Baskin said, “Hmmm… it’s giving ‘we have Helldivers at home,'” before saying, “I’m not worried.” “Fortnite is Fortnite, Helldivers is Helldivers,”…

We’re finally getting our first first-person Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, and the first one in virtual reality, as we exclusively revealed earlier this year. TMNT: Empire City is a co-op action-adventure game that stars your favorite heroes in a half-shell. In the latest developer diary video above, you can see some first-person parkour/traversal gameplay. Ace St. Germain, the creative director, provides some details about Empire City’s first-person VR parkour mechanics: While above-ground mobility stresses parkour, enabling quick and vertical exploration, movement in sewers is slower and more covert. We’re concentrating on important areas rather than re-creating the entire city…

After a new trailer hinted at the appearance of the ODST, Helldivers 2 appears to be headed for an unusual Halo crossover. For August 26, Arrowhead’s wildly popular third-person shooter for PC and PlayStation 5 will be released for Xbox Series X and S, becoming the first game published by Sony on Microsoft’s platform. The game’s famous soundtrack plays as the clip, which can be seen below, closes with what appears to be the entrance of an ODST on a battlefield soaked in rain. Everything is so ODST! In 2009, Halo 3: ODST, developed by Bungie, was released exclusively on…

Four years after its first E3 announcement, a Bloomberg story claims that Xbox has canceled the game’s production in order to “evaluate the project’s future.” According to insiders, “Xbox is canceling Contraband, announced in 2021 from Avalanche Studios (Just Cause), after four years of radio silence,” Jason Schreier, a journalist for Bloomberg, was the first to report the news on Bluesky today. Avalanche then posted an official confirmation on its website, which says the following: Xbox Game Studios Publishing and Avalanche Studios Group have worked together on Contraband for a number of years. As we assess the project’s future, active…

When it comes to Killing Floor 3, I keep asking myself, “Where’s the rest of it?” I’ve been collaborating with waves of mutant clone zombies for the past week, and it was a lot of joy to aimlessly hack and slash at these Zeds. However, my coworkers and I frequently asked each other, “Is this the final release, or is it just Early Access?” Many of us, including myself, enjoyed Killing Floor 2. In addition to being a lot simpler, more tightly-woven shoot-em-up than its predecessors, Killing Floor 3’s single Survival mode is generally enjoyable, regardless of whether you enjoy…

Now is a fantastic moment to be a soulslike fan. We have been feasting well in 2025 thanks to the amazing The First Berserker: Khazan earlier in the year, the great Lies of P: Overture DLC last month, and the multiplayer/co-op-focused Elden Ring: Nightreign. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is just one more course in that menu. The thrilling, quick-paced, and dynamic combat in this Leenzee Games debut game immediately won me over. Along with one of the best skill trees in the genre, it features a complex and connected level design that leads us through both grotesque sights and beautiful vistas…

Good news, fans of action movies from the 1980s: RoboCop is still in the business of blowing the brains and balls off of bad dudes, and it’s still unfinished. RoboCop: Rogue City – Unfinished Business is a stand-alone follow-up to 2023’s entertainingly realistic RoboCop: Rogue City. It takes Robo’s unrelenting rampage from the filthy streets of Old Detroit and up through the tightly guarded heights of OMNI Tower in a brand-new, 10-hour killing spree. The bad news is that Unfinished Business’s action never really rises to the level of its setting’s upward trajectory or sets itself apart as anything more…

Since the game’s February release, Capcom has kept improving Monster Hunter Wilds, and in a recent Guild Report, it’s responding to one particular criticism: players’ anxiety over losing out on limited-time stuff. Capcom stated on X/Twitter that it had been asked to allow hunting of time-limited Arch-tempered beasts permanently. The developer is responding by making it possible to hunt the battles with Arch-tempered Rey Dau and Uth Duna indefinitely. Arch-tempered Rey Dau will be accessible permanently starting on July 23rd, coinciding with the advent of Festival of Accord: Flamefete. (Capcom is aware that the current event quest will expire on…

In the graphic novel Cult of the Lab: The First Verse, the well-liked Cult of the Lamb franchise has just made the transition to comics. Gamextacan exclusively previews Cult of the Lamb: Schism Special #1, the next installment in the Cult of the Lamb Saga, ahead of San Diego Comic-Con 2025. The 48-page one-shot comic Cult of the Lamb: Schism Special #1 brings together the creative team from The First Verse, which includes artist Troy Little (Rick and Morty vs. Cthulu) and writer Alex Paknadel (Red Goblin). Once more, the development studio Massive Monster, game publisher Devolver Digital, and comic…