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New Witcher board game promises to unravel a tantalizing mystery The Witcher: Legacy continues the collaboration between CD Projekt Red and Go On Board that has produced the Cyberpunk 2077 board game and The Witcher: Old World

New The Witcher board game follows the downfall of Geralt’s school

A cult-favorite series returns after 14 years to Nintendo Switch Katamari Damacy is so back

A cult-favorite series returns after 14 years to Nintendo Switch

Square Enix announces new HD-2D Action-JRPG Square Enix announces its latest HD-2D Action-JRPG

Square Enix announces new HD-2D Action-JRPG

A new Octopath Traveler game is coming December 4 And this looks like more than eight heroes!

A new Octopath Traveler game is coming December 4

Everything announced at Nintendo’s new Nintendo Direct Switch 2 gets a ton of new (and not so new) games

Everything announced at Nintendo’s new Nintendo Direct

Monster Hunter Stories 3 revealed for Nintendo Switch 2 The new Stories entry is set to hit the console in 2026

Monster Hunter Stories 3 revealed for Nintendo Switch 2

Time Flies when you’re thinking about dying Big existential dread in a small game

Time Flies when you’re thinking about dying

Emma Stone and her weirdest director team up again for another surreal mini masterpiece Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone squeeze in another film before their big 2025 release

Emma Stone and her weirdest director team up again for another surreal mini masterpiece

Netflix’s Sandman fleshes out the comic’s most mysterious character Interview with the Vampire star Jacob Anderson helped define a character left undefined.

Netflix’s The Sandman fleshes out one of the comic’s most mysterious characters

MTG’s upcoming Spider-Man set is worrying draft players MTG’s Spider-Man set may cause problems for competitive draft

MTG’s upcoming Spider-Man set is worrying draft players

Dig Donkey Kong Bananza? Check out this new hole game next Mashina continues 2025’s run of games about digging a hole

Dig Donkey Kong Bananza? Check out this new hole game next

I have nothing negative to say about Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, other than that it ends too soon In the Year of the Ninja, The Game Kitchen is killing it

I have nothing negative to say about Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, other than that it ends too soon

D&D returns to Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms at Gen Con A new organized play campaign will be shaped by player decisions

D&D returns to its one of its earliest settings by kicking off an organized play campaign at Gen Con

Can a game about a pixelated cat change the narrative around drug education? Narcat’s World shows players how to respond to opiate overdoses, and gives them the tools to save lives

Can a game about a pixelated cat change the narrative around drug education?

Looks like everyone’s gonna want to play Blade in Marvel Rivals The mid season 3 update also introduces a new mode, map, and some changes to the social experience Marvel Rivals fans can also expect new team-ups

Looks like everyone’s gonna want to play Blade in Marvel Rivals

Cozy? Please, Tales of the Shire is a tragedy Bye bye Bywater

Cozy? Please, Tales of the Shire is a tragedy

The Sims convinced another huge musician to sing in Simlish FKA Twigs is just the latest in a decades-long line of Simlish singers

The Sims convinced another huge musician to sing in Simlish

Clair Obscur patch lets you immediately get your butt kicked again by *that boss* after defeat Latest Clair Obscur patch brings a bevy of quality of life improvements to the game, including the ability to instantly restart its boss fights after defeat.

Clair Obscur patch lets you immediately get your butt kicked again by *that boss* after defeat

Together fixes horror movies’ worst cliché in a supremely creepy way Brie Larson and Dave Franco’s new indie horror deals with monsters both real and metaphorical

Together fixes horror movies’ worst cliché in a supremely creepy way

EA isn’t raising game prices, yet EA claims not to have factored in $80 games in its strategy so far

EA isn’t raising game prices, yet

Apex Legends’ new Wildcard mode lets you stack Legends, and it’s here to stay Mirage à trois, anyone?

Apex Legends’ new Wildcard mode lets you stack Legends, and it’s here to stay

Mario Kart World’s first massive update doesn’t even mention all the changes Changes to AI, lap races, and increased momentum

Mario Kart World’s first massive update doesn’t even mention all the changes

The new Friday the 13th game doesn’t need to be Dead by Daylight to succeed It’s Crystal Lake clear what Horror Inc should do next

The new Friday the 13th game doesn’t need to be Dead by Daylight to succeed

The Pokémon Company yanks fan art that sneaked into TCG Pocket and apologizes The Pokémon Company attributed the controversy to a production issue as the Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion pulls Ho-Oh art amid plagiarism backlash.

Pokémon Company apologizes for fan art winding up in Pokémon TCG Pocket

The Summer Hikaru Died couldn’t work without its queer themes Is there anything more horrifying than love?

The Summer Hikaru Died couldn’t work without its queer themes

Nintendo confirms a new Nintendo Direct is coming this Thursday A reminder that Switch 2 has a lot of great third-party content coming in 2025

A new Nintendo Direct is coming on July 31

Where was Doctor Doom during Fantastic Four: First Steps? Let’s talk options You know they’re going to have to tell us eventually

Fantastic Four: First Steps has an Eternals problem in Doctor Doom

Bad Guys 3 could double down on Bad Guys 2’s Elon Musk parody, director says And he acknowledges that a Musk-esque character plays differently in 2025 than when they first planned the film

Bad Guys 3 could double down on Bad Guys 2’s Elon Musk parody, director says

Plagiarism claims hit Pokémon TCG Pocket as fans say Ho-Oh art was copied A Chinese artist calls Ditto over his Ho-Oh fan art being copied by The Pokémon Company, but there may be nothing they can do about it

Plagiarism claims hit Pokémon TCG Pocket as fans say Ho-Oh art was copied

Magic: the Gathering Final Fantasy set broke The Lord of the Rings’ record in one day The perfect IP for Universes Beyond

Magic: the Gathering Final Fantasy set broke The Lord of the Rings’ record in one day