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Nintendo accidentally confirmed the Switch 2's mystery button is a "C" Button, in some promotional material for the company's new Nintendo Today app on the Google Play store. The reveal happened after the March 2025 Nintendo Direct, during which Nintendo also announced virtual game cards and showcased Metroid Prime 4 …

In order to help mitigate some of the more challenging (and potentially frustrating) aspects of Atomfall, we’ve put together a list of things players should know before pressing start.

Instead of collecting Atomfall's garden gnomes in a literal sense, you destroy them via punching. To help with that, we’ve listed the locations of all 15 gnomes in the game.

Chrono Trigger celebrated its 30-year anniversary this week, on March 11, 2025. Below, we look back at how it continues to endure and what continues to make it a powerful, relevant classic.After 30 years, I still often find myself thinking about Fiona's Forest in Chrono Trigger, and one of the …

An unannounced game from Respawn Entertainment, the studio behind Apex Legends and the Star Wars Jedi games, was apparently scrapped this week.

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. For years, first-person shooters have pushed the envelope of how video games can create exciting, intense experiences for players. The idea of taking part in your own ridiculous action movie helped make …

Microsoft's cross-platform release strategy puts the company in a unique position this year--as it currently stands, there are more Xbox first-party games than Sony titles confirmed for a PlayStation release in 2025.

Xbox is offering South of Midnight’s premium edition upgrade, which includes early access and a range of other extras, at a discount for Game Pass subscribers, though there’s a small catch. The discount is only available for two of the subscription service’s tiers--Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass, …

Sea of Thieves players should be wary when Season 15 launches on February 20, as two new megalodons will be creeping in the waters. But should pirates be able to take down these fearsome sea creatures, they'll have new spots in the game's world to sell their megalodon meat.

The next installment of the Battlefield series--ostensibly Battlefield 6--is bringing back the acclaimed Battlefield Portal feature from the otherwise critically maligned Battlefield 2042, according to a YouTuber.

With tariffs by the US set to take effect on Tuesday, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) expressed concern about how they may affect the video game industry. In a statement on its website, the ESA warned that import taxes on gaming devices would "negatively impact hundreds of millions of Americans."

Season 2 of Apple TV's hit psychological thriller Severance is receiving high praise from critics ahead of its January 17 premiere. If you need to catch up or refresh your memory, Amazon has a great deal on the recently released Blu-ray of Severance Season 1. Normally $43, Severance Season 1 …

Even a decade after its release, Alien: Isolation remains a standout experience.It's a monumental example of adaptation in video games, thanks to the fact that developer Creative Assembly was packed with fans of Ridley Scott's 1979 film, Alien, and an incredibly tight, detailed focus on the fidelity of the movie's …

Remember Xenogears? A turn-based RPG from the height of Squaresoft's dominance in the 1990s, it combined sci-fi and fantasy elements and a whole lot of mental illness troubles with giant mechs wailing on each other. It was pretty cool, and now you can bring a little part of that into …

The Dark Knight Trilogy is on sale for super cheap in Amazon's Black Friday sale. You can snag the complete trilogy on 4K Blu-ray for only $30 (was $71). With this deal, you're getting Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises on 4K for only $10 each. …

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Much has been made about Avowed's approach to its setting, the Living Lands, and the fact that it is not an open-world game. Instead, Avowed's world is made up of "open zones"--large geographical areas that are interconnected with other large areas, much like a previous game from developer Obsidian, The …

Director Christopher Nolan's 2024 Best Picture winner, Oppenheimer, has been available on 4K Blu-ray for almost a year--but if you missed out the steelbook case at Best Buy last year, you have another opportunity to get a similar one at Walmart. A new Oppenheimer 4K Steelbook Edition releases November 19 …

Third-person action game Slitterhead often presents a pretty compelling front. At first, it sounds like an out-there horror game with an inventive approach to gameplay. You play as a formless spirit that can possess humans, hunting vicious monsters capable of imitating normal people. Those creatures explode from the heads of …

If you're feeling the post-Halloween blues and feel like keeping the spooky vibe alive a little longer, you might want to check out the Eisner Award-winning Southern gothic comic series, Harrow County, which is getting a new hardcover omnibus edition later this month. The Complete Harrow County launches November 26, …

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. As you play through the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign, you're going to want to grab all the cash you can to buy upgrades that can power up your character …

The best part of any Call of Duty game's Zombies mode is how it facilitates panic. The longer you play the round-based horde mode, in which the undead stream toward you from all directions, the tougher it becomes, and before long, you're sprinting around the map, trying desperately to stay …

Spooky season is hitting its conclusion, which makes this a great time to take advantage of a couple of Fanatical bundles that offer a bunch of spooky games. The Prestige Build Your Own Bundle: Thriller Edition and Winter 2024 Build Your Own Supreme Collection bundles can provide you with horror, …

Destiny 2's Festival of the Lost brings a few unique weapons to the game alongside its spooky season-themed activities. New this year is Arcane Embrace, a one-of-a-kind shotgun with a new archetype that fires two slugs with each pull of the trigger instead of one. Especially with its god roll …

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There's an argument to be made that speed is what makes Call of Duty multiplayer feel so good. As a franchise, the CoD games are great about getting you into the action as quickly as possible. When you shoot opponents, they tend to go down fast; when you die, you …

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 remains my favorite of developer Treyarch's contributions to the long-running and sometimes formulaic shooter franchise, because it's the one that takes the most wild swings. It mixes traditional Call of Duty linear levels with a top-down, real-time-strategy-like experience that lets you move troops around …

Director Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films are the epitome of cult classics, and thanks to their mix of high camp, ridiculous gore, and some legitimate scares, but it's undoubtedly the pitch-perfect performance by star Bruce Campbell as series protagonist Ash Williams that secured the trilogy as celebrated part of horror …

Destiny 2's next seasonal celebration, the Halloween-themed Festival of the Lost, will offer new ways to get some highly sought-after rewards. The annual event is bringing a means to get its best piece of armor, the ability-combining Exotic class item, that allows you to skip the (excellent, but potentially arduous) …

Silent Hill 2 Remake faithfully includes a huge amount of material from the 2001 original, from dialogue to notes you can find scattered throughout the game, and also adds a whole lot of interesting additions. Some of those additions seem to suggest that the remake is more than a remake, …