Velan Studios, the developer behind Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit and Knockout City, has announced Hot Wheels: Rift Rally. This new mixed-reality racing game comes by way of a collaboration with toy maker Mattel, playing off the experience the studio accrued through past games. Much like Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, Hot Wheels: Rift Rally…

After spending a couple of years coming together in early access, Darkest Dungeon II is ready to go 1.0 this May. Those who haven’t been keeping up can sample the finished version by downloading a free demo today. Darkest Dungeon II arrives on PC on May 8. The game first entered early access in 2021 and,…

Last night’s Grammy awards ceremony was the first ever to include a category for the best score soundtrack for a video game, and last year’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla expansion, Dawn of Ragnarok, took home the win.  More specifically, the DLC’s composer, Stephanie Economou, won the Grammy for her score in the game. Her other credits…

To many, Cities: Skylines is the premier city-building simulation. When the PC launched in 2015, it quickly became a fan-favorite release for those who felt let down by modern SimCity titles. When the sim title arrived on consoles two years later, the less-intuitive controls didn’t detract too much from the experience, enabling it to still…

A new Nintendo Direct will air tomorrow, February 8, at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern.  Tune in at 2 p.m. PST tomorrow, Feb. 8, for a #NintendoDirect livestream featuring roughly 40 minutes of information mostly focused on #NintendoSwitch games launching in the first half of 2023. Watch it live here: https://t.co/8ce3reaEig pic.twitter.com/Pmf41dQWIw — Nintendo of…

Ever since the first bundle arrived in 2014, The Jackbox Party Pack has been a staple in many households when friends and family come over. The zany, creative, and often-irreverent games have proven to be crowd-pleasers over the last decade of annual iterations, with Jackbox Party Pack 9 releasing last October. Today, Jackbox Games announced a…

Forspoken players still exploring Athia or those hoping to jump in the future should be happy to know that developer Luminous Productions has announced an impending patch to make the adventure smoother across the board.  In a statement by game director Takeshi Aramaki, the update will improve Forspoken’s graphics, performance, and playability while also adding “general…

Valiant Hearts: Coming Home, the sequel to 2014’s Valiant Hearts: The Great War, is now available to play for all Netflix members.  This Netflix-exclusive game can be played by any subscriber on iOS and Android devices. The sequel brings players back to World War I “for a dramatic narrative game following four interweaving stories of…

Ubisoft has revealed The Crew Motorfest and it hits PlayStation, Xbox, and PC sometime this year.  Revealed in a short teaser trailer you can watch below, The Crew Motorfest takes players to O’ahu, an island that’s part of the Hawaiian archipelago. It’s clearly positioned as Ubisoft’s take on the open-world racing formula popularized by Playground Games’…

Electronic Arts is ending development on both Apex Legends Mobile and Battlefield Mobile. It is shuttering Battlefield Mobile developer Industrial Toys as well.  This news was part of EA’s Fiscal Year 2023 Q3 financial results released yesterday, in which the company revealed that it is also delaying Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to April. EA says it…