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The 25 best video game villains you just love to hate
Best List The most iconic gaming villains of all time, from SHODAN to Pyramid Head
After 4 hours with Borderlands 4 I'm not yet sold on its biggest changes, but Gearbox says "it would be strange" if Borderlands wasn't "constantly growing and adapting"
Preview Summer Preview | "Less borders, more lands" is the driving Borderlands 4 to new heights, but I'm not sure all of them landing as intended
Diving into Gears of War: Reloaded's chaotic multiplayer servers is like being wrapped in a warm blanket lined with sandpaper
Preview Summer Preview | The Coalition has done an exceptional job of breathing new life into 2006's Gears of War, but in 2025 its multiplayer isn't going to be for everyone
Grounded 2 is targeting updates every "four to five months" after Obsidian learned the hard way: "When we started with Grounded 1 in early access we were trying to do monthly updates – that was a hassle and it didn't work"
Feature Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment details the lessons learned after its first early access adventure, and how it changed the studio's approach to Grounded 2
With The Outer Worlds 2, Obsidian is dedicated to making sneaky playstyles truly viable: "We have a strike team going room-by-room to see if we can stealth properly through each location"
Feature Summer Preview | The improvements to stealth in The Outer Worlds 2 reflect the effort Obsidian is putting into creating an RPG that's reactive to your decisions
Obsidian won't rule out bringing Grounded 2 to PS5 in the future, but says that its initial release is "all about being in Game Preview and Early Access"
Feature Summer Preview | Grounded was a success on PS5 and Switch, so why isn't its sequel following in its footsteps? We speak to Obsidian to learn more
Everything is bigger in Grounded 2, but Obsidian never considered stretching beyond four-player co-op: "It would have undermined what Grounded was really about"
Feature Summer Preview | Our bite-sized preview of Grounded 2 continues as Obsidian gives us exclusive insight into how it scaled up beyond the backyard
After playing The Outer Worlds 2, I'm convinced that it has the potential to be Obsidian's greatest game – and the best FPS of 2025
Summer Preview | The Outer Worlds was a fun sci-fi adventure, but its sequel is shaping up to be something truly special
After playing Grounded 2 for 30 minutes, it's clear that my favorite survival game is getting a massive glow-up
Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment and Eidos Montreal has found big solutions to the smallest problems
Obsidian explains Grounded 2 was born from technical limitations of the Xbox One: "This is our opportunity to build the world from the ground up"
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Best local multiplayer Switch games to play in 2025
Best List Remember to tighten the straps on your Joy-Cons before playing the best local multiplayer Switch games
The 25 best multiplayer Switch games you can play today
Best List From Splatoon to Minecraft here's the 25 best multiplayer Switch games for online and offline play
Ninja Gaiden 4 devs say "Soulslikes have kind of taken center stage" since the last installment in the series, but "we are going against the trend in that way"
News "When you pick up the controller and you play…It's like, oh, this is Ninja Gaiden"
Grounded 2 adding mounts was such a big change that Obsidian had to "rethink how the world works"
News "When you add a feature like that into a game, it kind of changes a little bit of everything about the world that you're creating"
The Outer Worlds 2 director reveals Obsidian "did a full breakdown on Destiny" and sought advice from the Halo team for the sequel's shooting
News "Even before The Outer Worlds 1 shipped, that was one of the things that we knew we had wanted to improve"
As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG
News "You'd have to honestly talk to the Xbox folks" about the price, Brandon Adler says
Ninja Gaiden 4 hands-on: PlatinumGames and Team Ninja are cooking up something pretty special in this bloody and brutal return to form
Summer Preview 2025 | It's been over 20 years since Team Ninja dragged this franchise back from the dead, and there's still plenty of life to it yet
Playing Gears of War: Reloaded on PS5 is exceptionally surreal, especially in online co-op with a player on Xbox Series X
Summer Preview 2025 | The Coalition has remastered Gears of War again, and there's never been a better way to experience the adventure
Upcoming Obsidian games: Every new Obsidian game in development
Upcoming The list of upcoming Obsidian games is small but mighty, with The Outer Worlds 2 leading the charge
Upcoming Ubisoft games: Every new Ubisoft game in development
Upcoming There are plenty of upcoming Ubisoft games in the works now that Assassin's Creed Shadows has launched, and we finally have at least one release date
The Outer Worlds 2 gets an October release date as Obsidian opens pre-orders and confirms that 2 story expansions are on their way
News All of that, and so much more
Gears of War: E-Day is being pitched as the ultimate 20th anniversary present as The Coalition locks in a 2026 release window
News We also got to see Gears of War: Reloaded in action for the first time
Gears of War Reloaded is getting several weekend-long betas for pre-order buyers "to really test at scale the cross-platform play experience" and "make sure that the servers are ready for big numbers"
News Pre-orders are open now
