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September 13
- I played Deadpool VR and its creative combat is excellent but I'm not sure it's good enough to make me tolerate the Merc with the Mouth's constant talking
- 40 years later, Mario is still the ultimate gaming mascot: "He's got that Mickey Mouse effect"
- How well do you know the Super Mario series?
- Fear this new Warhammer Age of Sigmar army, because the Helsmiths of Hashut are gonna kick your ass
September 12
- Almost 90 years after Superman was first called the Man of Tomorrow, James Gunn is reviving the name for his big sequel
- The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman is taking over Transformers with plans to "methodically" expand the Energon Universe, but don't worry about buying "567 monthly titles" to keep up: "We're not looking to blow up anyone's budget"
- Pokemon Pokopia: everything we know about the Pokemon game that looks a lot like Animal Crossing
- Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave – Everything we know about the strategy game's Switch 2 debut
- Downton Abbey helped me through the toughest times, but The Grand Finale feels like the perfect time to wrap things up
- After 105 runs in Hades 2, I suddenly unlocked three huge side stories I thought were bugged and I guess I'll be here 'til launch
- Super Mario Galaxy Movie release date, cast, plot, and everything else you need to know about The Super Mario Bros. sequel
- The 32 greatest movies about food that will make you hungry
- Bloober Team just teased its unannounced Switch-only horror game for maybe the first time since 2024, and my dream of seeing Nintendo get NSFW has been reignited
- Demon Slayer Infinity Castle ending explained: who died, will there be a sequel, and what's next for Tanjiro?
- Demon Slayer Infinity Castle 2: release date speculation, story, and everything else we know about the sequel
- Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle continues an unfortunate trend for the anime series, and lets down one of its most important characters
- Who is Kokushibo in Demon Slayer Infinity Castle? The Upper Moon 1 and Muzan's right-hand man explained
September 11
- After 43 years, one of the world's greatest horror movies lives on in so many games – from Among Us to Cronos: The New Dawn
- Can you guess the iconic game from just one screenshot?
- I've played 100s of hours of Soulslikes, and I think Hollow Knight Silksong is harder than Elden Ring – but what makes games difficult anyway?
September 10
- Anime is more mainstream than ever, and Demon Slayer stands out as the franchise to beat
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' expansion has a Metal Gear Solid-inspired boss fight that officially made me the best assassin in Awaji
- Claws of Awaji is an ambitious expansion that hides a little too much of its shine behind Assassin's Creed Shadows' familiarity
- GTA Online has resisted years of cringe celebrity cameos in live service games and emerged looking uniquely classy
- The 32 greatest high school movies
September 9
- Tomb Raider TV show: release speculation, cast, plot, and everything else we know
- The new D&D Starter Set solves problems I didn't even know I had, and overcomes some of the game's most daunting systems
- Hollow Knight Silksong has made me realize how much the Steam Deck has changed the way I play games
- 3 reasons to stop overlooking mobile gaming
- I've been waiting 20 years for a spiritual successor to Peter Jackson's King Kong game, and it might just be Ferocious
September 8
- If 20 years and a Metal Gear Solid Delta playthrough have taught me anything, it's that Snake Eater remains one of the greatest, stupidest games ever made
- Hollow Knight Silksong has beat my ass for 11 hours, but it's not too hard – we just have a problem with instant gratification
- Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival – Everything we know so far about the gory new game
September 7
- Silksong is way harder than Hollow Knight, and my theory is that Team Cherry became evil masterminds without even realizing it
- I played Invincible VS against the game's combat designer and loved every minute, despite getting my ass kicked
September 6
- The DCU doesn't need to look to Marvel for pointers on building a cinematic universe – horror movies like The Conjuring have always done it best
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword is becoming my most anticipated game of 2026 but Sekiro fans should know it's not a difficult game – and that's OK
September 5
- Word Play is a spelling roguelike that feels like the final boss of Wordle and it made me feel like an angry genius
- Jaws may be 50 years old, but Steven Spielberg's shark thriller is still a blockbuster in a league of its own
- Using Bluetooth earbuds with the Meta Quest 3 still sucks, but here's why that isn't a dealbreaker
- 2 hours in, and Hollow Knight Silksong is already making me feel like I'm playing Dark Souls for the first time again
- Close enough, welcome back Anthem – I'm loving that Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion has shifted gears to smaller, nimbler mech suit action
- I love Elden Ring Nightreign but I'm not sure if it's good for my mental health
- The 32 greatest sci-fi TV shows of all time
September 4
- Superman, Fantastic Four, and the rest of 2025's big superhero stories are bringing the death of cynicism and the rebirth of sincerity
- I'm finally playing Persona 4 after 17 years, and I can already see where the JRPG's remake should step in with improvements
- Superman 2 Man of Tomorrow release date, cast, plot and trailer speculation: Everything we know about the DCU movie
- Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake reminded me why I love turn-based battles, but after 40 minutes with the game, I'm desperate to know what "really big surprise" the devs are hiding
- Upper Moon demons, explained: the whereabouts of Demon Slayer's Twelve Kizuki villains before Infinity Castle
- The new Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC is a blunt reminder that maybe we've outgrown the series' old-school formula once and for all
- "You want to keep some of those iconic places, even if it's not necessarily realistic": Capcom is bringing us an "updated" Raccoon City in Resident Evil Requiem that shows off the extent of its destruction
September 3
- The ROG Xbox Ally X offers an early glimpse into Xbox's plans for AI, but I'm starting to worry that we're all going to be priced out of ever trying them
- "Everyone knows GoldenEye, it's a legendary game": 007 First Light boss says his goal is to make an all-timer James Bond game, even if the result is "very different" to Hitman
- 007 First Light is more than just Hitman: James Bond edition, and I'm over any fears I might have had that IO couldn't deliver
- Alien: Earth production designer on creating the Nostromo-mirroring Maginot "There was definitely a certain amount of geeking out"
- What is negative pressure in a gaming PC? Positive vs Negative pressure explained
- I'm playing The Outer Worlds for the first time because my friend told me it was better than Fallout, and now I'm hyped for the sequel to push it even further
- Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 are two of my favorite turn-based RPGs, but I'm not sure how I'm going to go back to them after falling in love with Octopath Traveler 0's town-building mode
- The hideous Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater statue is why I have rules for collectors' editions
- The 32 greatest animated movies that aren't for kids
- Wednesday season 3 release date speculation, cast, plot, and more news
- Wednesday season 2 part 2 ending explained: Who is Slurp, who dies, and how does it set up season 3?
- Alien: Earth episode 5 isn't quite feature-length, but I think it's the best Xenomorph movie since Aliens
September 2
- Channeling big Fallout energy means The Outer Worlds 2 could be the Starfield I always wanted
- I'm still concerned about Battlefield 6's map sizes, but there's no denying it gets chaotic urban warfare right
- Lost Rift is bringing FPS expertise with an innovative twist on the survival game
- 45 minutes of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles has me certain that Square Enix "rebuilding" the remaster after losing the original source code was worth the effort
- I played Where Winds Meet and fell in love with the RPG's open world so fast I could barely pay attention to any of the missions
September 1
- Ghostrunner devs abandon parkour for Valor Mortis, a first-person soulslike that might explain why the rest of the genre follows Dark Souls' lead
- "We tend to commit to the bit": Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford talks Borderlands 4, the evolution of looter-shooters, and $80 game discourse
- 10 years later, Metal Gear Solid 5 remains a masterpiece that was never going to live up to its own hype
- Let Lemon Sky Studios bring nearly two decades of visual fidelity and artistic brilliance to your project
- Menace is an XCOM-Warhammer hybrid that makes turn-based strategy feel like an immersive sim, and for the first time in my life I'm playing a game that seems made for me
- This Balatro-like take on Breakout trades a paddle for a revolver, and I've had a lot of fun combo'ing bullet configurations even if I wish this was more on target