Ancient Dangers: A Bat’s Talearrives inDreamstoday, to play or modify to your heart’s content Media Molecule’s latest update forDreams, its user-created content suite, is tackling its creation tools. Alongside a Media Molecule-made adventure,Dreamsis also revamping some of its game creation and curation interface, which it refers to as DreamShaping 2.0. DreamShaping is the phrase for making content—usually games but also short movies, art, or music—inDreams. The goal with the DreamShaping update, as Media Molecule says in anew PlayStation blog, is to make it easier and more fun to get started with making games inDreams....

A faster-than-expected turnaround I would never crush a spider in real life, but inEarth Defense Force? That’s a whole ‘nother story. The only good bug is a dead bug, and that sentiment also goes for any robots, spaceships, and kaiju that might stand in our way. This series could continue doing its thing into eternity and I wouldn’t complain. Following a PlayStation 4 release back in April, the latestEDFgame–a slightly more linear take on bug blastin’ calledEarth Defense Force: Iron Rain–is launching soon on Steam from developer Yuke’s....

Enterbrain figures that the game industry has lost $88 million in potential sales due to Japan’s recent earthquake and following tsunami. Their figures break it down: $34.6 million was lost in hardware sales and $54.2 million in software sales. The disaster caused the delay or cancelation of 31 titles. The firm also blamed the low sales of the 3DS on the disaster. Despite these problems Enterbrain CEO Hirokazu Hamamura suggested that the current situation would only be temporary and that the Japan’s game market would bounce back....

The Annecy Animation Festival gives animators a stage to showcase their latest projects. There have already been many great reveals this year, but Cartoon Network has made one of the strongest showings by unveiling a series of upcoming spin-offs/revivals of some of the best shows the channel has ever aired. All of Cartoon Network’s announcements are blasts from the past Warner Bros. Discovery has been vocal aboutits plans to pour most of its resources into its pre-existing IPs....

Insomniac’s four-person, cooperative action gameOverstrikewas sadly absent from E3 2012. What gives? Speaking to CVG, EA Labels president Frank Gibeau said “It’s a new IP and we want to make it the right game, so they’re taking some extra time to nail the gameplay and the quality.” “It felt like we would stand out better later in the summer once we’ve hit some key milestones and we’re able to show off more,” he continued....

Learning from my (many) failures The last few years of games for me have been all about defeat. Constant, unending, expected defeat. I think I’m better for it. It wasn’t always like that. In fact, for most of my life, games have been all about completion, victory. Usually a victory earned under a time restraint to boot. Weekend rentals in the 8-bit and 16-bit era were a mad dash to squeeze everything you could out of a title, take it apart as quickly as possible, and get to that credits screen so you could put another notch in your belt (and avoid another late fee)....

You’re better off buying the game on sale Turn 10 Studios announced a Racing Game of the Year Edition forForza Motorsport 5by way of IGN, scheduled to arrive on May 26, 2025 for Xbox One for $60/£50/€70. Given how much DLC there is for the game, you’d be inclined to think a decent amount of it would wind up included, but no, not really. On top of the core content, this package comes with the ten-carTop Gearpack plus the Road America and Long Beach tracks, and a third track that hasn’t yet been announced....

October’s light on frights On Xbox One, Fullbright’sGone Homeis the most well-known of October’s Games with Gold. It originally released in 2013, but only sauntered to Xbox in early 2016.Gone Home‘s place in video game history is well-disputed in thinkpieces and comment sections across the internet; I expect the same will likely happen again in this very comment section. Halfway through the month, space station puzzlerThe Turing Testbecomes the second Xbox One Gold game....

Bulkin’ up the backlog Gaming retailer hits an anniversary? Time for a sale. That’s what’s happening at Green Man Gaming this week — the digital retailer is turning five this year. Prominent among the discounts are2K titlesup to 85% off instantly, plus there’s a 20% off coupon code out there dropping prices even further. Right now we’re seeing new lows onNBA 2K15andXCOM: Enemy Unknown. (PreviouslyBioShock Infinitewas also on sale but that’s now kaput)....

Say ‘Alola’ to these new Pokemon! A new generation, a new entry inPokémon. Whether you like the newPokémonor have jumped off the ship clear intoDigimontown, a newgame means new choices for favorite ‘Mon. And considering the incredible success ofSunandMoonand the positive press for the design of the Alola region, I’d say even the most jaded fan has a pick for favorite new Pokémon. I asked both staff and community what their favorite Alolan Pokémon was....

I glazed over the Smuggler class in my E3Star Wars: The Old Republicpreview in order to bring you the full picture of what I saw in the presentation, but thanks to the screenshots of the MMO’s class below, I can now give you a few more interesting details. As I mentioned in the preview, the Smuggler class is built to be slick and sneaky — a Han Solo-type of character, if you will....

Updated: July 01, 2025 Looked for new codes! The world needs a hero, and you are destined to save it from evil creatures that are up to no good. You’ll start alone, but others will join you in your quest to defend your village. If that sounds like trouble, worry not—Hero Assembleis a relaxing idle RPG. If you want to put your team together and make your heroes unstoppable quickly, useHero Assemblecodes to get a bunch of Summon Tickets for free....

Pufferfish is a delicacy in some places. you may get in on the “eat dangerously, die satisfied” mindset inStardew Valleyif you use the right bait and fish in the right spot. Pufferfish are ocean fish, and they can only be caught on the mainland during the Summer. However, for every other season, they can be caught onGinger Island. This means that you’ll be fishing from the beach on the mainland, or Ginger Island’s Pirate Cove, or South, Southeast, and Western shores....