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Magic: The Gathering has gone back to Strixhaven just a few months after its trip to Lorwyn, and I couldn’t be happier. For reference, I’m a relatively new Magic player: I got started around 2022, and when Lord of the Rings hit shelves, my friendship group bought in. And, despite Wizards of the Coast’s controversial leaning into IP, our Commander pod has grabbed fresh players ever since. In 2026, we’ve already had a crossover with TMNT, we’re getting The Hobbit, more Marvel, and Star Trek, but Secret of Strixhaven has me absolutely spellbound. I wasn’t playing in 2021 when we got our first go-round of the magic schools contained within, but I’m now more in love with this wonderful game than ever. Accessible Archive? There’s something quite special about the multiple cycles included within Secrets of Strixhaven. Yes, there are Elder Dragons (all of which are pretty great), and we’ll come to Emeriti in a moment, but the set includes reprints of powerful Magic cards of yore under the he...

Paranormal Activity: Threshold, a new game from the creator of The Mortuary Assistant, has been cancelled. Brian Clarke, the solo developer behind the game, released a statement today regarding the cancellation of the horror game. Clarke revealed that he needed more time to work on the game, but Paramount (the owner of the Paranormal Activity IP) did not offer to extend development time. As a result, Clarke had two choices: release a compromised, subpar game or cancel it to avoid releasing something he wasn't proud of. He chose the latter, and as a result, the game will no longer be released. I have a very important announcement everyone. Please have a read. Thank you all for your ongoing support of my work and love for indie games as a whole. 🖤🖤 pic.twitter.com/kmCS3t3BTq — Brian Clarke ⚰️ (@DSDigitalDev) May 7, 2026 Clarke was a perfect fit for a Paranormal Activity game, as The Mortuary Assistant is an incredible supernatural horror game. As the title suggests, players f...

RGG Studio has lifted the lid on its next big game, Stranger Than Heaven . Announced back at The Game Awards in 2024 with the codename Project Century, Stranger Than Heaven was re-revealed last summer with its final name . In partnership with Xbox, the Yakuza developer released a 30-minute presentation where it dove deep into everythign you'd want to know about Stranger Than Heaven with heaps of new gameplay footage. It’s immediately clear that this is quite different from the Yakuza games, as it will take place over the course of half a century . The story begins in 1915 with protagonist Makoto Daito sneaking onto a ship to escape from his life in San Francisco after the passing of his parents. He heads for Japan, but aboard the ship he meets a cutthroat smuggler known as Orpheus, played by Snoop Dogg. As you might imagine, Makoto gets wrapped up in a life of crime after Orpheus takes advantage of Makoto’s ability to speak Japanese and fit in with the culture. Makoto grows ambitio...

If you were holding out hope for a return to NFL 2K or MLB 2K, you probably shouldn't hold your breath. In a new interview with Game File's Stephen Totilo , Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick was asked about the status of 2K's NFL game . Unfortunately, it isn't happening anymore, but there's hope that 2K could try again if the opportunity arises. “What we hoped would come to fruition creatively did not,” Zelnick said. “Some of the stuff we tried to do didn’t work out creatively.” Ultimately, it sounds like 2K couldn't put together a compelling enough experience worth putting out as opposed to some business disagreement with the NFL. The last NFL 2K game to be released was Visual Concepts' ESPN NFL 2K5, which enjoyed critical and commercial acclaim upon its 2004 launch. Soon after, EA Sports acquired an exclusive rights agreement with the NFL to be the sole creator of NFL video games, giving Madden the space to itself. Zelnick was also asked about a possible return...

An impressive-looking new Star Fox remake has just been announced for Switch 2, via a shadow-dropped, dedicated Nintendo Direct broadcast. The game is simply titled Star Fox, and is a ground-up remake of Star Fox 64 (known in some regions as Lylat Wars). Today's reveal follows the character's recent reappearance in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie , and a recent, major leak that pointed to a new game in the franchise — the first for nearly a decade. Once again, you'll be piloting an Arwing over the skies of Corneria and other planets alongside Falco, Peppy and Slippy. Level layouts will be familiar to anyone who has played the original Star Fox 64, though the game has received a huge graphical overhaul. The game appears to remain an on-rails experience, albeit with some control over your craft's movement to boost, brake and (of course) do a barrel roll. Sections in the Landmaster ground tank and Blue-Marine submarine are also again included. Switch 2 mouse controls have b...

Ever since Nvidia revealed frame generation with the RTX 4080, I have been dreading the day that a game developer uses it as a requirement to get to an acceptable frame rate. And while we’ve gone almost four years without that happening, it seems like Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is going to cross that line. This past weekend, developer TT Games released the system requirements for the new Lego Batman game, and while at first glance they seem kind of reasonable for a Unreal Engine 5-based game, a closer look reveals that the company wants you to turn on frame generation just to hit 30 fps with the minimum settings. That’s not really how frame generation should work. If this isn’t just an error, it suggests that the minimum spec will only really be able to get 15-20 fps without frame generation, and at that point, no amount of AI frames is going to save it from being an unplayable mess. What is Frame Generation For? For the uninitiated, it’s easy to look at frame generation ...