Rogue

A tacticool soldier wearing full body armor aims a rifle in a promotional screenshot for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

Publishers are pushing genAI and hoping gamers will accept the slop

Call of Duty and Arc Raiders are two big games that have been dabbling with AI, but one is much more egregious than the other. What does that mean for gaming?

News

The Game Awards nominations are safe and stacked

You can probably guess all of these if you've been paying attention ... but that doesn't mean its a bad selection

Editorial

The Last Caretaker's "Wall-E meets Wind Waker," is a an interesting start, at least

A robot on a boat? What could possibly go wrong

a screenshot from Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core, showing a team of dwarves charging through the crystal mines of Hoxxes and fighting electrically-charged foes.

Deep Rock Galactic devs unveil season six, new Rogue Core release date

Season six of Deep Rock Galactic will take players to a tomb biome to loot valuable amber and explore massive bones, while the roguelike spin-off is delayed to Q2 2026.

A crashed trading vessel in The Outer Worlds 2 that has been turned into a commerce hub. The space is festooned with various advertisements for Auntie's Choice products and services.

The Outer Worlds 2 has a delightful strike breaking side story

The Outer Worlds 2 has a delightful side quest that asks the player to break a strike by any means necessary.

A Martian landscape with a line of drones in the distance

Surviving Martian politics in Surviving Mars Relaunched

Life on Mars just got a lot more complicated

The best Battlestar Galactica game is disappearing from Steam on Nov. 15

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is making an FTL jump off Steam on Nov. 15

Upcoming Releases

Ball x Pit

PC Switch PS5 Xbox X/S

Release date: Oct. 15, 2025 Developer: Kenny Sun Publisher: Devolver Digital Genre: Breakout roguelite

A mega evolution of Dragonite in Pokemon Z-A

Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Switch2 Switch

Release date: Oct. 16 2025 Developer: Game Freak Publisher: The Pokemon Company, Nintendo Genre: RPG

Jurassic World Evolution 3

PC Xbox X/S PS5

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: Frontier Developments Publisher: Frontier Developments Genre: Theme Park Simulator

Ninja Gaiden 4

Xbox X/S PC PS5

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: Team Ninja/PlatinumGames Publisher: Xbox Game Studios Genre: Action

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

PC PS5 Xbox X/S

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: The Chinese Room Publisher: Paradox Interactive Genre: RPG

Ball x Pit

PC Switch PS5 Xbox X/S

Release date: Oct. 15, 2025 Developer: Kenny Sun Publisher: Devolver Digital Genre: Breakout roguelite

Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Switch2 Switch

Release date: Oct. 16 2025 Developer: Game Freak Publisher: The Pokemon Company, Nintendo Genre: RPG

Jurassic World Evolution 3

PC Xbox X/S PS5

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: Frontier Developments Publisher: Frontier Developments Genre: Theme Park Simulator

Ninja Gaiden 4

Xbox X/S PC PS5

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: Team Ninja/PlatinumGames Publisher: Xbox Game Studios Genre: Action

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

PC PS5 Xbox X/S

Release date: Oct. 21, 2025 Developer: The Chinese Room Publisher: Paradox Interactive Genre: RPG

Podcasts

An armed guard patrols near the Louvre with a Metal Gear exclamation point above his head while Sly Cooper jumps down from above

Rogue Signal ep. 8: L0uvr3

The one where we talk about the Louvre, Outer Worlds 2, and more

An image from the Patlabor anime depicting the character Goto in a disheveled state alongside Detective, both of whom are listening to headsets.

Pat's Labor Episode 06: The SV2's Longest Day (Part 2)

Coup, Part Two

Our Latest

News

The Game Awards nominations are safe and stacked

Deep Rock Galactic devs unveil season six, new Rogue Core release date

The best Battlestar Galactica game is disappearing from Steam on Nov. 15

Valve just announced a bunch of new hardware arriving in early 2026

A shot of Zaahen, a Darkin and the new League of Legends champion, from the latest cinematic Twilight's End. He is a grey-skinned, beautiful man with lkong white hair swept bac

League of Legends' post-Arcane story unleashes a new champ and sets up a Noxus plot

Promotional images for GTA 6 with the release date crossed out

Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed (again)

The box art for Dinoblade, showing a spinosaurus with a buster sword

Everyone shut up: dinosaur with a sword demo just dropped

A screenshot from the Nintendo Direct reveal of Animal Crossing: New Horizon 3.0, with a player character outside Kapp'n's new seaside hotel.

Animal Crossing: New Horizon is getting a seaside update alongside Switch 2

A survivor combs an abandoned beach in a screenshot from Darkwood 2, coming across the corpses of starved beasts and worn down tents.

Darkwood 2, a surprise sequel to a survival horror classic, appears on Steam

A player POV showing a tin of sitnky rations hidden in heretic territory during a mission in Warhammer 40K: Darktide

Darktide players can't stop scarfing down fucked up, evil food

A photoshop of the OpenAI and AMD logos along with a bag of money

OpenAI and AMD partner in 6 gigawatt deal

Key art for Outer Worlds 2, Hollow Knight Silksong, Grounded 2, and Call of Duty Black Ops 7

Microsoft increases price of Game Pass Ultimate by 50%

Dark blue shapes against a blue background

EA to be acquired by private equity firms in $50b deal

Wolverine stares into the camera in his classic costume

Fuck yeah, Wolverine

Space cats are invading Steam with Twilight Imperium Digital

Editorials

Publishers are pushing genAI and hoping gamers will accept the slop

The Last Caretaker's "Wall-E meets Wind Waker," is a an interesting start, at least

The Outer Worlds 2 has a delightful strike breaking side story

Surviving Martian politics in Surviving Mars Relaunched

A screenshot of Ambrosia Sky, where the point-of-view protagonist is looking at a wall of twisted vines lit with bright pink smoke, filling the hallway of a sci-fi colony.

Ambrosia Sky: Act One is a unique, melancholic spin on sci-fi

A screenshot from The Outer Worlds 2, showing the player entering the crowded underground market maintained by the smuggler group Sub Rosa.

The Outer Worlds 2 has a solid story, but tech issues are spoiling the fun

World of Warcraft: Midnight may correct one of the MMO's worst depictions

A man named Dr. Bertham is saying "You've made a grave misjudgment, Doctor" to the player character of Sanitorium: A Mental Asylum Simulator

Sanitorium is a new game that attempts to tell an ethical asylum story

A screenshot of It Takes a War showing the ultra realistic graphics

It Takes a War review that is not a review of It Takes a War

A netrunner from Cyberpunk 2077 watches a floating screen displaying Tilly Norwood

Cyberpunk 2025: One rotten girl in the city of the future

A netrunner in Cyberpunk 2077 by a floating screen showing Katy Perry in space

Cyberpunk 2025: My heart is alloy // I live in boxes

A screenshot from Prey in first-person perspective. The prtoagonist is carrying the heavy industrial gloo gun in the cramped industrial spaces of the space station Talos 1, while black inky

Rogue shares our scariest gaming moments for Halloween

A medical bill for $25,000, which drives the protagonist's motivation in the itch clicker game Bloodmoney!

We're all broke, and horror games are digging into that dysfunction

A screenshot from The Outer Worlds, depicting the protagonist from behind cloaked in shadow, standing against the illuminating circle of a space rift.

The Outer Worlds 2 examines the clash between cults and capitalism

A firefight between the protagonist in Pigface, who is using a machine gun with a laser sight, and a masked antagonist. In the distance, the sun is setting, turning the sky a vivid red.

Pigface is a grimy, early access murderfest for real sickos (it's me, I'm sickos)

Guides

Big tips for your first few trips to the surface in ARC Raiders

ASCII art for our The Outer Worlds 2 guides

Outer Worlds 2 welcomes you to Arcadia

Eight tips for starting Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Ascii text reading: Absolum A Rogue Guide

Get ready for Absolum

Let's go to Ezo in Ghost of Yotei: Tips for your first few hours

All Reagents in Hades 2 and where to find them

Melinoë battles on a boat on the surface in Hades 2

How to remove Melinoë's surface curse in Hades 2

Hades 2's Melinoë fighting a Guardian in Erebus

How to get Bronze in Hades 2

How to get Shadow in Hades 2

Tips for making the most out of your first few Hades 2 runs

How to get to Act 3 in Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hornet facing the roaring Bell Beast in Hollow Knight: Silksong

How to defeat the Bell Beast in Hollow Knight: Silksong

The main art for Borderlands 4 in an ASCII format

Here's what you need to know about the first few hours of Borderlands 4

A group of four Vault Hunters battle against enemies in Borderlands 4

So ... which Vault Hunter is right for you in Borderlands 4?