Name That Game (August 26, 2026)

Pokemon GO Quietly Rolls Out Helpful New Feature

Some Pokemon GO players have discovered a new quick appraise feature that should make it faster to appraise Pokemon in the game. Since Pokemon GO's release in 2016, the game's developers have added a number of different features in an effort to make the game more enjoyable for both older players and newcomers. Sometime...

How to watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026

The official end of the summer isn't back-to-school day. It's not Labor Day. Nope, it's Gamescom Opening Night Live day, the second Geoff Keighley-hosted world premieres showcase of each year that kicks off the gaming trade event in Cologne, Germany which signals the end of the Gregorian Calendar's videogame 'announcem...

Persona 6's Physical Release Won't Be Available On Xbox

We know that there's going to be a Persona 6, and that the next game's color theme will be green, but other than that, we don't know much at all about what Sega and Atlus have planned for the next game in the series. We don't even have a release window, although a footnote spotted on Sega's bare-bones Persona 6 page ma...

Marathon's Steam Player Count Briefly Fell To Less Than 1,000 Players

Marathon has found a dedicated player base that loves Bungie’s newest game. Evidence that the player base might not be big enough to sustain Marathon, along with the studio that made it, continues to rear its head, though, as for the first time, its player count on Steam fell to below 1,000.

New Persona Release Officially Confirmed for September

Persona fans with a sweet tooth are in luck, as the franchise is teaming up with bakery Beard Papa's to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the JRPG series in September. Though the company is a Japanese brand, it has numerous locations in the United States, which will be participating in the Persona collaboration.

Google says survival game Colony, from blockchain studio Parallel, is the AI game to watch

  Google Cloud’s games boss Jack Buser has been waxing lyrical about AI’s application in game development again. You may recall we spoke to Buser earlier this year, when he claimed that practically every top studio is using AI to develop games more quickly, and for less. He added that there’s still a lot of concer...

Discord is yet to be served Take-Two's GTA 6 leak subpoena, which is set to demand broad access to user data

Discord has said that it has not yet been served a subpoena from Take-Two regarding Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks. On Friday, it was reported that the Rockstar parent company filed multiple subpoenas in a federal district court in order to obtain a wide range of user data from Discord and Microsoft relating to the leaks. Re...

PlayStation's "Only On PS5" Ad Confirms Which Exclusives Won't Release On PC

It’s an open secret that PlayStation doesn’t plan to put its exclusive single-player games on PC anymore. Now the studio has given its clearest indicator yet that it has left PC ports behind, for the most part, via its latest ad flaunting games that are “only on PS5”.

Steam Users Have Until September 1 to Claim Brand-New Freebie

Microsoft Flight Simulator has published a new bundle on Steam that all users can claim and enjoy right now, whether they own the game or not. Steam is typically known for running free-to-keep promotions for indie games, but this new offer involves rare content coming from a renowned AAA title, making it an exceptional...

Say Hello To One Piece's New Strongest Devil Fruit Transformation

On August 23, 2026, One Piece Chapter 1191 officially dropped in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #39. After the magazine went on a break following the Obon Festival in Japan, Eiichiro Oda made his grand return this week with a sensational chapter and, in doing so, unveiled some of the most exciting fights in this E...

How to Fish: Strategies for beating the Pufferfish

You've boiled the Spider Crab and turned the Giant Piranha into fish sticks, but How to Fish amps up the difficulty with the Pufferfish boss battle. The bloated, buoy-like fish took me quite a few tries in both solo and co-op saves, but I finally skewered it with a few SMG upgrades and plenty of patience. Lots of patie...