A month before GTA VI, I finally played GTA III at 25. Its crude freedom still hits harder than later GTAs — and the community's wild workarounds are the real magic. (1/2)

Peak, the viral co-op mountain-climbing game, just escaped PC: now on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Switch 2 with crossplay and all post-launch content. (1/2)

Control Resonant's wildest twist: late-game, it abruptly becomes a 16-bit EarthBound-style JRPG to explain Jesse and Dylan's childhood trauma. Remedy faked the 2D look inside its 3D engine and hand-coded it in Lua — a script likely as long as every other quest combined. (1/2)

EA just shut down BioWare and canceled its next Mass Effect game. Amazon's Prime Video series is reportedly still moving forward with its showrunners intact—no release date yet. (1/2)

Phantom Blade Zero is so good Game Informer won’t score it yet: 40+ hours in, the reviewer calls it one of the best action games ever played—with nearly 100 bosses and dozens of builds. A first AAA from S-Game. (1/2)

Xbox's ID@Xbox showcase just announced a Shrek 2 remaster: Aspyr's version hits PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC Nov 10 with 4-player co-op, photo mode, and instant swaps. (1/2)

Ubisoft's $10 Tomb Raider crossover for The Crew Motorfest has you raid tombs in a Suzuki Jimny — Lara Croft never shows up, only her drone. She's 'in Mongolia.' There are dinosaurs. (1/2)

Activision execs are "printing money" off Black Ops 1&2 re-releases—~11M copies, nearly $450M—while the devs who crunched on them got nothing, says ex-Treyarch designer Gavin Goslin. (1/2)