The best way to play as the most underrated version of the Blue Bomber.
Capcom’s brilliant Resident Evil 4 Remake is celebrating its third anniversary, but there’s one person who won’t be celebrating: the game’s infamous merchant, who players have left more than 3 trillion in debt.
Katzen gehen immer – auch bei der Steam Community, die sich gerade extrem auf Cat Parents freut, doch es ist Vorsicht geboten.
The developer of the popular game Crimson Desert has seen its stock price surge on the Korea Exchange, recovering the losses that came after reviews for the game came out.
Crimson Desert has now exceeded 3 million copies sold, and it appears investors are happy about that, as developer Pearl Abyss is trading up more than 26% today. The stock crashed by 30% last week when reviews came out, but those losses have now been largely erased.
Pearl Abyss stock is now up 26% year-to-date and up 56% over the past year. Over the past five years, however, Pearl Abyss is trading down about 18%. Stock-price fluctuation is a normal thing, and ongoing geopolitical events are adding to volatility on the Korea Exchange and others globally.
GameSpot’s sister site Metacritic has published its annual ranking of video game publishers, and like previous years, there are some big surprises on the list. With thousands of games released across PC and console in 2025, Metacritic had to once again establish several rules to help it figure out the best of the best to evaluate the overall performance of these companies.
This included counting only critical reviews–sales and user reviews did not factor into the rankings–and only publishers with five or more distinct titles released last year were included in the rankings. Metacritic also created a points system based on four criteria:
Once all the data had been gathered and the numbers punched in, that left Metacritic with a list of 28 publishers. This year’s top 10 encompasses both AAA powerhouses and rising stars in the indie scene. DotEmu and Thunderful made it into this elite club, while last year’s winner, Sega, slipped to seventh place. Here’s a closer look at who emerged triumphant.
Several major publishers appeared on the list, with notable shifts in their overall rankings. Nintendo advanced several positions, driven by the launch of the Switch 2 and the release of well-reviewed titles such as Donkey Kong Banaza and Legend of Zelda ports. Ubisoft improved its average Metascore by four points. In contrast, Sony declined from fourth place in 2024 to 21st, as multiple titles received lukewarm reviews. Its best-reviewed games were Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.
28. Idea Factory (Previous year’s rank: 19 of 37)
27. Arc System Works (Previous year’s rank: Unranked)
26. Nacon / Daedelic (Previous year’s rank: 36 of 37)
25. Microids (Previous year’s rank: Unranked)
24. Bandai Namco (Previous year’s rank:27 of 37)
23. Annapurna Interactive (Previous year’s rank: 10 of 37)
22. Plaion (Previous year’s rank: 20 of 37)
21. Sony (Previous year’s rank: 4 of 37)
20. Atari (Previous year’s rank: 31 of 37)
19. Pqube (Previous year’s rank: 35 of 37)
18. Clear River Games (Previous year’s rank: Unranked)
17. Marvelous / XSEED (Previous year’s rank: Unranked)
16. Don’t Nod Entertainment (Previous year’s rank: Unranked)
15. Konami (Previous year’s rank: 25 of 37)
14. Devolver Digital (Previous year’s rank: 13 of 37)
13. Koei Tecmo (Previous year’s rank: Unranked)
12. Nintendo (Previous year’s rank: 22 of 37)
11. Ubisoft (Previous year’s rank: 18 of 37)
Where other gaming earbuds rely on software to let in ambient noise, the Asus ROG Cetra open wireless earbuds sit outside your ear canals letting you hear your surroundings at all times. For some people – parents of young kids, for example – that’s a godsend, and it’s backed up by impressive battery life and a comfortable fit.
Introducing Play Faster, a minimalist precision platformer purpose-built for speedrunning. It features built-in tools to support that, like input display, a replay system, instant retries, and practice mode; as well as anti-cheat and anti-splice to best make sure it has fair competition and leaderboards.
The potential for the next-gen Project Helix Xbox is high, provided Microsoft tells gamers exactly what sets the machine apart from the competition.
We had hands-on time with Pokemon Champions on Nintendo Switch 2, and it could be the best way to participate in turn-based Pokemon Battles. Jake breaks down his experience building a team, training his Pokemon, and battling.
Next month, Pokemon Champions will bring the turn-based action of Pokemon battles to Nintendo Switch 2–and later this year, to mobile devices. Champions will be making some impactful changes to the core battling mechanics of the Pokemon franchise, including the removal of one of the game’s most long-lasting statistics: Individual Values, or IVs.
IVs are stat modifiers that every individual Pokemon is assigned at random once caught by the player, and they impact how that Pokemon’s attack, defense, and HP grow as it levels up and evolves. Pokemon Champions will remove this randomization from the equation, though the reason for the change has not been fully explained.
Speaking with a roundtable of journalists over Zoom, development director and game producer Masaaki Hoshino says the decision to remove IVs was not taken lightly. In his words, it took a „heated discussion with [Shigeki] Morimoto,“ one of Pokemon’s original designers, to get the change made, in the hopes of making the game’s barrier of entry lower for new players.