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With the arcade scene still thriving in the early ’90s, some titles continued to push the boundaries of the medium’s technological possibilities. This includes major games released for arcades in 1992, both in terms of visual presentation and the sheer scope of the gameplay. From fighting games to racing and on-rail shooters, every genre saw…

Every few years, someone publishes a “definitive” ranking of The Legend of Zelda, and every few years, that list reveals more about gaming nostalgia than it does about design. The series created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka in 1986, stewarded by producer Eiji Aonuma since the late 1990s, and scored by the legendary Koji…

With so many team-based shooter games vying for players’ attention these days, one particular standout is “Valorant.” Launched in 2020 by Riot Games, this one revolves around teams of five taking on an opposing team in objective-based matches. While the gameplay leans heavily into first-person combat, the game’s growing cast of characters have their own…

Xbox is telling every console owner to install a mandatory update by August 17, 2026, or risk running into the same bug that locked players out of games they already owned last month. The update closes a hole exposed by a July 26–27 outage that Xbox’s own chief technology officer, Scott Van Vliet, called “unacceptable”…