Matt Miller    Stellar Blade is heading into full release, and you can dive into the action heavy sci fi adventure for yourself. You can read our full review for more details about how it turned out, or read our interview with the game’s creative director to learn more about how the game came together. Developer...

Kyle Hilliard    For every issue of Game Informer magazine, we print a handful of Game Informer Gold editions. These versions sometimes feature alternate art, have a gold embossed logo on the front, are individually numbered, and feature higher quality paper. They’re very nice, and we reserve them for special...

Brian Shea    Platform: PlayStation, Xbox Series X S, PC Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Massive Entertainment Release: August , In Star Wars Outlaws, protagonists Kay Vess and Nix must navigate the criminal underworld by...

Charles Harte    The Fallout franchise is in the midst of a resurgence lately, thanks to the live action series adaptation on Amazon Prime which is good, by the way . Even though it’s been almost a decade since its release, Fallout has rocketed to the top of sales charts like a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere...

Kyle Hilliard    This week on The Game Informer Show podcast, it’s all about reviews. We had three big reviews drop this week on the same day around the same time, as well as a TV show review. Join host Kyle Hilliard as Matt Miller discusses Stellar Blade, Wesley LeBlanc chats about Another Crab’s Treasure, and...

Charles Harte    Dragon’s Dogma launched a little over a month ago and has already managed to sell . million copies, but Capcom is still releasing updates to patch minor issues with the game. While a large volume of complaints have been about the lack of a performance mode, this update like the last update ...

Wesley LeBlanc    Developer Trialforge Studio and publisher Tate Multimedia revealed Deathbound, a new Soulslike with a unique class based twist, last August. At the time, PC was its only platform but now, Game Informer can exclusively reveal Deathbound will also come to PlayStation and Xbox Series X S...

Kyle Hilliard    Stellar Blade is out this week and our review, which you can read right here, is positive. We liked the game and were impressed by the depth of its action and world building. Ahead of its release, but after spending some time with the game, we had a chance to reconnect with Shift Up CEO and Stellar...

Wesley LeBlanc    Reviewed on: PC Platform: Xbox Series X S, Xbox One, Switch, PC Publisher: Aggro Crab Developer: Aggro Crab Release: April , Rating: Teen Another Crab’s Treasure, as the name suggests,...

Kyle Hilliard    Reviewed on: Xbox Series X S Platform: PlayStation, Xbox Series X S, PlayStation, PC Publisher: Bandai Namco Developer: Ilca Release: April , Rating: Teen Sand Land is experiencing...

Brian Shea    Platform: PlayStation Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Developer: ShiftUp Release: April , After a long absence, the Super Monkey Ball series returned in and with remasters and remakes of...

Wesley LeBlanc    Nintendo has been slowly beefing up its library of games available to Nintendo Switch Online and Expansion Pack subscribers. What began as a library of just NES games has grown to include dozens more. Plus, Nintendo has since introduced SNES, Nintendo , Game Boy, and even Sega Genesis games,...

Brian Shea    Platform: PlayStation, Xbox Series X S, PC Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Massive Entertainment Release: August , The June reveal of Star Wars Outlaws gave us our first glimpse of Kay Vess and Nix, the...

Charles Harte    Taming a wolf in Minecraft is one of the game’s simplest joys, and no matter how many times I start a new world, I always hoard bones in case I encounter one. But once you’ve adopted a canine companion, you probably hide them away in a house for safe keeping, shielding them from the horrors of the...

Wesley LeBlanc    Epic Games has revealed a new setting for Fortnite that allows players to hide emotes the company considers confrontational. This doesn’t outright ban these emotes from the game and those with them can still use them, but if someone has this new setting turned off, they won’t see others use them....

Wesley LeBlanc    Publisher Atlus and developer Studio Zero have released a new trailer for the upcoming fantasy RPG, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and it features plenty of new gameplay. It also reveals Metaphor: ReFantazio will hit PlayStation, Xbox Series X S, PlayStation, Xbox One, and PC on October . Dubbed ...

Charles Harte    With the introduction of Fortnite Festival, Epic’s rhythm game within the chart topping Battle Royale, there’s more incentive than ever for musicians to have their likenesses added to the game. The latest of these artists is Billie Eilish, who announced her collaboration with the game on social...

Wesley LeBlanc    Developer WÄ tÄ Workshop and publisher Private Division have released the first trailer for Tales of the Shire, and it showcases what looks like a Middle earth Animal Crossing game with hobbits and a cozy place to call home. This trailer arrives after the companies teased releasing the first...

Charles Harte    Summer Game Fest is just a few months away, but that’s not stopping Xbox from hosting its own indie event next week. Partnering with IGN, the ID Xbox Digital Showcase will air live next Monday, April , at AM PT PM ET. The event will feature epic trailers, fresh gameplay, and new reveals, ...

Charles Harte    Reviewed on: PlayStation Platform: PlayStation, Xbox Series X S, Switch, PC Publisher: EA Originals Developer: Surgent Studios Release: April , Rating: Everyone In Tales of...

Wesley LeBlanc    Embracer Group, the company that recently sold Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake developer Saber Interactive for million, has announced its plans to split into three individual, publicly traded companies. As such, Embracer Group as we know it will be no more; instead, it will...

Brian Shea    The live action Sonic the Hedgehog movie series that started in has delivered entertaining adventures starring everybody’s favorite Blue Blur and his ever growing stable of friends. One of the highlights of Sonic the Hedgehog was Knuckles, voiced by Idris Elba. The fish out of water gags and...

Josh Broadwell    Reviewed on: PC Platform: PlayStation, Xbox Series X S, Xbox One, PC Publisher: Games Developer: Rabbit and Bear Studios Release: April , Rating: Everyone Don’t judge a book...

Brian Shea    Platform: PlayStation, Xbox Series X S, PC Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Massive Entertainment Release: August , While visiting Massive Entertainment to be among the first to get my hands on Star Wars...

Marcus Stewart    After The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time reinvented the series in D and became its new gold standard, Nintendo followed up with a surreal sequel in Majora’s Mask. Set two months after the events of Ocarina, Link finds himself transported to an alternate version of Hyrule called Termina and must...

Wesley LeBlanc    The Fabletown gang will be back, developer Telltale Games has promised in a new development update for The Wolf Among Us, its sequel to The Wolf Among Us it announced in . This update, which reveals the studio is still hard at work on the game, arrives after an unspecified number of layoffs...

Wesley LeBlanc    PlayStation and K Pop singer NakedBibi, or Bibi for short, have teamed up to create a new song and music video inspired by Stellar Blade, the upcoming action game from developer ShiftUp. Stellar Blade hits PlayStation exclusively next week on April so this new track, appropriately titled Eve,...

Wesley LeBlanc    Amazon Prime Video has renewed its Fallout television show for another season, confirming that Season is in the works following an earlier report. This news arrives just over a week after the series’ release on April , which premiered two days earlier than expected to rave reviews...

Alex Van Aken    In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, the crew looks ahead at the current slate of publisher showcases happening around Summer Game Fest and subsequent announcements we’d like to see. We chat about Amazon’s Fallout show, rewatching the original X Men animated series, and A ’s...

Charles Harte    Platform: PlayStation, Xbox Series X S, PC Publisher: Deep Silver Developer: Warhorse Studios Release: Rating: Mature Kingdom Come: Deliverance faced a rocky launch in , with outlets including...

Marcus Stewart    Jack Black seems to have more or less confirmed his rumored role as Steve in the upcoming Minecraft movie. The actor took to Instagram on Tuesday to post a short video of himself on a film lot observing a rainbow before entering a trailer labeled Steve, Minecraft. The interior features...

Brian Shea    Platform: PlayStation, Xbox Series X S, PC Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Massive Entertainment Release: August , As Kay Vess, the main protagonist in Star Wars Outlaws, you must work within the thriving...

Diego Nicolás Argüello    Reviewed on: PC Platform: PC Publisher: Devolver Digital Developer: René Rother Release: April, Children of the Sun is hellbent on occupying your mind. During the six hours it took me to hit...

Marcus Stewart    Today’s Nintendo Indie World featured minutes of new indie game reveals and updates to anticipated titles. If you missed the event, we’ve gathered each announcement here for a cursory glance at what showed up. Little Kitty, Big City May As the title suggests, you control a...

Brian Shea    With ’s Marvel’s Spider Man, Insomniac Games began building one of the richest video game interpretations of the Marvel Universe that we’ve seen to date. The studio nailed the tone of Peter, Miles, and their supporting cast, but it was the care put into the rest of the universe that makes...

Marcus Stewart    April’s second batch of new Xbox Game Pass titles has been revealed. The headliner is the long awaited Suikoden inspired Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes, which hits the library on launch day. Other anticipated indies include the Soulslike Another Crab’s Treasure and the hotly anticipated...

Charles Harte    With huge winter game releases behind us and huge summer announcements right around the corner, the games industry is set for a relatively quiet month or two. Luckily, Nintendo plans to briefly step in to fill that void. Today, it announced the next Indie World Showcase, a live stream event focused...

Marcus Stewart    Keanu Reeves is joining the cast of Sonic the Hedgehog, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter and first broken by The John Campea Show . The outlet’s sources report that the John Wick and Matrix star is voicing Shadow the Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog is set to premiere on December...

Marcus Stewart    Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion, Dawntrail, arrives this summer alongside the game’s first graphical update. As such, Square Enix has released a new benchmark software to let PC players test how well their machines will handle these new bells and whistles while getting a small head start on...

Brian Shea    Platform: PlayStation, Xbox Series X S, PC Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Massive Entertainment Release: August , As you navigate the galaxy in Star Wars Outlaws, you do so as Kay Vess, a pickpocket turned...

Charles Harte    Despite currently being in the midst of a crossover event with Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fortnite is teasing an upcoming event with a returning collaborator: Star Wars. The details have yet to be disclosed, but attentive fans of the science fiction juggernaut will notice something about the start...

Marcus Stewart    The low gravity hero shooter LawBreakers is coming back from the dead. However, this isn’t an official revival but rather due to the work of a dedicated group of fans. LawBreakers was created by Boss Key Productions, a team led by Gears of War lead designer Cliff Bleszinski. Upon launching...

Kyle Hilliard    The rogue lite and roguelike genres have been growing in popularity over the years They’re challenging games where players attempt runs with different abilities and random elements that generally force the player to restart from zero or near zero for each attempt. They are born from the game...

Brian Shea    The Pokémon Trading Card Game: Scarlet amp; Violet series rolls on with the latest expansion. This newest set, Temporal Forces, continues the Ancient and Future conventions introduced in Paradox Rift, giving players new strategies featuring a variety of easily playable Basic Pokémon. The...

Alex Van Aken    As part of this month’s exclusive cover story, Game Informer’s Brian Shea sat down with Star Wars Outlaws creative director Julian Gerighty to discuss protagonist Kay’s backstory, how Massive Entertainment created her sidekick creature Nix, the game’s intriguing Reputation System, and...

Marcus Stewart    Nintendo Switch Online’s Super Nintendo catalog is three games larger today thanks to the additions of Super R Type, Wrecking Crew , and Amazing Hebereke. Super R Type is a side scrolling sci fi shooter launched in , and it’s essentially an enhanced port of the arcade game R Type II. It...

Marcus Stewart    At the Triple i Initiative earlier this week, Gearbox Publishing and developer Wabisabi Games unveiled RKGK. Sporting an eye popping art direction that blends anime and graffiti art influences, this promising looking action platformer is coming this year. RKGK pronounced Rakugaki unfolds in a...

Game Informer Contests    We recently revealed the newest big cover story from Game Informer our blowout look at Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars Outlaws. We were excited by the chance to visit the studio in Sweden to play the game and interview the team. We were especially thrilled at the gorgeous art from the game that...

Marcus Stewart    The th Annual BAFTA Games Awards have concluded, and we’ve gathered the full list of winners. Baldur’s Gate leads the pack with five awards, but other games such as Alan Wake, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Hi Fi Rush, and Viewfinder didn’t leave empty handed. In case you missed it, check...

Imran Khan    With Rise of the R nin’s release, Team Ninja has added another strong action title into its vaunted portfolio. The samurai epic, which tells a fictional story within a historical Japanese period of revolution, is one of the studio’s most ambitious titles from both game design and story...