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Our most anticipated games closing out 2026

Our most anticipated games closing out 2026

While all eyes are on Grand Theft Auto VI for this fall season, that doesn’t mean there aren’t interesting titles releasing alongside it. These are our most anticipated games for the remainder of the year

The Last House review: Netflix’s briny flashback to 2020 is five years too late

The Last House review: Netflix’s briny flashback to 2020 is five years too late

Sea beasts and silly attempts at a high concept leave The Last House feeling like a messy, overdue dud that misunderstands its own strength

Blood Dungeon review: Survivors-like chaos meets precision platforming in an intense and bloody good time

Blood Dungeon review: Survivors-like chaos meets precision platforming in an intense and bloody good time

Messhof, the studio behind indie classics like Nidhogg, is back with Blood Dungeon, and what’s possibly their craziest game yet

Netflix unveils first (official) look at Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay

Netflix unveils first (official) look at Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay

After over a decade of development, the first official gameplay footage of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI is available now

Review: Ice Cream Man (2026) puts a scoop-shaped crater through horror’s hot streak

Review: Ice Cream Man (2026) puts a scoop-shaped crater through horror’s hot streak

Splat Pack filmmaker Eli Roth serves up two scoops of slop with his latest small-town slasher

Exit 8 review: when a game adaptation soars

Exit 8 review: when a game adaptation soars

Japanese indie horror flick Exit 8 has arrived on the big screen in the UK, leaving a mark as one of the finest videogame adaptations to date

Resident Evil and the adaptation accuracy debate

Resident Evil and the adaptation accuracy debate

As Resident Evil returns to the big screen with an untold original story by Zach Cregger, why do fans seem so afraid of the movie trying something new?

Coffee Talk Tokyo review: a lo-fi respite worthy of your time

Coffee Talk Tokyo review: a lo-fi respite worthy of your time

Chorus Worldwide Games head to Tokyo with the newsest installment in the brew-making visual novel series Coffee Talk

Opinion: Backrooms and the disrespect of empirical talent

Opinion: Backrooms and the disrespect of empirical talent

As the Backrooms opens in cinemas, a bizarre conspiracy has unearthed to shut its director Kane Parsons down

Live review: Searows’ magical sophomore album transfers Academy 2 onto open waters

Live review: Searows’ magical sophomore album transfers Academy 2 onto open waters

Searows returns to Manchester for a hattrick, making waves in his third performance at Academy 2

Album review: underscores’ ‘U’ is a sonic odyssey through malls, nostalgia and effervescent noise

Album review: underscores’ ‘U’ is a sonic odyssey through malls, nostalgia and effervescent noise

underscores’ April Harper Grey comes back for a hat trick with a new album harkening back to the pop of past

Album review: Embrace the magic of Sports’ self-titled synth-ride

Album review: Embrace the magic of Sports’ self-titled synth-ride

Indie duo Sports return to music with an electric album that struggles to find any footing

Winter wrapped: The most underheard releases from 2026’s early months

Winter wrapped: The most underheard releases from 2026’s early months

A look back at 2026’s current slate of ice-cold and winter-ready soundscapes as the weather grows bound to be warmer

Collateral damage: how layoffs are purging the potential of gaming in 2026

Collateral damage: how layoffs are purging the potential of gaming in 2026

As gaming gets larger and more profitable, the bubble on these macro-budget giants is about to burst, devastating the prospects of the medium’s most undeserving

Bringing on the Rapture: is adapting Bioshock seriously worth it?

Bringing on the Rapture: is adapting Bioshock seriously worth it?

The unravelling story behind a film adaptation of Bioshock goes to show why not everything needs to find a second home on the big screen

Send Help review: Sam Raimi drags us back to hell on a desert island

Send Help review: Sam Raimi drags us back to hell on a desert island

Sam Raimi rediscovers his talent for horror in a survival island nightmare sure to exhilarate

Mercy review: 2026’s first sci-fi malfunction

Mercy review: 2026’s first sci-fi malfunction

Mercy is the latest piece of insufferable, pro-AI messaging, muled through the most ‘January’ movie of the century

Album review: Searows’ ‘Death in the Business of Whaling’

Album review: Searows’ ‘Death in the Business of Whaling’

The multi-instrumentalist carves out an existentially charged portrait of the world at sea

Banjo-Kazooie: the forever game

Banjo-Kazooie: the forever game

Banjo-Kazooie is still showing other platformers how it’s done, even almost 30 years down the line

This is where the fun begins: winners and losers of 2025’s The Game Awards nominations

This is where the fun begins: winners and losers of 2025’s The Game Awards nominations

2025’s Game Awards nominations are in; it’s about to be a bloodbath