Castlevania: Belmont's Curse still feels like a dream, and yet it's very real - a brand-new Castlevania game built by Dead Cells studio Evil Empire, in partnership with Konami. It's hard to pick a more perfect developer to bring the legendary series back, and the result is looking absolutely stunning. At Gamescom 2026, we sat [...]

Alien Isolation, like most of the films in the legendary series, is claustrophobic. That's the point; you're trapped somewhere with something otherworldly and terrifying - there is nowhere to go, nowhere to run. Hiding is often the best bet. With Alien Isolation 2 adding outdoor, open areas into the mix, we wondered how that affects [...]

There are a fair few themes floating around in the first Plague Tale and its sequel Requiem, perhaps none of which have stuck with us as much as the hordes of rats that were occasionally at our beck and call. A very real symbol of plague, and visually, a stunning bit of kit. Strange then, [...]

Path of Exile 2 version 1.0 will add a lot, including the finale of its main campaign, but one inclusion sparked wider attention among the ARPG's community than any other: Swords. The lack of one of the world's most common melee weapons has become a running joke among the community, and Game Director Jonathan Rogers [...]

Persona 4 Revival has the difficult challenge of updating some of the series' more notorious characters. I have a deep love of the original P4, which will always hold a special place in my heart as one of the great JRPGs, but I'm hopeful that Persona Studio can find ways to execute on its more [...]

The spool-up to a new EA Sports football title should be familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in the sport. There's always a new feature or two, and an effort to improve on the year before - shooting, dribbling, overall tactics; these have been under the spotlight on several occasions. What people find, [...]

Arc Raiders was a smash hit; a runaway success that somehow got derailed. Developer Embark Studios' job is now to get it back on track. We sat down with Alex Grondal, Executive Producer of Arc Raiders, at Gamescom to talk about the Frozen Trail update for the shooter, as well as what it's going to [...]