Omega Ultra

They say every day is a school day. Today I learned a new term; one I’ve never heard in 23 years of writing about racing games, and nearly 40 years of playing them. The term? Vibe driving. The meaning? Well, for Playground it describes the actions of players who just […]

IGN can exclusively reveal the new trailer and key art for the upcoming fourth season of the MGM+ mystery series From. The trailer can be viewed via the player above or the embed below. “In Season Four, the closer the residents of town get to the answers they seek, the […]

The Herman Miller x Logitech Embody is the chair that supported me through lockdown in 2020, and almost six years later it still feels nearly brand-new. That's a rarity for the gaming chairs I've used in the past, which have all shown visible signs of wear – or even genuine […]

Epic Games has announced a major change to the prices and distribution of Fortnite's in-game V-Bucks currency, and blamed the cost increases on the need to "help pay the bills." Fortnite's billion dollar-grossing battle royale mode launched back in 2017, and has frequently found itself as part of the cultural […]

Featuring a character dressed like Link and a creature that looks like Pikachu, upcoming Steam game Pickmon isn't afraid to hide the games it's clearly, er, inspired by. A initial trailer for Pickmon, below, begins with Link, or whoever the main character is supposed to be, leaping from a clifftop […]

Boring filler quests, often of the "fetch" variety, used to be derided – but in extraction shooters nobody seems to mind that they're rampant. Go here, scan this terminal, collect ten wotsits, find five doodads, spin around three times and return to base. Of course, extraction shooters don't stand on […]