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The Games You Should Play Over The Holidays | The Game Informer Show

It's Thanksgiving week in the US, which means the GI staff is taking some time off, heading to wherever they rest their heads, planning dinners and get-togethers, and getting in some extra game time.In light of that, we're publishing a special early edition of The Game Informer Show this week with a little twist - rather than a roundtable discussion, we had everyone contribute their own solo take on what they're playing, thinking about, or

Battletoads, Ninja Gaiden II, And More Come To Nintendo Switch Online

Nintendo Switch Online’s NES and Game Boy libraries got a new pair of games each today, the former for the first time in nearly a year. Battletoads and Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos are now available for the NES library, while the Game Boy collection gets Bionic Commando and Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters Battletoads, first released in 1991, is both beloved and infamous as a classic and challenging co-op brawler. Develope

Bungie Shares Deep Dive On Star Wars-Inspired Destiny 2: Renegades

Bungie today offered a deep dive look at the new Destiny 2: Renegades release, which is scheduled to arrive for players next week, on December 2. The new major release for the game is an unusual one, as it’s rooted in a partnership with Star Wars. A quick look through the early visuals of the game don’t leave much room for doubt on that, as there are lots of things that look like lightsabers, stormtroopers, and villainous Sith.But as today’

Yuji Horii On Final Fantasy: 'When I First Saw Final Fantasy X, I Recall Feeling This Was The Ultimate Perfection'

Dragon Quest launched in Japan in 1986, and a little over a year later, Final Fantasy launched in 1987. Though the two are now sister RPG franchises at Square Enix, before the 2003 merger between Square and Enix, these series were competitors. And if you ask fans, they might use a word like rivals. I traveled to Tokyo, Japan, last month to visit Square Enix's Shibuya offices, play Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, and interview the team beh

FX Announces Far Cry Anthology Series Coming To Hulu From Alien: Earth And It's Always Sunny Creators

FX is developing an anthology TV series adapting Ubisoft’s Far Cry franchise. The upcoming show will stream on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.According to a press release, the series will “retain Far Cry’s signature standalone storytelling format” and each season will take place in a new setting and star a different cast. Far Cry is being helmed by executive producers Noah Hawley, creator of FX’s Fargo and Alien: Earth, and Ro

Battlefield 6 kicks off its first free trial post the Black Ops 7 launch to twist that knife

Even if you don’t care about the rivalries between the top multiplayer first-person shooters series, it’s hard to ignore how much EA wanted to stick it to Call of Duty this year with Battlefield 6. Read more

Exclusive Riftbound Spiritforged Card Reveal - Jax, Unrelenting

Riftbound, the League of Legends physical trading card game, has had its Origins set go live worldwide. Now, Riot Games is looking towards its second set, Spiritforged; and Game Informer was offered the opportunity to reveal one of its upcoming Champion cards.Surprisingly, our chosen card wound up being one familiar to both myself and fellow Video Editor Alex Van Aken. Jax is,

Crocs And Xbox Partner For A Controller-Inspired Shoe That's Available Tomorrow

Crocs is no stranger to teaming up with video game companies, having released shoes inspired by Animal Crossing and Pokémon in the last couple of years. This time, the popular shoe brand has partnered with Xbox for a clog modeled after Microsoft’s flagship console.Although this collaboration is meant to coincide with the Xbox 360’s 20th anniversa

Star Fox-Inspired Wild Blue Skies (Formerly Wild Blue) Gets Extended Gameplay Trailer

The Star Fox-inspired Wild Blue has a new name and gameplay trailer. Now re-christened as Wild Blue Skies, the upcoming retro throwback has over four minutes of new gameplay footage.Wild Blue Skies was first revealed in March, and this homage to Star Fox has some authentic expertise behind it; Giles Goddard, a former Nintendo programmer who worked on the original Star Fox, leads the development team at the Kyoto-based Chuhai Labs.  The

Yuji Horii On The Secret Sauce That's Kept Dragon Quest Going For Nearly 40 Years

Dragon Quest will celebrate its 40th anniversary next year in 2026, and with Dragon Quest VII Reimagined launching in February, the occasion is off to a good start. I visited Square Enix's Tokyo, Japan, offices to play two hours of Reimagined, interview the team behind it, and speak to Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii about the series' long-running history, and more. There's plenty of Reimagined content to read here, but I also took this opp

Kirby Air Riders, Morsels, and The Game Awards Nominee Reactions | The Game Informer Show

We're nearing the month of December, which means Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards are soon upon us! The nominee list is out, and Marcus, Charles, and Eric are here to react and provide some insight into what the voting is like for The Game Awards.Before all that, though, Charles shares some early impressions of the zany, speedy Kirby Air Riders and a new indie rogue-like called Morsels. Plus, we close the show out with another edition of GI

The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – November 21

Devil's Night. Christmas Eve. July 3rd. So many holidays have names for the days that occur before them, but what about the Friday before Thanksgiving? It has no name, sadly, and I don't have a good suggestion for one. But I do have suggestions for some video games that might be worth playing this weekend.Also, head here to vote for your favorite gam

Yuji Horii On Early Days In Game Dev: 'I Would Just Do Everything Myself'

Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has been designing games for upwards of 40 years, and though he's 71 today, he still remains heavily involved in the development of the long-running RPG franchise that began in 1986. During our cover story trip to Tokyo, Japan, to play Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, Game Informer had the opportunity to interview Horii for 90 minutes and asked him a

Silent Hill 2 Remake Surprise Launches On Xbox Series X/S Today With A 50 Percent Discount

The 2024 remake of Silent Hill 2 is now available on Xbox Series X/S. If that wasn’t a surprise enough, Xbox owners can purchase the game at a special launch discount of up to 50 percent off the standard platform pricing.It had been rumored that Silent Hill 2, which launched for PlayStation 5 and PC in October 2024, was heading to Xbox after fans spotted an ESRB rating for this version last month. Konami gave no advance announcement of this

English Edition Of The Legend Of Mana 30th Anniversary Edition Art Book Arrives Next July

Game Informer can exclusively reveal that Dark Horse Books and Square Enix are publishing their Legend of Mana: The Art of Mana – 30th Anniversary Edition in English for the first time. This expansive art book features 80 pages of materials from the 1999 PS1 RPG, which was released in the West in 2000 and remastered in 2021. The book will become available in the U.S. next summer.This hardcover book includes art from the game’s original rele

Dragon boy Durin is the star of the show in Genshin Impact's wintry Luna 3 update, launching in early December

The latest HoYoverse Special Program has brought us big Genshin Impact news. Version Luna 3 has been fully revealed, continuing the Nod-Krai story. The new chapter arrives December 3 across all platforms. Read more

Nioh 3 Preview – An Exciting And Necessary Shake-Up

PUBG's extraction shooter spin-off, Black Budget, is finally going to be playable next month

You’d be forgiven for not remembering PUBG: Black Budget, the extraction off-shoot of the original battle royale shooter, PUBG. Black Budget has been sort of floating around the internet for months, but Krafton never really committed to revealing core details about the game, or when players will actually get to play it. Read more

Battlefield 6 may have actually done it: beaten Call of Duty

If you’ve been paying any attention to the shooter market these past few months, you won’t be surprised to learn that Battlefield 6 has been an unprecedented success for EA, and the Battlefield series as a whole. Read more

Twin Peaks: From Z To A Box Set Is A Bargain For Amazon Prime Day

Twin Peaks: From Z to A: The Complete Series (Blu-ray) $47 (was $55.29) See at Amazon Twin Peaks fans who haven't picked up the From Z to A Blu-ray collection will definitely want to check out Amazon's Prime Day deal before it sells out. On sale for just $47 (was $55.29), Twin Peaks: From Z to A collects all three seasons of David Lynch's surrealist masterpiece, the prequel movie Fire Walk with Me, and 20-plus h

Immerse Yourself In A World Of Smuggling, Gangsters & Flying 1930s Cars In New Aether & Iron Gameplay Trailer

Smooth-talking dice rolls, turn-based car combat, and more on show in new trailer for narrative RPG set in alternate 1930s New York Seismic Squirrel have released a new trailer showcasing the atmospheric world awaiting players in their upcoming narrative-driven RPG, Aether & Iron, coming to PC in 2026. Take on the role of Gia, a smuggler in an alternate 1930s New York that has been transformed into a vertical city after the discove

New Gameplay Trailer For Arthurian Action Game Tides Of Annihilation Shows Off A Thrilling Boss Battle

Tides of Annihilation raised a lot of eyebrows when it debuted during a PlayStation State of Play in February, and the promising dark fantasy action game got another showing today, this time on the Xbox side during its Partner Preview. Curious fans were treated to a four-minute gameplay trailer showing off a titanic boss fight that, frankly, looks awesome. The adventure draws inspiration from Arthurian legend (as in the lore of King Ar

Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii On Remakes And Game Preservation

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is the latest game to grace the cover of Game Informer magazine, and would you believe that in our 34 years of history, this is the first time we've featured a Dragon Quest game on the cover? That's a wild statement, so during my trip to Tokyo, Japan, to play Reimagined, I interviewed Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii for 90 minutes about the series, what it's like seeing Dragon Quest VII remade again, game preserv

Reanimal, The Next Game From The Little Nightmares Team, Drops In February

Little Nightmares III came out earlier this year, but fans of the franchise might have noticed it was developed by Until Dawn developer Supermassive instead of the team behind the former games, Tarsier Studios. That's because Tarsier has been hard at work creating Reanimal, a new co-op horror game right around the corner. Today, we learned that the game will drop early next year, on February 13. Check out the trailer from today's Xbox Partn