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Fable (2026): six years of waiting, a PS5 announcement, and the question that still has no answer

Six years after the announcement, Fable releases in autumn 2026 on Xbox, PC and PS5 day one. Playground Games built something ambitious. The real question is whether we'd have preferred a sequel in the lineage of Fable 2.

Fable (2026): six years of waiting, a PS5 announcement, and the question that still has no answer

Featured

God of War: Laufey: playing a dead woman in the afterlife of the gods, brilliant or a trainwreck?

Rayman Legends Retold: why remake the one Rayman that didn't need it?

Amazon cancels Stargate, and got our hopes up for nothing once again

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales: Team Asano leaves turn-based behind and it's stunning

Star Citizen, one billion dollars and still no game: what this number says about our industry

Star Fox (2026): the comeback we waited ten years for, and it does more than just resurrect Star Fox 64

Reviews

Catabomb: the robotic kittens disarming bombs roguelite, and the pitch was too honest to ignore

Shift at Midnight: a solo Australian dev just made the best co-op horror game of the year

Tape to Tape: the roguelite that gives arcade hockey its dignity back

007: First Light is the best James Bond game since GoldenEye, and the writing surprised us

Realm of Ink: solid roguelite or just another clone?

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is the best thing to happen to Batman since Arkham

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book: Good Feel reinvents Yoshi from scratch

Forza Horizon 6: Japan is the best map in the series, and that's about all that changes

Directive 8020: the first time in five years a Dark Pictures was worth turning the lights off

Mixtape: the best compilation of 2026

Alabaster Dawn: Radical Fish Games is back, and it's even better than we hoped

Cash Cleaner Simulator: we wanted to be Marty Byrde, we became a laundromat

Dead as Disco: we said the combat was good. We were right.

Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era: Heroes III is back, and it means something

Gambonanza: Balatro had genius, this one has a template

Adorable Adventures: Boris the baby boar and the art of not rushing

Far Far West: the game that read all the others and decided to do the opposite

Saros: pretty, linear, and familiar

Over the Top: World War 1: the Great War FPS that had no right to be this good

Space Drilling Station: drilling through space, one loop at a time

Sudden Strike 5: twenty years later, we're still here

Pragmata: Capcom lays the foundation for a new franchise, and it holds

The Third Shift: night guard in a museum that never sleeps

Tidehaven Ale and Trade: a medieval tavern that runs itself, and that's the problem

Tides of Tomorrow: the world is drowning, and we believe anyway

Vampire Crawlers: yet another deck builder, and somehow this one actually earns it

Blades, Bows and Magic: pixel art, deck building and genuinely good vibes

Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch, the most beautiful love letter that doesn't know how to fight

TownsFolk: yet another hexagon game, and somehow we still can't get enough

Wednesdays: shedding light on what we'd rather didn't exist

CARNEDGE: ten years of work, three people, a game that deserves your attention

Les Murmures du Soleil is the best mobile game of 2025 and you've probably never heard of it

Windrose is the pirate game we've been waiting for since Black Flag. And it delivers.

Cleaning Up!: clean up... then forget

Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss: diving into the unknown, at the risk of getting lost

Gecko Gods: the sacred lizard climbing where others don't dare

Heartopia: the cozy game that wants your happiness... and your credit card

Last Flag: a tense, strategic FPS… and clearly not for everyone

Mouse: P.I. For Hire: an incredible style, a game that doesn't hold the distance

Pokopia: the cozy game that got lost in the grind

REPLACED: a stunning visual experience… but is the game up to the same standard?

Tomodachi Life, A Dream Life: the unexpected return of a one-of-a-kind phenomenon

Under Par Golf Architect: the spreadsheet simulator in disguise

Verne: The Shape of Fantasy, the point-and-click that proves imagination doesn't need 60 frames per second

Clair Obscur Expedition 33: between artistic brilliance and very visible limits

Super Mario Bros. Wonder: the most creative 2D Mario in years

Previews

God of War: Laufey: playing a dead woman in the afterlife of the gods, brilliant or a trainwreck?

Rayman Legends Retold: why remake the one Rayman that didn't need it?

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales: Team Asano leaves turn-based behind and it's stunning

Star Fox (2026): the comeback we waited ten years for, and it does more than just resurrect Star Fox 64

The Last Nordic Tribe: surviving the Little Ragnarök, and it smells like Gothic 2001 in the best way

Neofeud 2: a solo Hawaiian developer spent nine years painting the most ambitious cyberpunk game of 2026

RD Racing: the spiritual heir to Death Rally is a nine-euro indie arcade combat racer

HELLREAPER: Dead Cells meets Salt & Sanctuary, and it's a six-person Polish studio doing it

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn might be the sci-fi RPG we've been waiting for since Mass Effect 2

Canyons: piloting a metal colossus through the desert, in co-op, with moral choices

Gothic Remake: seven hours in the Colony, and the same joy as 2001

The Witch's Bakery: Paris, magic and a bakery to find your place

007: First Light is IO Interactive's most honest preview in years, and it's not Hitman

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is the Crying Suns sequel nobody expected, and it's a good surprise

Void Reaver: six people, zero AI art, and an inventory roguelite that wants you to play Tetris between demon waves

Ambroise Niflette and the Gleaned Bell: James and the Giant Peach as a video game, and we've been waiting since 1996

Mechanicus 2 releases May 21 and the only thing stopping us from burning the incense right now is the soundtrack

Dawn of War 4 announced: we hope, we doubt, and we have every reason to do both

Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2: this time there will be four of us

Sudden Strike 5: the 2026 roadmap answers the right questions

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic: not a new hope, an old hope

Metro 2039: Artyom can rest, Hunter has taken control

Dark Heresy: Owlcat takes on the Inquisition and we're already lost in the Calixis Sector

Sineus Arena Survivors: when a dev puts everything on the line and it looks like something