Tis the season for murdering each other on a prison island, so SCUM is getting into the festivities with a new update. To get your winter wonderland on, players will be able to explore a snow covered map, get into snowball fights and sled d...

[Update: And...it's delayed again, with the "streamer branch" supposedly out on Saturday morning. Instead of simply saying "coming in December," they opted for a specific date in their Game Awards announcement, then literally delayed it sev...

Nic Rowen's review of Rain World seemed sympathetic but sad, which makes sense given that the game does a lot to invoke those two feelings. The bad news is, he was also feeling pretty disappointed when he said "I feel so badly for...

Subnautica was released very early this year on PC and just recently made a splash on PS4 and Xbox One. People kind of slept on it for a while but the console versions have given it a renewed sense of vigor, on top of a pretty killer new pr...

After five years of early-access, DayZ is finally available as a full game. The title that kicked off the survival craze, DayZ could also be seen as the progenitor of the recent "battle royale" fad that has swept over the industry. Basicall...

Sunless Skies, the followup to the anxiety-driven Sunless Sea, is set to come out of Early Access late next month and developer Failbetter Games has come up with an ingenious plan for its launch. For every minute that streamers stream the s...

Bundle up! We're heading across a snow-bound land full of irradiated monsters and limited supplies with which to fend them off. Metro Exodus will hit PC, PS4, and Xbox One a week earlier than expected. "We had previously delayed the release...

It's not too often that a simple developer-provided summary can fire up my imagination and immediately invest me in a video game, but Zanki Zero: Last Beginning pulls off that feat. The new survival RPG from Danganronpa's Yoshinori Terasawa...

Survival is the name of the game when it comes to the release of video games next year! With so many survival titles coming out next year, it truly will be a contest of which player base will have the best attention span! So, while we stil...

Prospective pirates have to keep their anchors down for an extra six days. This voyage isn't starting in a timely fashion. Studio Wildcard has announced that its new pirate MMO Atlas is delayed until December 19. Atlas was origin...

Studio Wildcard, the developer behind dino survival game ARK: Survival Evolved, is at it again. Except it's drastically upping the stakes this time. At The Game Awards 2018, Studio Wildcard revealed Atlas. It's another survival MMO -- but ...

Chill out, here's another game announcement for you. New Seattle-based studio Midwinter Entertainment is making a game that takes direct cues from the developer's name. Scavengers is an upcoming ice age survival game blended with coop...

After the insane snafu with Fallout 76's collector's edition not having the correct bag, Bethesda was finally set to make everything right to its customers. To get a replacement bag, one just needed to head to the Bethesda support website a...

11 Bit Studios has released the latest chapter in for harrowing adventure game This War of Mine. The Last Broadcast is the second of the game's "Stories" trilogy, following on from 2017's A Father's Promise.In The Last Broadcast, we return ...

Exploration fans shouldn't miss Subnautica. The underwater alien adventure game does a masterful job of stoking curiosity and fear. It's best on PC, but there's also an Xbox One version if that's where you're looking play. Next month, Subna...

Fallout 76 is an odd one. I don't think any Fallout fan suspected this would be the next step from Bethesda. As I mentioned in today's episode, I also don't quite know who they were aiming for with this game. The verdict is practically out ...

Deep Silver are to publish 11 Bit Studios' grim survival title This War of Mine for Switch. The sleeper indie hit will be arriving on Nintendo's hybrid console at the end of the month.Originally released back in 2014, This War of Mine asks ...

I suppose I should be thankful that Overkill's The Walking Dead (which was originally slated for 2016) is spared the burden of being a shared universe with the now-dominant AMC universe. Almost single-handedly responsible for...

Developer Endlight Games has announced that their woodland survival game, The Forest, has managed to shift a solid 5.3 million copies since its launch on Steam Early Access back in 2015.The creepy, improvisational PC title, which has only r...

Bethesda will be starting another round of Fallout 76 beta sessions soon, so an obligatory patch has been released. Instead of fixing a few minor things, this latest patch seems to overhaul a dramatic portion of the game. When you sign-in f...

If you were looking for a combination of some insanely popular things pretending they are interested in a new video game, look no further than Bethesda's Twitch page next week. For some unknown reason, massively popular streamer Ninja will ...

Just last week, Bethesda sent out a letter to fans warning about potential bugs in the Fallout 76 beta. Now that it is available on PC and PS4, though, an extremely odd one has cropped up. For players on PC, clicking any button in the game'...

I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of overpriced special editions of games, but I do love me some steelbooks. For the upcoming Resident Evil 2 remake, Capcom will be providing Europe fans a chance to add another snazzy steelbook for their ...

Not many people realize it, but Fortnite originally launched as a wave-based zombie survival game. The whole idea was you would build forts to survive the night with your friends. The mode never really took off and Epic Games made the wise ...

Metal Gear Survive didn't survive long enough to make it into my usual lineup of monthly shooters, but it is shambling along in some form or another eight months after launch. Konami has announced that in addition to Castlevania casset...