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After three years of mysteriously absent email-checking, Strong Bad has finally smashed his boxing-gloved fists onto the keyboard once more, returning with a brand-new message for his loyal fans. And in true Strong Bad fashion, it's about robots--again--and this time they apparently want to discuss their favorite sauces. His comeback feels like stepping back into Free Country, USA itself: chaotic, ridiculous, and somehow still deeply important to a generation.

The shoes go on sale tomorrow, November 25, so you don't have to wait very long to get your feet into them. The $80 shoes have been "designed with gamers in mind," the company said. The individual black-and-green shoes are labeled "Player Left" and "Player Right," and include fixed joysticks and buttons on them, replicating the Xbox controller. Crocs will also sell a five-pack of Jibbitz charms, focused on Xbox franchises like Halo, Doom, Fallout, World of Warcraft, and Sea of Thieves.

Set during ancient China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (about 907 to 979 AD), the game is this fantastical amalgam of MMO, action-adventure, and RPG mechanics that seamlessly blends into an open-world environment you can play either in solo or multiplayer modes. There are epic sword fights with flashy combos, Tai Chi moves to basically force-throw animals and enemies, and bosses that rival a From Software game in size and difficulty.

Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb said in a post on X Sunday that Intergalactic won't get a new trailer at The Game Awards next month. Grubb was responding to PlayStation insider Colin Moriarty, who said he believed the game could show up at the event. Grubb said Intergalactic won't be shown at The Game Awards 2025 and went on to claim that the game won't be out in 2026.

When it was announced in September 2025, Pokemon Pokopia appeared to be the franchise's cozy-game answer to Animal Crossing and Minecraft. But after the recently released extended trailer for the game, fans have pointed out intriguing and dark links to some of the previous titles in the franchise. It's almost unsettling that one of the first things seen in the extended trailer is a devastated Pokemon Center and a generation-one Pokedex.

In its latest earnings briefing, Ubisoft said the Assassin's Creed series overall "posted a strong performance" in the latest quarter, including sales of the newest game, Shadows, and back-catalog titles. The Assassin's Creed series had more than 211 million "session days" so far in 2025, which is about 35% higher than the average for the past two years, Ubisoft said.

Wizards of the Coast is adding six new Magic: The Gathering products to the Final Fantasy Universes Beyond set on December 5, including a new Collector's Bundle, four Scene Boxes, and an updated Final Fantasy 7 Commander Deck. Unfortunately, all six upcoming releases have been sold out since September 26, the same day preorders opened. We've seen a few restocks, but each one sells out in a hurry.

Extraction shooters are eager to take everything away from you. And though Arc Raiders has proven to be a more friendly approach with its multiple paths of progression, dying at the end of a successful run still sucks. Getting pushed 99 percent of the way to failure and then surviving, however, is a feeling like no other. As more folks pour into Arc Raiders ' servers to hopefully extract and craft their way to glory,

You get two mappable back buttons that sit right under your middle fingers, ready to handle actions you'd normally stretch your thumbs to reach. These buttons let you jump, crouch, reload or activate abilities without taking your thumbs off the analog sticks. For competitive players, this means never having to break their aim during heated firefights. You can save multiple control profiles

Nintendo has dominated portable gaming with the Switch 2, but Sony finally offers a compelling alternative for PlayStation owners who want their games on the go. The company built an empire around the PS5 as a living room powerhouse and the PS Portal extends that experience beyond the couch and into your hands. This device streams your entire PS5 library to a beautiful 8-inch screen, and lets you play God of War or Spider-Man anywhere in your home or via cloud gaming on the move.

Not every delay is a disappointment. In the release-driven world of video games, players naturally get bummed out when news breaks that a highly anticipated game (looking at you) gets pushed a few months. But as Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto said, "a delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is forever bad." And while the jury is out on whether or not he actually said this, there's no denying that a delayed game is among his very best.

From now until November 23 at 9:59 PM ET / 6:59 PM PT, you can go to the game's Steam page and add Vermintide 2 to your library. The title usually costs $30, but Fatshark is offering the game for free to mark 10 years of "Tide" games from the studio, beginning with Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide in 2015.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the God of War franchise, and one of the best ways to celebrate is to grab the latest entry in the long-running series, God of War Ragnarok, which is down to its lowest price yet for Black Friday. You can grab the game for just $20 (was $70) at Amazon, PlayStation Direct, and Walmart for a limited time.

For the first time, CloverPit is available on console after surprise-releasing yesterday on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox Game Pass (Ultimate and Premium tiers). The slot machine roguelike takes inspiration from Balatro and Buckshot Roulette, even featuring Jimbo from the former in the new Xbox launch trailer seen below. Players are tasked with paying off their gambling debt from inside a disgusting cell, and if they can't, they take a terrible tumble.

Ubisoft has announced a new game prototype featuring voice-controlled AI teammates that understand visual context and natural language. This "Teammates" project builds on the Neo NPCs Ubisoft showed off with Nvidia in 2024 to demo in-game AI that can naturally respond to players. A key difference this time, besides the complexity of the interactions the prototype supports, is that Teammates is already being played in a closed playtest with "a few hundred players," Ubisoft says.

The PS5 launched in 2022 and maintained strict pricing for years, with Sony rarely offering any meaningful discounts even during major shopping events. This marks the first year the console sees genuine Black Friday price cuts, and these deals appear exclusively on Amazon. The PS5 Slim with disc drive drops to $449 from $549, while the Digital Edition hits $399 instead of $499.

If you're looking for information on the next Blox Fruits update, you have come to the right place. One of Roblox 's most popular and most entertaining games, Blox Fruits is a seafaring adventure that pulls inspiration from the iconic anime franchise One Piece. Since launching in 2019, this swashbuckling experience has remained at the top of the charts and received a steady stream of updates to refine and improve the title.

Since late 2021, something has been building in the community. Dataminers have continued to extract and share pieces of code from other Valve games that seem to indicate that the company is working on a new Half-Life game, reportedly codenamed HLX. Then, earlier this month, Valve announced three (lol) new pieces of gaming hardware, but didn't announce a new game to go with any of it.

The first was a big injection of new cash, say from a sovereign wealth fund like Saudi Arabia's. The second was an outright sale of a major portion of the company, maybe to its current backstop investor Tencent. The third was much more mundane: an accounting error. After a week of speculation, the Assassin's Creed publisher confirmed that was indeed the reason for the delay.

It would be a lie not to say that obviously spring looks really good,

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's new version of Nuketown arrived on November 20, and one of the first things people tried on it was shooting off all the mannequin heads to unlock the long-running Nuketown Easter egg. Unfortunately, it doesn't work in Black Ops 7, at least not yet. This isn't a huge shock, though, as Black Ops 6's version of Nuketown didn't unlock the Easter egg right away, either.