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Cody Harwell

Cody Harwell has been gaming since he could reach a controller, and not much has changed since. Growing up surrounded by cartridge-based consoles and CRT televisions, he developed a deep love for the classics that runs parallel to his enthusiasm for whatever dropped last Tuesday. He is equally comfortable debating the best entries in a 30-year-old franchise as he is diving into a day-one patch and forming hot takes before the credits roll.

EA’s 20,000-tape vault: how Wing Commander and Road Rash came back to Steam

November 5, 2026 by Cody Harwell
Restored space combat scene from Wing Commander: 35th Anniversary Edition on Steam

EA launched 25 classic PC games on Steam, GOG and the EA App on November 5, 2026, with seven restored Anniversary Editions built from a rediscovered vault of nearly 20,000 archival media assets.

Categories News, PC

Helldivers 2 adds venomous Noxious Terminids and expands bug caves

November 4, 2026 by Cody Harwell
A Helldivers 2 battlefield with the new Noxious Terminid enemies and webs draped across the terrain.

Arrowhead’s November 3 Helldivers 2 update adds the Noxious Scavenger and Noxious Spewer and spreads bug caves across more biomes on PlayStation 5 and PC.

Categories News, PlayStation

itch.io deletes terabytes of AI slop as daily uploads double

November 3, 2026 by Cody Harwell
Server racks at night with glowing storage drives, junk data dissolving into a light bin

itch.io says it deleted ‘a couple terabytes’ of AI slop after daily game uploads doubled in two months.

Categories News, PC

Stardew Valley 1.7 will be the game’s biggest update ever, ConcernedApe says

November 3, 2026 by Cody Harwell
A Stardew Valley farm scene with crops and a wooden cabin, from Stardew Valley's official Steam screenshots

Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone says the 1.7 update is looking to be the game’s largest ever, and will probably release sometime in 2027.

Categories News

Borderlands Joins the 100 Million Club as Gearbox Gives Away 100 Golden Keys

November 3, 2026 by Cody Harwell
A scene from Borderlands 4, showing the cel-shaded planet of Pandora's wasteland landscape.

Gearbox and 2K say the Borderlands franchise has surpassed 100 million copies sold, and players can redeem a SHiFT code for up to 100 free Golden Keys before November 16.

Categories News Tags 2K, Borderlands, Borderlands 4, Gearbox Software

Aonuma Explains Why the Ocarina of Time Remake Looks Like a Puppet Show

November 2, 2026 by Cody Harwell
A puppet-like hero figure standing before a giant glowing tree at dusk, evoking the Ocarina of Time remake's art style

Eiji Aonuma and Aya Shida explain the Switch 2 Ocarina of Time remake’s puppet-like art style as the current team’s nostalgia for the 1998 original, ahead of its November 5 launch.

Categories News, Nintendo

Xbox Game Pass Confirms Seven November 2026 Additions, None for Xbox One

October 31, 2026 by Cody Harwell
A screenshot from Gravhounds showing anthropomorphic dog characters in its colorful action-builder world.

Game Pass has seven confirmed November 2026 additions for Ultimate and PC subscribers, and none of them are coming to Xbox One.

Categories News, Xbox

John Romero confirms his new FPS is saved after Xbox abandoned it

October 30, 2026 by Cody Harwell
A lone developer at a glowing monitor in a small, partly emptied game studio office at night, reviewing sci-fi weapon concept art, illustrating the small team now building John Romero's new FPS.

John Romero says his studio’s Xbox-dropped FPS has a new publisher, 10 rehired developers and a complete redesign for a smaller team.

Categories News, PlayStation, Xbox

Dead Island 2 Leads PS Plus Essential’s November 2026 Lineup

October 29, 2026 by Cody Harwell
Dead Island 2 key art showing a zombie in a sunlit Los Angeles street setting, the headline game of PS Plus Essential November 2026

Sony announced November 2026’s PS Plus Essential games: Dead Island 2, Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered, and Monster Train 2, claimable November 3 to 30.

Categories News, PlayStation

Nintendo Indie World October 2026 Showcase Reveals Threads of Time, Tenjutsu, City of None and More

October 28, 2026 by Cody Harwell
Winds of Viridia, a Nintendo Switch 2 indie game shown during the Indie World showcase

Nintendo’s Indie World showcase revealed 20-plus games for Switch 2 and Switch, headlined by City of None, Tenjutsu and Threads of Time.

Categories News, Nintendo
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