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Game Freak hints at Pokémon's battle system changing going forward, says Pokémon Champions exists to preserve the current mechanics

Battle tested

Torchlight: Infinite Launches Hardcore Server, The Unbound, With New & Returning Mechanics (and Permadeath)

Torchlight: Infinite players looking for a bigger challenge and more loot to extract can now hop on the ARPG's new Hardcore Server. The high-risk, high reward server is open now(and yes, there's permadeath).

Most Impressive Video Game Mechanics

Whether it's their technical execution or simply the idea itself, these playable concepts will blow your mind.

Torment Hexus fuses cyberpunk tactics and augmented match-3 mechanics with style

Torment Hexus is a cyberpunk strategy game with a cool match-3 twist and some powerful magic.

The Duskbloods blowout reveals gameplay mechanics, characters, content and more (plus gameplay)

New details have dawned

GTA 6 Gameplay Leak Reveals Deep RPG Systems and Core Mechanics

What Does the GTA 6 Gameplay Leak Reveal? The GTA 6 gameplay leak reveals significant new mechanics, including a detailed police identification system, a six-star wanted level, vehicle fuel management, and a stamina-based combat system. The footage shows the protagonist Jason eng…

v0.2.3 - New Attack Effects, Balancing, Testing the Endings Other Mechanics

Lots more polishing to The Harbinger of the Deep this time around! From more visual and sound effects, optimizations, balancing, testing, and fixing of many features of the game!

GTA 6 Gameplay Leak Shows Lengthy Look At Combat And Vehicle Mechanics

Yet another GTA 6 leak has been shared online, and it's the biggest one yet.

Kingdom Hearts IV Devs Detail Quadratum’s Massive Scale and Its Traversal Mechanics

During the Deep Dive into Kingdom Hearts panel at the D23 2026 Expo, Nana Gadd of Disney and Pixar Games, Tai Yasue of Square Enix, and Tetsuya Nomura discussed the franchise and Kingdom Hearts IV itself. Yasue said that for Quadratum in Kingdom Hearts IV, they recreated all part…

Age of Umbra Sallowlands Review - A Powerful Performance, Interrupted By Mechanics

Age of Umbra Sallowlands comes to a beautiful conclusion with an incredible story of perseverance and loss, while mechanics felt like they got in the way of the narrative flow the acting was beautiful. Read this article on TechRaptor

'Persona 4' Remake Is Revolutionizing Its Combat With New Mechanics

Atlus' JRPG remake, Persona 4 Revival, is taking a page out of Persona 5's book with combat mechanics

Poll: Does Street Fighter 6 need new mechanics or existing mechanical changes?

Street Fighter 6 is now over three years old and just received its roster-wide Season 4 update last week, but fundamentally, the game remains the same as it was. Director Takayuki Nakayama has stated that Capcom plans to add no new mechanics to street Fighter 6 currently, but wha…

New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics

19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.

10 RPGs With Unique Gameplay Mechanics

If you're looking for role-playing experiences with something new to offer, I invite you to try these ten RPGs with unique gameplay mechanics.

Hololive Dreams: How the Development Team Used RPG Mechanics to Create a Giant Rhythm Game

Hololive Dreams combines rhythm-based gameplay with RPG progression, offering over 150 songs and 50 VTubers in an accessible new mobile experience.

Retrogods - A blend of strategic stealth and time-manipulation mechanics in this new plus/4 preview

The Commodore Plus/4 has recently received a playable build of Retrogods. Developed by System Syndrome, the title first generated excitement last year after debuting as a preview entry among five competing titles at the prominent Arok party game development competition. In this f…

The Growth of Social Casino Sweepstakes Mechanics in Casual Gaming

Why casual players are embracing these games

Mastering Path of Exile Xbox Risk and Reward Mechanics

Path of Exile features a resource economy where every action has a cost.

v1.9: Autoclicker Bots, new Botnet mechanics and much more

Devlog: Nexus Hack Simulator v1.9 — a terminal-launched autoclicker with scheduling and safety guards, a lot of the desktop apps now open as windows, some downloadable tools got a UI upgrade, you can now run tools and HTML files from downloads and desktop, multi-tab support in th…

10 Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen Mechanics That Changed the Future of Pokémon

FireRed & LeafGreen laid the foundations for features and design philosophies that went on to be series staples, cementing their unique status

10 Weird Mechanics In Zelda Games We Totally Forgot About

Rediscover 10 weird and obscure mechanics hidden within The Legend of Zelda games.

The Ogor Mawtribes have won me over with how gross their mechanics are, and this Warhammer Age of Sigmar army is truly foul

Big, dumb, and fun

Review: Culdcept BEGINS - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - A Great Distillation Of This Addictive Series' Mechanics

Stone culd classic. Culdcept has been around since the days of the Sega Saturn, but the odds are pretty good that you’ve never heard of it, let alone played it. Not all of the handful of titles released have left Japan’s shores, and of those that did, sales were low and reviews m…