Open-world games put great emphasis on environments. These games in particular are excellent for exploring the great outdoors ...

Exploring an open world in a game is half the fun of this format, and these games did the best job of making that exploration rewarding.

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StarRupture is a base-building Survival game set on an alien world known as Arcadia. It's pretty much exactly as you'd expect ...

Since Minecraft first burrowed its blocky way into players' brains back in 2009, survival games have gone on to become one of ...

Before open worlds were bloated, these PS2-era classics delivered focused design and satisfying finales from start to finish.

Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has turned his focus to his lifelong passion of gaming. He lived and worked in South Korea ...

A team of astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to capture with direct imaging asteroids smashing into each other ...

There have been dozens of Sonic the Hedgehog games, but which are the good ones and which are the worst of the bunch?

On December 12, 2025, Insider Gaming revealed that a previously believed canceled Alien game is back in development, and it’ll feature Ripley 8 as one of its characters. The as-yet-untitled entry in ...

Twilight Imperium is the quintessential game for hard-core gamers. The game starts out with exploration and resource building ...

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