Insulated at the Bottom

Here are the best games we played at Gamescom 2026, from AAA titans to indie gems.

The I Spy book series is a favorite of mine. I collected all of the books as a kid (including the challenge ones!) and have recently started looking at them with my son again. The attention of detail that went into creating each scene is quite incredible and you can always find new things if you look hard enough.As impressive as the creation of these scenes are, what's even more impressive is that someone has gone ahead and recreated it with only LEGO bricks. Posted in the LEGO Reddit this morning, user burnt-coding shared an image of the scene called "Blocks" from the very first

Matthew Needham says his scheming character has 'bitten off way more than he can chew'

There's a machine in The Incident at Galley House you'll spend an awful lot of time with, and it's a wonderfully tactile thing. It's part mixing desk, part paranormal enigma, part over-engineered Guess Who game, and full of clicky dials, chunky buttons, and a big old whooshy lever you're forever manipulating. And if your deductive instincts are good enough, it whirs into crackling life like a haunted slot machine, rigged to deliver strange psychic visions. Read more

A live-action Venom vs. Spider-Man is still on the cards, Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal says, as is the animated Venom solo movie.