New Planets

IGN snootily turned down an offer to review the Nex Playground around its 2023 release. And why not? It’s a casual games console from a company with no cachet in the space – a colorful little cube whose primary input method is your own body, via an ultra-wide camera lens on the front of the system. And yet, like the Wii before it, this underestimated machine (scoffed by elite gaming media types everywhere!) managed to outsell Microsoft’s Xbox consoles over the 2025 holidays. Were we, the gaming media, wrong? So now, here I am as one of IGN’s child-having freelance writers, with a review of the

PlayStation has a crop of new hardware launching in 2026. No, unfortunately I don’t have anything to tell you about the PS6, but I recently had the chance to visit PlayStation HQ and go hands-on with a slate of upcoming PlayStation accessories, the FlexStrike wireless fightstick, the Pulse Elevate wireless speakers, and the first officially PlayStation-branded gaming monitor.

Plus, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, Tides of Annihilation, Frontier Legends, Forza Horizon 6, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and much more, too

From Master Chief arriving on PlayStation to an Assassin's Creed favorite, July is stacked with exciting new PS5 games.

Xbox owners will have a lot of options for new games this June, especially thanks to some meaty RPGs.