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Here’s your guide to the month’s most  captivating releases As winter settles into its final stretch, February arrives with a literary lineup designed to sweep you off your feet—whether you’re craving slow-burn romance, cosy fantasies, or edge-of-your-seat suspense. This month’s releases offer something for every mood: cosy cat shelters shrouded in magical intrigue, meteorologists sparring over more than just weather patterns and mysteries that’ll keep you up well past midnight. This month’s book lineup promises to make your February infinitely more compelling. Haven’t explored our guide to the most anticipated books of 2026 yet? You’ll want to check that out.…

Let’s set aside the noxious cloud of internet surrounding Highguard for a second, ignore those overwhelmingly negative Steam reviews full of folks who’ve played it for less than an hour, and pretend Highguard is just a new free-to-play FPS that came out today.Hey, Highguard is out. I played around six hours between launch day and a preview event in Los Angeles last week. It’s got slick gunplay, a neat 3v3 mode that I’ve never seen anywhere else, and a business model that sounds less scummy than most free shooters. It’s pretty fun. I don’t think I love it.I will commend…

The PlayStation 3 had an incredible comeback, and that’s thanks to the greatest PS3 games of all time. Its library was packed with amazing first-party titles, along with third-party video games that were better on the PS3 than anywhere else. Games like LittleBigPlanet and Uncharted 2 have aged perfectly and are now recognized as classics. The best PS3 games come close to being perfect, and they’re all worth going back to today. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Wraps Up the PS3 Trilogy Image via Naughty Dog Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception wrapped up Nathan Drake’s PlayStation 3 run on a strong note.…

Renée Watson has won the 2026 John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature, for her novel All the Blues in the Sky (Bloomsbury), edited by Sarah Shumway. Cátia Chien has won this year’s Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book for children, for Fireworks (Clarion), written by Matthew Burgess, acquired by Mabel Hsu and edited by Hsu and Kate O’Sullivan. And Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories, compiled by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum), edited by Rosemary Brosnan, has won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults. The Youth Media…

Code Vein 2 is the latest in a long line of action RPGs chasing the lofty heights of FromSoftware’s immortal Dark Souls series, and like so many others before it, falls well short of the mark. Bland visually and uninspiring narratively, Bandai Namco’s latest soulslike foray (previously publishing the aforementioned Souls series, Elden Ring) boasts solid mechanical foundations, only to undermine them with repetition. The sequel to 2019’s more interesting Code Vein, Code Vein 2 tells a new story only loosely connected to the original, sharing a few themes and concepts. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans coexist with…

Game originally scheduled for March 19 Image via Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered game’s website© KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.Koei Tecmo announced on Monday that it is delaying Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered, a remastered version of its original 2001 game, from its originally scheduled release of March 19. The company’s American branch lists that the new release date is “to be announced,” while the Dynasty Warriors franchise’s X/Twitter account and the game’s official website provide a 2026 release window.The company states “As the first remaster of the Dynasty Warriors series, in order to fully satisfy our fans,…

Manga’s side series debuted in October following original manga’s end Image via Kodansha USA Publishing© Megumi Morino, Kodansha, Kodansha USA PublishingMegumi Morino revealed on X/Twitter on Friday that the A Condition Called Love (Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yamai) manga’s side story series will end in three chapters.The side story series launched in Kodansha’s Monthly Dessert magazine in October 2025.Morino launched the original A Condition Called Love manga in Kodansha’s Monthly Dessert magazine in December 2017, and ended it in July 2025. The manga has over 4 million copies in circulation (including digital copies). The manga won the Best Shōjo Manga…

Lenovo’s best deals use coupon codes that aren’t advertised on its website. Case in point, you can get a Lenovo Legion 5 Gen 10 gaming laptop, equipped with a 15″ OLED display and RTX 5070 GPU, for just $1,259 after you apply coupon code “GAMINGDEALS” (apply this on the shopping cart page). That’s a $737 discount, making it one of the least expensive RTX 5070 laptops I’ve seen for the new year and just a good deal overall considering the build quality of Lenovo’s laptops.Lenovo Legion 5 RTX 5070 Gaming Laptop for $1,259Lenovo Legion 5 15″ 2.5K OLED Intel Core…

The premise of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s light novel All You Need is Kill might be one of the most brilliant concepts of the 21st century. Besides having one of the greatest titles of all time, his story about a soldier stuck in a time loop and forced to become a killing machine against alien invaders remains evergreen. This story speaks to a century where countries become embedded forever wars while the young people fighting become killers for pointless reasons. Previously adapted for other mediums, the novel is now a visually sumptuous anime adaption from legendary animation Studio 4°C. This iteration adapts…

Sal Buscema, a veteran comics artist and part of the famed Buscema family of Marvel artists, has passed away. He was 89 years old when he died on Friday, and the news broke today, on what would have been his 90th birthday. Artist Sterling Clark, who previously worked with Buscema on an issue of National Guardians, broke the news (via Comic Book Club). According to Clark, Buscema’s wife Joan told him that the artist had passed away on Friday. Here’s what Clark said in his post: “Wow. I just received word from Mrs. Joan that Sal Buscema passed away last…