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A female MyPLAYER stands on a basketball court in NBA 2K27's City.
Basketball simulation / Launch week

NBA 2K27's shared City makes its split career stranger

A co-ed City gives NBA 2K27 a genuinely shared build space. Elsewhere, the career remains more fragmented.

GamerGuru Spotlight Desk · 14 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Three versions of Junko appear in fragments of a shattered mirror against a red backdrop in BrokenLore: DON'T LIE artwork.
Psychological horror / Launch week

BrokenLore: DON'T LIE turns Junko's flat into a map of isolation

Junko's flat is not a staging area for the horror. It is the game's central, unstable piece of evidence.

GamerGuru Spotlight Desk · 14 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
A small mouse wearing a stitched backpack jumps through a garden beside a cottage.
Co-op adventure / PC and console

Hela's magic backpack needs to make its co-op world worth sharing

Hela's backpack gives every mouse a movement language. The question is whether its open world makes that language social.

GamerGuru Previews Desk · 14 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
A silhouetted soldier overlooks a rain-soaked, floodlit city at night in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
Campaign design / Black Ops Cold War

Black Ops Cold War's evidence board gave its campaign room to think

Its evidence board asked players to collect, compare and decide before the next mission started.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 14 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
An operative carrying a rifle crosses a ruined outdoor zone in Active Matter.
Release calendar / Extraction shooter

Active Matter's console launch must make its harsh extraction loop readable

The extraction shooter has a sharper identity than its military hardware suggests, but its Steam and console launch needs a kinder way in.

GamerGuru Previews Desk · 14 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
Four cartoon cats face a line of monsters on a grid-based battlefield in Mewgenics.
Tactics and legacy / Mewgenics

Mewgenics sends every battle back to the house

Its house gives every risky expedition a history that the next cat party has to live with.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A bull shark swims in a fountain beneath a giant Neptune statue at an elaborate island theme park.
Design feature / Maneater 2

Maneater 2 turns a theme park into a shark's food chain

The sequel's theme-park setting can make eating, exploring and evolving feel like one escalating act of vandalism.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
A traveller climbs a ruined stone structure above the clouds on the branches of the World Tree.
Action design / Where the Seeds Fall

Where the Seeds Fall makes every descent a landing puzzle

A flower thrown before a leap could give CygamesEdge's platformer a much sharper kind of vertigo.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A bull shark breaks the surface in front of a resort island in Maneater 2.
PS5 announcement / Maneater 2

Maneater 2 is coming to PS5 in late 2027, with a theme park to tear apart

The shark sequel is heading to PS5 in late 2027, but it does not yet have a release date or price.

GamerGuru PlayStation Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 2 min read
A yellow taxi drives through city traffic while a green passenger timer and fare meter appear on screen.
Arcade design / Crazy Taxi

Crazy Taxi's clock turns every shortcut into a wager

A ticking fare timer turns route knowledge into a series of escalating decisions.

GamerGuru Features Desk · 13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read

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