Bejoy Naduvilathara Joy

When PlayStation Network (PSN) goes down, most players expect one thing. Online games stop working. That’s frustrating, but it’s also something gamers have dealt with for years. Servers go offline, maintenance happens, and eventually everything comes back. What feels different today is the reaction. Every time PSN experiences a major disruption, social media fills with…

Whenever an old game starts trending again, somebody eventually says the same thing. “It’s just nostalgia.” Most of the time, that’s probably true. People tend to remember the best parts of older games and conveniently forget the frustrations. A decade passes, memories soften, and suddenly every game from the past feels better than it actually…

One of the strangest things about competitive Pokémon is how little time some players actually spend battling. That sounds ridiculous at first. But anyone who has spent time around ranked play knows exactly what I mean. The battle itself might last ten minutes. Getting ready for that battle can take hours. For years, competitive players…

Whenever the words “Nintendo” and “data breach” appear in the same headline, people tend to assume the worst. That’s understandable. Over the years, gamers have seen enough leaks, hacks, and security incidents to immediately start wondering whether accounts, payment information, or upcoming games are at risk. That’s why Nintendo’s recent statement regarding the TinyPulse incident…

For a while now, PlayStation has been strangely difficult to read. The games never stopped coming. The studios were still there. The PlayStation 5 continued selling millions of units. Yet every major showcase seemed to leave the same question hanging in the air: What exactly is Sony building toward? That uncertainty has followed PlayStation for…

When I first heard Grow a Garden 2 was finally launching, I expected more of the same. More crops. A bigger map. Maybe a few new seeds. The usual sequel stuff. Then I started reading through the new features and realized something surprising. Grow a Garden 2 doesn’t seem interested in being a simple farming…

There was a moment during the Nintendo Direct when I thought I knew exactly what NBA The Run was going to be. A smaller basketball game. A cheaper basketball game. Maybe even a forgettable basketball game. Then I watched a few matches. And the weird thing is that I stopped thinking about NBA The Run…

When Destiny 2’s servers started struggling on June 9, the first reaction was predictable. People blamed the servers, and Bungie. People posted screenshots of error messages and login queues. Normal launch-day stuff. But the more I watched the situation unfold, the more I realized the crash itself wasn’t the story. The story was the reason…

I thought Nintendo was going to save Zelda for later. Not forever. Just later. A new console launch usually gets a few months to breathe before one of the biggest franchises shows up and steals all the attention. Apparently Nintendo had other plans. The final moments of the June Nintendo Direct gave us something fans…

For more than a decade, one image has been tied to Until Dawn. Snow. Dark forests. Cabins buried deep in the mountains. The original game turned an isolated winter getaway into one of PlayStation’s most memorable horror experiences. So when Firesprite finally revealed Until Dawn 2 during PlayStation’s June State of Play showcase, I expected…

For years, Minecraft Live 2026 updates followed a pretty familiar pattern. Mojang would spend months building anticipation around one giant update. Players would wait. Speculate. Then eventually jump in when it finally arrived. That doesn’t seem to be the plan anymore. After watching Minecraft Live 2026, the biggest thing that stuck with me wasn’t a…

The funny thing about this State of Play is that I cannot tell you what the best game was. Usually that is easy. One trailer drops. Everyone talks about it for a week. Everything else gets pushed into the background. That did not happen this time. When the showcase ended, some people were talking about…

Most farewell tours look the same. Destiny got same? People revisit old memories. Communities share favorite moments. Someone posts screenshots from years ago and reminds everyone how different things were back then. Destiny’s farewell isn’t following that script. In fact, it feels like the community grabbed the script, ripped it in half, and started writing…