Vita may mean life, but it’s clear that the PlayStation Vita is now dead and buried. That wasn’t for lack of trying, though. Even when pitted against the best 3DS games, the Vita’s impressive library was way ahead of its time. It took what made the PlayStation Portable so great and doubled down on it by making it more powerful, with a better screen and that all-important second analog stick.
There is a lot of crossover between the best PS3 games, best PS4 games, and Vita games since many were cross-platform titles. Still, the Vita had plenty of amazing exclusives to call its own. Even some multiplatform games felt more at home on the handheld. Despite an untimely death, the Vita had some of the best games of all time on it, so let’s celebrate the life of the Vita by looking at just some of those games.
Sonic loves to run, but his kart-racing game is perhaps the best Sonic game out there. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is Sega’s answer to Mario Kart, but its gameplay emphasizes deep vehicle mechanics and skill over sheer luck. Casual players will still love the game, though, especially when they see all of Sega’s most famous characters racing each other.
Metal Gear Solid is one of the most prolific video game franchises ever. That’s why it’s so significant to be able to play two of the best Metal Gear games, the second and third entries — Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater — on the PS Vita as part of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection. These two games are iconic, giving us outstanding stealth gameplay, wild stories, and some meme-worthy sequences that are still mentioned to this day. Whether you want to infiltrate an enemy base as Raiden or explore a deadly jungle as Snake, this collection has you covered.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.