Category: Gaming

We’ve only just said farewell to No Man’s Sky’s fishing-themed Aquarius expedition, but already there’s another here to take its place – and this time it’s a special, spooky themed event straddling the boundary between one reality and the next. No Man’s Sky’s The Cursed expedition starts today and runs for a comparatively…

Netflix has reportedly closed its internal game studio in Southern California, which was poised to release a AAA game. Known as team ‘Blue’, this was one of a handful of internal studios founded by Netflix as part of its expansion into games. It boasted staff from other major studios, including longtime Halo creative lead Joseph…

Fallout: Vault 13 – the ambitious mod attempting to remake Fallout 1 in the Fallout 4 engine – has ceased active development in order to “prioritise the well-being of project members”, but it’ll have the chance to live on when a build is shared with the community soon. Fallout: Vault 13, named after the…

Valve won’t be releasing a new Steam Deck console each year because “that’s kind of not really fair to your customers”. The handheld PC device will finally be available to purchase in Australia in November. Two of its designers from Valve, Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat, were interviewed by Reviews.org and discussed the trend of…

Indie horror developer Bloober Team says its done making “shitty” games. As Silent Hill 2 Remake enjoys almost universal acclaim from critics and fans alike, Bloober capitalised on the fervor by announcing an original sci-fi survival horror called Cronos: The New Dawn, insisting it has “evolved” and learned from prior missteps. To see this content…

Upcoming horror darling Holstin has had a few demos since it was first announced at the tail end of 2022, which its Steam Next Fest demo handily collates into a single download for you, splitting them into puzzle and combat sequences. Admittedly, I got stuck halfway through the puzzle one, so I booted up its…

Earlier this month, Digital Foundry had the opportunity to go hands-on with PlayStation 5 Pro at Sony’s London office, walking away with high quality capture from The Last of Us Part 2 and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. You’ve already seen our analysis pieces on how each of those games compares on Pro against the…

I can’t quite decide if Antonblast is destructive genius or just a little bit too chaotic for its own good. Following in Wario’s preferred mode of 2D platforming – aka: slamming Anton’s thick shoulders, gritted chin and whirling, Taz the Tasmanian Devil-style hurricane legs into every obstacle going rather than a polite bop on the…

Following yesterday’s first proper Subnautica 2 reveal, developer Unknown Worlds has given some early hints at what players can expect when the underwater survival adventure launches into early access next year. Multiplayer support and “several biomes” will feature on day one, but there’s plenty of time to evolve given early access is expected to…

Former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden has suggested the continuing push toward more powerful – and more costly – console hardware is unsustainable, arguing that “fighting over teraflops [is] no place to be… We need to compete on content”. Layden – who served as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America and chairman of Worldwide…

Double Eleven, the long-time steward of Paradox Interactive’s Prison Architect series before the two companies parted ways earlier this year, has announced its next project: multiplayer shooter Blindfire, which launches into early access for Xbox Series X/S and PC today. Blindfire is a team-based arena shooter for up to eight players, that, as…

Five months after bursting into PC early access, Hades 2 – the sequel to Supergiant Games’ much-loved 2020 roguelike action-adventure – has just received its first major content update, adding a new region, weapon, and so much else its patch notes weigh in at over 3,500 words. Hades 2’s Olympic Update (“practically mountain-sized!”,…

IO Interactive – the team behind the rather brilliant (in my humble opinion) Hitman games – hopes its upcoming James Bond origin story will be the start of a trilogy. Speaking with IGN, IO boss Hakan Abrak said the team feels like it’s had “20 plus years of training for the agent fantasy”, thanks to…

As Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 continues to work through its previously detailed Year One post-launch roadmap, developer Saber Interactive has offered a glimpse of the sci-fi shooter’s new PvE operation – featuring the imposing Hierophant Bio-Titan Tyranid – and Lethal Difficulty mode ahead of their release “very, very soon”. As announced back…

League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced it’s laying off an unspecified number of employees in the studio’s second round of job cuts since the start of this year. Riot began 2024 by laying off 530 employees in a move it insisted was a “necessity”, saying its costs had “grown to the point…

Bungie has unveiled Destiny: Rising, a free-to-play mobile version of its sci-fi shooter series developed in collaboration with Chinese publisher NetEase, that’s set to receive a “limited access closed alpha test” on iOS and Android this November. NetEase initially announced a partnership with Bungie back in 2018, and reports began circulating in 2022…

Microsoft has announced the return of its Xbox Partner Preview digital showcase, which will feature “around 25 minutes” of games when it airs this Thursday, 17th October. More specifically, Microsoft’s “no-fluff, all-games broadcast” kicks off at 6pm in the UK/10am PT and will feature “over a dozen” new trailers across its 25-minute-ish runtime. …

Baldur’s Gate 3’s director of publishing, Michael Douse, has called out scalpers for “making [people] sad”. Although the official website still shows the physical PC and PS5 collector’s editions for Baldur’s Gate 3 were priced at £217 (€260) before they were promptly snapped up, scalpers are trying their luck and listing the collector’s editions on…

Steam’s next, er, Next Fest is almost upon us, offering “hundreds of amazing demos of games that haven’t even released yet”. Launching tomorrow and running until 21st October, Steam Next Fest features a host of vertical slices to let you try before you buy, including demos of upcoming games like Antonblast, Microtopia, Mini Royale, The…

While the world waits, and waits, for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, a sequel that only ever seems further away – can you believe it was once scheduled for 2020? – I’m reminded of a vampire role-playing game that nearly passed me by. One of similar size and similar tone: thoughtful, brooding, dark. A…

Like a lot of Unreal Engine 5 games, Silent Hill 2 stutters and it stutters a lot. Why is it happening? Can it be fixed? Looking for answers on this, I found myself tumbling down a rabbit hole, with this game – and others based on Unreal Engine 5 – presenting issues even…

Microsoft is reportedly set to significantly expand Xbox Cloud Gaming’s capabilities next month, introducing the ability for Xbox players to stream any of their purchased games. To date, Xbox Cloud Gaming’s streaming features have only been available across a select number of Game Pass titles, but Microsoft has long had ambitions to enable…

Ahead of new California legislation requiring storefronts to make it clear customers are only buying a license for digital content rather than outright owning it, Steam has implemented a message at the point of purchase doing just that. California’s new legislation, which was signed into law by governor Gavin Newsom at the end…

Sports Interactive has delayed the launch of Football Manager 25 again – this time until 2025. In a statement this afternoon, the developer said it had agreed with publisher Sega to postpone the game’s launch on all platforms until March next year. Previously, the footy sim had been set to arrive on…

Sunderfolk is the debut game from Dreamhaven, the game company founded by former Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime. Morhaime announced the new company in 2020, which includes a roster of other ex-Blizzard staff and consists of two distinct studios: Moonshot and Secret Door. Sunderfolk is from the latter: a tactical game inspired by tabletop RPGs, controlled…

In a moment of enigmatic revery, Nintendo has announced it’ll be playtesting a mysterious new Switch Online feature later this month, and it’s inviting up to 10,000 people to get involved. Nintendo, never one to prioritise form over function, is calling this newly announced venture the Nintendo Switch Online: Playtest Program, and the…

With Stalker 2’s November release looming, anyone looking to acquaint (or reacquaint) themselves with the series’ acclaimed post-apocalyptic horror action ahead of its arrival will soon be able to do so on the go, with the original Stalker trilogy now set for a Switch release on 31st October – a little earlier than developer…

With less than a month to go until park management sim Planet Zoo whacks on a paper hat and toots out a party blower fwooooop to celebrate its fifth anniversary, developer Frontier has announced it’s be marking the occasion with more paid DLC and a free leopard for PC players. Starting with the…

Goat Simulator 3 is heading to PS4 and Xbox One on 24th October, following its launch in 2022 across current consoles and PC. The release will include the base game, all free content updates, and the Multiverse of Nonsense DLC. What’s more, it has cross-ownership integration meaning existing owners on current consoles can play on…

Pathologic, the acclaimed plague-themed horror series from developer Ice-Pick Lodge, is returning for a third instalment, this time slinging time travel into its gruelling, emotionally draining mix of intentionally dispiriting survival and haunting theatrics. The newly announced Pathologic 3 is something of an oddity in that it’s technically, sort of, the second chunk…

If you’ve been impatiently awaiting the arrival of Commandos: Origins since its announcement last year, here’s the next best thing; Claymore Game Studios’ revival of the classic WW2 real-time stealth-tactics series now has a PC and Xbox demo ahead of its release later this year. The Commandos series, if your history is…

Wikipedia has had to lock down the Silent Hill 2 Remake page after repeated vandalism from editors who refuse to accept that the remake of Konami’s seminal horror game released to critical acclaim earlier this week. Outright lies around the games reception and metacritic score – including one edit that said the game had “received…

Five Nights at Freddy’s star Josh Hutcherson says the second Freddy-themed movie is “much bigger” and “scarier” than its predecessor. Talking to Esquire, as spotted by TheGamer, Hutcherson talked about the “higher stakes” and teased that there will be “more” and “different” animatronics, with the Freddy universe “opening up in a big way”. Five Nights…

Fortnite brought the storyline of its current Marvel season to a head tonight in a climactic battle with Doctor Doom that attracted a concurrent peak of 5.6 million players. Over the course of an hour, players worked together to tackle an enormous, rampaging version of the classic Marvel villain, until finally his armour cracked,…

Sonic Team will work to keep its games on last-gen systems for as long as possible. That’s according to producer Takashi Iizuka, who said in an interview with IGN that he wants “as many people as possible to play” Sonic games, even though later, more advanced systems enable “newer Sonic games [to] express the speed…

Sea of Thieves’ 14th season is almost upon us; Rare has confirmed it’ll be bringing a whole bunch of new stealthy treats to its multiplayer pirate adventure on 17th October. When last we heard hints of Season 14, it was all the way back in March, when Rare laid out its content plans for…

David Hayter, the gravelly voice of Metal Gear protagonist Solid Snake, has fans pondering an apparent return to the role after posting an enigmatic new tweet. Hayter was famously ousted from the role in 2013, after Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima – always one to be swayed by a celebrity – controversially decided…

We already knew they were coming thanks to Gameloft’s most recent roadmap, but Timon and Pumbaa’s officially make their Disney Dreamlight Valley debut next Wednesday, 9th October. The Lion King favourites arrive as part of Disney Dreamlight Valley’s free Jungle Getaway Update, which has now been detailed in Gameloft’s latest developer video. Timon…

Following a few early teases last month, EA has formally unveiled The Sims 4’s spooky new Life & Death expansion, which arrives on 31st October, adding everything from new neighbourhoods where the boundaries between the living and the dead are especially thin to a new grim reaper career and the ability for ghosts to…

Crow Country, the acclaimed PS1-inspired survival horror adventure from Snipperclips developer SFB Games, is bringing its retro scares to PS4 and Switch on 16th October. Crow Country – which launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S in May – catapults players back to 1990 and the titular theme park of Edward…

I wasn’t very well yesterday, and to make myself feel better I took to the internet to see what joys I could find tucked away in some corner or another. What I ended up finding was rather unexpected, but all the same very welcome. You see, I came across a trailer for The Rocky Horror…

Bungie’s efforts to build enthusiasm for Destiny 2’s future amid significant layoffs at the studio and fan concerns continue with yet more teases for next year’s Codename: Apollo expansion – which is now confirmed to be whisking players to a “Metroidvania-inspired destination”, as seen in new concept art, and arriving alongside “next generation” armour. …

Ubisoft staff asked bosses over the course of several months to delay Assassin’s Creed Shadows, a new report has claimed, as the need for further time became clear. “While the announcement was somewhat of a shock publicly, internally, it was expected and desperately needed,” Insider Gaming writes, based on the accounts of…

With Amazon’s live-action TV adaptation of Like A Dragon/Yakuza fast approaching, the streaming service has shared a first proper trailer for those wanting to get a better look at its exuberant chaos ahead of its 24th October arrival on Prime Video. Like A Dragon: Yakuza, as the series is known, spans two different…

Football Manager 25 will release globally on 26th November on PC, PS5, and Xbox. The Xbox and PC version will also once again be available via Xbox Game Pass. Nintendo Switch’s Football Manager 25 Touch version is also on the way, but that will launch a little later on 3rd December. More information is promised…

Team Asobi says that while “almost 100%” of its most-wishlisted iconic Sony characters made it into Astro Bot, it finds it “difficult to comment” why Square Enix characters were missing. Talking to journalist Stephen Totilo, Team Asobi studio head Nicolas Doucet said that despite hoping that “maybe half” of the characters the team approached would…

Hideo Kojima says he knows Death Stranding 2’s release date, but “unforeseen circumstances” prevent him from sharing that date further. Talking at Tokyo Game Show, Kojima said that while he and his team were working “in preparation” for the release date, he could not confirm it until “some point next year”. As yet, there’s no…

A new clip of the curious live-action Minecraft movie is here. Courtesy of Minecraft Live, the clip is less than a minute long but expands on the very first peek at the live-action movie we had earlier this month. As yet, the clip hasn’t been formally uploaded to YouTube, but you can see it at…

Atlus says it is “aware there is an optimisation issue” with ReFantazio – Prologue’s demo on Steam. In a brief statement posted to X/Twitter, the developer thanked everyone who had downloaded and played the demo thus far, and assured them it was “working to address this problem”. Metaphor: ReFantazio — The King’s Trial.Watch on YouTube…

Red Candle Games, the developer behind critically acclaimed horror titles Detention and Devotion, has announced its equally well-received Sekiro-inspired action-platfomer Nine Sols is coming to Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch on 26th November. Nine Sols, which released on PC back in May following a successful crowdfunding campaign, casts players as the cat-like Yi, as…

Fender has teamed up with Capcom to create a Telecaster inspired by Monster Hunter: the Monster Hunter Rathalos Telecaster. The guitar’s already listed in the UK store for £1850, which makes it one of Fender’s pricier iterations. There’s no option to pre-order just yet, although Fender says the instrument will be available from March 2025….

The end is in sight for The Simpsons: Tapped Out, EA’s long-running and hugely successful free-to-play city builder. The publisher has announced it’s removing the mobile game from app stores this October, some 12 years after its initial release. The Simpsons: Tapped Out launched for iOS and Android back in 2012, challenging players…

Today is The Last of Us day, and in honour of the occasion Naughty Dog and HBO have released another trailer for the second season of its acclaimed TV adaptation. As with our brief teaser from August, today’s trailer once again starts with Catherine O’Hara’s still to be named character chatting with Pedro Pascal’s Joel,…

Following new of “softer than expected” sales for Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft has announced the open-world sci-fi adventure will get its first bit of previously announced post-launch story DLC – starring Lando Calrissian – on 21st November. Titled Wild Card, it sees Star Wars Outlaws protagonist Kay Vess being hired to infiltrate a…

Nexus mods user iArtorias has removed their handy mod that let players bypass PSN for God of War Ragnarök on PC. God of War Ragnarök was hit by negative Steam reviews upon its release that took aim at Sony’s controversial requirement for PC users to link to a PSN account. PC players being PC players,…

During tonight’s PlayStation State of Play we were offered some insight into what awaits the PS5 in the near future. This includes a look at both upcoming titles and updates for released titles. It was a mixture of surprises – such as a new Ghost of Tsushima sequel! – and games we all knew where…

Nintendo has provided fresh details on why Zelda was chosen as the protagonist for the series’ latest game, Echoes of Wisdom. In the latest Ask The Developer blog, series producer Eiji Aonuma discussed the game’s development with Nintendo director Tomomi Sano (the first female director of a Zelda game) and Grezzo director Satoshi Terada. Initially,…

Sony and developer Shift Up are being sued by Louisiana-based film production company Stellarblade, which – in case you haven’t already guessed where this is going – is alleging trademark infringement following the release of this year’s PS5 action-adventure Stellar Blade. As reported by IGN, the complaint was filed in a Louisiana court…

Neva Publisher: Devolver Digital Developer: Nomada Studio Availability: 15th October Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch I experience games differently now that I am a parent. I find myself incredibly aware of any young charges, virtual or real, and become invested in their wellbeing very quickly. In short, I…

If you’re trying to keep spoiler-free as you prepare for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom’s release next week – and Silent Hill 2 Remake’s release on 8th October – you may want to step away from social media for a while. Over the weekend, hours-long streams of both games are popping up online,…

New details about Assassin’s Creed Invictus have leaked online. According to X/Twitter user j0nathan – a leaker with extraordinarily good prior form for Assassin’s Creed information – Invictus will be a Fall Guys’ inspired multiplayer game in which players will assume the avatars of different Assassin’s Creed characters and fight to get through each round….

Homeworld 3 has revised its content plans, “unifying delivery” of all remaining paid DLC and free content drops. In an update posted to the official website, developer Blackbird Interactive said it was “combining the content into one beat [to] allow us to focus all our resources and provide you all with a higher-quality experience”. Here’s…

The long-awaited animated adaptation of Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, is finally “coming soon”. Netflix dropped the official announcement during Geeked Week ’24, and whilst it only clocks in at around a minute long, it gives us a first taste of what to expect when the show finally debuts on the streaming platform. Splinter…

Hollowbody’s familiar magic doesn’t lie in otherworldly places. It lies in the rubble of the ordinary. Hollowbody Developer: Headware Games Publisher: Headware Games Played on: PC via Steam Availability: Out now Though ostensibly set in a future of flying cars and holographic IDs, Hollowbody’s world is one that most of us would recognise – and…

We had a lot of praise for Final Fantasy 16 when it arrived last year on PS5, bringing excellent visuals with stable performance – at least at 30fps. The PC version has the potential to boost visuals further while allowing for much better frame-rates at the same time and after a demo last month, the…

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2’s doing alright for itself, what with its franchise-best launch and a whole load of critical acclaim, but developer Saber Interactive isn’t stopping yet. The studio has now pledged a whole bunch of fan-requested fixes, starting with connectivity issues as a “top priority” and maybe even the introduction of an FoV…

The new owners of mobile game revival Flappy Bird have released a statement to “clear the air” on their intentions, but are yet to acknowledge claims it’s based on cryptocurrency. If you missed it, last week the Flappy Bird Foundation announced the game’s return as it had newly acquired the official rights. Afterwards, original creator…

Nintendo is suing Pocketpair, developer of hit Pokémon-style game Palworld, over the alleged infringement of “multiple patent rights”. In a brief public statement posted to Nintendo’s website in the early hours of this morning, the company confirmed it had filed a patent infringement lawsuit in a Tokyo court yesterday, 18th September. …

The PlayStation Vita exclusive Freedom Wars is receiving a remastered version due out on current platforms early next year. Originally developed by Dimps and published by Sony in 2014, Bandai Namco will now publish a remastered port of the action game for Switch, PS5, PS5, and PC (Steam). It’s set to release on 10th January…

Behaviour Interactive has cancelled its Dead by Daylight four-player co-op spin-off, known only as Project T, after early player testing “yielded unsatisfactory overall results”. Project T, developed by Midwinter Entertainment, was an attempt to create a PvE experience set in the Dead by Daylight universe. It would see four players – cast as…

Microsoft has revealed the second wave of Xbox Game Pass titles for September. Members will soon be able to get their hands on: Wargroove 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC) Frostpunk 2 (PC) Ara: History Untold (PC) To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Newscast: For Xbox, could this year finally be…

If (like me) you found developer Ironwood Studios’ wonderfully weird four-wheeled survival game Pacific Drive just a bit too exhausting when it launched earlier this year, now might be the time to go back: its new Drive Your Way update introduces a whole bunch of custom difficulty settings and presets to make things easier…

Police have arrested nine Italian nationals thought to be selling counterfeit retro games and consoles for a video game trafficking ring estimated to be worth almost £42m (€50m / $55.5m). The pirated material included 12,000 counterfeit “Nintendo, Sega, and Atari” consoles holding 47m fake versions of retro games like Mario Bros., Street Fighter, and Star…

Just days after we learned that Flappy Bird is set to make a return later this year courtesy of the fan-made Flappy Bird Foundation, the original developer says he has “no relat[ion]” to the game. In a tweet posted to X/Twitter earlier today (15th September), original developer Doug Nguyen publicly distanced himself from the project…

Diablo 4 has reportedly earned Blizzard around $150 million from in-game microtransactions since it released in June 2023. That’s according to senior product manager, Harrison Froeschke, who stated in a since-nuked LinkedIn account that they had led the “monetisation strategy of the store cosmetics, pricing, bundle offers, personalised discounts, and roadmap planning which have driven…

A modder who’d worked to turn cult hit Human Fall Flat into a VR game has revealed that the “creators of the game bought it”. In a handful of tweets on X/Twitter, modder Raicuparta said No Brake Games was “so excited” about the mod, they are now releasing it as an official VR port. Human…

Following a difficult year for Immortals of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios, a “core team” of around 20 employees has now decamped to Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures, establishing a new studio that’ll be known as Absurd Marin. Immortals of Aveum, a “single-player first person magic shooter”, launched to mixed reviews last August,…

I Am Your Beast is a sensationally rapid-fire action game in every sense, but there’s also a surprisingly well-realised thread of narrative running through. Merciless. That’s what this man is. Every enemy you encounter – every identikit soldier in combat fatigues, their red, dead, bug-like masks obscuring the human faces beneath them – will succumb…

Annapurna Interactive – the video game publisher behind the acclaimed likes of Outer Wilds, What Remains of Edith Finch, and Cocoon – has reportedly seen a complete exodus of staff following a dispute with the company’s owner, causing “chaos” among developer partners. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, around two dozen employees – including Annapurna…

Flappy Bird, the infuriating mobile game, is set to make a return later this year. The game grew to tremendous popularity with over 100 million people playing it, but in 2014 original developer Dong Nguyen removed the game from sale despite it generating a reported $50,000 a day in advertising revenue. A decade later and…

With Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s October release looming ever closer, developer BioWare continues its slow and steady stream of blog-sized info-nuggets and teases – this time revealing a little about exploration, alongside news of a photo mode. As detailed in BioWare’s latest blog post, The Veilguard will give players the opportunity to visit…

Escaping from hell while bound to your nearest and dearest is always going to be somewhat chaotic, but a new Chained Together update is about to amplify that chaos even more. If you have no idea what I am talking about, Chained Together is a co-op sim that tasks players with climbing up and out…

Just days after pledging a fix for Star Wars Outlaws’ “unfair” and “incredibly punishing” insta-fail stealth sequences, Ubisoft has released a brand-new patch doing just that – and it introduces a bunch of other features, including cross-progression support, too. It’s unclear how extensive these initial changes to stealth are in Outlaws’ new Title…

PlayStation is currently riding high following the release of its adorable platformer Astro Bot. Unlike the God of Wars and The Last of Us’ of this world, Astro Bot is a family focused title, suitable (and definitely enjoyable) for players young and old. Reflecting on Astro Bot’s recent success, Hermen Hulst – PlayStation’s recently appointed…

Over 340,000 Team Fortress players have amassed as part of the ongoing #SaveTF2 campaign, lending their signatures to an anti-bot petition that has now been lovingly assembled into a hardback tome and hand-delivered to Valve’s offices in Washington. #SaveTF2 was born in 2022, amid a bot situation so severe, it was threatening to…

Every time I come to play Link’s Awakening, there’s one moment I always look forward to: getting Roc’s Feather. That first dungeon treasure can never come soon enough, as it’s the all-important item that lets Link jump about like he’s suddenly grown a pair of kangaroo legs. It’s oddly freeing in many ways – not…

Two-thirds of female players still report being harassed when playing online. In a report entitled “Why gaming still has a women problem”, Sky News reflected on the propensity of misogyny and hatred against women in gaming spaces, particularly on Discord and in multiplayer games. ‘It’s scary to be a woman in gaming’: Two-thirds of female…

The Eternal Life of Goldman Publisher: Weappy Studio Developer: THQ Nordic Availability: TBC Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC (Steam) How many games feature an elderly protagonist? More often than not, we find ourselves playing as plucky and attractive youngsters, superpowered teens, or occasionally a gruff dad. But what about an old man…

The developer behind NetEase’s survival free-to-play horror, Once Human, says the feedback it’s received about the game’s second season has been “quite demoralising”. In a statement posted to the team’s Discord server, the team said that it “value[s players’] opinions” and hopes to “fulfil all [player] requests in future updates” but stopped short of detailing…

In a change to a previous statement, Annapurna Interactive says it will be “reprinting” Outer Wilds: Archaeologist Edition on PS5 physical disc after all. Last week, Annapurna announced there had “been a glitch in the time loop”, and the PS5 physical edition of its Outer Wilds: Archaeologist Edition had been printed with “the wrong version…

High-profile streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm has returned to YouTube – two months after admitting he exchanged “messages with an individual minor” that “leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate” – accusing critics of a “planned and coordinated attack”, and asking, “Did any of you consider [they] may have been over the…

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 publisher Focus Entertainment has clarified players do not need to link their Steam account to Epic Games in order to play the game. When launching the game on Steam, an Epic Online Services client is installed once the game’s EULA (End User Licence Agreement) is accepted. This is to support…

Among the many questions observers had following this week’s shock shutdown of PlayStation 5v5 shooter Concord (albeit not necessarily at the top of their list) was if the now-defunct live-service title would still make an appearance in Amazon’s upcoming animated video game anthology series Secret Level – and the answer, according to a new…

When was the first time you visited Eurogamer? Do you remember what it looked like? In the 25 years that Eurogamer has existed, it has had at least six major design revisions. Thanks to archive.org’s wonderful Wayback Machine we can perform digital archeology and revisit those designs to see what was trendy in web design…

Helldiver 2’s long-awaited third enemy faction, the Illuminate – previously seen in Helldivers 1, but still conspicuously absent from its sequel – has briefly appeared in-game. Which hasn’t stopped developer Arrowhead Game Studios from declaring the incident to be “fake news”. Players began reporting strange sightings across Helldivers 2’s Galactic War map (thanks…

Cyberpunk 2077 fans have pledged more than $2m to ensure a new, official board game version of CD Projekt Red’s role-playing game is made. The crowdfunding campaign for Cyberpunk 2077 – The Board Game on GameFound obliterated its initial $100k goal in just 10 minutes and four seconds. As of writing, almost £2.1m has…

Battletech, Shadowrun, and The Lamplighters League developer Harebrained Schemes has announced its first project since parting ways with Paradox Interactive last year. It’s a “post-cyberpunk survival horror RPG” called Graft and it’s heading to PC. Graft’s story unfolds in the depths of a decaying continent-sized space station known as the Arc, home to…

Funcom – the developer behind Dune: Awakening – has admitted that getting the game ready for Microsoft’s lower-powered Xbox Series S will be a “challenge”. Speaking with Connor Makar from VG247, Dune: Awakening’s chief product officer Scott Junior said “there’s a lot of optimisations we need to do before we release on the Xbox”. He…

Thatcher’s Techbase – the Doom WAD that sees players descending to the Tenth Circle of Hell to thwart the return of “one of humanity’s greatest threats” – has been yanked from Bethesda’s new in-game mod browser after being reported for “real-world politics”. Thatcher’s Techbase initially released back in 2021, but developer Jim Purvis…

Baldur’s Gate 3 PC players will soon be able to get their hands on the game’s coveted Patch 7. This patch was previously in beta, and while we don’t have an exact date for its full release, we know it’s arriving imminently, courtesy of Larian’s Swen Vincke during a Pax West panel this weekend. The…

Space Goblin Studio – an indie team with “AAA credentials” – has revealed its debut game, Astrobotanica, is set to release in early access in 2025. Delivering a “unique blend of survival, exploration, and plant wizardry”, Astrobotanica is described as a “lush open-world survival adventure” that “transports players to prehistoric Earth, where an alien botanist…

Are you a member of Gen Z, a committed TikTok user, with an Instagram feed full of fashion content? Do you know what ‘slay’ now means? Have you been living a Brat summer? If you answered yes to any of those questions, chances are you’re already familiar with the dress-up game currently taking over the…

A compact and ingenious turn-based battler with an evocative world. “Bite-size” is one of those terms that gets a bad rap. This may be because it conjures memories of cramming for GCSEs with the help of the Beeb, or because, when deployed in the world of cuisine, it often translates to: “slightly less than you…

As Dame Shirley Bassey once famously bellowed, “It’s all just a little bit of history repeating”. And so it is with this week’s Epic Games Store giveaway of the Fallout Classic Collection, which Tim Sweeney previously wafted at storeshop visitors in December 2022 and February this year. For those who didn’t grab it…

How far is too far for a remake – and how safe is too safe? For Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, a sumptuous Unreal Engine 5 remake of a 2004 classic, finding a winning answer to this question has led to a great many careful choices at Konami. The combat and camera are updated,…

Against the Storm – the critically acclaimed city building roguelike from Eremite Games – is set to get its first major expansion, titled Keepers of the Stone, on 26th September this year. Against the Storm, if you’re unfamiliar, challenges players to survive the apocalyptic Blightstorm ravaging the kingdom by gradually upgrading the Smoldering…

Shinji Mikami and Goichi Suda are two titans of Japanese game development with some incredible games between them, including the likes of Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and Killer 7. Known for their somewhat punk attitude, the pair joined forces on Shadows of the Damned, released on PS3 and Xbox 360 back in 2011….

Beloved 1997 3D platformer Croc: Legend of the Gobbos is being remastered for PC and consoles, and it’s coming from a newly revived version of originaly developer Argonaut Games. Argonaut was founded by Jez San in 1982 and would go on to release the likes of Starglider and Birds of Prey before teaming…

Sony has announced a significant price hike for PlayStation 5 in Japan, which will see the cost of the console’s standard and Digital Editions rise by ¥13,000 (around £70). Announcing the news in a post on its Japanese PlayStation Blog, Sony blamed the price hike (as per Google Translate) on “the recent challenging…

Clive Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum is a truly iconic bit of 80s computer design, and readers of a certain age will have the opportunity to relive a youth spent palpating its rubber keys this November, when it returns to homes – with a bunch of included classic games and modern niceties thrown in – courtesy…

Gamescom 2024’s Opening Night Live was a lacklustre event – but one announcement changed everythiong. As the event moved into its final few minutes, new footage of the extremely promising Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was shown, with an announcement that the game arrives in December, followed by a PlayStation 5 launch in Spring…

A new Nintendo Direct broadcast will air tomorrow, Tuesday 27th August, at 3pm UK time. For those across the pond, that’s 7am Pacific, or 10am Eastern. Lasting roughly 40 minutes, the show will feature upcoming games and announcements for Nintendo Switch, from both major third-party developers as well as indie studios….

Good news, shooter fans – Deadlock finally officially exists. Even though Valve’s hero shooter amassed a concurrent player peak of over 16,000 earlier in the month, Valve still wouldn’t admit it existed. Overnight, however, it’s finally been added to Steam. PlayStation live-service Concord won’t sell you a battle pass – but would it be more…

More Call of Duty Black Ops 6 footage has leaked online, this time purporting to be from its multiplayer mode. Whilst the videos were eventually removed by the uploader themselves rather than a copyright claim, the footage – reportedly from the PC version – gave thousands of fans a sneaky peek before going offline. As…

Here at Digital Foundry, we’ve already gone into depth on Black Myth: Wukong’s high-end PC experience, with ‘full RT’ (ie path-traced) lighting – but the fact is that the vast majority of the audience will be using mainstream-level PC hardware. Thankfully, the game can scale and we’ve put together some optimised settings for you that…

Amazon has dropped a free 18-minute behind-the-scenes peek at the making of the first season of Amazon Prime’s Fallout TV show. “Good morning, Vault Dwellers!” the team announced on the show’s Twitter/X account. “Please enjoy this new 18-minute look at the making of Fallout Season 1. For Your Consideration.” You can check it out via…

Heroes of Might & Magic, Ubisoft’s long-running turn-based strategy series, is returning for an eighth mainline instalment in 2025, just in time to celebrate the series’ 30th anniversary. Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era – which will be the first new core series entry in nearly a decade – serves as a…

MySims, the unexpectedly decent The Sims spin-off that first hit Nintendo platforms back in 2007, is reportedly heading to Switch “soon”. MySims, in case you’re unfamiliar (which would be perfectly understandable given that it’s now a frankly upsetting 17 years old), initially released on Nintendo Wii and DS. Developed by Dead Space studio…

Starship Troopers: Extermination developer Offworld Industries has shared more on the new features coming to its bug-stomping 16-player co-operative FPS when it leaves early access and launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on 11th October this year. Extermination, which entered early access last May, casts players as members of the…

[Redacted] – that roguelike set in the Callisto Protocol universe announced under the codename Project Birdseye, which we reported on earlier this year – has landed itself a release date. It will be coming to Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam and Epic on 31st October, Striking Distance Studios revealed today. Described…

Black Myth: Wukong is an impressive game from a technical standpoint, especially on PC where it delivers sumptuous visuals despite stutter and other performance issues. The PS5 version of the game offers a chance for developers Game Science to offer a more curated experience, yet baffling design choices and some visual cutbacks detract from what…

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has addressed the surprise revelation that first-party exclusive Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will release on PS5 in spring/Q2 2025 just a few months after its Xbox debut, stating Xbox is “a business”, and that “the bar is high in terms of the delivery we have to give back” to…

Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024 is done and dusted for another year, but it’s certainly kicked off this year’s Gamescom with a bang – and we’ve got all the news, trailers and announcements right here in one handy summary. Whether you missed the show itself or just want a handy reminder of everything announced at…

Microsoft has confirmed the next batch of titles headed to Xbox Game Pass for the latter half of August: Atlas Fallen, Core Keeper, and Star Trucker. Then there’s that little known game called Call of Duty Black Ops 6. You’ll be able to participate in the early access open beta when it kicks off for…

Its dramatic and spectacular boss fights just about keep Black Myth: Wukong afloat, but behind all its glitz and glamour is a frustratingly hollow and rudderless action game. Black Myth: Wukong is nothing if not ambitious. As many of its early trailers and tech demos implied, this was a game punching above its weight. It…

Final Fantasy 16 will launch on PC on 17th September across both the Epic Games Store and Steam. The PC version has been long-awaited since the game was released as a PS5 console exclusive last year. Today’s news comes with a new PC specific trailer, see below. A demo is available to try…

A new “modern camera” mod is now available for Silent Hill 3 and Silent Hill 4: The Room on PC. Modder ZealotTormunds has developed a mod that gives Silent Hill players both a first-person perspective and a more contemporary over-the-shoulder camera. Silent Hill 3 – Modern Camera Mod Release (Third Person + First Person)Watch on…

15 minutes of Astro Bot has once again leaked online, giving us a premature peek at what to expect when the game releases on 6th September. In news unlikely to surprise you, the video has already been removed from YouTube (although you can still find copies of it if you’re prepared to go looking), but…

The Sunday Times has revealed the UK’s top 30 wealthiest developers and gamers, including Rockstar’s Sam and Dan Houser (#4), Frontiers’ David Braben and Wendy Irvin-Braben (#10), and Rebellion’s Chris and Jason Kingsley (#14), and Hello Games’ Sean Murray (#17). Other names on The Sunday Times Gaming Rich List include Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg (#25), Alastair…

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is one of Digital Foundry’s most eagerly anticipated games, effectively hitting the beats that made the first series entry so enjoyable. The grand scale of the environments, the dense swarms of tyranids, the absolute carnage of combat – it’s all back in Space Marine 2, enhanced by the impressive technical…

Video gaming’s premier horn honker, Trombone Champ, is bringing its comedic rhythm-tooting to virtual reality helmets – meaning PC, PlayStation VR 2, and Meta Quest players might want to pucker up in preparation for a vigorous tromboning session this autumn. Trombone Champ: Unflattened, as the new VR version of the 2022 rhythm-action sensation…

Destiny developer Bungie says it has addressed an issue where players have had their usernames changed by its “name moderation tool”. After “actively investigating” the issue for 24 hours, Bungie advised that while it had “identified the issue that was forcing a high number of Bungie name changes”, it was “continuing to investigate” what happened…

Call of Duty has become an absolute hard drive hog in recent years, with 2023’s entry managing to consume over 200GB of storage in some cases. That all might be about to change, however, as Activision has announced major changes to the way it’ll be handing installs with this year’s Black Ops 6, promising…

The thing I loved the most about the original Splitgate was the fact that, to me at least, it felt like playing the original Halo with my pals at LAN parties back in the early 2000s. Not only that but it came with all the mod cons of the current gaming era, including a wealth…

Amazon has reportedly commissioned a new animated anthology series for its Prime Video streaming service that’ll feature new stories set across a variety of existing video game worlds, including Spelunky and Amazon’s own New World. That’s according to Hollywood news publication Deadline, whose sources say the series – which is reportedly titled Secret…

It began in 2013 with the arrival of Nvidia G-Sync – the first form of variable refresh rate (VRR) display technology. Rather than attempt to synchronise, or not synchronise GPU output with your screen, the host hardware took control – kicking off a new display refresh when the GPU was ready with a new grame….

Arrowhead Game Studios has acknowledged Helldivers 2’s recent Escalation of Freedom update “didn’t hit [its] target” following significant criticism from the community, and it’s detailed the steps its taking to address core areas of complaint over the next 60 days. Helldivers 2’s latest round of community unrest followed the launch of last week’s major…

Following the release of The Last of Us Part 2 in 2020, developer Naughty Dog had plans to launch a standalone multiplayer game. Prior to the base game’s PS4 debut, the developer confirmed this multiplayer aspect would not be released alongside Part 2, as had been expected. Back in 2019, Naughty Dog explained its efforts…

Shadows of Doubt, the procedurally generated first-person detective sim from developer ColePowered Games, is leaving Steam early access on 26th September, and it’s getting a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S release on the same day. Shadows of Doubt entered Steam early access last April, challenging players – in the role of a…

Deadlock – a game which is yet to actually be announced in any official way, shape or form – had a concurrent player peak of over 16,000 this weekend. At the time of writing, the game’s peak is sitting at 16,947 players on Steam, with 4,714 people playing it at this very moment in time….

As Sega prepares for remaster Sonic X Shadow Generations’ release in October, the original Sonic Generations game is being withdrawn from sale as a “standalone title”. From 9th September onwards, the 2011 game will only be available “via bundles of other iconic Sonic titles on Steam and Xbox”. SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS – Summer Game…

Dark Souls 2 is an often overlooked entry in the Souls series, despite just how unique it was in experimenting with its mechanics and atmosphere back in 2014. In being sandwiched between the now iconic original Dark Souls, and developer FromSoftware’s later efforts like Bloodborne, it’s at times forgotten – thought of as an experiment,…

It looks like PlayStation is introducing user reviews on the PS Store. In a thread entitled “When did PlayStation start allowing written reviews?”, an eagle-eyed PS5 owner noted on the PlayStation subreddit that the company was inviting user reviews for a select number of games. Whilst fans have long been able to rate games from…

Take-Two Interactive boss Strauss Zelnick said the company is not tempted to put its game on subscription services like Xbox Game Pass on day one because “our decisions are rational”. Talking to our sister site GamesIndustry.biz, Zelnick said that whilst he accepted “offering a frontline title with a premium price in a subscription service, day…

Following yesterday’s “enhanced” Doom 1 & 2 release, developer id Software has unveiled another treat for Doom fans as this weekend’s QuakeCon celebrations continue: official mod support for Doom Eternal on PC, which arrives in the form of a new mod browser and the release of its idStudio mod creation tools on Steam. …

Disney Dreamlight Valley will round out its current roadmap with the addition of Princess and the Frog’s Tiana later this month, a new Steam post from developer Gameloft has confirmed. Owners of the life sim live service’s paid expansion Rift in Time will also get the concluding chapter of its story, in which…

Microsoft Flight Simulator was already sounding pretty damned spectacular, but my excitement levels are now appropriately sky-high following developer Asobo’s revelation you’ll be able to get out of your plane, stroll about the countryside (or anywhere else), and watch the sun set in your preferred corner of its gorgeous recreation of the world. …

As teased earlier this week, Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio has today unveiled the first details of his next game at WolfEye Studios. While the game’s name is still under wraps, this new project is a first-person action RPG that’s set in an alternate America in the 1900s, marking a shift in time and perspective from…

Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie is nearly here, and early impressions are starting to trickle in – and, well, they’re not great. Critics have taken to social media to brand the live-action film adaptation of Gearbox’s looter-shooter everything from a “huge misfire” to a “disaster”. The Borderlands movie has, of course, been in the…

I’m not ashamed to say this: one of the easiest ways to make me excited about a game is still to chuck the word “super” into the title. This is Nintendo’s fault, inevitably. Super Mario Bros, sure. But then when the Super Famicom came around, they threw Super into almost every game that came out….

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s October release date is inching ever closer, with Activision growing looser-lipped by the day. Which brings us to the company’s latest reveal: a first look at Black Ops 6’s Zombies mode, courtesy of a two-and-a-half-minute cinematic trailer, ahead of a full gameplay breakdown this Thursday, 8th August. …

Fans of Konami’s original Silent Hill 2 have been sceptical of Bloober Team’s forthcoming remake, but its CEO Piotr Babieno has called for fans to trust the studio. Bloober is known for developing psychological horror games, but despite its confidence in the remake fans have been less forgiving in their criticism of trailers…

With just a couple of weeks to go until the release of Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft has shared a post-launch content roadmap which, among other things, confirms Lando Calrissian and Hondo Ohnaka will appears as part of the game’s paid Season Pass. Star Wars Outlaws launches on 30th August, and owners of its…

Following yesterday’s bombshell news that Valve could be developing a new Half-Life game, Valve expert Tyler McVicker has stepped forward to say he too believes it’s true. Codenamed “HLX”, McVicker asserts the new game “seems to be a fully-fledged non-VR Half-Life game, something that seems too good to be true”. I’ll go into some of…

Brace yourself, Half-Life fans – rumours of Half-Life 3 have been resurrected once again, this time originating from the unassuming resume of a voice actor. There’s a chance that by the time you read this, Natasha Chandel’s website has already been, uh, revised, but right now, if you scroll down to the “voice over” section,…

Apple’s iPad series of tablet computers had a huge impact on the computing landscape. The combination of a large-format touchscreen and the fluidity of Apple’s software made for a really compelling device for web browsing, playing games, watching videos, and reading books. At the same time, iPads haven’t quite displaced traditional computers for a…

Salt and Sanctuary, from Ska Studios, is a bit bloody good, serving up an enormously enjoyable, Dark Souls-inspired slice of 2D action-adventure. It’s also now eight years old – but that hasn’t stopped it from getting a surprise update this week, adding a tough new Randomiser mode. Salt and Sanctuary, which initially released…

Chivalry 2 is now “content and feature complete”, as its developer moves on to new projects. The medieval first-person slasher received its latest update in May, the Regicide Update, which provides the game’s narrative conclusion. In a new blog post, Torn Banner Studios president and creative director Steve Piggott confirmed this is the…

Following yesterday’s mass layoffs at Destiny 2 developer Bungie – in which 220 employees lost their jobs – a new report has claimed the cuts were a result of Bungie leadership ‘overstating the studio’s financial prospects’ to Sony, which acquired the developer in 2022. That’s according to sources interviewed by journalist Stephen Totilo,…

Last week, Ubisoft raised eyebrows when it issued a vaguely-worded apology for “some elements” in Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ promotional materials that had “caused concern” among some fans. Fans widely attributed the statement as referring to the ongoing backlash towards the game’s inclusion of historical figure Yasuke as a Black samurai and its…

Current and former employees of Destiny 2 developer Bungie have responded to the news of devastating layoffs at the studio – which has seen 220 employees lose their jobs – aiming harsh criticism at the handling of the cuts amid calls for Bungie CEO Pete Parsons to resign. Parsons announced the studio would…

The Star Wars Outlaws team has devised a solution to that ‘yellow paint’ debate. Many video game developers have introduced yellow paint into their games, as a way of signposting players where to go next. Not sure where to climb? Look for the yellow scuffs on the cliff side. If it’s a building, maybe look…

Wildermyth, the acclaimed procedural storytelling RPG from developer Worldwalker Games, is – after three years revelling in its many accolades garnered while exclusive to PC – coming to Switch, PlayStaton, and Xbox on 22nd October this year. At first glance, Wildermyth is pretty familiar stuff, taking players on a fantasy flavoured adventure of…

The International Olympics Committee walked away from its partnership with Nintendo and Sega for the long-running Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series in order to explore deals with new partners, NFTs and esports, Eurogamer understands. As the real-life Olympics gets underway in Paris, there’s been discussion online of there being no…

A year after its 22-hour-long documentary series first debuted, Double Fine has released an update to PsychOdyssey. Running over 90 minutes long, the episode – subtitled “We Wrote it all Down” – is the “direct continuation of the acclaimed series Double Fine Adventure, and offers even deeper insight into the passion, humour, and heartbreak of…

Just up the road from Newport, in the countryside off the M40, a troupe of actors and backstage boffins are gearing up for a fresh season of strangeness. Key of Dreams is billed as a unique blend of interactive theatre, puzzle solving and branching narrative spread over 24 hours in Treowen, a…

Steam has updated how demos “appear and behave” within the Steam library. In a post to the official website, Valve said that with “thousands of playable demos launching on Steam every year, and millions of players trying them out, we’ve noticed some trends in feedback from both developers and players about the process and functionality….

In the pantheon of fighting games – a genre in which the community typically moves along once a new entry arrives – there are those specific games that stand above the others and maintain a legendary status. Games like Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, and Capcom Vs. SNK 2 have maintained…

Nobody Wants to Die doesn’t bring much invention to the table – but while it lacks originality, it has atmosphere, heart and relevance in spades. Sometimes a game comes along and sucker punches you right in the gut. You can be completely aware of the premise going in, but some element of the setting or…

Video game performers within United States actors union SAG-AFTRA have voted to go on strike starting Friday, 26th July, after “more than than a year and a half of negotiations” with major game companies over the use of AI have failed to reach a deal. SAG-AFTRA members initially voted in favour of (but…

Fallout: London, the fan-made game-sized mod for Fallout 4, will be released today. The mod’s creators confirmed the release to Inverse – saying the date was now definite, “unless nuclear war happens”. Developed by Team Folon, the mod has been over five years in the making and transports the post-apocalyptic game to England’s…

Concord, the upcoming 5v5 hero shooter from Sony’s Firewalk Studios, is bucking the battle pass trend, with its developer telling players, “You own Concord, Concord doesn’t own you.” Firewalk Studios announced the news in a series of posts on social media, explaining Concord won’t have a battle pass because it “wanted to focus…

Sony has released its latest PlayStation 5 system software update, introducing shareable links so players can invite others to quickly jump into their multiplayer sessions. Sony first revealed it was working on shareable multiplayer links for PlayStation 5 back in May. And now, two and a bit months later, the feature (albeit seemingly…

Humble Games, the publishing division of digital storefront Humble Bundle, says it has “made the difficult but necessary decision to restructure our operations” amid reports it has laid off all staff, but insists it is “not shutting down”. Humble Games was formed in 2017, and has gone on to publish a significant number of…

Amid its push toward mobile and free-to-play titles and away from the “volatile” AAA space, Warner Bros. has announced the acquisition of MultiVersus developer Player First Games. MultiVersus – which has had an unusual, sometimes controversial development journey since the start of its open beta back in 2022 – is Player First Games’…

Just weeks after Microsoft’s major Xbox Game Pass shakeup, a new report claims the company is mulling over a variety of additional subscription tiers in a bid to expand the service’s reach, including a tier offering access to the Game Pass catalogue exclusively via cloud gaming. That’s according Windows Central’s Jez Corden who,…

Stormind Games has shared a ten-minute teaser for its upcoming horror, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead. Our friends at IGN captured ten minutes of hitherto unseen gameplay in which, on Day 119, the player fights to escape through the air ducts of an old building. It is dark, atmospheric, and absolutely terrifying in equal…

Netflix has just dropped a new teaser for Arcane: League of Legends’ second – and final – season. Whilst it’s barely a minute long, the trailer offers a peek at a “stealth mission” and shows how “Zaun’s finest […] makes sneaking back into your lab look good”. You can check it out in the video…

It’s time to drink and tea merry, Final Fantasy fans – Final Fantasy 14 and Gong Cha have come together for a brand new collaboration. From now until 28th August, players can enjoy three FF14-inspired teas at participating outlets, as well as earn “special rewards, including the adorable Porxie King mount”. 12 of the Greatest…

Warframe developer Digital Extremes has given us another peek at its upcoming free-to-play fantasy action-MMORPG, Soulframe. Back in July 2022, Digital Extremes unveiled its first new property since Warframe’s release back in 2013. Besides a 30-minute gameplay teaser this time last year, though, we’ve seen very little else, but today DE has given us a…

Pleasingly bizarre four-wheeled survival game Pacific Drive has officially sold 600K copies, and its developer Ironwood Studios has announced it’s celebrating that milestone with a series of content updates throughout the rest of this year. And the first of those updates is now live, offering a bunch of free additions, as well as a…

Things are about to get lively on the Sea of Thieves! After spending far too long as giant, trash-talking disembodied head, the nefarious Captain Flameheart finally makes a proper return to Rare’s multiplayer pirate adventure next Thursday, 25th July – and he’ll be terrorising players with his formidable fire-belching warship as Season 13 gets…

Paramount+ has officially cancelled its divisive live-action Halo television series, with the recently broadcast second season set to be its last on the service. Season 1 of Paramount+’s Halo series aired back in 2022, nearly a decade after the project was first announced. It launched to a mixed reception, however, drawing criticism for…

Ubisoft has announced delays for Rainbow Six Mobile and The Division Resurgence, its two upcoming free-to-play mobile shooters, as part of its latest first-quarter earnings report, which is says marks a “solid start” to the current financial year. Rainbow Six Mobile and The Division Resurgence – a 5v5 competitive FPS and third-person, open-world…

Combat and RPG progression get an ingenious social twist in this disarming slice of fantasy. Out in the dungeons I’m hunting for treasure and glory, but back in the town I’m hunting for Renaud. This is weird, really, because Renaud looks like hard work. He dresses like Blade and he speaks entirely in maxims. He’s…

It’s summer, the season of occasional sun (hello from the UK) and seemingly ceaseless video game discounts – and up next is Sony, promising price reductions on over 4500 digital titles during its newly launched PlayStation Store Summer Sale. PlayStation’s summer sale is now live and runs for the next four weeks, coming…

Rockstar’s GTA+ subscription service could soon expand to include access to Switch versions of the company’s games if a now-reverted recent update to its website is anything to go by. GTA+, which is currently only available through Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, offers subscribers access to various GTA Online items and a…

Supermassive Games’ narrative-focused single-player Dead by Daylight spin-off, The Casting of Frank Stone, launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on 3rd September. Announced last December, The Casting of Frank Stone’s story begins in Cedar Hills, Oregon, in the summer of 1980, when a group of young filmmakers travels to an…

With Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s October launch on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC inching ever-closer, Activision Blizzard has announced a fresh set of dates for players’ diaries, confirming it’ll be hosting a multiplayer open beta this September, with those eligible for early access (which includes Game Pass subcribers) able to hop in one…

As Fallout 4’s massive Fallout: London mod nears its release, distributor GOG has moved to clear up some compatibility questions. The company has confirmed Fallout: London will work with versions of Fallout 4 bought on GOG and Steam, but not those purchased on the Epic Games Store, as the latter doesn’t currently support a…

The Independent Games Festival Celebration Days 2024 event is now live. From now until 20th July – that’s next Saturday – “dozens of IGF-featured games and studios will be brought together in one massive event on Steam, with discounts on most of the games featured”. IGF Celebration Days on Steam – Livestream.Watch on YouTube Now,…

A number of unannounced Disney projects have leaked online after 1.1TB of internal documents – “every message and file possible”, according to the hackers – were reportedly compromised. Whilst Disney has yet to comment formally on the alleged hack, details from various internal files – including upcoming collaborations with Epic Games’ Fortnite, and the Aliens:…

Star Citizen’s Foundation Festival is now live, and anyone curious about the game can jump on and try it for free from 12-19th July. Developer Cloud Imperium says the festival – described as “a civic program in-lore aimed at strengthening community spirit” – is introducing an expanded “new player experience” that’s available for new and…

Dying Light 2 developer Techland has requested that the majority of staff – including employees who work abroad – come into the office full-time or commit to a “hybrid” model. The studio says it needs people to come into the office “regularly to foster stronger connections”. According to Polish site CD-Action, “regularly” equates to eight…

Following its half-hearted, widely derided stab at an esports event in 2023, the International Olympic Committee has announced the inaugural Olympic Esports Games in partnership with the Saudi Arabian Olympic & Paralympic Committee, to be held in Saudi Arabia next year. Tethering its future esports success to a regime that’s been widely criticised…

80s movie favourite The Karate Kid is being turned into a 16-bit-style side-scrolling beat-’em-up, and it’s heading to PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC on 20th September this year. The Karate Kid: Street Rumble comes from GameMill Entertainment, the publisher behind Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, and is firmly setting its sights on the 80s era…

If you just can’t get enough of those Epic Games Store freebies, here’re some more for your list; Epic has revealed an upcoming twosome of arcade management action and Welsh folklore horror when its latest batch of free titles arrives next week. And, before that, grid-based, turn-based deckbuilder Floppy Knights is currently available to…

In a talk at Brighton’s Develop conference this week, former Larian writer Baudelaire Welch declared the bear romance scene in Baldur’s Gate 3 “a watershed moment in game history”. They said it was an unprecedented example of a developer recognising and validating the fanfiction community surrounding a game by realising something they wanted in it….

By now, you’ve probably heard of massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London, given the struggles it’s faced in the run-up to release. There’s one last hurdle for players to overcome, however, with developer Team Folon having now confirmed it’ll be necessary to downgrade Fallout 4’s next-gen version to play it – a process thankfully…