Category: Gaming

Until we worked in the games industry, many of us almost never played a video game in the year it was released: they’re expensive, there’s a lot of them, and they can…

Surprise, surprise. Rebecca’s Game of the Year is Baldur’s Gate 3, and can we blame her? Not at all, especially considering that the majority of folk agreed with her when Baldur’s…

For better or worse, in the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-three, video games are now seldom complete products. They grow, evolve, and change over time – and in many ways,…

Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding was expected to release on Apple devices before the end of the year, but it’s been delayed into 2024. 505 Games, the publisher behind the PC port…

In a year of wall to wall bangers, with at least one genuine GOTY candidate coming along every week, it’s surely impossible to pick one overall game of the year. So…

Until we worked in the games industry, many of us almost never played a video game in the year it was released: they’re expensive, there’s a lot of them, and they can…

2023 was, for better or worse, a year. One of its good bits was The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, the only good game that came out in August. Ahem. Much like…

What is our GOTY? Well, because the question is so subjective, we don’t really like to just pick one. What we prefer to do instead is have one for each of…

Good news, sweaty mech pilots, Armored Core 6 is getting ranked online matches as part of a fresh update tomorrow, so you can spend Christmas absolutely merking some poor fools. Yup, FromSoft…

It seems writing off Battlefield 2042, even this many years after its release, would not be wise. After the release of Season 6, no one expected any more seasons in the game’s…

The multiplayer Last of Us game Naughty Dog had in the works is no more, with the studio having revealed that it’s been cancelled due the impact that supporting it as a…

Embracer Group has issued another round of layoffs across its studios, and this time, redundancies have hit 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks. News of the layoffs were confirmed by various employees at…

Dota 2 is celebrating Frostivus 2023 by handing out goodies to all. You can earn goodies in matches, fill up your Frostivus Spirit Meter, and get a locked Frostivus Treasure Chest and…

During The Game Awards last week, Hideo Kojima was given a sizable chunk of stage-time – alongside horror director Jordan Peele – to show off a very brief, unnerving teaser for Kojima…

Valve has announced the nominees for this year’s Steam Awards, based on your nominations during the Steam Autumn Sale. The Steam Winter Sale marks not only a time to vote but a…

Electronic Arts has released some interesting figures about some of its games. The figures highlight the publisher’s 2023 and cover games such as EA Sports FC 2024, Madden NFL 24, The Sims…

More titles are joining the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog on December 19, and this next batch is headlined by GTA 5. Other games include the following for PS4 and PS5: Stranger of…

This article is sponsored by CFK. It’s amazing what a solo dev can do, isn’t it? We usually see solo developers working on cosy life simulators, perfecting the music and the harvest…

This article is sponsored by Frozen District. It’s been about five years since the world at large fell in love with House Flipper. It was 2018, and everything seemed much simpler, back…

Payday 3 isn’t the explosive hit many of us where expecting. As of writing, it has a 24-hour Steam peak of 1,489 players. That obviously doesn’t take into account those enjoying it…

You won’t believe it, but GTA Online’s latest update revolves around you getting into the business of actually stealing cars. Don’t panic, it also includes some you can buy legally, like the…

Those of you that haven’t started New Game+ in Starfield yet might want to be careful, as there appears to be a bug causing crashes in long-running save files. Who…

“Modding starts as a hobby and mods are passion projects for most people when they get started,” modder Emmi Junkkari, whom you may know by the handle Elianora, tells me. “I doubt…

Those of you considering playing Final Fantasy 16 on PC whenever it launches will want to make sure you have an SSD in your rig. Back in September, when Final…

Lethal Company patch 45 is here, adding in things like key binding and other tweaks, but most important of all is its arachnophobia mode. Giant spiders in video games is a…

GTA 6 maker Rockstar is again accused of using someone’s likeness in its games without permission. This time, it’s Lawrence Sullivan. Known as the “Florida Joker” due to their facial tattoos, called…

Quite a few games are leaving PlayStation Plus this month and in January – 20 to be exact. Later this month, 11 games will leave the service (thanks, PSX Brasil [1][2],via Resetera),…

A new batch of Nintendo 64 games has been added to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion library. The games are 1080° Snowboarding, Jet Force Gemini, and Harvest Moon 64. Nintendo 64…

I have to confess that, despite being a fan, I groaned a little when I heard that David Tennant would be returning to the role of Doctor Who for the show’s 60th…

By gum, it’s taken a while, Larian Studios’ turn-based RPG Baldur’s Gate 3, is now available on Xbox Series X|S. The game did not come to Xbox platforms at launch, due to…

The Sims 4 For Rent expansion pack is launching later today, and even though Sims EPs can admittedly be a mixed bag, there’s a lot to be excited about with this one….

Microsoft is once again offering plenty of indie demos to try during its ID@Xbox Game Demo Winterfest. There are 33 different indie demos available for Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One, including…

Rockstar’s GTA 6 trailer has helped Tom Petty’s song Love is a Long Road climb up the streaming chart on Spotify. According to the music streaming service, the song has seen a…

Bethesda has dropped an update for Skyrim Special Edition which adds a new paid mods page called Creations, among other things. With the update, Bethesda has done away with Creation Club, as…

Quick bit of news for you: Sony is offering folks without a PlayStation Plus subscription to jump into multiplayer for free this weekend. Free multiplayer starts December 9 at 12:01am local time…

It was bound to happen, really. Following Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar’s open world tour de force which was equal parts Grand Theft Horsey and Sad Man Dies Slowly Of Tuberculosis, we…

CD Projekt has released the full patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077’s Update 2.1, which is set to arrive tomorrow and will be the game’s “Last Big Update”. Up until last week’s reveal,…

Despite some earlier comments, Xbox Head Phil Spencer has cleared the air on whether we might see Game Pass on PlayStation or Nintendo consoles. Towards the end of last month,…

Xbox head Phil Spencer is well aware that plenty of you out there want a new Banjo-Kazooie game, as he talks about revisiting older titles. Banjo-Kazooie is a bit of an…

With the Big Bang event featuring Eminem over, Epic Games has released the launch trailer for Fortnite Chapter 5: Season One – Underground. Underground has a new island in Battle Royale with…

A small amount of information on the upcoming Elden Ring DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, was shared during the PlayStation Partner Awards 2023 Japan Asia on December 1. In a short interview…

Tom’s back by popular demand, but also to answer for his crimes against a previous guest: James Batchelor, author of The Best Non-Violent Video Games. For weeks following James’ deserved win, Tom…

Valve is a liar. A filthy, filthy liar. The company positioned the Steam Deck OLED as a minor incremental upgrade to their successful handheld gaming PC. A minor refresh. But, honestly: there’s…

Video game comedy is as old as the medium itself. There were text adventures running on mainframes over forty years ago that were packed with gags, and even sophisticated meta humour…

All signs point to superhero fatigue becoming more and more real with every passing month, but Amazon’s two relatively recent comic book properties have been doing great, actually. We’re talking about The…

A 20th Anniversary Edition of Beyond Good & Evil is slated to be released in 2024, news of which comes after the game was mistakenly posted to some storefronts overnight. The title…

I never thought I’d be writing this, but the idea of building a new PC is nowhere near as exciting to me as it used to be. Putting together the right build,…

The “largest part” of the development team at CD Projekt Red is working on The Witcher 4, or whatever it will be titled. This was confirmed by the company’s CFO today in…

Sure, everyone loves setting up a cosy little outpost on a distant planet, but what you really want in Starfield is to be able to set up your home in a random…

I don’t see him hit the ground, but I definitely hear it. By the time I turn back, the mysterious figure that’s just rode past me as we both galloped through one…

Unless you’re really embracing the introvert trait, odds are you’ve chatted to more NPCs than you can count during your adventures in Starfield to this point. Well, thanks to a new mod,…

Despite both The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 both being out for a good few years now, it seems that there are some Easter eggs that haven’t been found. In…

First One Piece, now Naruto looks like it’ll be going the way of live action, though unlike the sea-faring adventure, this one will be a feature film. Live action adaptations…

2023 has been a busy year. Sometimes it felt like you couldn’t go one month without a game of the year contender. That inevitably meant that a few smaller games got overshadowed,…

The Simpsons: Hit and Run is an integral part of many of our childhoods, and the creators of one of its most hilarious mods have recently celebrated their unhinged work’s first birthday…

Let me start by saying this. When it comes to spending money, for better or worse, I generally adopt a similar attitude to Seinfeld’s George Costanza; each bit of loose change I…

As we wait with bated breath for the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer that’s coming next month, we’ve been replaying some of the older games and trying to imagine what shape…

A free update is set to bring UEFA Euro 2024 to EAFC 24 next summer, so you’ll be able to play along and experience the gut-wrenching agony of your nation being knocked…