For such a simple, straightforward real-world object, ladders have been the bane of game developers' existence since the early days of the industry . And Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls Series is certainly no stranger to that struggle.
Xenoblade series developer Monolith Soft and Bandai Namco Studios have been listed as support studios for the Switch 2 version of Ocarina of Time, working on elements of the title such as "art, including characters, terrain, animations, cutscenes and UI". Special thanks to both companies appear...
Since time immemorial, North American and European publishers have racked their brains over ways to make their games sell in Japan, ancient heartland of mythical beings like Mario, Sonic, and Polaroid Pete. In the late noughties, Microsoft launched a big push to give Japanese youth the Xbox...
While its remastered upgrade might have broken cover in late September, The Witcher 3 's extra expansion isn't set to join it until next year. With 2027 still a month and a bit away, a modder's taken it upon themselves to add a few more adventures to Geralt's time in Toussaint, Blood and Wine's...
Activision has released the first trial for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's extraction mode DMZ. The trial is available across PC (Steam / Battlenet), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S until Wednesday, 11th November.
Ocarina of Time 's notoriously tricky Master Quest mode could be making a comeback in the new remake.
The Phasmophobia community has raised more than $230,000 (around £173,000) for the American Heart Association, more than doubling last year's total.
A teenager who went missing in Utah more than 17 months ago has been rescued from a home in Oregon after she got in touch with another young player in Among Us .
It appears I was premature in suggesting that the closure of BioWare might quickly spell an end for Mass Effect 3 's strangely good , preposterously enduring co-op mode. I reinstalled and logged on just last week, and easily found a series of packed lobbies. Still, it was always regrettable that...
Well, hello! I am once again wearing the Bertie hat in your usual host's absence, so joyous welcomes to our regular feature in which we talk about what we've been playing in recent times. This week, Marie has been revisiting Zelda - although perhaps not the one you might expect - while Dom is...
This is the last empty weekend before I go on holiday for a frankly indulgent three weeks. As such, it will likely be spent either remembering all the things my partner and I've not organised for the time we're away or racing to clear through the pile of things I've already remembered I've not...
Extremely good King's Field-style RPG Queen's Domain - or is it a Metroid Prime homage? Or a stealth Morrowind-up? We hacks simply cannot decide - has received its first proper patch, adding a hitherto "missing" throwing weapon, the Grave Knife, alongside a bunch of quality-of-life fixes...
It's been a good year for Nintendo: between Star Fox - the N64 classic with a dazzling facelift on Switch 2 - and the newly-launched and utterly fantastic Ocarina of Time remake, the platform holder is having a good run. And that's before you get to the likes of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave...
It feels like every single week for the past few years has been the infinitely quotable 30 Rock quote on repeat. That feeling struck particularly last month when EA decided to shut down the iconic Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare. That obviously resulted in the cancellation of Mass...
No doubt eager as peas to help pay off EA's billions in debt , battle royale shooter Apex Legends is set to run another of its intellectual propertytastic crossover events. This one, starting on November 10th, stars Godzilla, of Godzilla Minus Zero, Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla (1954), Godzilla...
Nintendo, which unveiled the results of the first half of its fiscal year 2027 earlier today , has now said it has access to enough quantities of memory to manufacture more Switch 2 consoles.
World of Warcraft: Forever launched last night after a hugely successful beta, and it's not just players getting in on the fun. Blizzard's MMO is also proving quite the attraction for spectators, soaring all the way up to the top of Twitch 's most viewed games.
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The clue, of course, is right there in the title. Developer Freshly Baked Games' Queen's Domain isn't just a retro-fantasy action RPG played in first-person; it's an explicit homage to King's Field, the long-dormant FromSoftware series that - as the precursor to Demon's Souls, Dark Souls...
After gifting Pillars of Eternity a turn-based mode for its tenth anniversary , Obsidian have now rolled out full PC controller support for both the RPG and its younger sibling Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire. The support, along with some tweaks to Deadfire's turn-based mode, are currently out...
Nintendo's latest financial earnings report is here, revealing healthy software sales thanks to the enormously popular Tomodachi Life : Living the Dream. Sales of Switch 2 hardware, however, are down.
Nintendo reported a 12.1% decrease in net sales for the six months ended September 30, 2026, primarily due to reduced hardware sales.
For The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 's shiny new remake, Nintendo unintentionally cast the same actor twice - 28 years apart - to deliver Navi's infamous "Heys!" and "Listens!"
A new analysis of over 300 game studios acquired by big companies since 2000 shows one in three studios has since been shut down completely, half of which were shuttered within five years of the acquisition.
Long waits between mainline entries in a series aren't a new phenomenon, if perhaps a bit more common nowadays due to big games' ballooning development cycles. It took about 23 years for BioWare's Baldur's Gate 2 to be followed up by Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 , though there were a decent amount...
Macronix, longtime Nintendo hardware partner and one of the main producers of ROM memory, has announced it's leaving the business. ROM chips are key components in Switch and Switch 2 cartridges.
I have a friend who first played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time back in the day, when the game was only just released and he was home from university for Christmas. This is objectively the best of all times to play any video game: not Christmas specifically, but dropped out of the regular...
Have you ever seen - or read - the wonderful Dungeon Meshi (known in English as 'Delicious in Dungeon')? It's a phenomenal manga series written and illustrated by Ryoko Kui, which was adapted into an anime series produced by Trigger in 2024. Long story short, it's about a group of adventurers in...
The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 patches continue, with the latest delivering some big changes to the game's extraction mode DMZ. The latest hotfix introduced a key balance change to one of DMZ's most controversial mechanics: UAV Towers.
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