Right, today's been miserable thanks to the now hourly discourse we have to all take part in lest we be seen as approving of the current bad thing, how about something that looks simply pleasant? Today's the launch day for Tanuki: Pon's Summer, a delightfully vibrant mail delivery sim /Tony...
You know, I'm sure that Sony had every intention of following through on their intention to release 10 live service games by 2026, as they mentioned way back in 2022 . Well, as far as an intention that's designed to please shareholders can go, anyway. And now here we are, almost five years on...
A cozy Voxel-themed idle incremental. Hover to mine, upgrade, repeat.
It's a bit of a time for AI and games at the moment, 'ey? A bad time, obviously, as it's infecting everything from game development , to the modding community , to native PC ports of a remake of a very popular game that I won't link to for fear of a certain company finding out where I live and...
Marathon is getting a lot bigger next month. In September, Bungie outlined their plans for the shooter making some big promises, namely the arrival of a PvE mode, and now they've shown off what you can expect from its next season, Symbiosis.
If I wasn't so sick of hearing about AI every day of my life at the moment I might have found it funny to hear that one of the biggest peddlers of the poison around Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was caught having an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Oh who am I kidding, it is funny! And despite...
The Company of Heroes 3 's 3.0 update is huge. Touching virtually every part of the three-year-old RTS, the patch notes are longer than, well, my arm isn't a great measure of patch note length. Let's just say the headline features of overhauled VFX and audio don't really cover it. It also comes...
Sony's revealed the second wave of games coming to PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra this month, and there are some genuine big-name attractions, led by Hideo Kojima 's futuristic delivery man showstopper Death Stranding 2: On the Beach .
As another addition to the slew of smaller studios being dissolved by their parent companies, Bandai Namco announced in a press release that they are shutting down their subsidiary studio Reflector Entertainment, a Montreal studio responsible for 2024's action-adventure game Unknown 9: Awakening...
In a press release coinciding with Grand Theft Auto VI becoming available for pre-load ahead of its November 19th release date, Rockstar has confirmed that the game "has been fully developed from the ground up to provide the best possible experience for the current generation of consoles...
In what has come to feel like the dawn of the final day before Grand Theft Auto VI 's release, one thing that Rockstar really don't want people to be aware of is the ongoing legal dispute between the Rockstar Games Workers Union and the studio itself following Rockstar's alleged union busting in...
An alleged draft of the potentially game-changing Digital Fairness Act has leaked ahead of its scheduled publication tomorrow (11th November), containing proposals that could dramatically affect the way games operate and are monetised within the European Union.
Rockstar Games has today clarified a few remaining details about Grand Theft Auto 6's framerate target and visual settings on PlayStation 5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X/S . And as part of the same announcement , the developer revealed a key detail about the game's cloud streaming options.
Krafton has reported a 35.5% drop in operating profit to ₩225 billion ($168.1 million) for its third quarter, which it attributed to costs "associated with participation in Gamescom and other activities.
You know my favourite thing about Vampire Survivors ? The slow build of strength, the swelling power fantasy, the edging . Developer Poncle has proved itself incredibly adept at goading players into ever more ludicrous setups, demonstrating that with some patience, a canny eye for...
Valve has released a new Steam update that adds Steam Deck framerate data to a game's store page, giving potential buyers an indication of how well a game runs on the handheld.
In a statement posted yesterday, Killing Floor developers Tripwire Interactive have announced that the studio is laying off 36 "talented" internal staff as part of a "workforce reduction". The job cuts come 16 months after the release of Killing Floor 3 (which James didn't care for ), and within...
Arc Raiders , Embark Studios' popular extraction shooter, has exceeded 17m copies sold, according to publisher Nexon.
Valve have finally made clear what they've been doing with all that hoovered-up performance data and all those "Framerate Estimator" text strings : a framerate estimator for the Steam Deck . Or, rather, a framerate average-r, as games on the Steam Store are now getting attached graphs - under...
A little over a month following the huge, vile, culture-defining (negative) merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. into Skydance, the corporation has confirmed that games division Skydance Games will be facing a round of layoffs, according to a report from Variety .
The folks behind Nexus Mods have rolled out a new "daily limit" system which ensures modders who upload multiple works in bulk during a single 24 hour period can't take up more than one spot in the tabs dedicated to showing off new mods for different games. Instead, those who chuck up their mods...
If you're a World of Warcraft: Forever player you're almost certainly having your free time drained as you chain yourself to your desktop PC to play the game, or maybe a laptop. But for a small selection of true enthusiasts, the game is already working on mobile and handheld devices.
Australian developer House House has revealed it used generative AI "sparingly" to help make celebrated, indie, multiplayer puzzle game Big Walk.
Friendslop du jour Big Walk is the latest in an unfortunately long series of games that have been confirmed to use generative AI in their production, with developers House House clarifying their use of it in a statement to Aftermath (thanks!). House House state that "LLMs were used sparingly by...
Poema is my pride and joy. She was my first horse and she's a competition winner, but she's reached her potential. She'll never be a show jumper, and that's where the money and prestige are to be found. If I'm ever to grow my horse farm into a nationally renowned equestrian centre, I need the...
This N7 Day was the first without developer BioWare around, but fans of the Mass Effect series didn't let 7th November go by quietly. The community managed to get several notable Mass Effect actors to lend their voice to the increasingly loud 'SaveMassEffect' movement.
More than a year after its initial release, physical versions of Hollow Knight: Silksong are finally arriving on players' doorsteps. It's the same brilliant and sometimes thrillingly cruel Metroidvania Eurogamer gave five stars to , except this time a pack-in booklet seemingly reveals the...
Oh shit, that's not too far away. Terrifyingly, that last sentence is now a thing I can accurately write about games coming out in January 2027. Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy has just been confirmed as one such game, with the cRPG's heresy investigation set to commence towards the end of the month.
It is said that King Canute once placed his throne on the shore and commanded the sea not to get his feet wet, thus proving to his flattering courtiers that only God Almighty holds sway over the elements. "But sire!" I would have told him, if I'd been one of the aforesaid lickspittles. "Why not...
Owlcat Games has revealed a release date for its tactical role-playing sequel Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy. The game arrives 28th January, 2027 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X. A Switch 2 release date will be provided "at a later date", a press release says.
