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...
The Xbox PC app hasn't had the best track record in recent years, but Microsoft is promising that it's now much faster and easier to use than before.
Over 160 relaxing logic puzzles!
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn looks like it's carrying the best bits of Mass Effect forward, and in an encouraging move, the developers have been collaborating with David Gaider.
Age of Empires -influenced real-time strategy game The Fertile Crescent 2: Collapse of the Bronze Age leaves early access today, publishers MicroProse have announced, with the 1.0 version adding the final chapters of the singleplayer story. You'll also get your grubby fingers on the very same...
Imagine actually enjoying cleaning your house or ripping out old tiles. Unhinged, isn’t it? You put on your favourite music and open the windows to let the fresh air in. The dust disappears, the floor begins to shine with every sweep of the mop, and the rooms start to transform into cozy...
I may be very late to the party with this discovery, but I only just realised you can connect your Steam Wishlist to a third-party deals tracker. The beauty of which is that, once hooked up, you can see what games you've been pining for are going cheap not just on Steam but through any major...
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...
World of Warcraft: Forever has received its first major hotfix patch, which among other things has put an end to an especially powerful bug that made PvP battlegrounds like Warsong Gulch favoured to the Horde's advantage.
I do not wish to "rule the streets" of Megacity West, dear creators of Airframe Ultra . I wish to be ravished by them, rubbing my face against the rusty corrugated metal of the shipping containers, and savouring the acid blue waters of the bay. I do not want to "become the one thing with freedom...
EA have stuck a bunch of restored versions and ports of classic games, on Steam, GOG and the EA App. 25 games in all, including multiple entries in the Wing Commander and Ultima series, are part of the haul. Why's this happening now? Well, an EA producer stumbled across a cupboard full of old...
And so we are back in Pywel: the super-sized and often super-pretty realm where the deserts are blood-red, the grass is a lurid shade of green, and Kliff and his merry gang of Greymanes seem to be pissed all the time. Yet what's this? Peace seems to have broken out across the region, which means...
Yesterday, Nier: Automata received a new patch on Steam, adding more language support to the title - it can now be played with Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese options - but this new update also, somehow, inflated the file size of the game on PC from about 50GB to 366GB. D'oh!...
A documentary detailing the history of beloved Mass Effect studio BioWare is releasing next year, and will cover last month's shock closure of the studio, following the private acquisition of owner EA.
Former Rockstar Games North technical director Obbe Vermeij believes that the possibility of AI vibe coded ports of Grand Theft Auto 6 could push Rockstar to create an official PC version sooner than you'd expect.
GTA 6 's PC release may come sooner than anticipated, according to former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij, because Rockstar and publishers Take-Two will be concerned about losing money to unofficial generative AI clones of the PS5 version, once it launches on 19th November. In...
Members of the consortium led by the Saudi Arabian government's Public Investment Fund and some private equity suits which took over EA this year in a leveraged buyout worth $55 billion reportedly have a new target in their sights. Unity, software company and makers of the game engine bearing...
It's only been two weeks since we last heard Warren Spector sound off about EA's sudden decision to close BioWare , following the publisher's acquisition by Saudi Arabia's PIF and venture capitalist concerns. But now, the storied developer is back and - apparently - angrier than ever.
After acquiring EA for $55bn earlier this year , Saudi Arabia and private equity firm Silver Lake are reportedly in the market for another massive video game company. And according to new reports, it's Unity.
A Christmas-themed deckbuilder
My favourite kind of game that's obviously going for the vibe of a particular era of gaming is one that doesn't look like it's trying to be any other game from said era, moreso if someone told me it was a PS2 or a Dreamcast game everyone forgot about I'd believe you. CHRONO PUNK fits that vibe...
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...
Sometimes, you come across a game and instantly know it's for the sickos. Today that is Ablahshikar, a "turn-based salvage-survival CRPG adrift on the Candle Sea" where you rip out the organs of enemy warships to "rebuild your vessel into a doomed chimera," that is out now in early access. To be...
Lord almighty, video games take a while to make, 'ey? Especially if you're just one person working on it by yourself. Such is the case with Faraway, out today, an arcade game that reminds me of the early days of PS3 indies "about a shooting star that creates constellations to stay alive," all...
Another day, another opportunity for some horsing around! I'm being literal here, to be clear, as a new update for The Legend of Khiimori dropped yesterday. It's called The Mongolian Expanse, opening up the map a whole lot more and making a sweep of other additions to the game.
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...
In what feels a fairly cheeky move during a time when memory shortages have infamously made it pretty much impossible to buy a decently powerful new graphics card without spending approximately a gazillion pounds/dollars/dollarpounds, Nvidia have decided to put out a Steam demo that allows folks...
Short, atmospheric dark driving game
Goddess of Victory: Nikke, a gacha shooter/RPG developed by Stellar Blade makers Shift Up, has suffered a "security incident" which has seen its PC launcher potentially be infected with third-party malware. Thankfully, it seems a patch to make the launcher safe again has been quickly dished out...
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.
