Sources: Rock Paper Shotgun, TheSixthAxis
Happy new week all! Over the weekend I banished all thought of rocks, paper or shotguns and volunteered to pick apples at a local orchard. Many wonderful varieties were carefully netted, then jumbled together in a huge mesh bag: speckled golden sours, fit to devour immediately…
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Update: Wadjet Eye's Dave Gilbert has confirmed on Bluesky that Nighthawks' "Adults Only" Steam label has been removed, meaning it's no longer locked in horny jail. "Everything is set for launch on the 22nd," he added. "Phew. What a roller coaster. Thank you everyone for your…
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A multiplayer mod for The Last of Us Part 2 which was originally set to release this month no longer will, with its creator citing a letter from publishers Sony as the reason it won't see the light of day. Read more
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There are some games where you can see the monster coming and still make the stupid decision to keep moving forward. Alien: Isolation 2 is one of those games. My Gamescom demo of Creative Assembly’s long-awaited sequel was extremely short. In fact, it was over pretty much…
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Not content with pulling in daily active user counts roughly equivalent to the population of Japan, game creation platform Roblox are planning to let developers release their games "as standalone apps across mobile, PC, and consoles, with Roblox powering the technology and…
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While not the first game to combine farming mechanics with relationship building, Stardew Valley thrust the genre fully into the spotlight, attracting fans from across the world and creating a culture of modding, speedruns, and a number of inevitable clones. Moonlight Peaks is…
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Well, that report earlier this year was bang on the banana. A new StarCraft shooter, creatively dubbed StarCraft, has been announced for a 2030 release at this year's BlizzCon. Joining it among the headliners were Diablo 5 - which is due out in 2029 - and a new World of Warcraft…
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While Final Fantasy remains the biggest RPG franchise in the history of gaming, it’s generally been synonymous with single platforms. During the 8-bit and 16-bit eras it was tied to Nintendo, but that shifted from the 32-bit era where it shifted to PlayStation and its more…
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Another sad one today, unfortunately. Back in July, Polyarc released Moss: The Forgotten Relic, a new version of the original two games combined together that ditched its VR headset origins. Now, unfortunately, it sounds like the studio is shutting down, as the developer's…
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Sundays are for realising that after playing The Blood of Dawnwalker, you've developed a craving for blackcurrant juice. There's none in the cupboard, so you venture out to get some, floating across the rooftops as a trail of mist as you go. You arrive at the supermarket, fangs…
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Planet Zoo 2 doesn’t actually start off in a zoo; it first takes you to a wildlife reserve in the middle of Africa. Here, herds of animals roam freely, having been released back into the wild, and with continuing efforts to ensure that their environments are fit for their…
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I’m a big fan of these September weekends where I wake up and my bedroom has neither the humidity nor the ambient temperature of an Eden Project rainforest-o-dome. Autumn was previously my third favourite season at best, but I think we need to have a serious conversation…
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Former Thief: The Dark Project designer, Ion Storm game director, and sometime Spielberg collaborator Randy Smith Evergreen has shared his probably-incendiary view that photorealistic videogame graphics need not have advanced any further than Remedy's original Alan Wake. For…
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Back in October 2025, GTA 6 developers Rockstar fired a group of 34, mostly UK-based employees on a charge of "gross misconduct", alleging that they had risked the leaking of confidential information while posting on a Discord server set up by union organisers. The ousted UK…
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Earlier this week, Hideo Kojima-helmed action espionage game Physint switched publishers from PlayStation to Xbox, a leap across the console divide which might make it more likely to get a PC port. At the time, Kojima claimed PlayStation had tried to can the game, while the…
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Because no-one entirely likes their job, I should be upfront about my issues with newly launched Early Access darling Wardogs, the mass-scale multiplayer shooter in which I’ve just found employment. Its "Play like you used to" tagline and Halo 3-aping trailer smell a bit…
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Welcome to September. The UK is no longer on fire, it’s back to being really wet, and alongside the deluge of water from the sky, there’s a deluge of video games cascading through the doors of TSA Towers. I’ve been working my way through Fire Emblem:…
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Up until now, Rockstar Games have kept mum about what plans they have for the future of Grand Theft Auto multiplayer once GTA 6 releases on consoles in November. Thanks to filings submitted by the studio as part of the final hearing in a legal battle over the firings of 34…
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