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- Category: Nintendo
- Yes, the Palworld dating sim is actually real
- Surprise! 9-year-old Hollow Knight’s brutal final boss fight may be just that little bit easier after this patch
- “Suck my toes, my darling” – Inkle’s book of essays by game writers reveals the secrets behind the worlds we play in
- All-new Star Fox and Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake reportedly set for Switch 2 release this year
- Glen Powell is voicing Starfox’s Fox McCloud in the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy movie
- After blasting through its free Switch demo, Tomodachi Life’s bizarro blend of The Sims and Animal Crossing is exactly the kind of weird I was hoping for
- Slay the Spire 2 composer heads for the wilderness as Annapurna Interactive unveils “heartfelt” road trip adventure Forever Ago
- Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream’s “Welcome Version” demo is available now, and you can transfer your saves to the full game
- Pokémon Champions is releasing on Nintendo Switch consoles in early April, but its “free-to-start” package raises some questions about its pricing model
- Happy 10th anniversary Dark Souls 3, the second best Souls game after Dark Souls 2 (until I change my mind again)
- Slay the Spire 2 reminds us that this week’s patch “was the first of many to come over the next 1-2 years”
- Thanks to EU consumer law, Nintendo is updating the Switch 2 design to enable European players to replace the battery
- Two more senior Xbox leaders exit Microsoft
- As the Game Boy Advance turns 25, here are seven of the best GBA games you can play on Switch right now, and five we hope show up soon
- “It could be confusing” – US game age ratings won’t change like they will in Europe, ESRB says
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie continues its reference-heavy marketing campaign with a surprise cameo from another Nintendo IP
- The new trailer for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice’s anime series is loaded with boss fights and old-fashioned visuals
- “There are already many torches, many versions of Zelda” – Breath of the Wild voice actor Patricia Summersett isn’t ready to let go of Princess Zelda just yet
- Pokémon Pokopia’s first patch announced, tackles progress-halting bugs and makes progression a bit easier to figure out
- Help, I can’t stop playing Pokémon Pokopia!
- “People were just not ready for” Starfield, says game’s composer as he talks “visionary” Todd Howard
- What we’ve been playing – “I have learned the hard way that trusting others is a suckers game”
- PlayStation Plus Extra February games for March leak
- WarioWare series director Goro Abe has left Nintendo, but he won’t stop making “experimental games with unconventional mechanics”
- Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is coming to the Switch 2 later this Spring, features bubble-blowing freaky fellas you can eat
- Unbound is Shinji Mikami’s new studio, and it’s developing an “original IP” triple-A project
- Valve still hopes to ship the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller “this year”
- Mario Kart World fans are getting their hopes up for a return of a much-loved Battle mode, after Nintendo releases then swiftly removes accidental teaser image
- Mouse P.I. for Hire nails its cartoon-noir vibes, but the real surprise is how it plays
- Trump administration debates getting Chinese Tencent money out of US gaming over feared security risks
- Nintendo has set a new Indie World showcase of games coming to both Nintendo Switch 1 and 2, and it’s happening very soon
- From Atic Atac to Banjo-Kazooie, Evercade’s squeezing 14 Rare classics into a cute little handheld that’s launching this June
- Marathon Server Slam stirs Steam with 150,000 concurrent players day one, and that’s not counting console participation
- Genshin Impact’s Privacy Policy indicated players’ voice comms data may be used to train AI models
- Valve’s new Deadlock shooter nearly as popular on Steam as Overwatch, despite being invite-only and far from finished
- Nintendo is issuing refunds for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition’s poorly-received premium Switch 2 Edition upgrade
- Nexon snaps up Arc Raiders’ Patrick Söderlund as executive chairman to “lead the next phase of growth” for the company
- The pure and scattered beauty of modern Zelda
- Xenoblade fans, it’s happening! Nintendo a drops a surprise Switch 2 upgrade for Xenoblade Chronicles X with 60fps and more
- “We weren’t really paying attention” The Witcher’s lead story designer reveals why the first game’s final CG cutscene didn’t involve the story team
- Steam wants you to share your PC specs on your reviews
- “There’s actually millions of people that still play it” – Blizzard insists Diablo 3 still has a “massive” playerbase
- The Diablo warlock rumours are true, but the new class is coming to three games, including to Diablo 2 today
- “No, this is not a Hearthstone 2” – Blizzard squashes Hearthstone sequel suspicions after hyping a big BlizzCon 2026 reveal
- French President “once again made gamers lose it” but insists “one can love games and at the same time look at their effects”
- Category: PC
- Here are our PS Plus monthly games for April
- Eidos-Montréal’s latest round of layoffs reportedly follows the cancellation of an “almost complete” open-world game
- After Resident Evil Requiem’s massive success, director Zach Cregger jokes fans may “crucify” him if his movie reboot fails to crack the Resi code
- Rumours point to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer Warhorse Studios working on a big Lord of the Rings game
- Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is the first Disco Elysium successor to get a release date, will finally be playable this summer
- The case for getting your hands on a PlayStation Portal before that nasty price hike
- Yet another PlayStation Plus Essential game for April leaks
- Turns out Crimson Desert’s lead voice actor was as confused by the game’s disjointed story as some players
- Marathon’s developers say they are “in it for the long haul” amidst fears the game has underperformed in this live service hell
- Krafton cancels F2P PUBG spin-off PUBG: Blindspot after just 2 months
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach’s PC release takes sequel’s total sales past 2 million
- Dataminers think they’ve found evidence of an unannounced Game Pass tier showing only older first-party games
- Crimson Desert deploys weekend patch – here’s what’s new
- New report claims Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio fired translator to replace them with AI and “save finances”
- Wanderstop studio Ivy Road to close after funding for second game “didn’t come to fruition”
- Former Valve writer hits out at Epic Games layoffs: “It’s not like they’re a publicly traded company. It’s not like there’s some need to hit the stock market thing. This is Tim”
- John and Brenda Romero think our current video game industry crash is even “crashier” than the infamous recession of the 1980’s
- Monster Hunter Stories 3 is cranking up the challenge in a free new update, and its first story DLC might arrive sooner than expected
- Finally, a football card game that doesn’t cost your soul
- Fortnite developers say there will be a huge impact on development “for the rest of the year and likely beyond” following mass layoffs
- Peter Molyneux’s Fable and Black & White mash-up Masters of Albion is getting a closed beta, but you’ll have to be quick if you want to get involved
- Marathon may have sold roughly 1.2m copies worldwide, with the majority on Steam rather than PlayStation, according to analyst estimates
- “7 Days has come far but it’s still not where we want it to be” – 7 Days to Die studio announces sale to Dead by Daylight studio Behaviour
- “It’s essential to me that it’s approached with care and love and caution” – How Life is Strange: Reunion actors Hannah Telle and Rhianna DeVries are preparing to say farewell to Max and Chloe
- After all that furore over Nvidia’s AI-powered DLSS 5 makeover of Resident Evil Requiem, Capcom promises gen-AI assets won’t be part of its games any time soon
- After a 90% discount, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has more players than the past few CoD games combined on Steam
- Google’s Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a “Chatty Slimey” AI companion, Square Enix has announced
- Dragon’s Dogma 2 celebrates second anniversary with “special celebratory artwork” and a custom controller, as fans ponder: are we getting DLC?
- Younger fans are finding it hard to connect with Final Fantasy because of long “release intervals”, says FF14 director
- New report claims Crimson Desert’s development was plagued by “a hodgepodge of features crammed together” and leaders who “don’t acknowledge anyone who doesn’t share their exact mindset”
- Crimson Desert’s in-game artwork shows telltale signs of AI courtesy of missing fingers and human bodies melting into horses
- Surprise! Minecraft Dungeons 2 is coming later this year
- What we’ve been playing – “It’s like Supermarket Sweep if you can get up quick enough”
- More Subnautica 2 legal trouble brewing amid claims Krafton “intentionally leaked” May release without consulting reinstated CEO
- CD Projekt Red stays coy when questioned about Witcher 3 expansion shadow drop
- Vampire Survivors’ deck-building spin-off Vampire Crawlers arrives next month
- Visual stunner Kena: Bridge of Spirits gets a Switch 2 release date, and it’s coming very, very soon
- Valve has thrown a curveball at Counter Strike 2 with a massive reloading change, forcing players to shake off old habits
- Tomb Raider studio hit with fourth round of layoffs in 12 months, but remake and Catalyst development continues
- Crimson Desert review
- The long-in-the-works Final Fantasy 9 animated series is back in production, and it seems to be focusing on black mages
- Bethesda boss Todd Howard offers more tiny crumbs of The Elder Scrolls 6 info, hints at more efficient development
- Crimson Desert’s PS5 trophies have been revealed, and they read like riddles (which is both exciting and scary)
- Four years ago, Tunic had a transformative effect on me – now it’s getting a Switch 2 upgrade, you really must play it
- “Shut the f*ck up, no one cares” – former Overwatch boss Jeff Kaplan slams “nerd baby rage”
- Saudi Arabia now owns just over 10% of Capcom, as another national investment company scoops up more shares in the Resident Evil and Street Fighter publisher
- Warner Bros. Montréal devs report layoffs
- “We are not powerless, every action matters” – Indie studio Speculative Agency returns Microsoft Xbox funding and urges others to boycott
- As Witcher 3 DLC rumours swirl, CD Projekt Red wants you to know that Cyberpunk 2077 won’t be getting any more ‘secret’ content
- Reverse-engineering Marathon’s visual mood board magic
- Silent Hill 2 Remake passes 5m copies sold, so Konami’s hosting a big ol’ sale on the PlayStation store
- Resident Evil Requiem is getting a story expansion, a new minigame, and a photo mode
- Resident Evil Requiem director appears to pour water over those rumours about Leon Kennedy’s private life
- Fortnite to raise V-Buck prices later this month “to help pay the bills” after Epic Games generated over $6 billion last year
- Crimson Desert finally unveils PS5 and Xbox console specs and multiple performance modes ahead of its arrival next week
- What does New York’s legal case against Valve mean for the company and its players? To find out, we asked a lawyer
- Capcom quietly removes DRM system it added to 3-year-old Resident Evil 4 Remake last month
- Saber pops up to once again remind us that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is “still in development”
- The Division 2 breaks its own concurrent Steam record, 7 years after it was first released
- Over half a million of us played Slay the Spire 2 this weekend
- NetEase pulls funding of Yakuza creator’s Nagoshi Studio, putting development of Gang of Dragon at risk
- Ousted Ashes of Creation director wins restraining order against his own board: “I categorically deny I mismanaged funds or caused the company’s shutdown”
- “We are providing guidance to developers” – Discord promises a fix and “additional protections” following discovery of Arc Raiders bug that stored users’ private messages
- Slay the Spire 2’s launch has been so incredibly successful, the studio had to apologise for a joke about Marathon that now “seems a bit meaner than it was intended”
- Embark Studios rushes to fix Arc Raiders Discord integration bug as “serious privacy and security violations” may have exposed private Discord DMs, friends data, more
- Is this a 2.0 moment for Diablo 4? Unpacking the new warlock class, the skill tree changes, and the new Lord of Hatred expansion
- For the first time in Diablo history, you’ll soon be able to transform into the Butcher, and there’s a free Paladin trial coming as well
- PlayStation reportedly ditching its PC release strategy, most first-party games will now be console exclusive
- Ubisoft’s worst-kept secret is finally official as Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced artwork is revealed
- Guilty Gear studio is making a card-based survival game with gorillas, and of course it’s called Goritaire
- Not wanting to be overshadowed by Overwatch, Marvel Rivals sets ‘Path to Doomsday’ roadmap, honouring all Avengers movies with brand-new content
- Marathon confirms global release times, launches cinematic music video, doubles down on its unique, weird art direction
- Just like PlayStation, Microsoft has filed a patent for an AI helper that’ll play games for you
- Resident Evil Requiem climbs to the top of Metacritic’s all-time user scores, topping fan-favourites like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Cory in the House
- Starfield’s PlayStation 5 release is imminent, says reliable leaker
- Warframe’s long-awaited Switch 2 upgrade finally has a release date, and there’s a Dead by Daylight-style mode coming too
- Resident Evil Requiem’s Steam concurrent peak is the biggest in franchise history
- God of War developer is working on “a new franchise within the God of War universe”
- Doom: The Dark Ages’ DLC is so big, it’s “basically like a sequel”
- Former Highguard level designer suggests “sweaty” competitive 3v3 play “was the biggest thing that turned a lot of players off”
- What we’ve been playing – “This career is all I ever wanted to do”
- Vampire Crawlers turns Vampire Survivors into a dungeon-crawling card game with mixed success
- “The creator of PUBG is looking to do the Korean Witcher” – How one small LinkedIn message convinced a Far Cry veteran to hop aboard Project Windless
- Valve is getting sued in New York, this time over loot boxes in Counter Strike and Dota 2
- Mewgenics is “eventually” getting mod support through Steam Workshop and an official launcher, Tyler Glaiel has confirmed
- Prototype and The Simpsons: Hit & Run developer Radical Entertainment is seemingly back, and fan speculation is already running rampant
- The first Horizon Hunters Gathering closed beta is happening this weekend and just as Marathon has its own “server slam” test
- “It needed a little bit of a rework” – Battlefield 6 producer speaks on shooter’s unloved in-game unlocks
- Nier creator Yoko Taro is writing a new Evangelion series
- “Game preservation only works if people care” As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it’s asking players “who give a s**t” to support its crusade
- Slay the Spire 2 finally narrows down that March release date and confirms online co-op
- Balatro creator reflects on university and bad grades, promising he’s “still working” on that 1.1 update
- As Mewgenics rolls out its latest patch, the creators have been “mapping out DLC 1” and they’re “getting a little bit excited about it”
- “Today marks an exciting new chapter” – Xbox boss Phil Spencer retiring amid major leadership shakeup that sees Microsoft’s CoreAI president taking over role
- Capcom issues Resident Evil Requiem plea as leaks become a flood
- Kratos actor says he’s skipping the God of War remakes, but suggests news on the series’ future coming “late summer”
- Styx: Blades of Greed review
- Battlefield 6 Season 2 is finally out now, and while the new map is being praised, players are having trouble with gas masks
- “We need just a few more weeks” – highly-anticipated cyberpunk platformer Replaced gets delayed into April
- Call of Duty ad banned by UK regulator after investigation determined it “trivialised sexual violence”
- The director of the new Resident Evil movie was allowed to do “whatever he wanted” with the IP following Weapons’ success
- Soulframe overhauls player progression in latest alpha test, adds “intuitive” level up system
- Classic shooter Unreal Tournament 2004 is now free as fans revive and release it with Epic’s blessing
- TT Games downgrades PC requirements after initially suggesting players needed 32GB RAM to meet “recommended” spec
- Dead by Daylight movie will be written by Crawl and The Conjuring writers
- Why is there such a bustling community around Marathon’s soundtrack, when the game isn’t even out yet? One producer tells us why
- GTFO and Den of Wolves developer 10 Chambers confirms “large number” of layoffs, including “several of the studio’s co-founders”
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 adds yet another Game of the Year award to the list, this time from the DICE Awards
- “We were turned into a joke from minute one” – fired Highguard developer reflects on game’s ill-fated launch and “false assumptions” after Game Awards reveal
- Nioh 3 gets its first big post-launch patch on Steam and PlayStation 5, and it mostly affects progress-halting bugs
- Reanimal doesn’t exactly disprove co-op is the enemy of horror but it shows there’s a place for human connection too
- “We did have a proposition for Fable 4” – Series creator Peter Molyneux recalls an old pitch while shedding a tear over the recent Fable reboot
- Yet more evidence of that Assassin’s Creed Black Flag remake surfaces, despite Ubisoft’s continued silence
- Will we ever see Switch 2 versions of Diablo 2 and Diablo 4? For now, Blizzard refuses to answer
- Arc Raiders had nearly 1,000,000 concurrent players last month, and that’s on PC alone
- No one read too much into these new Star Craft action figures, OK
- Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero are getting free Switch 2 upgrades this month, promising 60 FPS and more
- Todd Howard and other Bethesda vets agree Fallout 4 is the most successful Fallout game ever mostly due to player-generated content
- “She can be even better” – Blizzard agrees to change new Overwatch hero’s face after the community, and Anran’s voice actor, speak out
- It looks like Resident Evil 5 is getting the remake treatment next, if an ESRB listing is anything to go by
- Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO – a former EA exec and sports betting platform president – who is there to “accelerate growth”
- Hearthstone isn’t coming to console, Switch or Steam Deck just yet, but Blizzard is definitely thinking about it
- A love letter to NFL Blitz, one of the greatest sports games of all time
- Arc Raiders’ “aggressive” approach to cheats sees “tens of thousands of players banned so far”
- Horses dev disputes Epic Games Store exec’s claim it “loves” their studio, saying: “They have effectively ghosted us”
- Epic Games Store plans to launch on the next Xbox console “on day one”
- Is a Baldur’s Gate 3 TV show a good idea and does it matter that Larian isn’t involved?
- Happy 10th birthday, XCOM 2, the most brilliant, frustrating game of its time
- Category: PS3
- “Mobile is the biggest medium” – As Ubisoft struggles, Rainbow Six Mobile has launched to massive numbers. Can it help the troubled publisher turn the tide?
- PS5 exclusive Marvel’s Wolverine claws its way to a surprisingly early autumn release date
- Silent Hill: Townfall looks to be a PS5 console launch exclusive, according to official website
- Discord advises UK users that they “may be part of an experiment” where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone
- PlayStation State of Play February 2026 live report – a look ahead at Sony’s plans
- Category: PS4
- Evercade unveils its next-gen retro gaming handheld Nexus, with analogue sticks and Banjo-Kazooie 1&2 bundled in
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Nintendo Direct announced, with new artwork hailing the return of some unexpected names
- Pokémon fans react to Winds and Waves announcement – “We really got the angry bird”
- Bluepoint pitched a Bloodborne remake, but FromSoftware turned it down, not Sony
- Here are the PC specs for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Tencent shutters TiMi Montreal
- Olympic skaters beat the competition with this incredible Mortal Kombat-themed performance
- After the blinding success of Split Fiction, Josef Fares confirms Hazelight’s next game is officially in development
- Rayman creator reveals more details on what to expect from the Rayman remake that Ubisoft still won’t admit is real
- Category: Wii
- Saros has been made easier than Returnal due to player feedback, though creative director claims its still “a very challenging game”
- Ubisoft reportedly shrinks Tom Clancy studio Red Storm Entertainment, laying off 105 staff
- John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando review
- Judge delivers bombshell order for Krafton to reinstate fired Subnautica 2 devs and CEO, putting $250m bonus package back on the table
- Marathon still hasn’t unlocked its fourth zone, but this group of ARG hunters is working to change that – and they’re on the cusp of something big
- South of Midnight debuts on PS5 and Switch 2 later this month
- Bungie lays out the plan for Marathon seasons: updates will be free for everyone, and the game will feel “meaningfully different” as seasons progress
- Evo insists its “traditions, values, and identity will remain unchanged” as Saudi acquisition completes
- “Father of Sega hardware” Hideki Sato has reportedly died
- Worried about Project Windless and generative AI? Don’t fret, Krafton says the game is not using “generative AI for content creation or narrative elements”
- Category: Xbox 360
- Yakuza studio’s new RPG, Stranger than Heaven, will span five distinct time periods and five Japanese cities
- If you’re still playing Pokémon Go, you’re helping train data-gobbling GPS AI for Niantic Spatial
- Despite studio closures and project cancellations, PlayStation Studios is still hiring for new roles
- If they made games like this any more, they’d make Romeo is a Dead Man, a game as joyously weird as it is spectacular
- Category: Xbox One