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I’m a Dead Space 3 apologist. While the more action-oriented sequel to a great modern horror game series wasn’t a hit upon release, the benefit of hindsight makes me love it all the more. Carver’s co-op mechanics, the weapon customization, overall narrative ideas, and focus on action were a lot of fun in my opinion, but Dead Space 3 lost old fans and didn’t make enough new ones, so the series went on hiatus until this year’s Motive remake. Now, original Dead Space story producer Chuck Beaver has...

It is 1993 and the Wales family has just welcomed a new bundle of joy into the world: a rather fancy 486 DX2/66 desktop PC, sporting 4MB of video memory, 8MB of RAM, a whopping 260MB of storage, and - crucially for this story - like the far-flung future suddenly made manifest, a CD-ROM drive. I'm sure I must have presented a lot of compelling evidence beforehand about how we definitely needed to get a PC because just think how good it'll be for my schoolwork (and yes, Microsoft Encarta and, late...

Which box can't wait to be king? Hello, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl, folks! Before we get cracking, let's take a peek at what went down last week. The delightful Wario Land: Shake It! entered the ring with a classic three-way brawl. It was, expectedly, a tense battle, but the European design took home the rhetorical trophy after landing 44% of the vote. North America came in second place with 32% and Japan in third place with 23%.

Apple has sent out Halloween-themed gift boxes to some influencers for them to enjoy while watching Apple's upcoming "Scary Fast" Mac-focused event on Monday night. The gift boxes include a pair of AirPods Max headphones, an Apple cap, and a selection of "sweet and spooky" snacks and drinks. As shared by influencer Lamarr Wilson, the boxes also include an invite which reads: It's almost Halloween and Apple has some treats in store for you. On the evening of October 30th, we'll unveil something s...

What could it be for? Capcom shared its latest earning results earlier this week, and as part of this, it's also published a Q&A revealing its intentions to release an unannounced title early next year. As highlighted by fans of the Japanese company, this game will arrive before the end of its current fiscal year, which is set to end in March 2024. This game will apparently help the Japanese company reach its end-of-year sales targets, but there's no information beyond this. One likely candidate...

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"The rest is history". Time Extension recently got the chance to speak to Coleco exec Bert Reiner about the history of the American toy and console maker. According to his account, there was a time when Nintendo almost ended up buying and marketing the 1982 video game system 'ColecoVision' for Japan but negotiations fell through. Reiner explains how Nintendo wanted to do its own deal and eventually, it got to the point where its company president Hiroshi Yamauchi said Nintendo would develop its ...

2500 new building assets spread across eight regional themes, like the UK and China, should spice up your choices.

Nuclear Option rides the line between arcade combat and flight sim in a very good way.

What is current Reverse 1999 tier list? That's exactly what you'll find below. Just in time for the anticipated launch of another chart-topping fantasy mobile RPG you can play on PC, we've ranked and rated the best Reverse 1999 characters available right now. And with a promise to gauge any new characters and re-evaluate older ones against the latest fighter, keeping up with the meta couldn’t be easier. Need some more gems? Get using the latest Reverse 1999 codes. And if this isn’t your first ga...

A sounding rocket toting a special imaging and spectroscopy instrument will take a brief trip to space Sunday night to try and capture as much data as it can on a long-admired supernova remnant in the Cygnus constellation. Its target, a massive cloud of dust and gas known as the Cygnus Loop or the Veil Nebula, was created after the explosive death of a star an estimated 20,000 years ago — and it’s still expanding. NASA plans to launch the mission at 11:35 PM ET on Sunday October 29 from the Whit...

The brand new South Park television special South Park: Joining the Panderverse has been quick to jump on the Baldur's Gate 3 bandwagon, but it got a relevant detail wrong. 

Eagle-eyed fans reckon they've spotted evidence that "some sort of" Dragon Quest announcement could be on the way. Square Enix producer and director, Yosuke Saito, took to Twitter/X yesterday to say they'd had a "fun recording session" at work, teasing that they'd tell us more once the news had been finalised and approved by the appropriate channels. So far, so what, right? Well, the tweet was accompanied by a photo of Saito's script, and whilst they'd obscured two blocks of text on the front pa...

I’m not sure any of my Lego constructions would hold up to anything more aggressive than an accidental bump or the over-excited nose of a dog, let alone wave after wave of ghastly monsters. Soon I’ll be able to put that hypothesis to the test, as the next game from the creators of shopkeeping-sim-turned-d​ungeon-diver Moonlighter looks to throw endless horrors at your custom-made grand design.

Mortal Kombat 1 players have hit back at a new Halloween-themed DLC fatality that has a horrifying price tag: $10. Players can pick up the gruesome jack-o-lantern animation for the princely sum of 1200 Dragon Krystals, a premium in-game currency that sports a current exchange rate of 1250 krystals for $10 USD. To put that into context, Mortal Kombat 11's Kombat Pack, whilst the preceding title in the series, featured several full DLC characters for just $20. But Mortal Kombat 1 wants the equival...

Spirit of the North followed in the wake of indie darlings like Journey and Abzu as a quietly meditative single-player adventure through nature that laid out its moving story without a word of dialogue. Four years on from its release - and three years after it came to PC - developers Infuse Studio have revealed a full sequel.

Simultaneously in theaters and on digital, this gory, wild movie treats H.P. Lovecraft just like Stuart Gordon did.

Following the announcement of its super-positive financial results, Capcom hosted a Q&A session for investors and analysts, teasing a big unannounced game. 

Gangs of Sherwood, the co-op PvE game inspired by the English folk hero but set in a gritty neo-medieval future closer to the grimdark world of Warhammer, has seen its release date pushed back by almost a month.

As Halloween bears down on us, a spooky Steam sale gives you plenty of ways to celebrate All Hallows’ Eve. The Steam Scream: The Revenge event is underway now, courtesy of Valve - and while there are plenty of outright horror games of all shapes and sizes, there’s something for everyone, whether you’re looking to jump out of your skin or simply have some supernatural fun.

Dungeons of Hinterberg popped up during Xbox’s not-E3 showcase over the summer, revealing a beautifully cel-shaded blend of dungeon-crawling, puzzle-solving and relationship-building. Having had a bit more of a look at the game’s social sim aspects via this week’s Xbox Partner Preview - yep, it still looks gorgeous and sounds fantastic.

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Spookémon. At one end of the Pokémon character design spectrum, you have some of the cutest little guys to have ever graced our screens. On the other, you have pure, unapologetic nightmare fuel. As we approach Halloween, it seems only fitting that we take a look at the latter, right? Okay, perhaps delving into the complete horrors of the Pokédex would be stretching things too far (and we have already considered which 'mon would be the tastiest in the past if you're really after some horror), but...

Let’s talk about what we’re all wondering: Are we getting a Venom game?.

Gloomwood, a Steam Early Access immersive sim that nails the feel of games like Thief and Dishonored, has just had a colossal Halloween update while the game is on sale. Gloomwood comes from Dillion Rogers and David Szymanski, with the latter responsible for Dusk and Iron Lung, so if this is the first you’re hearing of the stealth game, that should tell you it’s in good hands.

Capcom is teasing a "major unannounced title" for 2024. Although the developer/publisher has yet to even announce what the game is, according to Capcom's recent investor's report, a "major title" will be available on console and be released in the second half of this financial year – which ends in March 2024, of course. As posted to Reddit's Gaming Leaks and Rumours community, the report – which is currently only available in Japanese – makes two mentions of the mysterious title, including one t...

Unreal Engine 5 was announced more than three years ago and we're only now seeing the first wave of third-party UE5 games on PC and consoles. For the audience on PC, these launches are both exciting and terrifying - we're finally seeing all of the eye candy promised by Epic with Lumen, Nanite and Virtual Shadow Maps, but we've also had an array of UE4 titles that have exhibited poor CPU utilisation and instrusive stutters. With these conflicting emotions in mind, I thought it would be interestin...

Cyberpunk's gameplay design lead tells us how the team went about redesigning the perk system.

If you aren’t in The Finals playtest yet, hold on tight. Developer Embark Studios says it’s busy expanding the capacity for its crossplay open beta test as it rockets up the Valve charts. As the hottest multiplayer FPS on Steam right now soars to ever greater heights following the MW3 beta and a Battlefield revival, developer Embark addresses the huge player count, its desire to improve server capacity, and clearing erroneous The Finals matchmaking suspensions that are being incurred by an “unin...

Documentarian Joe Berlinger reflects on one of his darkest moments: trying to make a smart Blair Witch sequel.

Red Barrels has dropped a terrifying new update for The Outlast Trials just in time for Halloween. The update – which is available now – ushers in the new trial program Geister, as well as a brand new map based in, and around, someone's deliciously sick vision of a courthouse. And blood – lots and lots of blood: The Outlast Trials is out now in early access on both Steam and Epic Games Store. Set in the height of the Cold War era, players take on the role of test subjects abducted by the shady M...

Threads was missing a lot of features users would expect from a service similar to Twitter's (now X's) when it launched. Over the past few months, however, it has been been rolling out more and more new features to give users a more robust experience, including polls, an easy way to post GIFs and the ability to quote posts on the web. Still, since it doesn't have an API, third-party developers can't conjure features specific to their services that would make the social network a more integral pa...

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Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has issued a tongue-in-cheek correction to South Park after its latest episode featured a joke about the critically acclaimed RPG. The episode, called "South Park: Joining the Panderverse", sees Cartman live in an alternate reality wherein he curses the fact he can't cross-save the 50 hours he's invested into Baldur's Gate 3 across multiple universes. Cartman – played by Janeisha Adams-Ginyard, just to sprinkle in a little extra confusion – asks, "do save...