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Krafton’s InZOI might be the first life sim to properly challenge EA's The Sims. I've been playing around in its gigantic dollhouse for the past week or so, and I'm now more excited than ever by its potential, even if it still has some way to go.

An entire playthrough of the PS3 version of Until Dawn played in first-person perspective has popped up online.

You’re on your lunch break, or maybe you’re just bored and need something to do for 20 minutes. That’s where short games come in. They’re little experiences you can completely finish in a single sitting. Sometimes there are puzzles to solve or challenges to face, and sometimes there aren’t. These games can be anything, really....

When you think of the best classic PC games, point-and-click adventures are always going to be high on the list. LucasArts brought us Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle. Revolution had Broken Sword, and Sierra delivered King’s Quest. But Amerzone is one of those delightful curiosities you might have forgotten, yet stands alongside games like Myst as a true relic of the era, one that floods your brain with nostalgia at a mere mention. Whether you experienced it at the time, or it remains a com...

Silent Hill f has been refused classification in Australia.

Masumi is a seasoned musician and an accomplished actor you may have seen in the neon-bathed streets of Yakuza Princess. Her debut videogame role is Naoe in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the latest triple-A game to face a range of often ill-informed complaints on everything from its inclusion of African samurai Yasuke to Ubisoft's portrayal of Sengoku period Japan, with 'historical accuracy' being weaponized against it. Overall, the latest in the stealth-action turned RPG series has been subject to ...

Ambitious..? Hello folks, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl. Last week, we looked at Mario's Picross for the Game Boy, and it was quite the heated battle between North America and Europe. In the end, Europe won with 48% of the vote. North America came in second with 40%, and Japan in third with 12%.

FFXIV patch 7.2 — the second major Dawntrail update — releases soon, alongside a lot of content which will be spread out through several micropatches. That said, there’ll still be stuff to do between new story and a new raid tier right away, so don’t fret. Below, we explain when FFXIV maintenance starts and ends,...

It feels like open world games have been having a bit of an extended, existential crisis these past few years. Like there's a sense that something within the classic formula of big maps, question marks and to-be-coloured-in icons that's served us so well, back through The Witcher 3 and Skyrim to at least The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, isn't quite working. That a change or evolution - if not outright ripping-up revolution - of some kind is necessary for the genre to thrive. But also, a bit of a p...

How about a modern Nintendo version? The legendary 1995 role-playing game Chrono Trigger is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, and as part of this, Square Enix has provided a sales update. According to an official post on its website, combined sales (across all platforms) since the game's original Super Famicom release have now surpassed over five million copies worldwide.

Play 'Super Soccer' on the subscription service before it's gone. At the end of last month, Nintendo announced it would be removing a Super Nintendo game from its Switch Online library.

Sorry, Minthy.

Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.

Mojang hopes to bring it to "as many devices as possible". Ahead of the Switch 2's arrival, developer Mojang has announced Minecraft will be getting a visual graphics upgrade. This was revealed during the latest 'Minecraft Live' broadcast for March 2025 and the update is officially titled 'Vibrant Visuals'. The footage on display, captured on a high-end PC, is a visual upgrade that enhances everything you see in the game but doesn't impact the gameplay or the mechanics.

Apparently it was all the marketing department's fault.

"Pls nerf kevin."

Maybe some games... should have crashes?

The Monster Hunter team posts a video message for fans post-release.

There's no better news than "game that hasn't had an update in years just received one", and this week that applies to Battle Brothers. Despite first releasing eight years ago - almost to the day, its eighth anniversary is in a couple of days time on March 24th - and not receiving a new update in two years, developer Overhype Studios has come back to the game not just with some fixes, but with some new content too.

I thought this one was going to be simple when I first looked into it.

Everybody loves a good fairytale, but I'm sure you can agree that some kind of twist on a Brothers Grimm story is a bit overdone by now, so how about a game based on folklore from Normandy? Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs is exactly that, a self described "short and creepy fairytale" that has a look about it where I can easily imagine walking around its world and think "cripes, it smells a bit around here, 'ey?"

Assassin’s Creed Shadows may be shaping up to be the hit Ubisoft needed. On social media, the Assassin’s Creed team announced that the game, which was released on Thursday, has so far drawn in two million players. Assassin’s Creed Shadows was originally slated to come out last fall, but was delayed twice as developers worked to further polish the game and try to ensure everything would be running smoothly on day one.  So far, (mostly) so good, it seems. Engadget’s Kris Holt noted in his review t...

Minecraft is the best-selling game of all time, but it's looked pretty much the same for the entirety of its almost 14 year run. There's an argument to be made that it's showing its age in places, an argument I won't make because I don't think so myself, but all the same, as revealed during today's Minecraft Live, Mojang announced that the sandbox game is getting a pretty big visual overhaul update called Vibrant Visuals. Now, don't worry, it'll still be all blocks and squares 'n' that, but it w...

Here are some recently released titles that belong on your reading list. This week, we read Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People and the latest issue of the Image Comics series, Bug Wars. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-this-weekend-stephen-graham-jones-the-buffalo-hunter-hunter-sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-195716192.html?src=rss

Keita Takahashi is probably one of the most recognizable names in games, in no small part thanks to a game that needs no introduction, Katamari Damacy. That game was made at Namco, before it became the Bandai Namco we know today, and Takahashi actually left the studio back in 2006 around the time they merged, and in a recent interview with GameSpark (as translated by Automaton), the developer has shared the reason behind his departure.

What is the Minecraft Dried Ghast? We've all stepped through a Nether Portal for the first time just to hear that terrifying shriek and be blasted by a fireball. Ghasts are deadly and truly horrifying. Dare we say worse than the Ender Dragon? But just like the Ender Dragon - you went to her turf to steal her egg!! - perhaps there's a justifiable reason for this mob to be a bit grouchy. The Nether can't be the nicest place to live in Minecraft, after all. It's hot and it's dry, and it turns out t...

Singer-songwriter, actor, and now video game voice actor Masumi is not new to playing a Japanese assassin grieving the loss of her father. She starred as a yakuza heir in 2021’s Yakuza Princess — her “breakout movie,” as she calls it. Then, she booked a new challenge: Naoe, the shinobi assassin protagonist in Assassin’s Creed...

An analyst who claimed Final Fantasy 16 had sold 3.5 million copies has apologised, insisting the figure was an estimate and not confirmed sales.

I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I love Silent Hill 4: The Room. It was actually the first game I played in the series, and when I did I wasn't aware that it wasn't universally loved or even liked at its release. Not that knowing other people's opinions would have changed my mind about it, I'm the kind of person that will ardently defend a 6/10, but still, I think there's a lot to love about it… unless you played the game on PC. For a long time, it was missing a few things that were f...

Coming 13 years after its predecessor, Focus Entertainment’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a hack ‘n’ slash shooting game (a hack ‘n’ shoot, if you will) that takes the cooperative third-person shooter fun of things like Helldivers 2 and combines it with the pure carnage found Bethesda’s Doom Eternal (and you know, Helldivers 2 already has quite a lot of carnage). Right now, the game is at the lowest price it’s ever seen in the six short months since its release, so if you’ve been meaning ...

The meteoric rise of the Chinese movie Ne Zha 2 has been stunning: The sequel has broken worldwide records for an animated movie, and as of this writing, has reportedly earned more than $2 billion at the international box office, putting it at No. 5 on the all-time highest-grossing-movie list, above Star Wars: The Force...

Assassin's Creed Shadows has topped over two million players, "surpassing the launches of [Assassin's Creed] Origins and Odyssey".

I maintain there aren’t enough Wild West games. Red Dead Redemption 2 is obviously the big dog in town, but we’ve seen some strong challengers, from action games like Blood West and Evil West to more strategic names such as Desperados 3 and Hard West 2. Wild West Pioneers, however, pushes the frontier in another direction with a city-building game that’s already caught my eye with its initial reveal. Set to launch in early access this year, it takes the best part of RDR 2 - establishing and mana...

Apple’s most recent Mac mini is down to its lowest price yet in an early Amazon Spring Sale deal. The M4 Mac mini starts at just $499 right now for 16GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage, or 17 percent off the usual price of $599. Other versions are $100 off too, with 16GB/512GB currently going for $699 and the model with 24GB of RAM and 512GB of internal storage sitting at $899. You can also get the Mac mini with the M4 Pro chip for $1,299, down from its usual $1,399. The M4 Mac mini earned ...

Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today reiterated that the A20 chip in iPhone 18 models will be manufactured with TSMC's 2nm process. Kuo said TSMC's trial production of 2nm chips has now reached yields well above the 60-70% range. The yield refers to the percentage of functional chips that can be obtained per silicon wafer, which is essentially a large, circular disc of chips. Kuo first said that the A20 chip would be 2nm around six months ago, and another analyst Jeff Pu said likewise e...