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If you’re an FPS lover like myself, it’s almost impossible not to get excited about a new Doom game. With Doom The Dark Ages, I’ve had my fingers crossed for something truly special. While I enjoyed Doom Eternal, iD Software has billed The Dark Ages as a departure from its predecessor’s fast-paced approach, featuring movement and gunplay more in line with traditional Doom. Throw in promises of more on-screen storytelling with high-quality cutscenes, a gnarly medieval aesthetic, some wild set pie...

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Following Doom’s revelatory reboot in 2016 and its bigger but not necessarily better sequel in 2020, Doom: The Dark Ages is doing exactly what it needs to do: getting focused, and getting a li’l weird with it. With its dramatic shift in setting and its emphasis on toe-to-toe demon punchouts, it looks like a hard...

As The Sinking City 2's hugely successful crowdfunding campaign nears its conclusion, Ukrainian developer Frogwares has announced a fresh bit of business for its Lovecraft-inspired open-world detective series: the original game is being remastered in Unreal Engine 5.

Doom: The Dark Ages is a bigger change for the series than I realised. This isn't just a 'Doom in the olden days' reskin - Doom with a shield and a flail and a furry black Jon Snow cape - but a proper revision of how the series works. Ironically, given the setting, it's also the most modern-feeling of the Doom games, with a much more pronounced story than we've had before, a greatly expanded character-upgrade system that borders on skill-tree territory, and open-zoned sandbox levels you can retu...

Great news for gamers on the go as Monster Train 2 from Shiny Shoe / Big Fan Games is Steam Deck Verified. It hasn't even released yet so Valve got in early for this one.

With an upgrade system that's a little inspired by the popularity of Vampire Survivors and all the games that followed, Rogue Kingdoms combines some interesting looking tower defense gameplay with direct hero control and roguelike elements.

Green begone.

Pocketpair has once again unveiled its unholy Palworld dating sim, but will it turn out to be an April Fools' joke this time as well?

There’s a great mission near the beginning of Cyberpunk 2077, where you have to pick up the flathead robot from the cyberware-obsessed Maelstrom gang. Everyone in Night City has implants, but when you come face to face with Royce, Maelstrom’s hyper-violent leader, the whole front of his head is missing, replaced with a robotic, cycloptic laser. It’s when CDPR’s world starts to feel authentically dystopian - technology has driven people to the extreme. Mixing that visual style, Arkham and Sifu-st...

Critter Cove is an open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. It's currently in Early Access and a recent update brings a big performance improvement to it.

Humble is giving you the chance to boost your Steam Deck game library with seven fantastic games for just $15, saving $139 compared to the total MSRP. The Tactical Triumph bundle includes everything from deckbuilders to turn-based combat games and even a sandbox dungeon crawler. If you own one of the best handheld gaming PCs, you'll already know that, while running triple-A games is fun, the console really excels when it's running smaller indie titles. Each of the games in this bundle is at leas...

Eyes peeled.

We've reached the final day of Amazon's Spring Sale, but there are still plenty of great deals to shop. That list includes a $50 price cut on our pick for best MacBook overall this year, Apple's 2025 MacBook Air M4. The 13-inch, 16GB model is available for $949, down from $999.  Apple only released the new MacBook Air M4 in mid-March. It scored a 92 in our review, thanks to features like its M4 chip. The 13-inch base model boasts a 10-core CPU, 8-core GPU and 16-core Neural Engine. It also has a...

ProtonUp-Qt is a tool to add extra compatibility tools on Linux / Steam Deck like GE-Proton. A new release out now with version 2.12.

Totally Bazaar. Marvelous announced the next title in the beloved Story of Seasons series during last week's Nintendo Direct, and we're sticking with the remakes! But this time, we're diverging from the undisputed classics and going a bit off-piste. Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar launches on Switch on 27th August 2025, and it's a remake of Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar, which came to the DS in 2008 in Japan, and 2010/11 for North America and Europe. It's not one of the most well-known entries, a...

Lazarus, the new anime from the legendary Shinichirō Watanabe, has a lot on its mind. There are scientific marvels, explosive action sequences, and a mind-spinning mystery that’s only just begun to be mined. But even better than all that? A show that looks and feels so good, so evocative in its designs, that nothing else...

Many millions of us have looked for a Porter in the storm, with Hideo Kojim today announcing that the number of Death Stranding players has now exceeded a not too shabby at all 20 million.

If you handed me a deck of revolting Tarot cards and told me to heal a bunch of sickly, deranged medieval peasants, I would probably attempt to sew the cards together into bandages. Perhaps I would offer the nicer ones to children instead of lollipops, to distract them while I apply the leeches (lollipops did exist in the Middle Ages, I'm shocked to discover, but mostly in noble circles). Bloodletter has grander ambitions. In this whispery, crazy-eyed deckbuilder, you'll play Tarot-style cards t...

Keyboard enthusiasts, avert your eyes. This is going to get messy.

An alleged cryptocurrency scam that models itself on Grand Theft Auto 6 will be launching on Steam this week, despite Valve's promises that they do not allow NFT or blockchain games to exist on the platform. Paradise has been advertised as an action game set in a sunny city which will allow players to drive cars, shoot enemies, and earn money. But its in-game currency is based on blockchain technology, and some reports allege it is a scam based in Russia which does not allow its crypto investors...

And it's all down to an improved NTsync driver.

Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding has passed another major player milestone ahead of the sequel's impending release in June.

Actor Jack Black believes his latest film, A Minecraft Move, is just the tonic the world is in need of right now.

Harlan Ellison used to say that I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream was a game that nobody could win. I gather now, having looked at a few wikis, that this is not entirely true. But back in the mid-1990s when I first encountered this weird, horrifying video game, it certainly felt true. I Have No Mouth was... not a hit, exactly, but certainly the subject of a sustained mania in my student house at the tail end of the last century. Adventure games, or point-and-clicks, were our collective favourit...

Monster Hunter Wilds has hit another major sales milestone, developer and publisher Capcom has announced, and it's broken another company record too.

If you thought Monster Hunter Wilds had a lot of free updates coming throughout the rest of the year, Capcom's plans for the game's future have just got even bigger. As the developer celebrates yet another huge sales milestone, MH Wilds' director outlines an array of new content drops, performance improvements, and quality-of-life changes on the way.

Assassin's Creed Shadows's dev team are "actively looking at" adding options for a more challenging jaunt through the throaty-poke 'em up's incarnation of feudal Japan. "We're looking at these things and monitoring what people say about the game," creative director Jonathon Dumont told GamesRadar+ at this year's GDC. Shadows currently features four difficulty options for both stealth and combat, ranging from 'story' to 'expert', as well as the 'guaranteed assassination' toggle from recent previo...

The Japanese reveal tweet suggests so... Last week's surprise Nintendo Direct might not have been the showcase of wall-to-wall bangers that we had hoped for, but it still held its fair share of surprises — perhaps the biggest of which was Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. Sure, it had been rumoured for years, but we never really thought the Tomodachi Life series would be making a comeback on Switch. But it's real, it's coming next year and, according to the Japanese announcement tweet, people ar...

I can't handle the suspense.

The Last of Us has an ending that leaves many questions regarding Joel's actions. Was he right to do what he did? Well, The Last of Us' creator Neil Druckmann believes he was.

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We've found a brilliant gaming keyboard deal that's perfect for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, particularly if you like the dark Mordor aesthetic. This Black Speech design from Drop is eye-catching and sure to start up a conversation with anyone who sees it. Better still, there's currently $50 off the price, meaning it can be yours for less if you act fast. If you're unfamiliar with Drop keyboards, you can read my CSTM80 review to get an idea of what to expect. Balancing gaming ...

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Work on the KDE Plasma desktop sounds like it continues to go very well, with some really important bug fixes arriving to make the experience a lot nicer. My favourite Linux desktop environment and what powers the Desktop Mode on Steam Deck.