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It's not exactly much of a secret that a lot of indie devs are struggling to stay afloat these days given the economic *gestures vaguely at a world map.* No one has an exact solution either, but last December, just before the release of its latest game Hyper Light Breaker, noted indie developer Heart Machine announced that they were opening a Patreon. I won't act like this is exactly a novel concept, I've seen a few other devs, typically on the smaller or solo size, try the same thing. But it st...

At a glance, House House’s 2019 honking sensation Untitled Goose Game may not seem like the most obvious choice to write a book about. The game — essentially a stealth game where your job is to cause trouble — was a viral hit, but isn’t filled with extensive lore or complex mechanics that beg to...

As a strategist main, I’m nervous about Marvel Rivals Season 2. NetEase Games has dropped the balance changes that’ll come alongside all the new content, and healers have been given a real mixed bag. There are some nice buffs tucked away in here, but on the whole I’m worried that the nerfs will give dive characters, Spider-Man especially, open season on all our favorite healers.

Rise of the Ronin developer Team Ninja has "sincerely apologised" for "inconveniences" with its Steam port.

Zenless Zone Zero is heading to Xbox.

“People don’t understand how close D&D and wrestling are,” said Brennan Lee Mulligan. And he’s speaking from an informed perspective, ushering Dimension 20: Titan Takedown into the world this week.  In the new four-episode season of the long-running anthology actual play show, Mulligan hosts four WWE superstars — Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston, Bayley, and Chelsea...

Fishing! It's a feature that's been included in many games over the years, one that varies in quality from game to game. Sega Bass Fishing? Probably top of the line, as long as you have that unique fishing rod controller. Stardew Valley? I like it, but I know plenty of people that hate it. Personally I normally find it quite a relaxing thing to do, particularly in games that are otherwise combat focused. Fallout 76 is one such game that's more about shooting rather than chilling out, but over on...

The new FF14 Dawntrail raid series is just the latest success story for the man who’s become known as the MMORPG’s not-so-secret weapon. Masayoshi Soken has earned a reputation for his incredible composition work, and he and his team are in full form in the latest Final Fantasy 14 update. Ahead of the recent Distant Worlds concerts in London, I had the privilege to sit down with Soken and discuss how he approaches adopting legacy soundtracks and which Final Fantasy game he feels is most underrep...

When it comes to iconic multiplayer shooter experiences, Battlefield 3’s Operation Metro is always towards the top of my list. Going prone in the tunnels as bullets and explosives fly overhead, teammates shout orders, and you crawl ever-so slowly towards the objective is unlike anything else. If, like me, you’re still chasing that high, the incredibly brutal, tactical, and historical FPS antics of Hell Let Loose are here to answer the call. Best of all, you can grab it at a massive discount for ...

Two months to go! Well, that was a week, wasn't it? We Nintendo lifers finally got an influx of info, a deluge of details about Switch 2 and the games we can expect to be playing on it. And soon! Yep, 5th June is exactly two months away, and we're champing at the Joy-Con Strap to get our hands on the launch lineup. We've had a taste, but we're hungry for more.

Of the hundreds of indie games released on Steam each week, only a fortunate few become breakout hits. Last week’s biggest winner was the viral drug-dealing simulator Schedule I. But it wasn’t the only game that managed to crack 1,000 “overwhelmingly positive” reviews in its first week. The other surprise was Spilled!, a bite-sized game...

But it doesn't go far enough.

Despite continued rumors, I’m not prepared to hold my breath for a Half-Life 3 announcement quite yet. But Valve’s epochal series lives on in spirit with the magnificent Abiotic Factor, a boisterous survival game that draws inspiration from the worth of Black Mesa and Aperture Science. Boasting a spectacular 96% Steam review score - earning it the elusive ‘overwhelmingly positive’ rating - it’s one of the best co-op games in recent years, and developer Deep Field Games is gearing up for its depa...

Netflix’s gleeful horror-comedy Dead Talents Society wears a lot of its influences out in the open. Writer-director John Hsu talked with Polygon earlier this month about how YouTube streamers, ’90s Taiwanese pop music, Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfathers, and real Asian urban legends like “the little girl in red” helped inspire his manic...

Digging for freedom.

If you're on the hunt for a new space exploration game, look no further than Everspace 2. With an in-depth loot system, great swathes of the cosmos to explore, and nail-biting interstellar combat, the 2023 spaceship shooter has spent the last couple of years going from strength to strength. Now, the latest DLC is finally right around the corner, and it's set to expand the game even further.

The Last of Us Part 2 recently launched on PC, bringing the second part of the well-known Naughty Dog PlayStation adventure to a whole new audience. Port developers Nixxes build on the work previously done by Iron Galaxy for Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us Part 1 on PC, bringing new features and familiar limitations in almost equal measure.

Jamie Siminoff, who founded Ring and started the company in his garage, is back at Amazon after leaving the company as its CEO in 2023. Siminoff joined Amazon when the e-commerce website acquired Ring in 2018, but he left in 2023 and founded another startup that he sold to lock maker Latch Inc. When he left Amazon two years ago, he said that invention was his true passion. Now, he's taking on the role as the vice president in charge of not just Ring, but also Amazon's smart home camera unit Blin...

We're just two months away from WWDC where we'll get our first glimpses of iOS 19 and related updates, but this week saw the public release of iOS 18.4 with a number of changes and improvements including some audio improvements for the USB-C AirPods Max. This week also saw the first beta of iOS 18.5, a new rumor about iOS 19 compatibility, and Apple's work on haptic buttons that have yet to surface on the iPhone, so read on below for all the details! iOS 18.4 Released: Here's Everything New Appl...

All the best Assassin’s Creed games are about family.  The Ezio trilogy, long considered the peak of the series, is built on the tragic loss of Ezio’s family, and his fundamental loneliness. The game’s most iconic song — the one whose motif is colloquially known as “the Assassin’s Creed theme” — is titled “Ezio’s Family.”...

New patch brings "improvements across Earth and space".

The official launch of Apple’s iOS 18 brought with it some fresh ways to customize your iPhone’s home screen. Rather than leaving unwanted apps hanging around like a bad smell in places you don’t want them, users can now take full control of app placement and make their home screen their own. Whether you're looking to add useful widgets, reorganize your apps or get rid of the ones you never use, customizing your iPhone home screen can help your device feel a little more unique. Here’s a simple s...

The big squeak. You've probably read a bunch of thoughts and previews about the Nintendo Switch 2 at this point, many of them from us. I was already a little sceptical of Mouse Mode before it was officially announced in the Nintendo Direct. I don't like playing games on my PC, and if I have to, I avoid keyboard and mouse like the plague. Except for things like The Sims or perhaps Stardew Valley. But controller is always my preference. I essentially grew up with them in my hands, and I just can't...

"Middle-earth Extended Edition returns".

March is finally behind us, and with its passing comes the arrival of spring and all its splendors! There’s a ton of exciting new releases to catch in theaters this month, from the returns of major directors, like Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, to escapist genre fare like The Accountant 2 and...

The Roman Empire is a time period that’s always ripe for videogames, and we’ve seen many tackle the iconic historical setting. Strategy games such as Civilization, Age of Empires, and Total War have all taken their swing, and newcomer Roman Triumph feels like it’s learned from all of them, with a little SimCity and Cities Skylines in the mix for good measure. Out now on Steam after five years in development at the Montreal-based Coreffect Interactive, you can grab the new city builder at a big e...

It's still early days for InZOI yet, but Krafton's The Sims competitor is doing very well. Over a million players have bought the game with a peak of almost 90,000 concurrents on Valve's platform, and Krafton itself has a lot of free DLC planned throughout the early-access period. Right now, however, the focus is on adjusting existing mechanics to better suit what players want.That's why Zoi sleeping patterns, family relationships, and even the karma system have all been adjusted in the latest h...

And Bowser Jr. already has the new system! The Switch 2 generation is upon us and Nintendo has been updating all sorts of things including its Parental Controls video animation featuring Bowser Jr and his Dad. This new video is quite the facelift - with Bowser's Switch swapped out for a brand-new Switch 2 (yes, he's already playing it) and Mario Kart World now featured in all of the gameplay footage. And noticably Bowser has updated his Peach wallpaper...to another photo of Princess Peach.

Cold Fusion is coming soon.

Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt is here, and the first major overhaul for the early access ARPG has pulled it back up the Steam charts. The update introduces the game’s seventh class, the Huntress, along with several more ascendancies, hundreds of new support gems and items to greatly expand the potential for builds, and a sizable endgame shakeup. It’s not been completely smooth sailing so far, however, with players running into ‘unknown object type’ crashes and an inability to play the new Smi...

Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 1 is finally here, and it brings a boatload of new content with it. There are more monsters, the long-awaited Gathering Hub, Arena Quests, and a whole lot more planned in the coming weeks. It’s a good time to dive back in, then, but not everything is working smoothly. Capcom finally confirms that you might run into issues if you have the enhanced texture pack installed, but only tells you to uninstall it.

The Switch 2 Edition launches this June. There's been a lot of speculation about the potential power of the Switch 2 since Nintendo published shared details this week and now the Sid Meier's Civilization VII team at Firaxis has chimed in with its own first-hand development experience. Following the confirmation of a 'Switch 2 Edition' of the game in the latest Direct broadcast, Civ's executive producer Dennis Shirk told Stephen Totilo of Game File how Civilization VII's graphical performance on ...

What a week, eh? We have started the odd What Are You Playing post in the past with some comment about "gosh, that was a busy week!", but this week really has been the granddaddy of them all. Just in case you somehow missed it, Nintendo finally lifted the lid on Switch 2! In an hour-long extravaganza of a Direct, we got our first proper look at the system, its accessories, and a whole host of games that will be coming to it in the next couple of years. Nintendo slapped a 5th June 2025 release da...

Timed in with Switch 2's big reveal. Nintendo this week marked another major milestone in its history with the full reveal of the Switch 2. After years of incredible video game history, this new system is easily the Japanese firm's most cutting-edge piece of tech it's ever released. Of course, the Nintendo Museum is all about the company's history, and although much of the focus is on Nintendo's past work, it does acknowledge the more modern generation of hardware and software throughout. With t...

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie gets his starchiest white shirt on and descends into the corporate purgatory of The Stanley Parable, cleansing himself in the nearest river in between, while Tom O both dips back into Avowed and tries Split Fiction with his son.