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The 2025 BAFTA game awards took place yesterday in London and were dominated by one of our favorite games this year, Astro Bot. The PlayStation 5 platformer took home prizes in five categories including Best Game, along with Animation, Audio Achievement, Family and Game Design. That's no surprise, considering the game's critical accolades and popularity with fans.  Astro Bot is the first fully-fledged and fully-priced version in the Astro universe. "With precise and responsive controls, adorable...

Today, we have an announcement for our fellow gamers on PlayStation Portal remote player. As we continue to improve user experience based on community feedback, we are releasing a new system software update for PS Portal starting later today, which will add a few new features to improve your gaming experience while using Cloud Game...

The boards do work on water. In much the same way that modern society pines for the flying cars they have always been promised, the modern gamer yearns for hoverboards in their open-world adventures… or they should - because it’s a lot of fun. Last year’s Gori: Cuddly Carnage featured a floating board as both transport and weapon, and now Caracal Games' Star Overdrive uses one as your main method of traversal in a vast alien landscape. It’s an engaging, often exhilarating way to zip around, and ...

Microsoft will showcase its slate of upcoming games in the Xbox Games Showcase 2025, scheduled for June 8, the company announced Tuesday. The digital-only broadcast is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. ET on June 8, and will be followed by a whole showcase specifically about The Outer Worlds 2. “It all begins with our...

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Red Rogue Sea is one high up on my wishlist! After being completely hooked by FTL: Faster Than Light when it originally released, I'm always keen to see more like it and now a demo is available.

Might and Delight have revealed Twinkleby, a new cosy decoration game where you map out an archipelago of floating islands and build dioramas for a society of spacefaring neighbours.

Developer .Gravity announced recently that Little Sim World will be entering Early Access on May 1st, and it appears it will also get Linux / Steam Deck support.

Google has started rolling out the loss of pulse detection feature for Pixel Watch 3 devices in the US. The feature does exactly what it describes: It checks for your pulse when the watch is on your wrist and will call emergency services if it determines that your pulse has stopped. It debuted in several European countries last year when the watch launched, but it didn't get approval from the US Food and Drug Administration until February this year.  The feature uses concurrent passive algorithm...

A recent update to Monster Hunter Wilds has been causing problems for players on Linux platforms including SteamOS / Steam Deck. Valve has now put out an update to Proton Hotfix to work around it.

Drones have become an important tool in a creator’s bag of tricks, allowing them to capture aerial footage that elevates their videos. And nowadays, they’ve become more accessible as video quality and features have dramatically improved while prices have dropped.Recent budget-friendly models include DJI’s Neo and Flip drones, along with the HoverAir X1 Pro lineup, all under $500. If you’ve got more to spend, the options are similarly plentiful with drones like the DJI Mini 4 Pro and HoverAir X1 ...

NVIDIA is collaborating with Google Cloud to bring agentic AI to enterprises seeking to locally harness the Google Gemini family of AI models using the NVIDIA Blackwell HGX and DGX platforms and NVIDIA Confidential Computing for data safety. With the NVIDIA Blackwell platform on Google Distributed Cloud, on-premises data centers can stay aligned with regulatory Read Article

I’m a huge enthusiast when it comes to independent animation. Whether it’s stop-motion animation like Takahide Hori’s Junk Head or one-man masterpieces like Shingo Tamagawa’s Puparia and Kenji Iwaisawa’s On-Gaku: Our Sound, I’m an ardent believer in both seeking out and championing passion projects that exist both within and outside of the mainstream animation industry....

All the gaming laptops have disappeared from the US Razer store, with the site only listing laptop accessories such as skins, docks, and cables. That’s despite the fact that Razer has only just launched its new lineup of Blade 16 gaming laptop designs at the end of March 2024, to widespread acclaim, and it’s likely that the current tariff trade war between the US and China is at least partly responsible. This isn’t a decision that Razer would take lightly, especially given the amount of work it'...

Astro Bot won five awards, including Best Game, at Tuesday’s BAFTA Games Awards, wrapping up a triumphant awards season for Sony’s PlayStation 5 platformer. Dominating the night, Team Asobi’s game also took home awards for Game Design, Animation, Audio, and Family. The Chinese Room’s oil-rig thriller Still Wakes the Deep won three awards, for New...

If only my local council could 3D print some efficiency…

Viral indie hits don't come along too often, but when they do, usually anyone can play them due to low PC demands spurred by less intense visual design. As for the Schedule 1 system requirements, while the minimum requirements are low, the recommended specs ask for an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, which is overkill even though it is considered a budget gaming GPU. Now that we've established that you won't need the best graphics card to start playing Schedule 1, you can turn your attention to its rema...

More stick than carrot.

Heroes never die.

Apple has lost its position as the world's most valuable public company to Microsoft following a dramatic four-day slide in its stock price, driven largely by concerns over President Donald Trump's escalating tariff war with China, where most of its iPhones are assembled. Apple's market capitalization fell to $2.59 trillion as of Tuesday's close, while Microsoft now sits at $2.64 trillion, reclaiming the top spot after briefly holding it earlier this year. Apple shares have plummeted approximate...

Rovio has announced a third Angry Birds film is on the way, due for release on 29th January 2027 to rival new Zelda and Sonic films.

Medieval strategy game Norland has unleashed a seriously hefty new update giving multiple core mechanics a polish. The Long Jaunt and Hooded Horse colony sim merges all the period drama of Crusader Kings with the settlement and people management of Rimworld, and its “damn big update” marks another good moment to try the early-access indie game. With changes to city interactions, migration, crime, alcohol, and more, there’s a whole lot to dig through.

Gossifleur makes its debut in Pokémon Go as part of April 2025’s “Spring into Spring” event. The Galar grass-type can evolve into Eldegoss as part of its evolution line with enough Candy in your possession. As with the recent addition of Nickit, Gossifleur appears in the wild as part of this event, but can also...

Tax season is upon us. Individual income tax returns are due April 15 in the United States. If you haven’t filed your taxes yet, why not procrastinate a little bit longer and play some games instead? Here are five games about taxes to play to procrastinate filing your taxes. Some involve filing virtual taxes, some...

In Command and Conquer, you’re playing as the leader of the entire GDI or Nod army, observing the battlefield from an enormous bank of monitors in a secure military installation. And yet, you’re able to talk to every single infantry trooper as if you’re standing next to them - when you give orders, your soldiers seem to receive them telepathically. That’s C&C. That’s how it works. But imagine if that communication broke down, and as well as attacking and defending, you now had to contend with a ...

Inspired is one word for it, anyway. Still, since Heroes Of Might & Magic-likes aren't exactly giving roguelite deckbuilders a run for their ubiquity, I'm broadly receptive - the warmest and most exploitable of the four gamer emotions. Stormbinders is a turn-based strategy set in a fantasy land with bad weather and badder shimmering angelic eyeballs. You may recognise what it's going for. This may delight you. You'll choose a hero, then get stuck into the campaign. "The story progresses across u...

Stock markets tanked and gaming laptops went into hiding this morning as US President Donald Trump’s globe-spanning tariffs came into effect. Based on nonsense maths, these heavy taxes on imported goods are already sowing havoc within the gaming hardware industry, leaving manufacturers – whose production operations are commonly based in China and Taiwan – to scramble together a plan. Most headlines have focused on the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2’s US pre-orders being delayed as a result, but PC g...

If you get in quick, there’s a genuinely outstanding Samsung OLED gaming monitor deal going right now, which enables you to save a massive $250 on the usual price of a Samsung OLED G6 screen. It’s a limited-time deal, so you need to go straight in for the kill if you want to take advantage of it, but if you do, you’ll get a 240Hz 26-inch OLED gaming screen for just $549.99. With its Samsung QD-OLED screen, this monitor will provide high contrast, deep blacks, and, most importantly for gaming, a ...

It’s been quite the week for Path of Exile 2, with its Dawn of the Hunt update landing to a rather firm outcry from players about the ARPG’s slower, more laborious campaign and leveling process. As a direct result, the game’s recent Steam reviews sit at just 40% positive. Fortunately, we might just have reached the inflection point. Following a two-hour interview between livestreamer ‘Zizaran’ and game directors Jonathan Rogers and Mark Roberts, a new set of PoE 2 patch notes have appeared with ...

Every now and then, I get a weird urge to play Lost Ark. One of the first games I ever reviewed, it's one that I look back on with a warm fondness. I loved its dynamic class system, Diablo-style gameplay, and beautiful world, but as of late Arkesia has felt a little bit quiet. I've struggled to clear some of its content due to long queue times resulting from a distinct lack of players. Following a recent broadcast discussing upcoming changes to the Korean version of the game, there's been concer...

Eek! In case you missed it, yes, Deltarune Chapters 1-4 has been confirmed for the Nintendo Switch 2, launching on day one with with console on 5th June 2025. It might not have been super clear from the trailer, but information posted on the official website confirms that the game will include a small, special room in which you can use mouse controls on both Joy-Con 2 at the same time.

Vampire Survivors' previously announced cross-save feature will not be launching on PlayStation 4 and PS5 at the same time as other platforms due to a "legal issue".

Palworld developers Pocketpair have announced their next gig as a fledgling games publisher. They're palling up with MythicOwl to release the latter's jaunty delivery sim Truckful, in which absolutely nothing waits for you in the woods. In which there are no ghost trucks. In which "hidden paths, misty wetlands, unforgiving marshes and dusty quicksands [do not] tell the stories of the past, waiting to be discovered". Here's a trailer.

When Assassin's Creed Shadows launched last month, I wrote that the game's Animus Hub felt rather threadbare, but that this was not unexpected. The Hub's main feature, its battle pass-like "Projects", are specifically designed to unlock over time and reveal their rewards - a smattering of cosmetic items, in-game resources and new narrative content - at a slow pace, in order to keep you playing over the weeks to come.

When we talk about exceptional modern role-playing games, Atlus’ oeuvre will always enter the conversation. Shin Megami Tensei, Persona, and the newer Metaphor: Refantazio are all innovative interpretations of the turn-based RPG, but they can also be daunting - if you want to reach the end of any of these games, you're looking at 100 hours of play time before the credits roll. So, how about something more bite sized? The new Persona 3 Reload demo is the perfect way to give Atlus' stellar JRPG a ...