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1.Valve considered making a new VR game for the Steam Frame, before tackling the "ludicrous" task of getting Half-Life: Alyx running standaloneJames Archer · 59m agoValve have sometimes – if perhaps not often enough to call it a grand old tradition – massaged interest in their hardware by pairing the kit with a new game. For the Steam Deck it was Aperture Desk Jo
2.As Civilization 7 devs Firaxis prepare to unleash the nukes, the strategy game's latest update whips out a fresh take on the classic Real Earth mapMark Warren · 3h agoThe September update for Civ 7 arrives today, September 15th. It's got a handful of new maps, including a fresh version of the real life-mimicking True Start Earth playing field, and updates to diplom
3.The King Is Watching devs are making The Crab is Walking, this journalist is writingEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 17h agoThe King Is Watching developers Hypnohead have announced The Crab Is Walking, a roguelite city-builder in which you alternate between arranging tetromino-shaped city districts on the back of a colossa
4."We track every server you enter": the Wardogs devs are "coming down hard" on XP farms and cash exploits, even as they encourage people to grindEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 18h agoThe creators of military shooter Wardogs have announced that they will crack down heavily on players who use exploits and bugs to speedily farm in-game currency and XP, or who spend “more than a few m
5.Valve decided that cutting the Steam Frame’s specs to avoid price rises wasn't "the right product choice" for the VR headsetJames Archer · 19h agoSurprising no-one, Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset is launching with higher-than-expected prices , following the Steam Machine in having its budget-friendly intentions foiled by the memory shortage mis
6.Steam Frame review: Another best-in-class VR headset by Valve, though virtual realities clash with economic onesJames Archer · 20h agoIt’s a strange time to be selling a new VR headset, and maybe an even stranger time to be buying one. The supply of original virtual reality games has slowed to a dribble, and just as with Valve’s las
7.Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset opens for orders, with the cheapest model priced at a lenswatering £889 / $1,059James Archer · 20h agoValve have just launched the Steam Frame wireless VR headset, finally completing the triumvirate of new hardware – along with the new Steam Machine and Steam Controller – that they unveiled all the wa
8.Blizzard say Battle.net isn't looking to fight Steam and Epic for supermassive storefront supremacy, despite recently nabbing The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077Mark Warren · 21h agoNo siree. We are not trying to fight those big bosses. It's arguably a bit of a weird thing for a publisher with Diablo and World of Warcraft in their arsenal to say, but that's the stance Blizzard ar
9.This week in PC games: become a magic girl in Kernel Hearts, a dog commando in Fright Train, or a capital class warship in SublightEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 22h agoHappy new week all! Over the weekend I banished all thought of rocks, paper or shotguns and volunteered to pick apples at a local orchard. Many wonderful varieties were carefully netted, then jumbled
10."Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier": Nighthawks devs claim vampire RPG has erroneously been slapped with Steam adult content labelMark Warren · 23h agoUpdate: Wadjet Eye's Dave Gilbert has confirmed on Bluesky that Nighthawks' "Adults Only" Steam label has been removed, meaning it's no longer locked in horny jail. "Everything is set for launch on th
11.Sony letter spells the end for unreleased The Last of Us Part 2 multiplayer mod, its creator saysMark Warren · 1d agoA multiplayer mod for The Last of Us Part 2 which was originally set to release this month no longer will, with its creator citing a letter from publishers Sony as the reason it won't see the light of
12.Roblox plan to grow their absurd gaming empire even further by letting devs release games as "standalone apps", potentially via Steam, Epic, and GOGEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 1d agoNot content with pulling in daily active user counts roughly equivalent to the population of Japan, game creation platform Roblox are planning to let developers release their games "as standalone apps
13.A StarCraft open-world shooter that's "Deadwood in space", Diablo 5, and a new classic-ish World of Warcraft branch out this year make up Blizzard of revealsMark Warren · 1d agoWell, that report earlier this year was bang on the banana. A new StarCraft shooter, creatively dubbed StarCraft, has been announced for a 2030 release at this year's BlizzCon. Joining it among the he
14.Moss developer Polyarc share that they're shutting down just two months after releasing a VR-less port of the beloved mousey adventure gamesOisin Kuhnke · 2d agoAnother sad one today, unfortunately. Back in July, Polyarc released Moss: The Forgotten Relic, a new version of the original two games combined together that ditched its VR headset origins. Now, unfo
15.The Sunday PapersMark Warren · 2d agoSundays are for realising that after playing The Blood of Dawnwalker , you've developed a craving for blackcurrant juice. There's none in the cupboard, so you venture out to get some, floating across
16.What are we all playing this weekend?James Archer · 3d agoI’m a big fan of these September weekends where I wake up and my bedroom has neither the humidity nor the ambient temperature of an Eden Project rainforest-o-dome. Autumn was previously my third favou
17."Why do we need more graphics?": 2010's Alan Wake was as photoreal as videogames ever needed to be, reckons original Thief designerEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 4d agoFormer Thief: The Dark Project designer, Ion Storm game director, and sometime Spielberg collaborator Randy Smith Evergreen has shared his probably-incendiary view that photorealistic videogame graphi
18.Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battleEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 4d agoBack in October 2025, GTA 6 developers Rockstar fired a group of 34, mostly UK-based employees on a charge of "gross misconduct", alleging that they had risked the leaking of confidential information
19.PlayStation reportedly dumped Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint over exceeded budgets, missed deadlines, and Death Stranding salesMark Warren · 4d agoEarlier this week, Hideo Kojima-helmed action espionage game Physint switched publishers from PlayStation to Xbox , a leap across the console divide which might make it more likely to get a PC port. A
20.Wardogs presents a different kind of FPS power fantasy: making fat stacks as a pacifist rideshare driverJames Archer · 4d agoBecause no-one entirely likes their job, I should be upfront about my issues with newly launched Early Access darling Wardogs , the mass-scale multiplayer shooter in which I’ve just found employment.
21.GTA 6 online mode appears to receive Rockstar's first public acknowledgment, via mention of in-development "32 player format" in legal docsMark Warren · 4d agoUp until now, Rockstar Games have kept mum about what plans they have for the future of Grand Theft Auto multiplayer once GTA 6 releases on consoles in November. Thanks to filings submitted by the stu
22.EA's Saudi Arabian owners are reportedly considering forming an ubermegacorp by merging them with Savvy GamesMark Warren · 4d agoJust over a month on from a consortium led by the Saudi Arabian government's Public Investment Fund taking over EA, in a buyout worth $55 billion , said new owners are reportedly considering merging t
23.Do a bit of visual programming and watch your party of heroes conquer an evil tower in Dungeon AutomataOisin Kuhnke · 5d agoThe beautiful thing about people that like dungeon crawlers is that they're all sickos. Every single one of them! This is not a genre that's for the faint of heart. It is often plodding and methodical
24.Shroom and Gloom is a positively mycelial roguelike double deckbuilder that's now out in early accessOisin Kuhnke · 5d agoThere are probably many jokes one could make about mushrooms being edible, and mushrooms being like, edible, man in relation to Shroom and Gloom , a positively mycelial roguelike deckbuilder where you
25.GNOG and Goodbye Volcano High dev KO_OP share that they are laying off staff in the only, remotely good statement I've seen in a whileOisin Kuhnke · 5d agoToday marks yet another day in reporting on layoffs that have occurred in the games industry over the past several years, with this occasion unfortunately being GNOG and Goodbye Volcano High developer
26.Stylised XCOM-like tactics game Ex Sanguis straps Othercide's obsession with timelines to a leaner roguelike campaignEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 5d agoThe nasal greenhorn strategy gamer understands "strategy" to be about mastery of space by means of clanging offensives, shining shieldwalls, and brute attrition, but the true Napoleon of Drag-Select k
27."We’re going to become the new legend": Naoki Hamaguchi on making Final Fantasy 7 Revelation as if it's the last ever Final Fantasy 7 gameOisin Kuhnke · 5d agoIn this IP-obsessed world, it is quite easy to wonder if anything will ever actually come to an end. Theoretically, the Final Fantasy 7 trilogy of remakes will be coming to an end next year with Final
28.Skyrim’s official IKEA crossover mod might be the most deftly-assembled Elder Scrolls gag ever, if not an ad blueprint other corps should followMark Warren · 5d agoI didn’t think, when I saw the other day that Swedish furniture sellers IKEA had commissioned a group of modders to stick an advert for their wares in Skyrim as an official Bethesda-approved Creation,
29.Ubisoft games on Steam may soon no longer require the pesky Connect launcher, thanks to a new tool the publishers are testingMark Warren · 5d agoUpdate: Ubisoft have confirmed the Steam announcement post about them starting to test a new Ubisoft Connect Services Steam tool is genuine, and they've now stuck it in Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
30."We want to invite people into this big tent with this grimdark setting": Creative Assembly on how they plan to ease strategy newbies into Total War: Warhammer 40,000Oisin Kuhnke · 5d agoI remember once when I was a child, my uncle was visiting and completely unprompted (and kindly) he gave me a copy of one of the Total War games, I think the Rome one, you'll have to forgive my memory
31.Bargain with demons and boat with the dead in joyful RPG heist quest anthology Thousand HellsEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 5d agoYou'd expect a game called Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists to be on the depressing side, but this choose-your-own-adventure RPG anthology from the designers of King of Dragon Pass is an absolute
32.Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse proves Dead Cells' developers were the right fit for a revival in this blessing for the BelmontsAshley Schofield · 5d ago"You're not the last Belmont anymore", Trevor reminds his daughter Rose, as they gently sail into a Paris ablaze and ripped apart by monsters. Rose knows it well, as do indie developers Evil Empire. F
33.Steam beta update adds a new Big Picture view, screensavers, and a little treat for desktop Steam MachinesJames Archer · 5d agoThere’s a new Steam client beta update out, and for SteamOS devices like the Steam Deck or Steam Machine – or just the Windows client's Big Picture Mode – it’s meaty one, features-wise. Read more
34.As final hearing over GTA firings begins, Rockstar reiterate they "reject the claims" made by union and will defend themselves "vigorously"Mark Warren · 5d agoRockstar Games have issued a statement making clear they're sticking to their guns, as the final hearing in the legal battle between them and a group of former staff they fired last year begins. The h
35.Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint switches publishing allegiance from PlayStation to Xbox, probably increasing the chances it'll hit PCMark Warren · 5d agoPhysint , the action espionage game Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions announced a couple of years ago , will no longer be published by initial backers PlayStation. Instead, it'll be published by Xbo
36.Wanderburg, a bullet heaven where you drive around a Frankensteinian hybrid of a castle and a tank, is out in early access todayOisin Kuhnke · 6d agoTruth be told, I'm still not sold on "bullet heaven" as a genre. Name notwithstanding, the genre is certainly here to stay, and there always seems to be funny new takes on it despite the fact that Vam
37.Pile cards on top of each other and watch the magic happen in the textured and chunky roguelike deckbuilder Stack OrderOisin Kuhnke · 6d agoI find it to be quite rare that when a game says it has a graphic novel art style that it actually has one. There's often just something that reads as slightly off, like it's not quite cut from the sa
38.Lovely anime Sherlock series The Apothecary Diaries is getting a PC game spin-off, with Maomao chasing down another court conspiracyEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 6d agoTerrible news, folks, it's time for another episode of "Edwin secretly watches a lot of anime and has bad anime opinions". Although I don't know how anybody could reasonably disagree with my affection
39.Blood of Dawnwalker's troubled power fantasy has me yearning for a more desperate, systemic vampire survival simEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 6d agoBeing a vampire is a pretty raw deal... or so the vamps inform us when they are not having freaky gothic sex, shapeshifting into wolves, enjoying the slimming effects of a uniquely low-carb diet, or e
40.No Man's Sky's 10th anniversary update will let you rule space stations, built floating orbital bases and go on holiday to the sunMark Warren · 6d agoNo Man's Sky is a decade old . Let that sink in. No, seriously, you'll need plenty of water to survive the trips that the massive space game's 10th anniversary update allows you to embark on. It's now
41.Cult classic shoot-em-up Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil has a remake out nowJames Archer · 6d agoTouhou Project is Schrödinger’s shoot-em-up series: simultaneously a decades-running, 20-game strong (not counting spinoffs) multimedia juggernaut spawning one of the most active fan communities of th
42.Unionised Blizzard workers vote through contract giving them a say on genAI adoption and protection against layoffsEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 6d agoUnionised Blizzard workers have voted to ratify a new contract with their employer that will "require" Blizzard to negotiate with workers over any usage of generative AI tools in their workplace, in a
43.Blood of Dawnwalker devs Rebel Wolves are already looking for someone to help write a sequel, so here's where I'd like to see its vampy tale go nextMark Warren · 6d agoLook, I know it's way to early to be talking about sequels to The Blood of Dawnwalker , given Rebel Wolves' vampire RPG hasn't even been out a week as I write this. However, the game's devs are alread
44.Rally Point: Strong simulation and team building can't carry Menace foreverSin Vega · 6d agoIt's probably poor form to do another "what I said in a group chat" (this time, to culture critic Rowan Kaiser . Hermits can namedrop too, shut up) intro, but "Oh i already liked menace, that's why I
45.Zombiepunk action RPG Stupid Never Dies is a vibrant feast for the eyes, ears, hands and teeth, even if it is a smidge overwhelmingAshley Schofield · 6d agoIt's hard to know where to start when talking about Stupid Never Dies. An action RPG built on style, excess and punk ideology. I mean, within the first minutes of my demo starting, I am flushing undea
46.I'm not saying Fallout 4 modding drama gets to people, but here's Breaking Benjamin's singer begging concertgoers to try his AI-assisted first person modMark Warren · 6d agoIn my experience, the few minutes a live band take between songs to recover a bit before plunging into the next riff are generally quite uneventful. At the most, you might get an amusing story about w
47."You can never see outside of yourself": The House Before is a body horror game in which you are a house tunnelling through its own soulEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 6d agoIt's a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible house. Wait, let's start that again. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed into a horrible hous
48.FromSoftware's first experiment with, of all things, horse armor DLC runs awry, as Elden Ring players manage to spawn free duplicate items in multiplayerEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 6d agoFrom Software and Bandai Namco have released a hasty new Elden Ring patch to stop people getting their hands on items from the game's Tarnished Pack DLC for free. Read more
49."Most people" at Bethesda wanted to make Elder Scrolls 6 before Starfield, claims Skyrim co-lead, but Todd Howard dragged them aboard his rocketshipMark Warren · 6d agoWhat came first, the chicken or the egg? I know, it's a tough one. I'll put it another way. What came first, Todd Howard's lone desire to make a space RPG or what the devs working under him had initia
50.Steam achievements for Persona 6, Fable, Stranger Than Heaven and a host of other upcoming PC games appear to have leakedMark Warren · 6d agoUh oh. Steam achievement lists for a smorgasbord of unreleased and unannounced PC games appear to have leaked via trophy tracking site Exophase. Atlus RPG Persona 6, RGG brawler Stranger Than Heaven ,
51.ROLLA is evil, fleshy, monstrous, B-movie-esque Katamari Damacy, and is out this monthOisin Kuhnke · 7d agoIs Katamari Damacy an evil game? I realised as soon as I wrote the heading for this one that calling one game an evil version of Katamari might not be quite right, given the level of destruction you c
52.Humanity's best friend is coming to Old School RuneScape, and seeing a low-poly shiba has me temporally disorientedOisin Kuhnke · 7d ago"Low-poly dogs!" I hear you chant in the distance. "Low-poly dogs!" The war cry gets louder. "Low-poly dogs!" It's inescapable now, the low-poly dogs requested by the masses are here… Or, well, in the
53.PowerWash Simulator devs FuturLab laid off staff and cancelled an unrevealed project earlier this year, but certainly kept quiet about itOisin Kuhnke · 7d agoIt's another one of those layoff days, unfortunately. This time the studio in question is PowerWash Simulator developer FuturLab, who have laid off seven staff members with little fanfare after cancel
54.NBA 2K27 gives DLSS 5 a more faithful-looking game debut than feared, provided it’s running on the LeBron of GPUsJames Archer · 7d agoBit of an anticlimax, really. After months of (justified) revulsion and anti-anticipation over Nvidia DLSS 5 ’s AI rendering, it’s now available in a live game - license laden b-baller NBA 2K27 - and
55."Justice at last feels within reach": Final hearing in Rockstar and fired GTA devs' legal battle will kick off with a union rallyMark Warren · 7d agoThe final hearing in the legal battle between a group of former Rockstar workers and the GTA 6 studio over the latter's decision to fire the former last year kicks off this week. It'll get underway on
56.Trump regime's Tetris ripoff yanked from White House website after Tetris Company declare they "take copyright infringement very seriously"Mark Warren · 7d agoGoodbye, Build the Wall. The Tetris-style game that the US government had stuck on the White House website as a way of promoting the Trump administration's commitment to brutalising and persecuting im
57."Material uncertainty" hangs over the future of Life is Strange developers Don't Nod beyond January 2027, as negotiations over potential layoffs beginMark Warren · 7d agoLife is Strange developers Don't Nod have acknowledged that there's "material uncertainty regarding the company's ability to continue as a going concern beyond January 31st, 2027", as they kick off ne
58."20 players is the sweet spot": Guild Wars 3's action game combat is a first for MMOs, but it doesn't work at traditional raid scaleJulian Benson · 7d agoArenanet are keeping a lot of Guild Wars 3 hidden away. Throughout the short presentation of their new fantasy MMO, the refrain is 'We're not talking about that yet'. Mounts, professions, dynamic worl
59.It's still very much possible to make good Skyrim mods "without any use of AI" in 2026, declares the maker of a new DLC-sized Black Marsh expansionMark Warren · 7d agoThe latest beefy expansion mod to hit Skyrim is an adventure to the Argonian homeland of Black Marsh, complete with hist trees and humid swamps. Though, its creator seems to be hoping the trip to the
60.New horror game The Well Is Not Empty combines photophobic monsters with timer light switches and a lot of frenzied diggingEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 8d ago"Never show the monster," horror film-makers, game-makers and other creepozoids have chanted, over the decades. The Well Is Not Empty wastes no time showing us the monster - one of the monsters, at le
61.Combat and socially agonised teens impress in Persona 4 Revival, the RPG that series director Kazuhisa Wada feels a "duty" to makeAshley Schofield · 8d agoLook, before you say it, I know. Persona 4 Golden is held up by some as one of the best and most important RPGs ever. After all, it was the series' Final Fantasy 7 moment, where many of the mechanical
62.This week in PC games: Wardogs, Shroom and Gloom, a heist game from the King of Dragon Pass creators, and a bullet time FPS inspired by F.E.A.R.Edwin Evans-Thirlwell · 8d agoHello there, loyal regulars and filthy, fickle drop-ins! A merry New Week to you, wherever you are. Thanks for feeding the Maw while we were away last Monday . You were mostly successful in sating the
63."We believe in the power of connection": Donald Trump Tetris parody game rouses the mildly worded wrath of the Tetris CompanyEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 8d agoUpdate: Annnnnnnnnnnnnndddd it's gone . Original story below: Those terrible firebrands at the Tetris Company have publicly rebuked the US government for publishing a Tetris parody game that promotes
64."You'll be able to engage in these high stakes arms races": Civilization 7's Arc of Tomorrow update aims to be a proper Cold War simulatorEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 8d agoCivilization 7 is getting a new free update that takes the 4X strategy game into the atomic age, while trying to make nuclear era conflict a little more elaborate than just being first to research the
65.The Sunday PapersJulian Benson · 9d agoSundays are for luxuriating in the chill of the September air and hoping for more of the drenching rain that's ended the summer heat. Though, it's a luxuriating that's quickly pierced by the worry tha
66.Deliver packages in foresty mountains and avoid thieving boars in the Death Stranding-adjacent and quite calm-looking PinetrailOisin Kuhnke · 10d agoI can take or leave a majority of Death Stranding 's story (BB forever, though), but I gotta give it to Kojima: delivering stuff is fun. There's a genuine complexity to the process of deciding what to
67.Laser Guy is a twin-stick "anti-shooter" about a stressed out game developer who can't stop shooting laser beams from his eyeOisin Kuhnke · 10d agoDo I need to explain how Cyclops from the X-Men's powers work? I'm going to anyway just in case. He shoots beams from his eyes! More or less, I think it's technically energy from a punch dimension? I'
68.The ESRB wouldn't let Valve release the cinematic trailer for Left 4 Dead 2, so what did they do? They "leaked" it, obviouslyOisin Kuhnke · 10d agoMy only experience of Left 4 Dead 2 is a handful of sessions in my youth where a friend handed me a controller (me, a person whose shooter experience extended to Ratchet and Clank at the time), told m
69.Double Fine's first game post-Xbox split is a goofy bus driving sim all about slapping passengers who don't follow the rules and doing a good jobOisin Kuhnke · 10d agoIt's been a couple of months since Double Fine parted ways from Xbox, and they've been busy getting to work since that split. There's that game jam Kickstarter they recently launched that has Brutal L
70.Mortal Shell 2's latest update adds in an experimental new mode that adjusts the challenge based on how much you do or don't dieOisin Kuhnke · 10d agoAnother week, another Mortal Shell 2 update! The first proper one arrived a week ago , and smoothed down some of the game's rough edges to make for a (slightly) more generous experience. This next upd
71.What are we all playing this weekend?Julian Benson · 10d agoThis is the first Saturday in a month I've woken up without a blocked nose or a mucus-hurling cough. Trips to Spain, Sweden, and Germany in quick succession and loaded on top of a cross country bike r
72."Top-down Zelda meets Bloodborne": action RPG Withering Realms is out now in early access, should you fancy riding the shoulders of a horrible dollEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 11d agoWithering Rooms was an unexpectedly devious and absorbing slice of dollhouse action-RPG horror. As such, I've been looking forward to Withering Realms, the standalone sort-of-sequel, which launches in
73.Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault review – a pleasant bout of number go up that’s most remarkable for how much of an improvement it isJay Castello · 11d agoThe Moonlighter games cast you as Will, a dungeoneer-merchant hybrid, delving into randomly shifting combat arenas by night and selling the treasures you unearth there by day. In the dungeons, you fig
74.Playing Mass Effect-inspired RPG Exodus was an uncomfortably familiar space trip, despite some brilliant zero-G fightsJames Archer · 11d agoFull disclosure: I did not get to play Exodus with the grumpy mecha octopus sniper . "Where’s the octopus sniper?", I whispered, confusion melting into sadness as the two other members of my space sta
75.Former PlayStation indie boss Shuhei Yoshida and the founder of TIGSource are throwing a Game Poem jam that "challenges traditional boundaries between art forms"Edwin Evans-Thirlwell · 11d agoWhat are you doing across Monday 7th to Tuesday 8th September? If your answer isn't "weaving sick rhymes for PlayStation's former indie gaming boss Shuhei Yoshida and original TIGsource founder Jordan
76.Lego Skylines' devs want your city's problems to be visible without digging into a stats screen, which means finding a "family friendly" version of showing homelessnessJulian Benson · 11d agoAs pretty as Cities: Skylines is, getting a read on your city's problems can take some digging. While traffic jams are immediately visible, prompting you to start reorganising the layout of your stree
77.I’m an ethical muncher in The Blood of Dawnwalker, which means I’ve forced poor Coen to slurp up nine million ratsMark Warren · 11d agoCoen, the half-man and half-vampire protagonist of The Blood of Dawnwalker , doesn’t like chomping down on rats. I know this because he’s told me multiple times, after I’ve made him slurpily drain a r
78.Blood of Dawnwalker's first patch offers relief from buggy tutorials and tight-lipped NPCs, but Rebel Wolves are still working on fixes for the stuttering and shader crash problemsEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 11d agoWitcher-flavoured vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker has received its first post-launch patch, with developers Rebel Wolves dipping their fangs into a modest neckful of problems with blocked quest pr
79.Miami-Dade police outraged by proposals to turn parts of Miami into GTA 6, saying that Rockstar's game embodies what they "work every single day to prevent"Edwin Evans-Thirlwell · 11d agoThe mayor of Miami-Dade, Florida has been pitching Rockstar Games about transforming parts of the county into recreations of areas from Grand Theft Auto 6 , in the face of complaints from law enforcem
80.Constantly reshape the world beneath your feet in the reality-bending "puzzle-first" Uncanyon, the next game from the devs behind the trippy MaquetteOisin Kuhnke · 12d agoA problem that games have, I find, is that it's quite hard for them to inspire a sense of wonder. The kind of thing that old movies, before CGI, that would make you think, "how did they do that?" But
81.Mousey city-builder Whiskerwood gets a bit wetter today with a hefty nautical update that lets your rodent kingdom venture out on the open seasOisin Kuhnke · 12d agoYou like putting a bunch of mice on a boat, don't you? Of course you do, it's always enjoyable seeing semi-anthropomorphic mice do human things! Now that we're on the same page, this is a good time to
82.While us lot in the West might like Dragon's Dogma 2's friction, Japan doesn't quite agree, and its producers say balancing that has been a real challengeOisin Kuhnke · 12d agoBoth the original and Dragon's Dogma 2 are not games for everyone. Not in the Dark Souls , uber challenging sort of way necessarily, just in that they do not hold your hand, right down to not even hav
83.Experiencing some day one Blood of Dawnwalker issues? Its devs know, and have some temporary solutions to help get you bloodsuckingOisin Kuhnke · 12d agoIt's The Blood of Dawnwalker release day! The debut game of Rebel Wolves and the first new game from director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz since The Witcher 3. A day of what should be celebrations for many, I
84.Onimusha: Way of the Sword is best when it's silly, and despite some gloomy open world slogging, sometimes even remembers itJames Archer · 12d agoThe opening minutes of Onimusha: Way of the Sword are glorious, in the sense that they’re utterly shambolic. Wandering ronin Musashi wakes up under a bridge, belts a wrong-footingly British "WOT?!" at
85.Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's release date puts an end to the remake trilogy in sight, and then pushes that end a bit further away with Sephiroth and Vincent DLCOisin Kuhnke · 12d agoI'm pretty sure that by this point, Square Enix have shown up to every major gaming showcase this summer with something Final Fantasy 7 Revelation related (even if that German Geoff Night one was most
86.The first big Crimson Desert DLC arrives in October, seems to be set in a crimson desert beyond Crimson Desert's existing crimson desertMark Warren · 12d agoCrimson Desert 's first proper expansion, not be confused with any of the ten million things Pearl Abyss have added to their vast expanse of stuff to do via free updates , is set to release next month
87.Deck & Conn is a cat-and-mouse MicroProse homage to a 55-year-old Star Trek game that might not be chunky enough for today's simulation sickosEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 12d agoSpace! The final frontier. These are the voyages of the USS Rock Paper Enterprise. Or they will be, once I've worked through my launch checklist. OK, says here I start by activating the APU. There's n
88."I'm a massive fan of Aliens, but it is a very different beast": Why Creative Assembly are still ignoring every movie but the original in Alien Isolation 2, despite heading planetsideJulian Benson · 12d agoCreative Assembly have themselves a particular constraint when making Alien: Isolation 2. The sequel to their 2014 horror title would only reference their first game and the original 1979 Ridley Scott
89.Planet Coaster and Jurassic World devs Frontier have teamed up with Disney to make what is probably a Disneyland tycoon gameEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 12d agoPlanet Zoo and Jurassic World Evolution creators Frontier Developments have signed a deal with Disney to make a game based on one of Disney's many entertainment worlds. Some immediate possibilities oc
90.The mishap-strewn warfare of Worms: Galactic Tactics gives hope it’s not just a comedy XCOMJames Archer · 12d agoGawd, everyone’s doing an XCOM these days. Star Wars is doing an XCOM . Rainbow Six is doing an XCOM . Warhammer 40K has done, like, four XCOMs. Those squeaky wiggletubes of Worms are at it too, with
91.The Witcher Remake is currently on the back burner because progress on it depends on The Witcher 4's development, CD Projekt Red confirmMark Warren · 12d agoCD Projekt Red and Fool's Theory might have used Gamescom to make clear that they've got a Witcher thing in the pipeline for this year and the next two , but they've also had to put one of their previ
92."A game for everyone is a game for no one": Don't expect an easy ride in Carcass Clad, the co-op tank horror game from the makers of MouthwashingAshley Schofield · 12d agoOn my final day of Gamescom, strolling (running) around the indie area to make sure I don't miss anything good, I stumble upon Wrong Organ’s upcoming Carcass Clad. Set in a wartorn Soviet city, empty
93.There's already a The Blood of Dawnwalker mod which triples the length of its main quest timer, ensuring saving your family from vampires isn't stressfulMark Warren · 12d agoWhy the rush, The Blood of Dawnwalker ? Your protagonist Coen's family have only been kidnapped by a vampiric dictator who's slowly draining them of blood. Let the kid take his sweet time in finding a
94.You can't pet the talking rat wall in Ontos, the new space horror game from Soma's creators, but surely it can run DoomEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 13d agoWhen Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma developers Frictional announced Ontos , their philosophical horror game set in a mad science hotel on the moon, the internet's jimmies were rustled by the prese
95.Rockstar unveil the "next evolution" of modded GTA 5 roleplaying, while staying totally mum on when PC pretenders might be able to migrate to their next gameMark Warren · 13d agoYep. I know. GTA 6 is still on the list of storied crime games without a PC release date . GTA 5 , though, is out on PC and has long been the place folks who love Rockstar's crime sandboxes so much th
96."I just want to go back inside": How Creative Assembly use weather to make you crave claustrophobic interiors in Alien Isolation 2Julian Benson · 13d agoAs I stand on the lee side of the wrecked haz lab, all I can hear is the rain pelt its metal roof and the feral wind howl about me. Planet LV-921 may have a breathable atmosphere, but it's not a safe
97."The internet we once loved is gone": SteamDB founders announce the community-run database has been acquired by Nexus Mods' ownersMark Warren · 13d agoThe owners of Nexus Mods have acquired community-run backend database SteamDB from its founders, the two sides in the deal have announced. The folks behind the former, who've held its keys for 13 year
98.In Dungeon Settlers, you build a colony on top of a teeming RPG labyrinth in a trim take on RimworldEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 13d agoThe first time I lost my whole party in Dungeon Settlers, it was to a swarm of rats. I think we can all agree that getting killed by rats in anything remotely fantasy RPG-ish is an enormous faux pas.
99.Baldur's Gate 3's Mizora becomes a fully-fledged companion thanks to a new mod, just in case you fancy adding a calculating cambion to your crewMark Warren · 13d agoNot content with just adding to the questlines and interactivity of Baldur's Gate 3 's established gang of companions or working on their own for custom campaigns , modders have even started turning o
100."You can’t just throw new people at that problem": Bethesda devs doubt future Elder Scrolls and Fallout games will have the same "quality level", after losing seasoned staff to Xbox cutsEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · 13d agoUnionised Bethesda Games Studios staff embroiled in Microsoft's latest round of mass layoffs have expressed further doubts about the company's ability to create games at the "quality level" of the ver