Out tomorrow, January 5th, for £799 / $799 Annual tech bonanza CES is underway over in Las Vegas this week, and Nvidia have used the occasion to announce the latest graphics card in their RTX 40 series family, the RTX 4070 Ti. Out tomorrow, January 5th, at a starting price of £799 / $799, Nvidia say it’s faster than their previous flagship, the RTX 3090 Ti, and will “max out” 1440p monitors. In terms of specs, you’re looking at 12GB of GDDR6X memory, a boost clock speed of 2.61GHz, 7680 CUDA cores, as well as DLSS 3 support. Its power…
Doomguy would like a word With a March release window already locked in, we won’t need to wait much longer to experience developer Nightdive’s System Shock remake. The 1994 immersive sim is receiving more than just a facelift, though, as Nightdive have released more new clips of the game in action over on their Kickstarter blog. Nightdive’s first blog post of the year gives us fresh looks at the game’s enemy variants, visual updates, and most importantly, its bloody cool dismemberment system. In their blog post, Nightdive wrote, “As you know dismemberment has been a high priority for us, and…
Crime doesn’t pay, but it’ll be cheap RPS apparently never met a detective game it didn’t like. There are six on our list of the best games of 2022, for example. If the glowing praise of the team here convinced you to try Chinatown Detective Agency or The Case Of The Golden Idol, then you might want to wait a little while longer before buying them. One of next year’s genre-specific Steam sales will be the Steam Mystery Fest, running from February 20th-27th. The event will focus on games about “the spirit of investigation and solving mysteries”, and will include…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. They haven’t decided whether it’ll include characters from the game Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima has claimed his upcoming Death Stranding movie is “taking a direction that nobody has tried before with a movie adaptation of a game”, arguing that other attempts to wring movies out of game-ies have failed because they “cater to gamers”. His will be different, he says, because he’s “taking the approach of changing and evolving the world of Death Stranding in a way that suits…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Ubisoft stopped releasing their games via Steam back in 2019, starting with The Division 2. The Tom Clancy shoot-to-looter was instead released via Ubisoft’s own digital storefront and via the Epic Games Store. It’ll finally arrive on Steam next month on January 12th, as part of Ubisoft’s broader shift back to Valve’s storefront. The Division 2’s Steam page is live now, though there’s no information on it yet about what Steam connected features it might support. Ubisoft announced last month…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Have you considered that the real pleasure of PC gaming lies in buying games, installing them, and then playing them for one hour or not at all? If so, then good news! The Steam winter sale has begun, offering discounts on thousands of games you can add to your backlog. The sale runs from today until January 5th at 10 am PT/1pm ET/6pm GMT over at the Steam store. From a glance at the Steam homepage: Sony’s cinematic hack-and-slasher God…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. More info on a free arena mode update, too Martial art fest Sifu will make its way to Steam in March 2023 together with a new free update, devs Sloclap have revealed. From the snippets Sloclap have shown, the update will have a new arenas mode that seems to be similar to combat challenge maps from the Arkham series. A new patch, 1.16, has also gone live for Sifu today to duff up some pesky crashes and bugs, although patch…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The Witcher 3’s next-gen update was borked on PC, but a fresh hotfix from developers CD Projeckt Red might have just unborked it. They say the update to the update “should improve the overall stability and performance”, which will hopefully be especially good news for anyone trying to de-neck nekkers on an ageing graphics card. Here’s their Tweet, where they also say more improvements are incoming:We’ve just released a hotfix for The Witcher 3 on PC, which should improve the…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Shoot robots and talk to your Himbo husband The Knight Witch deserves more attention than it’s getting. It’s a Metroidvania shmup in which you fly about, blast enemies with guns, and cast spells from a deck of cards. For all the bang and zip of the combat, it’s also deeply cosy, with lush 2D art and sweet character relationships in an underground post-apocalyptic world that’s still somehow filled with plants, rustic cabins and cute market stalls. There’s a free demo…
Didn’t the autumn one end like, five minutes ago Valve have announced that the Steam Winter Sale will begin next week on December 22nd. I can already see myself standing in front of my mirror, chanting “I do not need more games” before sitting back down at my desk and splurging on everything I missed from this year’s RPS advent calendar. Valve have given us a peek at what’s going to be on sale, so click through to see what you should avoid buying until it starts. So, based on what’s shown in that trailer, games you should absolutely definitely…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. And Steam Deck 2 will have a better screen and battery Remember the Steam controller? It was kind of like the Neanderthal to the Steam Deck’s Homo sapiens, existing for a brief few years before being discontinued back in 2019. Steam Controllers were an unusual evolutionary offshoot of the by-then fairly standardised controller layout, with funky clickable trackpads taking the place of thumbsticks. Well, Valve’s designers seem to be up for reviving the concept in some form. At least, that’s…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. It’s even got keyboard and mouse support for some bizarre reason We’re just a few weeks off living in the futuristic year of 2023, so it’s entirely unsurprising that the world’s (former) richest man just dropped the whole of Steam’s catalogue as a form of in-car entertainment. Elon Musk shared his company Tesla’s announcement, via his company Twitter, that not his company Steam was now supported in Tesla’s newest Model S and X vehicles. Do you remember when I-spy was…
Though the combat does sound a bit Sekiro-ey You might have missed it in the Games Awards news-glut, but FromSoftware announced a new game last week. Armored Core VI: Fires Of Rubicon marks the return of the mechs they used to make before Demon’s Souls set them on a different, swordier path, and IGN have just published a big interview that pokes into what bearing the Soulsbourne lineage might have on a game about flying mechs with guns and missiles. Armored Core director (and Sekiro lead designer) Masaru Yamamura welcomed Sekiro comparisons, while FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki was keen to…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Conradical Games are looking to take legal action against publisher Digerati Paper Mario-style indie RPG The Outbound Ghost has been delisted from Steam by Valve, following lead developer Conrad Grindheim issuing a statement that claimed his relationship with publisher Digerati had “dissolved”. Grindheim posted a video to YouTube and Twitter that alleged the publisher’s recent business practices towards the game haven’t been “ethically correct”. Digerati later shared their own video response on Twitter, with owner Sarah Alfieri saying Digerati have…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Reason enough for a replay, anyway A lot of people claim foisting modern graphics on older games just results in compromising the original’s artistic vision. I am a chump who likes shiny things, so the release of Portal with RTX on Steam pleases me. It’s free if you own Portal, but fellow chumps should be aware that it’s not running too hot for everyone, with reports of crashes and literally too-hot GPUs. Ray-tracing does not come cheap. This new, fancy…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. It’s a 1-4 player co-op action game made in collaboration with Hasbro Right, here’s where I have to stay objective and professional. I’ve been a card-carrying Transformers fan since Generation 1, so I’m somewhat confused by the trailer shown at The Game Awards tonight for Gears studio Splash Damage’s upcoming co-op action game Transformers: Reactivate. Yes, theoretically any rather large robot that changes shape counts as a Transformer. Possibly a GoBot, I’m not going to judge anyone on their lifestyle.…
I was astonished by the announcement of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 at last year’s Game Awards, never expecting a sequel to actually happen, so I’m pleased to see a new trailer at this year’s Geoffries. This “gameplay reveal trailer” only has a few wee snippets of the game being played, but they’re solid. As our boy Spice Maureen stomps through vast Gothic industrial ruins and cuts through hordes of aliens, it’s got that ‘Dynasty Warriors meets God Of War’ look again. But I do already miss the Orks. Ultramarine lad Lieutenant Titus returns for the sequel, having been transformed…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Six months after it came out on PS5 After six months of shambling around PlayStation 5 consoles, Naughty Dog’s first installment of The Last Of Us is heading to PC next year. Confirmed at tonight’s Game Awards, The Last Of Us Part 1 will be clicking onto PC on March 3rd 2023. Honestly, I just want to see the giraffes again, really. Those zombies can get stuffed. Previously, Sony said the PC version of The Last Of Us Part 1…
Kojima Productions is back with more Sam and Fragile Death Stranding is getting a sequel, folks, and the BB Boys are BACK, baybeeeee. Holy moly, I am so excited, I cannot even. And they’re joined by honorary BB Girl Fragile, who seems to have both an actual child of her own to shepherd about, and… a BB Octopus? Come and help me decipher the reveal trailer for Death Stranding 2 below (and yes, the return of my BB Boys photo diary is 100% confirmed). Fragile is once again portrayed by Lea Seydoux, who appears to be caring for a newborn…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. A big surprise from The Game Awards Supergiant’s Hades is getting a sequel. Not a DLC, a full-blown sequel, and wow does it look cool. Announced during tonight’s Game Awards, this sequel to 2020’s bestest best game breaks from the story of Zagreus to instead follow Hades’ ruthless daughter Melinoe. It’s Supergiant so of course we get a gorgeous animated trailer for it, too, which you can watch below. Supergiant isn’t one for sequels which was why this is such…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. And it looks like it captures Mike Mignola’s art style It’s been more than a decade since horn-headed demon lad Hellboy had his own game, but that’s about to change thanks to Hellboy: Web Of Wyrd. A roguelite action adventure developed by Upstream Arcade and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment, Web Of Wyrd was revealed at tonight’s Game Awards. It’s the first game to star Hellboy since 2008’s Hellboy: The Science Of Evil. You can see Big Red in action…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The rumours were true, Returnal is coming to PC… “soon” After months of sneaky Steam listings, the hectic but excellent Returnal is officially heading to PC. Confirmed tonight during The Game Awards pre-show, Housemarque’s arcade-y timeloop shooter doesn’t have a precise release date just yet, but it is “coming soon” according to its fancy new PC trailer. Have a look below. I got a fair way into Returnal when I played the PS5 version for the first time late last…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. A PlayStation store listing leaked the date ahead of The Game Awards We’re all bracing ourselves for the imminent arrival of Storm Geoff at The Game Awards, but it seems as though some potential announcements are slipping between the various embargoes of the games industry a wee bit early. One of those could be the release date for Street Fighter 6, which appears to have crept onto the PlayStation Store ahead of any imminent reveal Capcom might have planned. Twitterer…
If you haven’t heard, Microsoft are currently trying to buy Activision Blizzard. Competition regulators from the UK, the EU and the US have been questioning the deal, so in an attempt to reassure them last month Microsoft apparently offered Sony a ten-year commitment to keep selling Call Of Duty on Playstation. Today, Xbox Head Phill Spencer announced that they’ve made a similar 10-year CoD commitment to Steam and, uh, Nintendo, on which no CoD games currently exist. Nintendo have signed, while Valve CEO Gabe Newell says his company won’t bother with a legal agreement, in part because they don’t believe…
But the actual game trailer at its centre was alright Early in tonight’s Dead Island 2’s showcase, a character in a live action segment makes a self-referential joke that live action trailers set unreasonable expectations for video games. Let me tell you now: that is not true. I’d wager the writing and acting will be more believable in the game than in this live action short. At the showcase’s centre of those wasted 15 minutes was, at least, a new viscera-slick trailer of the actual Dead Island 2. So you can watch that below. That trailer doesn’t really tell us…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Solas, what are you up to After hitting alpha last month, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is at last on the horizon – though still the ‘far off, squint a bit and you can make out a few basic details’ horizon. BioWare have now revealed a sneak peek at an early cutscene, in which chirpy dwarf Varric muses about his old companion/possible ancient Elven god Solas. He’s the big bad, you see. The Dreadwolf himself.BioWare have also released a few bits and…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. And its “live services” switched off There are so many games released each year that I sometimes only notice a couple of years after the fact. Unfortunately that’s sometimes long enough for a game to be unreleased again. So it is with Fuser, Harmonix’s 2020 music game in which players create new works by mashing up other people’s songs. It’s being delisted from sale later this month and its “live services” are being switched off. “We want to thank you…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Maybe it’ll be fixed by Feb If you want to get spooked in space, you’re probably best off avoiding The Callisto Protocol for now – unless you want to face the horror of stuttering framerates. Hordes of people on Steam are reporting the same issues that Alice Bee did in her review, plonking Callisto’s rating into Mostly Negative. Developers Striking Distance Studios have acknowledged the issue and say they’ll drop a patch later today to fix it, but we’ll see.They’ve…
Mr. Blonde is Geoff Keighley’s number one fan, apparently Righto, this is an odd one. You’re 505 Games and you’ve got your game lined up for a reveal at The Game Awards stream on December 8th/9th, okay? It’s set in a slick-looking metropolis positioned by the sea called Rockay City, check. The Epic Games Store is involved somehow, got it. Oh, and let’s get Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill and Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home actor Michael Madsen in to drop Geoff Keighley’s lost wallet off at The Game Awards HQ, yeah. He’s Geoff’s biggest fan after all. Excuse me?…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The awards are expected to last three hours. That’s a lot of Steam Decks. Never ones to be outdone, Valve are partnering with The Game Awards to give away one of their Steam Deck handheld PCs every minute during the three-hour livestream event on December 8th/9th. They’re the 512GB model too, so you might want to raise an intrigued eyebrow and nod slowly. If you’re wondering which standouts from 2022 are up for awards on the night itself then here’s…
Another closed beta for upcoming thwack ‘em up Street Fighter 6 is scheduled to commence punching on December 16th, Capcom have revealed. This time around you’ll have a chance to jump into the colourful gi of eight more characters in online matches and tournaments, along with a few bug fixes and balance adjustments. Battling concludes December 19th. You can see some very burly Fight Streeters going toe-to-toe, and fist-to-face, by watching the trailer below. Street Fighter 6’s second closed beta is much the same as the first, but with more players. Luke, Jamie, Ryu, Chun-Li, Guile, Kimberly, Juri, and me…
One of many tidbits from a 3 hour interview Romance has never been Bethesda’s strong suit, from Skyrim’s barebones marriage system to Fallout 4’s bonus-XP-granting fade-to-black cutscenes. Starfield will be a little more nuanced than that, suggests executive producer Todd Howard, offering more complex romance options than Fallout’s.That’s just one detail from a nearly 3 hour-long interview Howard gave on the Lex Fridman podcast, where he also talks scrapping space strandings, and (gasp) why he prefers to play on consoles to PC. The bit about videogame relationships starts around 52:06. It is sweet to hear Howard talk about how invested…
The Man Who Ran A Hostess Club For A Bit The developers of the Yakuza series say that the beloved cabaret mini game will return in Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. That’s good news for anyone who played Yakuza 0 and found it weirdly compelling to wring salarymen from their wallets by plying them with drinks. ‘Cabaret mini-game’ is somewhat misleading. These mostly optional segments in Yakuza games are about running what’s commonly called a hostess club. Male customers enter your bar and players have to match a hostess with them who will suit their…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Portal with RTX now has a release date, so anyone with a) a copy of Portal on Steam and b) a ray tracing-capable graphics card will be able to explore a freshly polished Aperture Science from December 8th. If you missed its reveal during the Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series launch event, Portal with RTX is free DLC for Portal that adds both fully ray traced lighting/reflection effects and DLSS upscaling support. The latter includes DLSS 3, so if you’ve…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. RGG Studio would consider Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan if Ishin is a “huge hit” A remake of Like A Dragon spin-off Ryū Ga Gotoku Kenzan could potentially happen, but devs RGG Studio say they’ll only consider it if the series’ other upcoming spin-off Ishin is a “a huge hit.” The comments came up in a recent interview by Ungeek with RGG Studio executive producer Masayoshi Yokoyama and chief director Hiroyuki Sakamoto. Although the remake of Ishin was announced during Sony’s…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Polish your racing wheel, it might finally be happening PlayStation-exclusive racing sim Gran Turismo 7 might make its way to PC, series lead and creator Kazunori Yamauchi has let slip in an interview. GTPlanet report that Yamauchi made the comments when asked about the possibility of a port, given that more and more PlayStation games are heading in PC’s direction. The 25-year-old racing series has always been a die-hard exclusive for Sony’s consoles up until now. Gran Turismo 7 released…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The magic of Yakuza games (now known as Like A Dragon, technically but hey) lies in the dramatic ascents up the Millenium Tower to prevent surprisingly muscular 60-year-old men from detonating Kamurocho. The rain falls. The lads rip their suits off. Then they settle things with their fists, because to do anything otherwise would be silly. But the real magic of Yakuza lies in its minigames, one of the best being karaoke. And thanks to Game Informer’s interview with Ryu…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. It’ll probably come free with your subscription Not content with your telly or your tablet, Netflix has begun making moves on your PC. The streaming giant is recruiting people to work on “a brand-new AAA PC game”, seeking those with knowledge of Unreal Engine and “experience with FPS and/or third person shooter games”. The ad for their lead engineer specifically refers to the game as a third-person action RPG. The new hires will join former Overwatch executive producer Chacko Sonny,…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Valve have been awarded a patent for a new virtual reality motion controller. It looks a lot like the Meta Quest controllers, with a ring design at its top rather than the flat face of the previous Valve Index motion controllers. Its inclusion could be a further suggestion that Valve’s next headset will be standalone, without the need to be plugged into a PC. Patent number 11504615, awarded by the US patent office and spotted by UploadVR, describes a motion…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is first up Several Ubisoft games are heading to Steam, signalling a return to Valve’s storefront for the publisher. In a statement to Eurogamer, Ubisoft confirmed that their open-world history ‘em up Assassin’s Creed Valhalla would be arriving on Steam on December 6th. It’ll be followed by other games from the publisher, although only RTS Anno 1800 and free to play skater Roller Champions have been touted so far. “We’re constantly evaluating how to bring our games…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Always recycle your bottles If Twitter does die, I will miss it. Amidst the wailing lie certain gems, like this thread of developers sharing confessions and cheeky tricks from across their careers. We’re talking cobbling rat-tunnel ducts together to form a makeshift flare launcher in Dishonored, or using the bottom of a bleach bottle as a stand-in for a light fixture. I’ve picked out some of my favourites – come and revel in them with me. First off, here’s that…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. “Tens of thousands of discounts” for a week Next week is Black Friday, the yearly sales event which means everyone will be thrusting air fryers and SD cards towards you. That’s fine with me – I need an SD card – but you may also enjoy Steam’s unaffiliated Autumn Sale. Valve have announced it’ll begin on Tuesday, November 22nd and run for a week until November 29th. While there have been more genre-specific sales on Steam this year, this one…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Hopoo Games won’t work on the series anymore The Risk Of Rain intellectual property and both Risk Of Rain and Risk Of Rain 2 are now owned by Gearbox. Gearbox were previously the publisher of Risk Of Rain 2 and say they are “eager to prove ourselves as worthy custodians” of the series. They bought the IP from original developers Hopoo Games, who say they won’t be doing any more work on the series. The acquisition was announced as part…
It apparently met financial expectations This year’s Saints Row reboot met financial expectations, according to the interim report of mega-publisher Embracer. The same can’t be said of the critical response, however, so developers Volition “will transition to become part of Gearbox.” “The reception of Saints Row did not meet the full expectations and left the fanbase partially polarized,” according to Embracer’s Q2 interim report, published today. “The game development studio, Volition, has been working hard to improve the player experience.” “Financially, Saints Row has performed in line with management expectations in the quarter. Going forward, Volition will transition to become…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. After 8 years of previous delays Following a nearly decade-long tradition, Dead Island 2 has been delayed. The co-op zombie smasher has slipped from its intended February 3rd 2023 release date and will now target release on April 28th 2023. Following a more modern tradition, developers Dambusters revealed the news on Twitter with a JPG that’s difficult to read and has no alt text: The delay is just 12 short weeks and development is on the final straight now. The…
The publishing deal between the companies expires in January There’ll be no more Overwatch 2 and World Of Warcraft in mainland China from January 23rd, 2023, Blizzard and NetEase have announced. Those are among the games that NetEase have handled publishing for within the country, but the two companies have failed to reach an agreement to extend their deal. To add insult to injury, NetEase’s president Simon Zhu has taken to LinkedIn to blame “a jerk” for the deal’s collapse. Vid bud Liam enjoys Overwatch 2, but doesn’t think it’s much of a sequel. Blizzard and NetEase have been in…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. In case you thought expansions grew on trees Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion will cost you real monies, CD Projekt Red have confirmed. Was there ever any doubt about this? I’ve no idea, but if you were previously living with the belief that substantial story additions to blockbuster games with voice acting by Keanu Reeves might be free, then I apologise for bursting your bubble. CDPR confirmed the news in a comment given to Games Radar, with PR director Radek…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Devs Pearl Abyss had targeted 2023 for launch Remember Gamescom last year, and the peppy trailer for open-world creature collecting RPG DokeV? Well, the game’s slipped out of its 2023 release window and into the distant reaches of 2024, devs Pearl Abyss have revealed. DokeV.Club report that Pearl Abyss CEO Heo Jin-young acknowledged that the game would overshoot 2023 during the company’s earnings conference call last week. Pearl Abyss also delayed their upcoming action adventure Crimson Desert. DokeV made a…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Call off the Wild Hunt, they’ll be here soon enough CD Projekt Red have confirmed the release date for The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt’s ray tracing-enabling Complete Edition update as December 14th. The update will also bring a number of other visual and technical improvements, as well as integrate a number of mods into the fantasy RPG, originally released in 2015. Gameplay from the Complete Edition of The Witcher 3 is due to be shown off in a REDstreams…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Last month, EA Maxis showed a few early images from Project Rene, the in-development Sims 5. They said they were showing the project early because they wanted to involve the community in its development. Well, now it looks like someone has leaked images from a recent Sims 5 playtest, which seemingly shows a city environment with several apartments to build inside. You can watch the official reveal around the 26 minute mark in the video below: The images are all…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The sequel’s being co-developed and co-published by 505 Games Put down any objects that might be philosophically troubling, because a sequel to brain-boggling, sci-fi action adventure Control’s been confirmed by Remedy Entertainment and 505 Games. The companies have signed a deal to co-develop and co-publish Control 2, formerly known as Codename Heron, revealed in a statement shared by Remedy today. The game’s being developed in the Northlight engine, and will be published on PC by Remedy. Former vid bud Matthew…
Team17 and Small Impact Games have announced that hardcore PvPvE looter shooter Marauders has seen players jump into 30 million raids – an average of one million per day – […]
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Let the right one in, as long as they agree to the EULA Co-op vampire slay ‘em up Redfall might be opening itself up to an invasion of beta testers, if a Bethesda EULA dug up on Steam is anything to go by. Still, it’s one to take with a pinch of salt, which probably wards off the undead too. There’s been no word from devs Arkane on whether rumblings of a Redfall beta are legit yet, but The Game…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Mick Gordon hits back at Marty Stratton Composer Mick Gordon has published a rebuttal to an open letter by id Software executive producer Marty Stratton concerning Doom Eternal’s soundtrack. Stratton’s post was written all the way back in May 2020, and Gordon’s response is a doozy. “Marty lied about the circumstances surrounding the DOOM Eternal Soundtrack and used disinformation and innuendo to blame me entirely for its failure,” Gordon said in the post on Medium. Gordon claims that Stratton later…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The European Commission feel the deal could reduce competition significantly The EU’s business competition regulators are deepening their investigation into Microsoft’s planned $68.7 billion (£60 billion) deal to acquire Call Of Duty and Overwatch publisher Activision Blizzard. The intention to conduct an in-depth investigation was announced in a statement on the European Commission’s website, and will focus on how the deal will affect console and PC games, along with PC operating systems. This means that both the EU and UK…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. It currently has no attached release date. Ubisoft’s Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time remake was supposed to launch in 2021, slipped into 2022, and most recently was delayed indefinitely. Now Ubisoft have created a dedicated FAQ page to answer the question they keep getting: no, they say, Sands Of Time isn’t cancelled. Here’s the original announcement trailer: “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake is not cancelled,” says the FAQ page, emphasis theirs. “The game is currently in…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Staff will move to other projects where possible The Project Cars games were gorgeous, detail-obsessed, and at first partly crowd-sourced. Then in 2019 Codemasters bought developers Slightly Mad Studios and in 2021 Electronic Arts bought Codemasters. Now EA have announced internally that they won’t be making any more Project Cars games, and that they will move staff working on the series into “suitable” roles “wherever [they] can.” “Today we announced internally an update to our racing portfolio. Following an evaluation…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Never underestimate human defiance If you’re a Mass Effect aficionado then you’d definitely have been aware that yesterday was the annual N7 Day celebration of the series. You probably also noticed that BioWare shared some concept art of an in-construction mass relay from the next Mass Effect game, along with a snippet of jumbled audio for people to download. Enterprising Shepard stans set to work cleaning up the noise to see if anything meaningful was held within and, lo and…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. After several pandemic-induced delays Blood Bowl 3 had originally intended to touchdown sometime in 2021, then slipped into 2022. Its release date has now been announced and it’s a little later, still. The turn-based death sport will return on February 23rd, 2023. There’s a brief release date trailer below. If you’re not familiar, Blood Bowl is like American football, but with Warhammer Fantasy orcs, and controlled like an XCOM skirmish. It’s based on one of the older Games Workshop board…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Charlie’s soon-to-be angels Horror series The Dark Pictures Anthology is drawing its first season to a close with the arrival of supernaturally bereft slasher The Devil In Me on November 18th, and a new trailer lets us meet all the cheerful faces we’ll undoubtedly see brutally murdered at some point. Handily, it’s made me realise that Paul Kaye – known for his Game Of Thrones role as resurrectionist Thoros of Myr, and for being mortally annoying as Dennis Pennis in…
Everything you need to know about the Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTX We finally have AMD’s answer to the Nvida RTX 40 series: the Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTX, the red team’s first graphics cards build on the RDNA 3 architecture. These are both high-end GPUs, set to cost $899 and $999 respectively when they release on December 13th, but you’ll note those prices are oodles cheaper than the £1269 / $1199 RTX 4080 and the £1679 / $1599 RTX 4090. They’re also structurally distinct from the current Radeon RX 6000 cards…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The Trail of Treachery update arrives November 8th Devs Fatshark are making their co-op fantasy action game Warhamer: Vermintide 2 permanently free to keep if you grab it on Steam by November 7th. The freebie is part of a month-long 7 Years Of ‘Tide celebration marking the release of the original Vermintide, and finishing up with the launch of Fatshark’s Warhammer 40,000: Darktide on November 30th. There’s also a free update coming to Vermintide 2, Trail Of Treachery, on November…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. It’s also claimed they’re helping Microsoft out with Fable A return to the cyberpunk world of Deus Ex is coming courtesy of Human Revolution and Mankind Divided developers Eidos Montreal, it’s been claimed. The snippet of info that the new Deus Ex game is in the very, very early stages was reported by Bloomberg following yesterday’s revelation that sister studio Onoma is closing down. Eidos Montreal are also alleged to be working on a completely new game, as well as…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Shioli Kutsuna is in the cast for the new game Hideo Kojima continues to tease his next project. This time it’s with a new image showing actress Shioli Kutsuna with the words “Where am I?” written over it. It comes a month after a previous tease which confirmed the actress Elle Fanning was involved. The image was posted via the Kojima Productions website. It shows Kutsuna’s face in close-up, with “A Hideo Kojima Game” written along the side of the…
Square Enix Montreal rebranded as Onoma just 3 weeks ago The developers of Hitman Go, Lara Croft Go and Deus Ex Go are shutting down. Onoma, previously known as Square Enix Montreal, were acquired by Embracer in August alongside Square Enix’s other western development studios. Some staff will be transferred to another acquired studio, Eidos Montreal, sources told Bloomberg (registration required). Embracer’s purchase of Square Enix’s studios began back in May and included Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, and Square Enix Montreal. At the time the purchase was completed, Embracer said that Square Enix Montreal would be rebranded, and the studio…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Motive’s take on the Armoured Avenger is the only hero confirmed so far At least two more Marvel superhero games are coming from EA as part of a long-term deal with Marvel. We already knew about Motive Studios’ single-player Iron Man action adventure game, announced in September, but the others are still just an amorphous blob of creativity that probably gives you the proportionate strength and speed of a badger on physical contact. The revelation that EA and Marvel are…
The release of the silly, spooky, and logically stupefying puzzle adventure game NecroBoy Path To Evilship has finally been witnessed, as it has reached the doors of Steam. The game is already live and […]
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Playing an interactive movie parked in your car doesn’t sound that great Immortality developer Sam Barlow has spoken about being contacted by electric car manufacturer Tesla for the opportunity to put interactive movie Her Story into their vehicles for no compensation other than “exposure”. Barlow’s comments emerged on Twitter in response to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform, specifically, the suggestion that Twitter users may soon have to pay for blue tick verified status. Her Story…
For release before March 2026 Sega announced last year that they intended to create what they called a “super game”, a huge project with global appeal which could cost as much as $1 billion to develop. In their latest company report, Sega offered an update, saying that they’re targeting relese by March 2026 and hope the in-development project will appeal to streamers. In a message in their latest financial report, Sega CEO Haruki Satomi writes that they want to create projects that “cause social phenomena”. “One strategy for generating such hit titles is the creation of a ‘Super Game’ -…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Make sure you’re wearing a seatbelt Square Enix have given us another look at Forspoken, the open world action RPG slated for release on January 24th 2023. The latest deep dive trailer details the game’s magical parkour abilities that you’ll be using to get across the fantasy realm of Athia. Forspoken’s flashy, stamina-based movement is by far the most distinctive thing about it in my eyes, so let’s take a look at Frey’s parkour abilities below. The trailer shows off…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Learning from the Steam Deck You can now test a new version of Steam’s Big Picture mode which applies the interface Valve designed for Steam Deck. It includes several of the handy features of the Deck’s UI, including a new home screen, universal search, and more. Find more details and how to opt-in to the beta below. Valve announced the beta and gave a full list of the features included in the new Big Picture mode: New Home Screen, where…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. …plus Venom, Morbius and Storm For the past week, Marvel anti-hero Deadpool has been taking over the social media accounts for Firaxis’ upcoming turn-based tactics game Marvel’s Midnight Suns’, leading many to believe he was going to be a playable character when it launches on December 2nd. Now, Firaxis have confirmed that, yep, Deadpool will be coming to Marvel’s Midnight Suns, but only as part of its newly unveiled season pass. The season pass will consist of four DLC packs…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. “From the opening scenes of the first mission to the very end.” BioWare have announced, via a blog post by general manager Gary McKay, that Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, the fourth game in their fantasy RPG series, has completed its Alpha milestone. If that means nothing to you, BioWare describe it as the moment “a game all comes together… we can experience the entire game, from the opening scenes of the first mission to the very end.” The Dragon Age sequel…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. A “modern reimagining” of the 2007 RPG developed in collaboration with Fool’s Theory To coincide with the game’s 15th anniversary today, CD Projekt Red have announced that The Witcher Remake is currently in the early stages of development. The “full-fledged” remake of 2007’s RPG is being developed from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5 and will use the same toolsets that CDPR is creating for their upcoming Witcher trilogy. The studio call the project a “modern reimagining” and say…
It wouldn’t be Silent Hill without fan theories Silent Hill: Townfall’s announcement was decidedly cryptic, but fans have since found various secrets hiding in the trailer. Announced during Konami’s Silent Hill Transmission broadcast last week, Silent Hill: Townfall is being developed by No Code, the studio behind the spooky Observation. The trailer was light on details, with a speech about crime and judgement playing over footage from a Pocket Television, but some eagle-eyed – or perhaps eared – fans have uncovered messages hidden in the audio that might give us a hint of what Townfall is all about. The biggest…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Confirmed after multiple scrubbed launches Space flight simulation sequel Kerbal Space Program 2 will finally get to take off in early access on PC on February 24th, 2023, devs Intercept Games have announced. The early access version of the game will allow you to fully travel around the Kerbolar system – can’t quite believe I typed that – which has been given a major overhaul since the first game. There’ll also be more than 350 new parts to build your…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Cheers, Steam Deck client beta update Another day, another handy update for Valve’s Steam Deck handheld PC. This time, it’s a beta update that lets you peek inside your Deck without busting the device open. So if you were thinking of hanging your Steam Deck up like a piñata today and whacking it with a big stick to see what goodies are hiding in there, just grab the client beta update instead. You can opt in by heading to Settings,…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Will run for two days before the full release Resident Evil Re:Verse was meant to launch in May 2021 and had its first beta in April of that year. The multiplayer mode for owners of Resident Evil Village then slipped and slipped again. It’s now due for release on October 28th, and during this evening’s Resident Evil Showcase developers Capcom announced an early access beta for the game that will start on Monday, October 24th. Here’s the new launch trailer…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Ahead of its release next week Resident Evil Village’s Winters’ Expansion includes the Shadow Of Rose DLC, a new story in which Ethan Winters’ now-teenage daughter returns to Lady Dimitrescu’s castle. It also includes a new third-person mode for the base game, and it’s this for which there is now a demo. That demo was announced as part of this evening’s Resident Evil Showcase, a livestream featuring updates on several games in the series including Resident Evil 4 and multiplayer…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The company say they’re “keeping pace with economic changes over time” Valve have updated their Steamworks documentation for developers with a commitment to refresh their suggestions for regional pricing more often. This change in frequency is an effort to reflect global and local economic conditions affecting regions. While the company reminds developers that they are free to set their own prices in different regions, Steam provides regional pricing suggestions based on the price of a game in US dollars. Those…
Plus multiple other new games After years of rumours and leaks, including by Konami themselves earlier today, we finally have official confirmation of future Silent Hill games. The Silent Hill 2 remake from Bloober Team is real! The developers of Observation are making a new Silent Hill game! There’s a third new game called Silent Hill f! Step below for the full list of what’s kicking off in that foggy town. Silent Hill 2 is being remade by Bloober Team Tonight’s livestream started with a trailer for the long-rumoured Silent Hill 2 remake by Bloober Team, the developers of Layers…
No more chess for the chess god Released seven years ago, Warhammer 40,000: Regicide offers a kind of far future murder-chess. Although really that should be “offered”. Earlier today, Regicide’s developers announced on Steam that the game had been taken off sale and its servers closed down. In the brief announcement, developers Hammerfall Publishing say only that they “will be venturing into new and exciting projects in the future.” The post over on Steam begins by talking about user stats over the past seven years, then hard pivots. “Unfortunately, we regretfully announce the immediate closure of the servers and will…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. After a year of exclusivity on Epic The Crysis Remastered Trilogy is heading to Steam next month, a little over a year after it first launched via the Epic Games Store. The pack does what you’d expect it to: takes Crytek’s three scifi shooters and spruces them up with modern rendering trickery. The Crysis Remastered Trilogy will cost £45/€50/$50 when it launches on Steam. It’ll have a 40% launch week discount for all, bringing the price down to $30/€30, or…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. The Sims 4 is now a free-to-play game – and yet somehow this isn’t today’s biggest The Sims news. That’s because, during today’s Sims Summit livestream, Maxis also announced that the next The Sims is in-development. Currently codenamed Project Rene, it’s a few years away, although we saw some early footage of its creative tools in action. You’ll find the chat about Project Rene at the 26m 50s mark in the vidoe below: Maxis explained that Project Rene is in…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Starts October 20th at 11pm BST It’s officially the spooky season now, so that makes it a highly appropriate juncture for some survival horror. Good job that Capcom have announced they’re streaming a Resident Evil showcase this Thursday, October 20th, then. They’ve even roped in Resident Evil Village’s Merchant to narrate the trailer for it. Watch below for a quick look at what’s coming up in the showcase stream. The Resident Evil showcase will cover Village DLC and the RE4…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Tune in on October 19th at 10pm BST We might finally be getting another Silent Hill game after a decade of mostly, well, silence. Konami have announced that a “Silent Hill Transmission” is set for this Wednesday, October 19th at 10pm BST / 2pm PDT. No details have been shared about whether you’ll be able to tune in on YouTube or Twitch for the stream, but Konami shared a link to a page on their site so you should be…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Ahead of November release Warhammer 40K: Darktide’s closed beta is underway, which you probably already know if you’re one of the people granted access to test the co-op shooter. If you don’t have access however, there’s still time as you can still apply and more players will be let in over the course of this weekend. You might also enjoy watching some streamers play so you have a better sense of it ahead of its release in November. Developers Fatshark…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. It doesn’t seem to be for a particularly colourful Steam Deck Headcrab botherers Valve have registered a trademark for something called Neon Prime this week, an application filing has revealed. The application was made through the United States Patent And Trademark Office. Neon Prime’s trademark was listed as for “computer game software, electronic game software, video game software, computer game programs downloadable via the internet”. So, not VR or Steam Deck hardware then. Liam and James checked out some delightful…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Docking Station display bug fixes on the way as well Have you ever wanted to make your PC hardware boot slower for the sake of a sight gag? Now you can on the Steam Deck, with Valve’s latest Beta client update extending the maximum length of custom startup animations from 10 to 30 seconds. In case you missed the news, Valve recently legitimised user replacements of the Deck’s twinkling startup screen: instead of fiddling about with Linux commands, all you…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. It was announced back in June that Spider-Man: Miles Morales would arrive on PC shortly after Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. And so it is. The date is November 18th, and there’s a new PC trailer below with the requisite big writing talking about new graphics features. Here’s the PC trailer: Spider-Man: Miles Morales has similar swinging, flipping and goon-punching to Spider-Man Remastered, but with the story instead focused on – obviously – Miles Morales. For the PC release, it’ll have the…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Valve point out there’s actually three Steam apps, but never mind There’s an updated Steam app for phones and tablets, everyone. That’s a sentence I thought I’d never type. Describing it as “completely revamped”, the Android and iOS apps are essentially new and add a way to sign into your account on PC using a QR code, remote downloads from your Library, and customisable tabs. If you really enjoy looking at videos of swiping around on phones then you can…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Games. So many, many games. Each and every week the game pile grows higher, forming the walls of a virtually impenetrable digital structure known only as the ‘backlog’. As the games multiply, thickening the increasingly cell-like walls of our den of entertainment, we can only gaze on and hope it doesn’t one day become our tomb. On that light note, it’s nice to see that SteamDB now has a section showing what games are coming out on Steam every week.…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. If you’re not into that kind of thing Not keen on the snazzy driving effects in recently announced racer Need For Speed Unbound? That’s okay, because devs Criterion Games have confirmed that you don’t have to play the game with great big puffs of colourful smoke dredging up from your car’s wheels, or cartoon wings popping out when you drive up a ramp and get some air. I’m into the effects myself, but it’s good to know you have the…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Watch out, Shodan’s about A release window for Nightdive Studios’ long-in-development remake of sci-fi immersive sim System Shock has popped up on Steam, like a rogue AI on a futuristic space station terminal. Nightdive now appear to be aiming for a March 2023 release for System Shock, according to the game’s recently updated Steam store page. Although there’s nothing more than that, and Nightdive haven’t announced anything themselves, it’s a step forward for the game. The System Shock remake’s been…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Christophe Gans acknowledged Bloober Team are working on a Silent Hill 2 remake The director of an upcoming movie based on Konami’s survival horror Silent Hill series has seemingly confirmed that more than one new game is being worked on. Christophe Gans, who directed the iffy 2006 adaptation of Silent Hill and is working on a second film, spoke about his involvement with Konami on the series in a French language interview. The interview was picked up by fans on…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. They deleted and re-uploaded the video with the icon removed One of the things you can do with a Steam Deck is use it for emulation. Someone at Valve is evidently aware of this, given the recent Steam Deck video – which we wrote about two days ago – contained a shot of a Steam library with a Nintendo Switch emulator in it. Oops. Valve have since deleted and re-uploaded the video with the emulator removed. The icon only appeared…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. A cryptic standee on display at PAX Australia has revealed that Elle Fanning is involved in a new game coming from Hideo Kojima’s Kojima Productions. An image showing a shadowy face with the words “Where am I?” features on the standee, also tweeted by Kojima with the questions “Who is “WHERE”?”. People who scanned a QR code on the standee image were directed to another picture on the Kojima Productions site, which shows Fanning’s face in red light and the…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Up until now, buying a Steam Deck meant first purchasing a reservation, then waiting weeks or months until you came to the front of the queue before you could complete your purchase. No longer. Valve say that they’ve increased their manufacturing capacity such that you can now buy a Steam Deck without a reservation. They’ve also made the Steam Deck’s dock available to purchase. It costs $80/£80 and has the same 1-2 week delivery estimate as the Deck itself. Valve…
If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Crimes and punishment and zombies Prison Architect’s next expansion will arrive on October 11th, just in time for spooky season. The timing is significant because the DLC is called Undead and its main new feature is zombies. Here’s a trailer: With the expansion activated, there will be several methods for the undead infection to spread in your prison. An inmate can get spontaneously sick, the dead can rise via the graveyard, and once you’ve got a zombie wandering about, they…
Out tomorrow, January 5th, for £799 / $799 Annual tech bonanza CES is underway over in Las Vegas this week, and Nvidia have used the occasion to announce the latest graphics card in their RTX 40 series family, the RTX 4070 Ti. Out tomorrow, January 5th, at a starting price of £799 / $799, Nvidia say it’s faster than their previous flagship, the RTX 3090 Ti, and will “max out” 1440p monitors. In terms of specs, you’re looking at 12GB of GDDR6X memory, a boost clock speed of 2.61GHz, 7680 CUDA cores, as well as DLSS 3 support. Its power…
