Counter-Strike Global Offensive is dead. After 11 years it has been replaced by Counter-Strike 2, bringing an end to one of the greatest competitive shooters of all time. Whether you were battling in Silver or one of the few good enough to make it to the grand finals of CS:GO esports tournaments, every player has…
The Golden Joystick Award nominations have been announced and it’s time to get voting. Now in its 41st year, The Golden Joysticks hold a special place in the awards calendar as the show where the biggest honours are decided by public vote and, with 17 categories representing a wide variation of games, studios, and hardware,…
A smooth transition. The return of Wario’s manic series on Switch was cause for great celebration back in 2021 (was it really that long ago?), and we absolutely loved the fresh-feeling, multiplayer-focused WarioWare: Get It Together! For many people, however, the series peaked with the classic Wii outing WarioWare Smooth Moves, and frankly we’re in…
If you’re looking for some spooky games, some fast ways to drive away from anything spooky, or just some great games to load up and dive into the story… have I got some recommendations for you! We’ve got some games available today for you to check out, some more coming soon, and even a reminder…
The latest step in Elon Musk’s scheme to convert X—the worsening service you and I still call Twitter—into “the everything app“? Turn it into Twitch. The flighty billionaire wants the site to operate as a livestreaming service (as well as a bank, a “global town square,” and presumably a microblogging platform) and in the last…
Enjoy deep discounts on Xbox games and DLC with this week’s Xbox Sales and Specials from the Microsoft Games Store. Discounts are valid now through October 09, 2023 (actual end date varies by sale). Visit the official Xbox Sales & Specials site here. Plus, save on select Xbox titles during the Action Adventure Sale and…
A slow Switcharoo. In a recent interview with Nikkei, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has reiterated the firm’s intentions to support Switch with new games next year. Having launched in March 2017, the Switch is already over halfway into its seventh year on the market. Asked whether the console’s lifecycle could be lengthened even further, Furukawa…
“The past year has been indescribable”. When we launched Time Extension over a year ago, we ran an interview with Lost in Cult founder Jon Doyle. Just like us, Doyle’s creative studio was still something of a baby at that point; it had produced a few issues of the excellent periodical and was working on…
Readers, our long national nightmare is over. An injustice has been rectified, light shines where once there was only darkness, your children can sleep soundly in their beds. I speak, of course, of Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest hotfix, which has restored His Majesty—everyone’s favourite overweening feline—to his original, superior, and hairless form. It’s also fixed…
Nine commercial i-mode games have now been saved. When it comes to video game preservation, NTT DoCoMo’s popular Japanese feature phone service i-mode has often been overlooked. That’s in spite of famous Japanese companies like Capcom, Enix, Konami, Namco, and more having published high-quality games & applications for the platform. This mostly comes down to…