Less than six months after angering its community by hiking the price of Runescape, Jagex has done it again with a new player survey asking players for their thoughts about some potentially very big changes to the game’s pricing and feature set. With those thoughts now coming in like cow shit in a hurricane, Jagex…
After a hands-on preview with Hyper Light Breaker in late 2024, we walked away liking Heart Machine’s neon-splashed Drifter follow-up quite a bit. Our Ted Litchfield called it “a great action game that nails the look and feel of Hyper Light Drifter in a 3D open world,” which left him hopeful for how the game…
Review catch-up (Image credit: Coal Supper) There were a few games last year that we didn’t have time to review, so before 2025 gets too crazy we’re playing review catch-up and rectifying some of these omissions. So if you’re reading this and wondering if you’ve slipped through a wormhole back into 2024, don’t worry, you’ve…
The strange drama surrounding Elon Musk’s purported videogame skills has now elevated itself into a genuine online beef, as the world’s richest man has leaked DMs from Asmongold that he thinks expose the streamer as a fraud, and perhaps even worse, says Asmongold “is NOT good at videogames.” The whole ridiculous thing began last week,…
Most retro gamers would probably admit that today’s releases are highly impressive on the whole. Despite this, though, the allure of diving in for a retro gaming session on a classic console is still there. In fact, retro titles are popular among many members of the gaming fraternity, with millions of people sampling older releases…
Path of Exile 2 is kicking off 2025 with its first major patch—and it’s a doozy. As promised in the patch preview released last weekend, Grinding Gear Games has returned from its holiday break to tackle some of the most pressing issues and smooth out some of the friction players have faced in the weeks…
As reported by Variety, David Lynch, the auteur director of Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and more, has died at the age of 78. Lynch is survived by his four children, and leaves behind a body of work that had a transformative effect not only on film and television, but also videogames. Lynch…
Castlevania’s defining trait, since the beginning, is that it’s better than it has any right to be. I’m talking about the animated series on Netflix, which found its groove in Season 2 by combining surprisingly articulate conversations between murderous vampires and ruminations on loss and legacy with explosive action sequences. You could say the same…
The stop-gap generation. And so it begins. Nintendo has pulled back the curtain on its next generation of hardware to reveal… exactly the thing everyone expected. Officially revealed earlier today following months — no, years — of rumours, speculation, and leaks, the Nintendo Switch 2 is, on the face of it, what most people wanted….
First chance to go hands on with Switch 2. Nintendo rounded out the Switch 2 first-look trailer with the reveal of the ‘Nintendo Switch 2 Experience’, a “series of hands-on events held around the world” taking place throughout April and May 2025. What’s more, registration for many of these events opens tomorrow. You can register…