STRAFTAT, the winner of our Best FPS of 2024 award, has just come out with a beefy free update that consists of 30 new maps (plus three more for DLC-owning players), nine new weapons, new features and QoL tweaks, as well as a lone new suit for the arena shooter’s delightfully ugly little potato men….
Bloomberg reports that, following EA’s layoffs and restructuring at BioWare, the studio now has fewer than 100 employees, down from more than 200 during the development of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Meanwhile, at its peak, BioWare consisted of three studios and, conservatively, over 400 employees. Interestingly, Bloomberg’s sources say that the plan to “loan” BioWare…
Absurd Ventures, the game and creative studio started by Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser back in 2021, has shown a first-look image of characters from its upcoming Absurdaverse setting, and announced an in-development game set there. “A very first look at just a few characters from the ABSURDAVERSE. Prepare to meet some new kinds of…
I’ve enjoyed Sniper Elite’s steadfast devotion to shooting Nazis between the eyeballs or in the groin for years, but I’ve also found the series frustrating for nearly as long. From the original game in 2005 to the release of V2 in 2012, which put in place the formula for the four sequels and two VR…
EA has shared a community update stating it is investigating reports of “various issues” in the Legacy Collection re-releases of The Sims 1 and 2. Over on Steam, the games are both sitting at a “Mixed” score from user reviews, with complaints of crashes, bugs, and a general lack of quality or improvements. “We recognize…
“Why would you mess with that?”. Nintendo is arguably taking the safe route with the name of its Switch “successor” – confirming at the start of this year it would be officially known as the ‘Switch 2’. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Our picks for the best eShop games for the first month of 2025. Thank goodness January is over, right? January 2025 felt like the longest month ever — thankfully, we’re here to brighten your day with our first eShop Selects for the year. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
I hope you’ve got your mop ready, because Killing Floor 3 has officially announced its release date. Tripwire Interactive’s zombie-blasting sequel will slop wetly on your PC in two month’s time: The studio revealed the game’s release date on its X channel, simply stating ‘The battle begins on March 25’. You might be able to…
PC gamers have been accustomed to the presence of physics in games since first launching a toilet at a Combine soldier’s head with Half-Life 2’s gravity gun. Yet while there are countless games that play with simulations of Newton’s laws of motion, few games engage with physics as a subject or theme. This is what…
Besiege, the physics puzzler about building rickety siege contraptions, has officially been pummelling castle walls for ten long years. To celebrate, developer Spiderling Studios has an “exciting year” planned for the decade-old construction sim with “community events & future updates” coming throughout the next twelve months. The first of these updates is already here, making…