Everyone’s talking about Hollow Knight Silksong, and that’s understandable. It’s one of the most obsessively anticipated sequels in recent memory, and it’s a really fun metroidvania. It’s also a brilliant excuse to re-open the reliably polarising difficulty in games debate. I can’t remember there ever being this much buzz for an exploration platformer before, but…
There have been a bunch of Call of Duty games since the series began in 2003. A whole bunch. A whopping 49 of ’em, in fact, according to Wikipedia, and over the past 22 years I’ve played my share. Gotta be honest though: the Call of Duty games have become a blur to me. Just…
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As synonymous with the Borderlands series as its trillions of guns, masked psychos, and dodgy vehicle controls are its iconic musical intro cinematics. Serving to acquaint us with four new Vault Hunters and the setting they’ll be gunning through, they’ve taken us everywhere from a bus driving across Pandora to a rocket hurtling through space….
Or you’re outta here, pal. Motoi Okamoto, a former developer at Nintendo and now steward for the Silent Hill franchise at Konami, has taken to social media to comment on whether game directors might be considered “incompetent” if they’re unable to judge new ideas without first implementing them. As covered by Automaton, Okamoto – who…
Peak co-developer Aggro Crab has very politely requested your attention away from Silksong to list out some of its most recent patch notes, as well as a cheeky tease for a new biome. Oh, and an acknowledgement of how downright evil they made the mesa biome which dropped last month. Among things like a colour…
And lo, on the ninth day of the ninth month in the 2025th year, verily did Apple unveil the 17th coming of the hallowed iPhone. Yup, there’s yet another iPhone out, the iPhone 17 Pro, and if the numbering scheme isn’t flirting with satire, the extent to which Apple’s latest iPhone resembles a gaming PC…
There’s no other way to put it: Silksong’s Forum fight is absolute pain. After exploring the High Halls in search of the Conductor’s Melody, you’ll wander into a large chamber and start an enemy gauntlet. At first, you’ll think “Hmm, this is the same as all the other citadel gauntlets I’ve fought”, but as wave…
Roughly two months ago we got our first look at the system requirements for Borderlands 4, a process that involved many of us on the hardware team scrunching up our noses. Listed on the Steam page was the insistence that the game would require eight CPU cores as a minimum, which seemed highly unlikely given…
Retro gaming nostalgia is leaving its imprint on the online casino arena. Pixelated graphics and timeless sound effects are just a few of the ways arcade and console favorites have given online casino play a new spin. By merging past and present, developers are reinventing reels, bonuses and even live experiences in ways that appeal…