Get ’em while you can. We’re officially in the spooky season, and apart from an eShop sale, it appears Nintendo will also be offering some Halloween icons. These icons will be made available between 28th October and 4th November, and you’ll need to have a Switch Online membership to redeem them. As you can see,…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
I’ve only ever had to call emergency services once in my life, when an elderly neighbour had a bad fall down her back stairs, and the ambulance arrived in a timely fashion. This is not how it goes in 911 Operator, a frantic simulation of the difficulty of dispatching paramedics, police, and fire fighters while…
Just in time for Halloween. Bandai Namco and Supermassive Games have announced a new “October Update” for the horror-themed puzzle-platformer, Little Nightmares III. This title was released earlier this month and the upcoming patch, due out on Nintendo’s devices on 31st October 2025, will include improvements to the gameplay, online, graphics, UI & UX. Here’s…
It takes a village to make a videogame, and there’s no one way to do it. Solo devs and quintuple-A studios alike face all sorts of challenges trying to make all a game’s moving parts cohere, and the more cooks you add to the kitchen, the more different design philosophies are bound to conflict. That’s…
As reported by Automaton, actor and model Konatsu Kato, who provided the likeness and Japanese voice of Silent Hill f protagonist Shimizu Hinako, has begun streaming her first playthrough of the game, fulfilling a promise she made earlier this month on X (formerly Twitter). Kato has so far streamed once on YouTube, playing through the…
Back in May Auroch Digital found a delightful way to announce the existence of Boltgun 2, teasing it at the end of a free typing game. And while it’s nice to know Boltgun 2 is in development, it’s nicer to know a bit about what it will actually contain. The latest trailer does just that,…
Mr. Math Expert is not, by any means, a well-known YouTuber. Look over his channel and you will find hundreds of videos, though the vast majority are either math problems or film reviews. There are a few old gaming videos sprinkled throughout, and it was my recent pleasure to go through his series of…
Escape From Duckov might look like a goofy riff on Escape From Tarkov, and that’s because it is one. But it’s also a righteous way to breathe in the extraction shooter hype without all the hardcore PvP, and players are flocking to give it a shot. Today on Oct. 26, that number hit a screaming…
Europa Universalis wasn’t always a household name in strategy gaming. Like the company behind it, EU has had a fraught journey over the years—and as EU lead Johan Andersson explained in an interview with PC Gamer news writer Joshua Wolens, the early days were spent trying to keep the lights on. Europa Universalis 2, for…