I was at an impasse the first time I reached the end of open world RPG Sword Hero‘s combat arena demo. I managed to bandage up the stump where my right arm used to be, recently hacked off by the big burly knight man locked in the arena with me, but could no longer pick…
A trio of advocacy groups are speaking out against Roblox’s new “sensitive issues” label for community-created content. Women in Games, Out Making Games, and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Talent (BAME) in Games released a joint letter on Tuesday arguing that Roblox’s decision to implement a new content filtering system for certain topics is “a…
GameStop is openly dismissing Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hike, promising to keep selling subscriptions online and in-store at the old $19.99 per month rate, as reported by GamesRadar. The offer came just a day after GameStop joked “own nothing” when the price increases were announced earlier this week. In a post on X…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
It’s hard to think of a more charged environment in which to start work on a game. In the wake of 2009’s Modern Warfare 2, the studio that invented Call of Duty had imploded. A power struggle between Activision and Infinity Ward’s leaders, Jason West and Vince Zampella, had led to the expulsion of the…
As reported by The Verge, Discord has announced that one of its third-party customer service partners was recently compromised by an “unauthorized party,” who Discord states was attempting to “extort a financial ransom.” While the hackers did not gain access to Discord directly, some users’ data was impacted by the breach—specifically data shared with Discord’s…
Gotta alphabetise ‘em all. Ever since The Pokémon Company uttered the name Pokémon Legends: Z-A, one idea has obsessively swirled around my mind: I needed to declare my favourite Pokémon for each letter in the alphabet, in reverse alphabetical order. Anyone else? Just me? And why? I don’t know, because what I thought would be…
As we wade into the final stretch of 2025, the GTA 6 release date is slowly (my goodness, so slowly) coming into focus. Close your eyes, shut off your brain and picture yourself kicking back on the white sands of Vice beach this May, sunkissed, fancy free and packing more heat than a chilli cook…
2025 continues to be the year that gives Elder Scrolls fans everything they could possibly want—except for The Elder Scrolls 6. We’ve already had one Oblivion remaster with a second potentially on the way, while Morrowind’s premiere modding team delivered a massive new chunk of the province the vanilla game only explored a fraction of….
The roguelike genre is one of my favourite ever. I love that it’s like a special sauce you can mix with countless other genres to create bold new flavours—from card games, to bullet hell, to survival, to RTS, and more. That’s why I’ve put together a quiz testing my fellow fans on their knowledge of…