When I got to play a preview build of upcoming 2D beat-’em-up Marvel Cosmic Invasion earlier this year, I was really blown away. Far from just a mindless button-masher, it’s shaping up to be a colourful celebration of what makes Marvel’s superheroes cool and unique. Now you can try it for yourself—the game’s first public…
Silent Hill f may seem like a huge outlier when compared to other games in Konami’s psychological horror game series: it’s not set in the town of Silent Hill, it takes place during the 1960s, and there’s a distinct lack of sexy nurses. But in reality, it has more in common with other Silent Hill…
Delve into a psychological survival horror, play as the GOAT, and puzzle out worlds within worlds with the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup for October. Alan Wake 2, Goat Simulator 3, Cocoon will be available to PlayStation Plus members from Tuesday October 7 until Monday November 3. Also starting October 7 Midnight Murder Club will…
Silent Hill is now a big focus. Cronos: The New Dawn has proven to be a pleasant surprise since its launch at the start of September. Though not a masterpiece, by any means, it’s a solid survival horror that’s found a good home on the Switch 2, and reception has been largely positive. Developer Bloober…
I’m a sucker for a cleverly-designed object. I’m also a sucker for a good budget gaming microphone, and the HyperX SoloCast 2 manages to be both of those things at once. At $60/£50, it’s priced in the same sort of territory as some of the cheap and nasty models you’ll find in the listings of…
In a move which my immense sense of grievance and narcissism can only interpret as a slight against me personally, the first DLC for mega-mod Fallout: London released barely an hour after I wrote a news piece yesterday chatting about it. Called Rabbit and Pork, it’s the first of three planned DLCs for the mod…
The new thing being launched by Ubisoft and Tencent to take control of Ubi’s biggest games now has a name: It’s called Vantage Studios, and it’s a “creative house” that will take responsibility for the future of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six properties. Vantage Studios is made up of “thousands of experienced…
Now, that’s stellar timing. Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 is out tomorrow on Switch, and ahead of the game’s release, Nintendo has dropped a patch, bringing the game up to Version 1.2.0. The patch notes (via Nintendo Everything) aren’t particularly detailed, but they cover both the base Switch version of the game…
Turns out there are downsides to feeding your likeness into an AI-powered text-to-video generator. One totally predictable drawback is the userbase wrestling away control of your likeness to create deepfakes of your digital double doing crimes. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s likeness is all over the announcement video for Sora 2’s launch. The trailer in question…
Let us introduce ‘Broken Relic’, a new game from developer Sandpenguin. ININ Games and Smallthing Studios’ prequel to the point-and-click classic Simon the Sorcerer, Simon the Sorcerer: Origins, is set to arrive later this month for consoles and PC, but it isn’t the only fantasy point-and-click adventure that adventure fans should have on their radar….