James Bentley, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Playing Ghost of Yōtei and Silent Hill F on the PS5 and neglecting my Xbox Series X. Sorry, Xbox. I have played on Xbox for a long time, starting with an original Xbox, as a kid. That was a hand-me-down, and I distinctly remember…
Well, damn. The novelty of a brand new Star Trek: Voyager game tricked me into setting aside my natural cynicism, and I got burned. Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown, I’m sad to report, is about as tasty as Neelix’s cooking. A budget survival game that commits the worst sin: it’s just so bloody…
“We could only go so far with the current licenses”. Vampire Survivors dev Poncle continues to drop hints about the upcoming ver. 1.14 update — planned for release at some point next week — and the latest reveal is a fresh batch of content for the sublime Ode to Castlevania DLC. As seen in the…
God, I’m kind of in love with Screamer‘s whole vibe. No, not the 1995 PC racer. This is a whole new hotrod deal courtesy of Milestone—the same developer behind MotoGP and Hot Wheels Unleashed—trading out the old game’s Daytona and Ridger Racer vibes for that chillwave anime aesthetic you see all over Wallpaper Engine and…
Every game we scored 9/10 or higher, plus a personal pick. Forget your pumpkins and sweets, Nintendo knows that the best way to celebrate the spooky season is with a big old eShop sale. Hot off the back of the North American ‘Screaming Deals‘ discounts, the ‘Halloween Sale‘ is now live on European eShops, bringing…
Old School RuneScape (OSRS) is no stranger to madcap individuals doing harebrained tasks: 10,000 hour grinds, taking eight entire months to grind out a single baby mole, you name it. But trout guy, who has been attempting to make a dent in a stack of over 500,000 trout, might just be a secret genius. As…
Bad news if you have ever wanted to execute Mickey Mouse with an M1911—cartoon-styled shooter Mouse: PI For Hire has been delayed. In a post on the game’s Steam page, Fumi (the devs) and PlaySide (the publisher) announced that the game was slipping back from its originally planned 2025 release window all the way to…
Over a third of games released on Steam this year might not have even made enough money to break even on Valve’s submission fee, according to Steam analytics site Gamalytic. As reported by GamesRadar, Gamalytic estimates that almost 13,000 new entries have hit Steam since the beginning of this year, highlighted by Soulash developer Artur…
The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X might be expensive, but it’s a real delight to use and for that reason many might be looking towards it for their next handheld gaming PC. One blocker to that might be hesitation over the new bespoke version of Windows running on the handheld. However, it turns out the…
The Steam & Epic Games Store pages have been removed. Yesterday, excitement started to spread online after news emerged that Radical Entertainment and Vivendi’s video game adaptation of Scarface had been reissued on the Epic Games Store and was also being prepped for an eventual Steam release. However, alongside this excitement, there was understandably a…