November 2025

Over a decade ago, when Minecraft studio Mojang was still a plucky independent outfit enjoying the fruits of developing one of the most successful games of all time, it unsurprisingly had a bunch of suitors. And one of them was Bobby Kotick. Chatting on the Rushmore podcast, host Ari Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor, asked the…

There are some corners that cannot be unturned, some scientific experiments that cannot be un-experimented, some contraptions that cannot be unseen. There are those too, of course, that are glorious. And then there are those, like this one from Speedrunner and X, TikTok, and Twitch user veegeea, that sit in the curious valley between the…

Need to Know What is it? A hellish tactics RPG that’s a little Buffy, a little Shin Megami Tensei.Release date [November 19, 2025]Expect to pay $25/£20Developer Necrosoft GamesPublisher Ysbryd GamesReviewed on Nvidia GeForce RTX3070, AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, 32GB RAMSteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site Inside me there are two wolves—Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Persona—so…

Overwatch 2 has finally confirmed who Hero 45 is going to be, and the statue in Stadium’s Colosseo map was right: the next hero will be a female gladiator called Vendetta who goes by the name of La Lupa, The Wolf. Revealed in the Vendetta hero trailer, La Lupa shows off a couple of cool…

Desmond Miles? Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Assassin’s Creed‘s original protagonist stood at the centre of the series’ story from the 2007 original to Assassin’s Creed 3. I remember him being pretty roundly mocked at the time, and wasn’t much of a fan myself. This was partly because players…

Stalker developer GSC Game World has been added to the Russian government’s list of “undesirable organisations,” per a press release from the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office. In other words, it’s been deemed a threat to the “foundations of Russia’s constitutional order, defensive capacity and security,” and anyone in Russia maintaining ties to the studio could…

Ubisoft has decreed that fully-priced games you pay for once are no longer sure bets—and by “decreed”, I mean stated as much in a sales warning offered by its division here in the UK. It’s important to note that the arm in question, Ubisoft Limited, is mainly concerned with “wholesale publishing and distribution of games”,…