It’s no secret that Assassin’s Creed has been stuck in a bit of a rut for a while. While the series’ use of wildly different historical time periods helps add a lot of variety, it’s struggled to marry its many disparate systems in a cohesive way. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla makes this more obvious than ever…
This week, Helldivers 2 celebrated the first anniversary of Malevelon Creek, the game’s most famous battle that saw participants holding the line on the jungle planet against a massive automaton incursion. A new robot offensive to take the Creek is currently ongoing. But despite having a war to fight, one errant helldiver chose to commemorate…
Terra Invicta, the space 4X from the creators XCOM’s Long War mod, was already denser than a black hole when it launched into Steam early access back in 2022. But that hasn’t stopped developer Pavonis Interactive from stuffing yet more matter into its strategic singularity where the alien defence of XCOM fuses with the geopolitics…
The big squeak. You’ve probably read a bunch of thoughts and previews about the Nintendo Switch 2 at this point, many of them from us. I was already a little sceptical of Mouse Mode before it was officially announced in the Nintendo Direct. I don’t like playing games on my PC, and if I have…
Ambitious modding projects are a bit like baby fish, in that millions of them spawn, but relatively few survive to adulthood. Hence, it’s always worth celebrating when one makes it through to full release. Such is the case with the Middle-earth Extended Edition, which launches into 1.0 today after 13 years of development. Middle-earth: Extended…
And Bowser Jr. already has the new system! The Switch 2 generation is upon us and Nintendo has been updating all sorts of things including its Parental Controls video animation featuring Bowser Jr and his Dad. This new video is quite the facelift – with Bowser’s Switch swapped out for a brand-new Switch 2 (yes,…
It’s only been a couple of months since Abiotic Factor‘s Dark Energy update cascaded out of its Black Mesa-ish science lab. But developer Deep Field Games is already heavily into production on the game’s next block of content. This week, it provided the first look at the new update, titled ‘Cold Fusion’, and it’s shaping…
The Switch 2 Edition launches this June. There’s been a lot of speculation about the potential power of the Switch 2 since Nintendo published shared details this week and now the Sid Meier’s Civilization VII team at Firaxis has chimed in with its own first-hand development experience. Following the confirmation of a ‘Switch 2 Edition’…
What a week, eh? We have started the odd What Are You Playing post in the past with some comment about “gosh, that was a busy week!”, but this week really has been the granddaddy of them all. Just in case you somehow missed it, Nintendo finally lifted the lid on Switch 2! In an…
Timed in with Switch 2’s big reveal. Nintendo this week marked another major milestone in its history with the full reveal of the Switch 2. After years of incredible video game history, this new system is easily the Japanese firm’s most cutting-edge piece of tech it’s ever released. Of course, the Nintendo Museum is all…