2025

Defending a kinda wimpy Killzone crossover gun, Helldivers 2’s Johan Pilestedt says the game’s past balance woes were due to weapons being ‘seen as game objects’ and that ‘balance doesn’t matter’

6 days ago08 mins

Helldivers 2, as I mentioned last month, has been a complete rollercoaster during its first year of updates. Balance in particular has been a consistent pain point. As in, those funny little patches that make your guns good or bad and start flame wars: The railgun nerfs that launched a thousand ships. And 2025 is…

Sonic Galactic Is So Good “It Could Stand As An Official Sega Product”

6 days ago01 mins

“This is obscenely well made”. Starteam’s Sonic Galactic is a fan-made Sonic game which compares very favourably to Sonic Mania, and its latest demo has recently become available for download. As noted by Digital Foundry’s John Linneman, the new demo is astonishingly polished – so much so that you could tell us this was a…

Nvidia is giving away 5 classic Jensen-signed GeForce cards if you tweet to build hype for its CES 2025 briefing, and its first choice is almost older than me

6 days ago06 mins

Nvidia has a long history in the PC gaming space and it’s leveraging every inch of that for its briefing at CES this year, one of the world’s biggest technology conferences. All of this is presumably to get as many eyes as possible onto the unveiling of its next generation of graphics cards. Tweeted out…

Hiding in the shadows, this Nvidia teaser video might have given us our first look at a Founders Edition RTX 50-series GPU

6 days ago06 mins

With CES 2025 mere days away, the rumour mill surrounding Nvidia’s next generation GPUs is now spinning at an astonishing rate. The internet is clamouring for any potential info on RTX 50-series graphics cards, and thanks to a newly-released teaser video and some image-editing techniques, our first look at what might be a Founders Edition…

MSI, Asus and Samsung are announcing new 27-inch 4K models with ‘4th gen’ QD-OLED panels but they’re not a huge step forward

6 days ago06 mins

With CES 2025 just around the corner, multiple gaming monitor brands are unleashing their wares for the new year. We’ve already seen some 500+ Hz OLED panels. Next up is a new generation of 4K 27-inch OLEDs. Thus far, the 4K OLEDs we’ve already seen are all 32-inch models. That applies to monitors based on…

Jim Carrey “Open To The Idea” Of Playing Robotnik In Future Sonic Movies

6 days ago01 mins

Ivo or Gerald, though? Sonic the Hedgehog 3 marked the return of Jim Carrey after the actor previously claimed that he would likely be retiring from the industry. He didn’t just return to play Ivo Robotnik, however, but also took on another role in the form of Gerald Robotnik, Ivo’s grandfather and creator of Shadow…

Nintendo

Antonblast Has Recouped All Production Expenses In Less Than A Month

6 days ago01 mins

“WE ARE PROFITABLE!”. Developer Tony Grayson of Summitsphere has announced that the Wario Land-inspired platformer Antonblast has recouped all production expenses less than a month after its release. This means, of course, that the game is now turning a profit which, according to Grayson, means Summitsphere will now have the ability to produce “a lot…

Sega Saturn ‘Saroo’ Flash Cart Gets Cover Art And Improved Save Management

6 days ago01 mins

You can also boot copied discs now. The Saroo flash cart for Saturn has become an essential upgrade for Sega’s 32-bit console; it allows games to be booted via the system’s expansion port without having to make any internal modifications. Its creator, tpunix, has been slowly improving its features and compatibility during 2024, and the…

Classic SNES RPG Illusion Of Gaia’s Retranslation Is Now Available

6 days ago02 mins

Update: Version 1.1 can now be downloaded. Quintet’s classic SNES RPG Illusion of Gaia (also known as Illusion Of Time) has just received a new fan translation 30 years after it launched in North America. Like so many RPG localisations of the period, the English script was pretty awkward – but thankfully, a fan by…

PC Gamer magazine’s new issue is on sale now: Sid Meier’s Civilization 7

7 days ago06 mins

This month PC Gamer delivers world-exclusive access to Sid Meier’s Civilization 7, the ambitious new game in the legendary 4X strategy series. To deliver our readers the definitive insider scoop, PC Gamer travels to Firaxis Games’ headquarters to play Civilization 7 for over eight hours, as well as speak directly to its key developers. The…

Talking Point: Is The Switch 2 Going To Be Too Big?

Nintendo and Lego Are Collaborating On A New Game Boy Set

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is delayed again ‘to better incorporate player feedback gathered over the past three months’

Revenge of the Savage Planet: revealing a new ‘90s-inspired planet

This bizarre roguelike has a new take on the Vampire Survivors formula: letting you build your own custom weapons out of brains, eyeballs, and chimpanzee spines

The Freewrite Wordrunner with a built-in word counter might be the keyboard to look out for if you want to improve your writing process

Defending a kinda wimpy Killzone crossover gun, Helldivers 2’s Johan Pilestedt says the game’s past balance woes were due to weapons being ‘seen as game objects’ and that ‘balance doesn’t matter’

Sonic Galactic Is So Good “It Could Stand As An Official Sega Product”

Nvidia is giving away 5 classic Jensen-signed GeForce cards if you tweet to build hype for its CES 2025 briefing, and its first choice is almost older than me

Hiding in the shadows, this Nvidia teaser video might have given us our first look at a Founders Edition RTX 50-series GPU

MSI, Asus and Samsung are announcing new 27-inch 4K models with ‘4th gen’ QD-OLED panels but they’re not a huge step forward

Jim Carrey “Open To The Idea” Of Playing Robotnik In Future Sonic Movies

Antonblast Has Recouped All Production Expenses In Less Than A Month

Sega Saturn ‘Saroo’ Flash Cart Gets Cover Art And Improved Save Management

Classic SNES RPG Illusion Of Gaia’s Retranslation Is Now Available

PC Gamer magazine’s new issue is on sale now: Sid Meier’s Civilization 7