Payday 2’s co-op heists always seem to trigger an argument. Which bank entrance do we use? Do we go stealth or go loud? Why did you just go into that room and trip an alarm when I told you to go into that other room and be quiet!? But thankfully, the ex-Payday devs working on…
You probably couldn’t get a better setting for a heist game than Den of Wolves’ Midway City. It’s an unregulated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where corporations have all the power. They can run illegal and immoral human experiments, invest funds to avoid taxation, and literally just kill their opposition if they…
“I started to think about asshole birds”. Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be employed at Nintendo? Few companies feel quite as impenetrable when it comes to discovering their inner workings, but after speaking with comedian and author (and former Nintendo employee) Mike Drucker and reading his new book Good Game,…
Den of Wolves makes me feel like I’m drowning. In my brief hands-on demo of the upcoming sci-fi heist game, I found that when the enemies start to push from every direction, the best you can do is huddle close to your teammates and try to stay alive. We failed near the final hurdle in…
Jobst has been ordered to pay over 350,000 Australian dollars (plus interest). The Queensland-based YouTuber Karl Jobst has been ordered to pay over 350,000 Australian dollars (plus interest) in damages to Billy Mitchell, by an Australian court (h/t: PC Gamer). The verdict, which was delivered earlier today (on April 1st) stated that Jobst had defamed…
We’re getting close… Nintendo has dropped a blatant video tease for the Switch 2’s mysterious ‘C’ button ahead of its highly-anticipated Direct presentation tomorrow. This comes via the new Nintendo Today! app (thanks, Nintendo Everything) which, as it’s now 2nd April in Japan, has a new short video stating that the showcase is happening “today”…
The great thing about videogames is that they let me live out my lifelong dream of being a middle-class, British Pablo Escobar without getting shot to death on a rooftop. So it is that Schedule 1 is tearing up the Steam charts, as legions of thwarted Heisenbergs flock to the game to slang yayo and…
Omen, HP’s gaming brand, has put out some mighty fine gaming PCs, laptops, and monitors. However, it has been missing out on the more granular upgrade market. ‘Not anymore,’ says someone from HP, probably, as it has announced a whole new lineup of cooling components and a 1,000 WPSU. HP announced its new line of…
Lowtek Games’ Parasite Pack contains three games. It may be April 1st, but this is one piece of news that is actually legit despite being utterly incredible: the Nokia N-Gage is getting a new physical release. Lowtek Games’ Parasite Pack is the first boxed N-Gage game in almost 20 years and brings together Tapeworm Disco…
Monolith Productions co-founder Toby Gladwell reflects on the company’s history. On February 25, 2025, it was announced that the Washington-based developer Monolith Productions would be closing its doors for good, causing a mass outpouring of grief from all corners of the games industry. Since its formation back in 1994, the developer had built up a…