“I can’t wait to welcome you all back”. Back in August, we brought you the sad news that the Halifax, UK-based arcade Blast From The Past would be shutting its doors at the end of the month, due to “rising costs”, “a dramatic drop in footfall”, and “difficult operating conditions”. However, since then, it seems…
Launch sales 40% lower than Arceus. The latest UK Charts data is in and, as expected, Pokémon Legends Z-A has comfortably taken the top spot this week following its release on 16th October 2025. Boxed sales were almost equal for the first week, with the Switch 2 Edition bagging 51% of the split, and the…
After recovery teams investigating the imploded Titan submersible‘s wreckage found a largely intact underwater camera, they discovered a small oddity inside its casing: a perfectly unharmed SD card, as tech YouTuber Scott Manley shared in a post on X last week. The recovery teams found a hardened underwater camera in the wreckage of the Titan…
This Monday needs a win, and it needs it now. Cut straight to the best part of today’s Wordle with a click through to the answer, or hold back on the spoilers until you’ve had a go yourself. Don’t worry about losing—we’ve got helpful clues and fresh hints for the October 20 (1584) puzzle to…
As spotted by ConversationDue8475 on Reddit, Lana Del Rey has registered a song with ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) that shares its name with IO Interactive’s new James Bond game: First Light. That’s not exactly a smoking gun, given that Del Rey has an album coming out and this could be…
Dementium: The Ward is a cult-classic survival horror game first released on the Nintendo DS in 2007. There weren’t a lot of horror games on Nintendo’s handheld, which is most of the reason for Dementium’s cult reputation. It cast you as an amnesiac trapped in a hospital full of zombies and giant worms you had…
Our medium has a rich history that stretches far back into the days of DOS gaming, but the further back in time you go, the more it’s a pain to get these games running on modern systems. Even if I have the right media, what the hell am I supposed to do with a floppy…
Only a few months after most of the Warcraft Rumble team was laid off as all future development was canceled, a majority of the remaining workers therein and the Hearthstone team have voted to organize—joining over 1,900 Blizzard workers now in a union under the Communications Workers of America. As the CWA posted on their…
It might feel like there’s been a shedload of extraction shooters lately, but the genre still seems to crackle with untapped potential. Two heavy hitters—the reboot of Bungie’s venerable shooter Marathon and Embark’s fresh up-and-comer Arc Raiders—are nearly here, and both have had a chance to gear up with playtests. Speaking with PC Gamer US…
It’s no secret that parries are en vogue right now—they’ve broken their just containment in character action games and spectacle fighters and wormed their way into roguelikes, horror games, JRPGs, and FPSes, all while properly taking over the Soulslike in the wake of Sekiro. If you long for the simpler times back when enemies just…