He has a soft spot for Madden, too. Wrestler and actor Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is currently doing the rounds promoting his latest movie, The Smashing Machine, and was innocently quizzed by IGN on his favourite video game of all time. Initially, 53-year-old Johnson – who rose to fame during the WWE’s ‘Attitude’ era and…
I have to tell you something, and it might be a little scary—this entire world is actually a simulation designed to entertain me and my specific interests. I can draw no other conclusion from the fact that Critical Role: Campaign 4 is already everything I want out of an actual-play D&D game, and that my…
Ah, Peter Molyneux. The games industry’s premier promiser taught me a valuable lesson when I was young: never believe in anything. Ironically, he did that with Fable 2—generally recognised to be one of the best of his games. I had let him get me so hyped for it that when it came out and was…
The best part of any cosy game is getting to decorate your own space. Whether that’s a single house, a shopfront, or an entire town, getting to customise your area is what makes these games so relaxing. The odds of you decorating in the same way as the next person are incredibly slim, which makes…
The 43rd Golden Joystick Awards’ shortlist has just been revealed, and the voting is now open, but the hardest part has only just begun. This year, there are 21 categories, such as PC Game of the Year, Best Multiplayer Game, and Best Indie Game, all of which are completely stacked with stand-out games—it’ll be almost…
Limits were meant to be broken. Disgaea fans know the drill by now. Whenever a new mainline entry in the long-running tactical RPG series breaks onto the scene, it’s only a matter of time before it gets a re-released edition that bundles in the base game’s DLC along with a suite of gameplay tweaks and…
Take to the skies. A short time ago, watchmaker AVI-8 – famous for its aviation-inspired timepieces – recently collaborated with Japanese video game giant Capcom on a luxury watch based on the classic arcade title 1942. This saw AVI-8’s ‘Flyboy‘ watch produced in a series of exclusive designs, all taking inspiration from the iconic 1984…
You know what my biggest bugbear is for budget laptops? It’s the screen. It is always the screen. For some reason, notebook manufacturers seem to have this almost obsession with pairing massively underwhelming graphics cards with panels that would put most 4K TVs to shame. It’s madness. Yes, they might be these phenomenally pixel-dense, OLED,…
Any games or applications using Unity will need to be patched, the game engine company says, following the discovery of a new vulnerability. Unity is urging users to update their software as a new security vulnerability has been spotted in Unity versions 2017.1 and later. It’s present across versions for Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS…
MARVEL legends, assemble! Coming to PlayStation 5 in 2026, MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls is a 4v4 team-based fighting game created in partnership with Arc System Works — renowned for Guilty Gear and Dragon Ball Fighter Z — PlayStation Studios, and MARVEL Games. The game has captured the attention of both fighting game enthusiasts and MARVEL…