Prepare for a deep dive on 007 First Light! During this special State of Play, the development team at IO Interactive declassifies new gameplay on James Bond’s upcoming espionage action-adventure thrill ride. Catch the show live on PlayStation’s Twitch and YouTube channels on September 3 at 11am PT / 7pm BST / 8pm CEST. Back at June’s…
Budget Win or Recycle Bin? (Image credit: Future) Andy Edser is a man with a mission. It’s a mission he didn’t sign up for, or even want, but I’m his boss so he has to do what I say. And I’m making him test a ton of different cheap tech I might find on Amazon,…
Talk about Gigantamax. We’re still waiting for the official word on what next year’s Pokémon LEGO collection will look like, but a recent leak suggests that something big might be on the horizon (thanks, VGC). Over the weekend, a new post appeared on the r/Legoleak Reddit forum from user CarterBricks04, claiming to have information about…
‘Attic Archive’ releases later this week. A new collection collecting together thirteen titles, originally released for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum, is scheduled to launch on Xbox Series X|S and PC (via the Microsoft Store) later this week. Attic Archive is a brand new release from Pixel Games UK, and will let…
A new report suggests that the UK’s age verification measures may be having unforeseen knock-on effects on web traffic, with the real winners being sites that flout the law entirely. Web users in the UK will likely be familiar with the new measures: a lot of my usual social media haunts now require age verification…
Escape from Tarkov, the influential extraction shooter from Battlestate Games, is coming to Steam after eight years in early access. The news was first teased by Battlestate head of studio, Nikita Buyanov, who posted a gif of some old chap pressing the steam button on an iron and looking pleased with himself. “Yes! The page…
Brick Power! Nintendo and Lego are back with yet another enticing collaboration; this time presenting a 421-piece replica of the iconic Game Boy. Launching on 1st October 2025 at £54.99 / $59.99, the new set will come with the Game Boy itself, two cartridges for Super Mario Land and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening,…
Battlefield 6 seems set up to finally eat Call of Duty’s lunch this year, after an inconsistent decade or so for the franchise. This is because of a sequence of smart moves around optimisation and a pretty hectic beta. Turns out, in an attempt to ensure better performance, the team have opted to entirely skip…
Tracking down the Well of Souls in Path of Exile 2‘s new Rise of the Abyssal league is the main way you start engaging with the seasonal mechanics. You’ll likely have spotted the green-glowing rifts popping up in each region you explore, challenging you to fight abyssal enemies and earn a special chest at the…
Great news, guys: videogames are done. They’re over. We’re free. Someone has created the definitively best game ever made, so there’s no use creating any more. Pack it up. Everyone head home. A heroic modder named InfernoPlus has merged two great tastes that taste great together: jamming the entirety of Morrowind’s world map into Elden…