Great Odin’s Raven. I spent my first few hours in Valheim running around in my underwear. Only a casual acquaintance of the survival-crafting genre, I was nevertheless sucked in by the open-world freedom and rich Nordic vibe the game had to offer. Pushing out into the (relatively) safe Meadows biome, punching trees to make tools…
Unification of Church and State (and Demons). As part of Tokyo Game Show 2026, publisher 505 Games has released a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming adventure Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement – the long-awaited prequel to the acclaimed 2019 release Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Once again developed by indie studio ArtPlay and produced by…
Metroid Scandalous. Well, this isn’t good. Reports have been coming in that retailer Very has cancelled a bunch of pre-orders for Metroid Ravenous Special Edition, priced at £99.99. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The actor plays Gilius Thunderhead in the new animated adaptation. Whenever an actor is attached to a film or TV adaptation of a classic video game, the question that crosses everyone’s mind is typically whether they were familiar with it prior to accepting the role. It’s not a prerequisite for a good performance, of course,…
I’ve been getting stuck into World of Warcraft: Forever‘s beta—though I’m a little less levelled up than I’d like to be. Initially, I just chalked this up to launch-day queue problems, but as it turns out, there’s a little more to it than that. See, I live in the UK, and Blizzard rarely does beta…
Marion and Pom-Pom blast off once again. Tokyo Game Show 2026 is underway at the city’s Makuhari Messe, bringing with it a variety of news, updates, and reveals pertaining to the world of gaming. Publisher Edia, via its show-floor catalogue, has revealed early details of a new shmup collection, Psikyo Memories, currently in development for…
A silent guardian, a watchful protector… A Nintendo Switch. We’re all aware of just how successful the Switch has been since its launch in 2017. The latest figures put it at a total of 156.59 million units sold worldwide, which means that had Sony not managed to find some extra PS2 sales down the back…
26-year-old lock finally busted. One of the last, and most steadfast, elements of PlayStation 2’s infrastructure has finally been toppled, as modders have “broken wide open” the best-selling console’s notoriously fortified security chip. As reported by Tom’s Hardware, the CXP102064 chip – more commonly known by the pseudonym “MechaCon” – made its debut in the…
Follow the Leda. Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is finally here! We’re sure that many of you will have been diving into Intelligent Systems’ beefy new entry in the RPG series already, but how many of you picked up a physical copy? And those who did, did you notice the Three Houses callback? As brought to…
Love at first flight? Video games are amazing escapism, aren’t they? One day you’re exercising your destructive tendencies, running through a jungle smashing crates as a wild-eyed marsupial or wrecking some poor bloke’s car as you escape from the cops; the next, you’re living out one in a collection of incredibly niche job-related fantasies —…