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This horror game where you’re a conscious nuclear missile boasts ‘one handed mouse only controls’, leaving me with assumptions that proved incorrect when I had to saw my own limbs off
“It’s the year 1963 in a world that replaced computers with human brains,” is how horror game Brainshell describes its setup. “The nuclear arms race has led to a point of no return. Your government uses propaganda, brainwashing and body modifications to create the ultimate weapon: a conscious nuclear missile.” I checked BBC News, looked…
Dispatch’s character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation ‘as a last resort’, a temporary solution ‘to get us through the pitch phase’, before defining the entire game’s artstyle
As far as Telltale-likes go, Dispatch is one of the prettiest. Lovely animation, some great character designs, and a strong visual artstyle. It might surprise you to find out, then, that the main character and concept artist for Dispatch, Lap Pun Cheung, was picked up on ArtStation as a last resort to get developer AdHoc…
Prepare for Monster Hunter Stories 3 on March 13 with a recap of the RPG series so far
It’s not long before the monsters come back out to play. Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is swooping in for its March 13 launch on PlayStation 5, with a tale of warring kingdoms and a world on the brink of destruction. Play Video But if you’re unfamiliar with what came before, don’t worry. We’ve…
PEGI Targets Loot Boxes With Its New Overhauled Ratings System
No more 3+ EA Sports games. The Pan European Game Information (or PEGI for short) ratings system is officially getting a massive overhaul in an effort to target microtransactions, loot boxes, and mechanics that reward logging in for daily quests. It’ll no doubt prove a huge blow to the likes of EA, which puts a…
Free Play Days – Diablo IV, Killing Floor 3, Bassmaster Fishing, Worms W.M.D and Tropico 6
Category: Games March 12, 2026 Free Play Days – Diablo IV, Killing Floor 3, Bassmaster Fishing, Worms W.M.D and Tropico 6 Kyle OceanMarketing Manager, Xbox It’s another jam-packed weekend with Free Play Days! Killing Floor 3, Bassmaster Fishing, Worms W.M.D and Tropico 6 are available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and Essential…
Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony’s scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that’s why it’s pulling back from PC: ‘It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war’
Our six-year stint of feeling very smug about getting pretty much every game on PC (excluding Nintendo, which will forever be Nintendo about it) came to an end last week, when a report from Bloomberg said that Sony has decided to pull back from its strategy of releasing its console exclusives—after a suitable delay—on PC….
This Long-Running Website Has Apparently Been Nuked From Google Thanks To AI-Written Resident Evil Review
“It was acquired, filled with gambling ads, ravaged by AI, and then killed”. If you’re familiar with the world of British video game journalism, then the name VideoGamer will be instantly recognisable. Founded all the way back in 2004 by Adam McCann and Tom Orry, VideoGamer helped kickstart the careers of many popular writers and…
Game dev union members marched at GDC to propose a ‘Game Workers’ Bill of Rights’
Developers and members of the United Videogame Workers of CWA union marched through the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday, a demonstration similar to the one held at last year’s GDC. This year, UVW organizers are announcing a campaign demanding protection for game workers from ICE in the US and sharing a draft of their planned…