If you feel like you don’t read enough books—which is entirely possible with the many other distractions clamouring for our collective attention—there are various ways to boost your literary consumption. Pick a book that really excites you, rather than something you feel you should read. Choose something short that you’re less likely to get bogged…
One aspect of Helldivers 2 I’ve repeatedly lamented is how many of its new toys are locked away inside Warbonds, with too few new weapons, equipment and stratagems unlockable through regular play. Hence, it’s worth giving Arrowhead credit when they do let you unlock a new toy through spending requisition slips and nothing else. Such…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was not the series’ finest hour, but one aspect of the sequel that has gone down well with players is its experiments with matchmaking. For years, players have complained about the effects of skill-based matchmaking (SBMM), which is intended to level the playing field by sorting players into groups…
Sega Rally! Atari movies! Anbernoic RG SP! Wizardry! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com Sega Rally! Atari movies! Anbernoic RG SP! Wizardry! Welcome…
Innings. Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! In last week’s battle, we looked at Digimon World 4 for the GameCube, and goodness, it really wasn’t a close fight. Japan absolutely annihilated the competition to gain 85% of the vote, and it’s not hard to see why. Well done, Japan! Read…
Launching January 2027. Alongside the Switch 2 release date for Final Fantasy XIV Online, Square Enix shared another look at the game’s sixth expansion, Evercold. It’s set to launch in January 2027 and is also confirmed for Nintendo’s new platform. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
(Image credit: Dovetail Games) I’ve taken the train from Bath to London hundreds of times in my life, usually to visit game developers in the capital. And while I enjoy that part of the job, the journey itself is a dispiriting chore. Rail travel in the United Kingdom is a chaos of delays, overcrowding and…
H. R. Giger’s biomechanical nightmares have inspired plenty of videogames. If we go way back, his work was repurposed for baffling puzzle adventure Dark Seed, and more recently there was the fleshy horror of Scorn. Tormentum: Dark Sorrow was more in the vein of the former than the latter, a point-and-click adventure that took Giger’s…
Adding 33 fighters and much more. Earlier this week, Bandai Namco gave DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO fans a closer look at the new “Super Limit-Breaking NEO” paid DLC in a special showcase. Details about the Switch and Switch 2 versions will be announced at a later date, with this content arriving on 30th July 2026…
This year’s Gen Con event is one Wizards of the Coast has said it’s “pulling out all the stops for”, with a keynote to be hosted by Theo Solomon (who played Wyll in Baldur’s Gate 3) including a bunch of announcements about what’s coming up for Dungeons & Dragons. One release seems to have been…