Creative Assembly dropped a whole bunch of new information about Total War: Warhammer 40,000 at Gamescom this week, and yeah, this all sounds amazing. But what is it actually like to play? I got an extended look at a preview build yesterday, where I was able to spend an hour exploring a slice of the…
One of the most intriguing creative decisions Rockstar made with Grand Theft Auto 6 is reducing the number of playable characters from three to two. Since sequels typically operate on the rule of ‘bigger is better’, the logical progression would have been to add even more playable characters to the roster. It turns out that…
It’s no secret that Mortal Kombat is violent by and large the most graphic fighting game series ever created. Full of blood and gore, it pushed the limits on what was acceptable for video game violence in the ‘90s, eventually leading to the formation of the ESRB ratings board. For a perfectly apt representation of…
Send in the Toaplanes. To mark the release of Toaplan Arcade Garage: Flying Fire Shark on Western eShops on 29th August 2026, we’re republishing our original import review from May 2022. Please note that the text below refers to the Japanese release and there may be differences between the versions and DLC available on your…
Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Testing a new mouse that I am enjoying greatly but cannot yet speak about 🤐 Welcome to your daily dose of doomcore, and no, I don’t mean that peculiar genre of music. I mean the state of the PC gaming market. Not to be…
“Starting with Mega Mewtwo X ex”. At a PokémonXP panel this weekend, The Pokémon Company announced its popular mobile game Pokémon TCG Pocket will be adding Dual-type cards this October. This will be “starting with Mega Mewtwo X ex”. This Pokémon card will be a dual Psychic and Fighting-type. Here’s a first look: Read the…
I’ve been in a lot of rooms to see a lot of games, but sitting in a theater to watch footage of The Witcher 3’s Songs of the Past expansion for the first time provided me with an experience I’ve not come across before – live nostalgia. As members of the Fool’s Theory dev team…
“For me, in a way, he’s the best music teacher there is”. I first heard Nobuo Uematsu’s music in 1997, when I was only five. To give you some background, I was standing in the hallway of my childhood home when my older brothers excitedly darted down the stairs, about to head to the nearest…
EA has confirmed that leaked footage of Motive’s Iron Man game is real, after an unauthorised version of a trailer for the superhero game appeared online on Friday. “Well, that didn’t go as planned,” EA wrote on the official X account for Marvel’s Iron Man in response to the leaked video (via IGN). “But now…
Secret Neighbor, the multiplayer spinoff for the 2017 horror game Hello Neighbor, has been temporarily taken offline following a security breach by a hacker who accessed the game’s backend systems and deleted player data. The incident, which occurred last week, involved an individual who obtained credentials with admin access to the game. The hacker then…