Escape from Tarkov is finally crossing the Rubicon into a 1.0 release on November 15, and it just unveiled something that might be a little surreal if you’ve followed the game’s eight years in early access: its very own Steam page, where it’ll soon have achievements, the Steam overlay, friends list integration and all that…
The US and China have just about settled on a deal to keep video app TikTok alive in the US, and The Wall Street Journal reports that Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz are among the investors that will take a “roughly 80%” share of a new US company that will operate a new US…
A trailer dropped today for Netflix’s animated Splinter Cell show, and it’s all guns and glory. Bloody fistfights, car chases, a diving tackle through a window—all to unravel a mystery that hits awful close to home for our grizzled protagonist. “Sam Fisher is back and this time, the mission is personal.” Again! It hits all…
For the first time in a while, a Diablo 4 season won’t just be about fancy new powers for your build. In season 10, or the Season of Infernal Chaos, the best loot in the game can drop as “Chaos armor”, allowing you to use items in ways you never could before. Several Unique items…
Well that’s just grand. Marvelous Europe has announced that Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar has sold over 500,000 copies since its launch on 27th August 2025. Specific figures across Switch, Switch 2, and PC have not been confirmed, but we’ve reached out and will update this article when we hear more. Nevertheless, it’s a solid…
There’s a class of board game so complex that even successfully completing a game becomes a heroic accomplishment of logistics and human endurance. Among the most revered of those offerings is Twilight Imperium, the legendary sci-fi strategy game of galactic conquest, commerce, and political scheming that’s earned its place as the 6th highest rated game…
How magical. Simon the Sorcerer Origins, ININ and Smallthing Studios’ prequel to the classic 1993 point and click adventure, is finally and thankfully up and available for pre-order on Nintendo Switch. Priced at £22.49 / $24.99 for the standard edition or £31.99 / $34.99 for a digital deluxe version (which nets you a digital art…
In July this year, Phil Spencer said Microsoft’s gaming business has “never looked stronger” as he simultaneously announced an absolutely brutal round of layoffs. Several studios were closed outright, games were cancelled, and almost everything in Microsoft’s portfolio was touched in some way, with the aftershocks still coming. One of the developers heavily affected was…
Old School RuneScape (OSRS) has a cancer, and that cancer is crime. Or, well, it’s repeated violations of Jagex’s terms of service, anyway. The game is beset by perfidious players who buy in-game gold and items off black market sellers using real-world money, a process called Real World Trading (RWT). Okay, yes, some version of…