The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a Her Story-like game where you hack into Lady MacBeth’s computer

Here’s some videogame news you don’t see every day. The Royal Shakespeare Company, known mainly for its contemporary adaptations of the Bard’s plays, has announced a video game adaptation of MacBeth. Titled Lili, the game is a modern “screen-life thriller” in which players experience Shakespeare’s bloodiest story through Lady MacBeth’s personal devices. According to a…

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Celeste developer starts 2025 with a ‘huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure’ as creative difficulties and internal conflict lead to the cancellation of Earthblade

Celeste developer Extremely Ok Games has announced the “difficult decision” to cancel its follow-up project Earthblade, citing long term creative difficulties compounded by a conflict within the studio regarding the rights to Celeste. In a blog post published on the Extremely Ok Games website, studio director Maddy Thorson wrote, “We are opening the year with…

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 2 will let players battle on boats and bullet-trains, with the Terminator entering the fray ‘shortly after launch’

I thought I was above getting excited over brand crossovers in multiplayer shooters, so it is to my great shame I admit my heart rate spiked when Activision revealed the Terminator is coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Look, everybody has a weakness, and there hasn’t been a good Terminator film in over…

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‘That’s why they call me the Elden Ring sicko’ proclaims streamer as he beats FromSoft’s RPG at NG+1000 without taking a single hit

As someone who struggled to beat Elden Ring on its standard difficulty, I’m constantly amazed by the streaming community’s ability to wrestle FromSoftware’s RPG to the ground with a reality-defying number of limbs tied behind its back. Whether that’s MissMikkaa beating the game all the way through to NG+7 with a level 1 character, or…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, January 25

We’ve got the perfect selection of hints for the January 25 (1316) Wordle. Scroll down a little and you’ll find just the help you’ve been looking for. Hoping someone, somewhere, will just tell you today’s answer? Not a problem. All the help you need is right here. So close. I was so, so, close to…

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WoW’s Plunderstorm battle royale mode is much more popular the second time around: ‘I can just play and screw around’

World of Warcraft’s controversial battle royale mode relaunched a week ago, once again pitting PvE mount and transmog collectors against hardcore PvP enjoyers. And this time around… almost no one is complaining. Blizzard made some smart changes to the way its pirate-themed Plunderstorm worked. The rate of earning plunder, the game mode’s currency, has increased….

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Synduality Echo of Ada review

Synduality Echo of Ada is one of those games that feels custom-made for me. A third-person mech action game that takes the extraction shooter formula and twists it into something more social and accessible, with an unusual structure hiding a wealth of optional story tied into a recent anime series. It aims high, but an…

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Ascend through ‘ten thousand meters of concrete and decay’ in this horrifying ‘first-person roguelite speed-climbing game’

If you’ve ever thought to yourself, I wonder what Jusant would be like if David Szymanski made it, you’ll be thrilled to hear about White Knuckle, “a first-person roguelite speed-climbing game” being developed by three-person indie studio Dark Machine Games. Even better, you can partake in its unique horrors right now thanks to a free…

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