GOG’s preservation program now includes Splinter Cell, Resident Evil HD and, er, Spore, while you can also get 95% of XCOM 2 in its Autumn Sale

GOG’s preservation program is a commitment by the distribution service to ensure that classic PC games included in the program will run on your Windows machine no matter what. This doesn’t mean included games will receive any fancy overhauls or resolution boosts—quite the opposite. GOG’s pledge is to preserve the look and feel of the…

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Hyperbeat review

Need to know What is it A bite-sized, dreamlike rhythm game with dizzying visuals.Release date October 22, 2025Expect to pay $15/£12.79Publisher Dreamware MediaDeveloper Alice Bottino, Chancellor WallinReviewed on Windows 11, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 TI, Intel Core i7-12700F, 16 GB RAMMultiplayer NoneSteam Deck VerifiedLink Steam You’re running out of time. You’ll certainly have less of…

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This wildly ambitious Bully mod adds online multiplayer, racing minigames and even a rat-based deathmatch, but the modders’ demand for lunch money has fans worried about Rockstar’s response

While Bully 2 remains a dream for Rockstar fans everywhere, the chances of it happening are unlikely. Former Rockstar cofounder Dan Houser recently explained that the project was killed due to “bandwidth issues” within Rockstar management, and the chances of a modern revival are slim given how long it’s taken the studio to make Grand…

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Brendan Greene’s open-world survival roguelike hikes into early access later this month, and it’ll actually let you save your run through its brutal wilderness

Prologue: Go Wayback!, the ultra-hard hiking sim developed by Brendan Greene’s studio PlayerUnknown Productions, has technically been playable for a while now. The studio has been running an open beta for the last two and a half months, giving players curious about Greene’s first proper game since PUBG: Battlegrounds the chance to try it out….

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Rockstar accused of ‘the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry’ after firing dozens of employees who were allegedly attempting to form a union

A Bloomberg report says Grand Theft Auto 6 studio Rockstar Games has fired “dozens” of employees over what the Independent Workers of Great Britain union alleges is a “brazen” act of union busting. Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive denies that allegation, and says the employees were fired for misconduct. The report says that between 30…

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Condemned: Criminal Origins, the best game about beating people to death with a lead pipe I’ve ever played, has been delisted from Steam and Xbox, and fans are hoping that means a remaster is on the way

I was a big fan of Condemned: Criminal Origins back in the day. That day was 20 years ago and I can’t really remember what it was about, except that I was an FBI burnout of some sort, splitting my time between investigating murders and committing them. Trailers really don’t do it justice: Condemned is…

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Japanese patent officials reject one of Nintendo’s Pokémon patent applications for being too similar to ARK, Monster Hunter, and—embarrasingly—Pokémon Go

The trio of patents asserted by Nintendo as the basis for its ongoing lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair represent only a portion of Nintendo’s efforts to secure patent protections on creature capturing, battling, and riding mechanics. Last week, however, that effort hit a hurdle: The Japanese Patent Office rejected one of Nintendo’s pending patent applications…

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