If there were any concern that Alex Garland isn’t an Elden Ring fanboy, we now have evidence that the movie director is as devoted to FromSoftware’s 2022 epic as the rest of us. In addition to playing the game several times through, he was apparently so eager to make a live-action Elden Ring film that…
Palworld mods are already racing out the gate to expand options and tweak gameplay in the year’s biggest surprise hit so far. There aren’t a huge number of mods available for Palworld yet—it only just released—and what mods there are may be intermittently broken by future updates. Palworld is in early access, and developer Pocketpal…
Category: ID@Xbox November 5, 2025 Creating Dark Quest 4: The Making of a Modern Dark Fantasy Adventure Argi Baltzi, Director, Brain Seal From Idea to Reality As with all Dark Quest games, the starting point for Dark Quest 4 was Hero Quest – a game I’ve been a fan of for years – and this…
OLED PC monitor sales are on the up, according to data outfit Trendforce. Compared to last year, sales are up by fully 65%. That’s comparing the third quarter of 2025 with the same period in 2024. If you instead put this quarter up against the previous quarter in 2025, sales of OLED monitors are up…
Combat or stealth? Lethal or non-lethal? Plasma rifle or fire extinguisher? There’s nothing quite like freedom of choice in video games (fire extinguisher every time, by the way) — and between its wealth of combat and dialogue options, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided offers plenty. But in a world where biotech has been blended into a…
Schedule 1 was one of 2025’s freshly-cooked batches of surprise hits. Y’know, the kind that comes out of basically nowhere and lands square in the top sellers list—and while it was a year marked with these success stories, it was also the year that saw Steam starting to put the kibosh on adult-themed games. Which,…
‘Mechanoids 2 – The Final Conflict’ was in development at Enigma Variations. Games That Weren’t’s founder Frank Gasking revealed earlier today that he has managed to preserve another lost Enigma Variations game, following the discovery of unreleased NES versions of Sensible Soccer and Populous. This time it’s the turn of the 1993 side-scrolling mech beat…
Death Stranding 2 had a lengthy showing at Sony’s State of Play today, but for those a little weary of Hideo Kojima’s surrealist parcel delivery series there was a glimmer of hope. Kojima confirmed that after Death Stranding 2, his studio will commence development on a “next-generation action espionage game”, which basically means he’ll be…
UK news publication The Guardian have published their annual Game of the Year list and this year is no different. The picks were put together by veteran video games journalist Keza MacDonald and the rest of The Guardian Games team. It’s a solid list if you are a multiplatform owner and the game which came…
Yep, seems like it. In yet another indication that time is indeed marching on and on, it seems that Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island has somehow turned 30 years old. Released in Japan on 5th August 1995, Yoshi’s Island marked a significant departure from its predecessor, yet received widespread critical acclaim regardless. It also…