“Tuned to perfection”. Racing enthusiasts were informed in December that GRID Legends: Deluxe Edition would be speeding onto the Switch 2 in “early 2026” and the official release date has now been locked in. According to publisher Feral Interactive, the race will begin on 29th January 2026 and it’s available to pre-order right now from…
The king of…? Donkey Kong’s new outing for the Switch 2 has already won some awards, and it’s now in the running for even more. The ’26th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards’ is taking place on 12th March 2026 (during the GDC Festival of Gaming) and this week it’s been revealed Donkey Kong Bananza is…
It looks like a fairly orthodox 8-bit platformer on the surface, but Astalon: Tears of the Earth is among my favourite modern metroidvanias. Its class-based combat and exploration is thoroughly engrossing, the depth of its secrets astonishing, and most importantly, it’s a sumptuous feast for pixel art enthusiasts. If you like metroidvanias I’m begging you…
Embark has yet to reveal the roadmap for Arc Raiders’ next year of updates, but it has done the next best thing: vaguely allude to what’s to come in an interview. That’d be a recent interview with GamesRadar+, in which design lead Virgil Watkins dished about a variety of topics, including maps. “There are going…
One of the reasons Dawn of War is still the best RTS is its sync-kill system. You’ll be panning across the battlefield watching a disco storm of lasers go off, and in the middle of that inferno see two individual soldiers in a co-ordinated fight to the death right out of a movie. They’ll finish…
“I’ll buy it at a high price!”. If you’re really, really excited for Resident Evil Requiem next month, then you might want to keep an eye out for two limited edition watches from manufacturer Hamilton. Launching alongside the game on 27th February 2026, the two models are featured in the game itself and are (conveniently)…
Kouji Okada helped co-found Atlus and is one of the co-creators of its two biggest JRPG series in Shin Megami Tensei and Persona. He left the company in 2003 to form now-shuttered studio Gaia, and hasn’t been active in game development for 16 years. Until now: JRPG studio Compile Hearts, best known for the Neptunia…
SNK dropped a trailer for season 2 of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, set to kick off on January 22, and an awful lot of fans aren’t happy about it. The problem isn’t the second season of character DLC, but the trailer promoting it, which many of them think is laden with AI generated…
Amazon has released the first photo of actor Sophie Turner as Lara Croft alongside the announcement that production of its new Tomb Raider show is underway. The costume follows the upcoming Tomb Raider remake, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, in straightforwardly recreating Lara’s classic ’90s look, with the minor tweak that her shorts are black…
Amazon has released the first photo of actor Sophie Turner as Lara Croft alongside the announcement that production of its new Tomb Raider show is underway. The costume follows the upcoming Tomb Raider remake, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, in straightforwardly recreating Lara’s classic ’90s look, with the minor tweak that her shorts are black…