As the purveyor of ultimate dad games SCS Software explains on its blog, Euro Truck Simulator 2 isn’t just a fun exploration of the contrast between chill highway cruising and nightmarish reverse-parking situations. It’s also science. A researcher at Liberec Technical University’s Faculty of Textiles in Czechia called Mr Martinka has been using Euro Truck…
“Pokémon had hit our UK business quite hard”. If there are two brands in the world you’d assume would never be in direct competition with one another, it’s Pokémon and Warhammer. The former is a franchise about collecting and battling with a host of cute monsters, while the other is a series of D&D-style fantasy…
Wall-to-wall perfection. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of Mega Man X in Japan, Ollie dives into what makes its introductory stage so darn good… The original Mega Man series…
Yosuke Matsuda, the chief executive of Square Enix, has stated in a recent interview with The Financial Times that the coronavirus pandemic has caused “time to stand still” on production of the company’s new titles. The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have caused consumer video game spending to rise considerably, but it seems a number of…
Not the combination of ‘Portal’ and ‘3’ many hope for. Handheld manufacturer AYN has announced brand-new hardware in the form of the AYN Odin 3 Portal. The announcement was made on the company’s Instagram and Discord, but most details pertaining to the handheld remain under wraps for the time being. The announcement was accompanied by…
I’m the type of person who puts their Halloween decorations out a month too early, and a good season of spooky games only makes me more irritatingly festive. I’m not sure I’ll even finish last month’s Silent Hill before October’s new games calendar of horrors kicks off, but I’m absolutely delighted by the handful of…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and you know what that means: The 2024 Steam Winter Sale has begun. This is the big one—well, one of them, anyway—with deals galore on literally thousands of games, and plenty of Steam stuff to pick up including free stickers for browsing your Discovery Queue (nine of…
In our June Future of Gaming digital event, we announced an array of PlayStation 5 peripherals and accessories that will be launching this holiday season. But we know that many of you were also wondering if and how existing PlayStation 4 peripherals are compatible with the next-gen system. Today, we’re happy to share a brief…
It hopes “at some point” to use Nintendo’s characters. Fortnite has had just about every crossover at this stage from Dragon Ball and Marvel to LEGO, but the one brand Epic believes could top them all is….drum roll… Nintendo! Speaking to Axios in Los Angeles this week, the head of Fortnite’s ecosystem Saxs Persson admitted…
Trading Card Games are in an odd place. They’re probably more popular than ever, with more playing them than ever. Given Magic: The Gathering’s recent big focus on crossover events, which makers of Wizards of the Coast keep reporting as being phenomenally successful, they’re probably making more money than ever. At the same time TCGs…