Devs recall 'sweating bullets' at showing The Beatles Rock Band to the actual Beatles, and 'tough customer' Yoko Ono making sure they made John Lennon a 'balls out rock and roll god not giving a f**k'

Devs recall ‘sweating bullets’ at showing The Beatles Rock Band to the actual Beatles, and ‘tough customer’ Yoko Ono making sure they made John Lennon a ‘balls out rock and roll god not giving a f**k’

The Beatles: Rock Band was the single greatest thing to come out of the games industry’s plastic instrument craze, an absurdly lavish and beautifully judged tribute to the most important music band in history. It cost me an absolute tonne but I still have an old 360 in the garage somewhere with all the DLC,…

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Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime’s new company is putting Sea of Thieves-style shenanigans in space with a new crew-based shooter

After leaving the company in 2019, former Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime announced in 2020 that he’d founded Dreamhaven, a new game publisher seeking to “reimagine the studio model.” In 2024, Secret Door—the first of Dreamhaven’s two in-house studios staffed by Blizzard veterans—revealed Sunderfolk, a tabletop-inspired tactical RPG. Today, in a showcase presented by The Game…

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Elden Ring Nightreign has an ultra-rare item with a 0.035% chance to drop and players are convinced it’s the key to the game’s biggest secret

Dark Souls players spent months trying to figure out if the pendant that’s in your inventory when you start the game unlocked something secret. Even though it’s literally labeled “useless,” people were convinced there had to be more to it. It turned out to be just a joke, but you can’t blame anyone for being…

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New World ends it 2-year-long horseless era by adding mounts and leaps up the Steam charts, just below Counter-Strike 2

New World’s first expansion arrived yesterday, and along with the addition of flails, the ability to turn into some kind of vengeful nature monster, a transformed zone and another expedition, it also solves one of my big launch bugbears: it’s finally added mounts.  Customisable horses, dire wolves and lions can now join you on your…

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How to beat Sister Splinter in Silksong

Defeating Sister Splinter in Hollow Knight: Silksong is one of your first major boss challenges on the main track through the game. It’s a taste of what’s to come in terms of utilising everything in your arsenal to take down some of the tricky bosses later on. Sister Splinter might seem annoying, but with a…

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