These days, we indelibly associate IO Interactive with the Hitman series, but back when the studio was young we… well, we associated it with the Hitman series. It’s been making Hitman for a while, starting with its first game, Hitman: Codename 47, all the way back in 2000. But after releasing Hitman 2: Silent Assassin…
Surprise and delist. It’s a sad reality of modern gaming that, despite not needing physical media to play a game, the digital-only version is typically more ephemeral and subject to sudden disappearance than a cart or a disc. It only takes an expired licence or a publisher in financial trouble for games to start disappearing…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Someone made a speculative remark on a podcast and within a couple days it had somehow morphed into a big scary “rumor,” in this case that another Grand Theft Auto 6 delay is incoming, despite there being no new information on the topic one way or another….
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena review – PC Gamer issue #200 (UK, May 2009) Around about the time that I was stamping three guards to death, I realised that I was the monster in Riddick. Is it any wonder that the fourth guard who blundered into that scenario, who saw his colleagues…
Category: Games August 19, 2025 Helldivers 2 x Halo: ODST – The Crossover You’ve Been Waiting for Arrives August 26 Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Helldivers 2 arrives on Xbox Series X|S next week, August 26 – and it’s dropping in with a magnificently Xbox-themed surprise. Introducing the Helldivers 2 x Halo: ODST Legendary Warbond,…
Have you ever wanted to pop a pair of Joy-Cons on the side of your 12-inch laptop/tablet? Me neither, but creator Sskki_TheBlindDemon has done just that. The result is a gaming device that makes Nintendo’s already quite tiny controllers look even smaller. As shared by the official Framework X account, Sskki created a blog documenting…
Download it now. Super Mario Party Jamboree has received a new update on the Switch and Switch 2 this week. It includes general changes on the Switch 2, including some improvements, difficulty adjustments and several other changes. And on the Switch, there are multiple adjustments and fixes. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
It’s not like the Half-Life 3 rumour mill ever went away, but over the past few years the tinfoil hats have been a-twitching more than ever. If it’s not one thing, it’s another: the anniversary of Half-Life 2, the latest mention of “HLX” (speculated to be an internal codename) in the Steam backend or, my…
Take to the pitch in an acclaimed football simulator and put the pedal to the metal in a nostalgic arcade racer with your next batch of PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for July. Let’s take a closer look: Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 From Konami’s long-running sports franchise, Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 features a huge selection of…
Last month we got word that Jennifer English, star of Baldur’s Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, would be stepping down from her lead role in the upcoming Tides of Annihilation. Now, fans think they’ve figured out who her replacement is: Angela Sant’Albano, known for playing Grace Ashcroft in Resident Evil Requiem. This is…