The polls are closed and your votes counted for the PlayStation Blog Game of the Year 2023. The winners of these awards, spanning 18 categories, have been shaped entirely by player choice. A thank you to everyone who voted and – given the strength of titles released in the past 12 months – were stuck…
Jess Kinghorn, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Checking out free experiences like indie horror Sato Killing Time Chat.exe and cyberpunk match-three narrative game D14L-ogue. Before joining the hardware team here, I spent a significant chunk of my early career writing for Official PlayStation Magazine UK—and not even I am excited for…
The latest edition of Weekly Famitsu is now available in Japan. This week’s edition only contains a measly three review, but some of you may be interested to see the scores. The new WWE 2K Battlegrounds from 2K Games only received 31/40, which for Famitsu isn’t so great. Here’s the reviews from Issue 1662: Ghost…
A link between games. Hopefully by now you’ve seen Zelda: Ocarina of Time in action on the Switch 2, and if you’re anything like us, you were quite simply blown away by the sheer leap in visual quality when compared to the original. To really demonstrate just how much the remake improves upon the N64…
Monster Hunter Wilds is launching in February, so now is the perfect time to get to grips with what to expect the next time you head out on a hunt. It’s been a long wait for those of us desperate to play ever since the game was announced in 2023, and even though we’ve seen…
The latest UK video game charts are now available and its been a big week for the video game industry. While the PlayStation 5 has yet to launch here in the UK the games were on sale this week and dispatched to customers. and both the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles from Microsoft…
More grim figures emerge. Bandai Namco Studios has reportedly reduced its staff by more than 100 people within the last year, as reported by Automaton. The studio, known for Switch games such as New Pokémon Snap, Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun!, and the upcoming Pac-Man title Shadow Labyrinth, had stated in a company overview…
“The whole purpose of these things is to be enjoyed”. The UK-based retro collector Frazer Rhodes has been buying rare and obscure video games for the past three decades now and has amassed a pretty enviable collection in all that time. He’s the proud owner of a complete Neo Geo set, as well as a…
Anyone interested in open-world survival games should get ready for the genre’s next big hitter: Lost Isle, a procedurally generated fantasy MMO that can be wishlisted now. Build a fortress and protect it, or dedicate yourself to sieging and plundering those of others. Cultivate and craft or ransack and loot. Go it alone or forge…
Get To Know Our Team Dean Technical Program Manager February 14, 2024 Hi, everyone! Wynn here. We’re back with another Xbox Insider Team interview. Today we’ll be chatting with Dean—a Technical Program Manager, Xbox Mastercard maestro, and another all-around cat person. How’s it going, Dean? I’m doing well! Happy to be here. Glad we could…