Show(case), don’t tell. With December finally upon us, our minds have been drifting to the past 12 months, recalling what has been a surprisingly packed year of gaming. We’ve had surprise drops, indie hits and more than a few big names to tide over the Switch in its twilight year, but we can’t help but…
What’s going on? EA released Skate (stylized “skate.”) in early access in 2025: an online, free-to-play reboot of the popular skateboarding series A new fan-made “modding platform” called ReSkate makes Skate playable offline ReSkate also adds support for private servers, custom maps, and other mods ReSkate had been downloaded 350K times as of Tuesday The…
For a brief period in the early 2000s, RedOctane was a big deal. It peaked in 2005 as the publisher of Guitar Hero, leading Activision to acquire it the following year, but just a few years after that the ride was over: Amidst massive market oversaturation and flagging interest among players, Activision shuttered the whole…
Catching food poisoning and shitting yourself to death is part of the standard learning curve in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Perhaps you chanced it by eating a bad sausage in your inventory, or maybe you even got food poisoning without noticing that food items go bad over time. You’ll generally get food poisoning if you…
It’s a tricky moment to be a gaming keyboard. Do you jump on the Hall effect bandwagon to ensure you’re bang on trend, and able to deliver that customisable actuation and rapid trigger response all the aspiring pros desire? Or do you stick with tried and tested mechanical keys, which still represent the vast majority…
The Forever Winter—the brutal early access extraction shooter that pits puny scavengers against armies of androids and building-sized mechs—has just released a huge change to its important but contentious water system. OK, here’s the skinny: The Forever Winter tasks you and your squad of fellow scavengers with sneaking through the battlefields of a ruined future…
“Welcome to die!”. The prize in Limited Run’s Marvel Maximum Collection, unquestionably, is Konami’s 1992 X-Men: The Arcade Game. Famously, it holds a Guinness World Record for being the only arcade beat ‘em up to support six simultaneous players. This port allows you to switch between two, four and six player options — in line…
Secret Level’s creator, Tim Miller, along with executive producer and supervising director Dave Wilson, recently revealed in an interview with Collider some behind-the-scenes tidbits about the making of Secret Level (Amazon Prime’s latest videogame-inspired series) and the developers who turned down offers to be a part of it. It feels like more and more studios…
Towards the end of each year the Wikimedia foundation collates a list of the most popular Wikipedia articles, and it usually makes for interesting reading as a reflection of what people were generally most interested in learning about in the year nearly passed. This time it’s ChatGPT’s turn to top the tables, and given that…
I’m going to date myself here, but I do have a nostalgic fondness for ye olde game guides of yore, ASCII art and all. Though I’ll never forget those community-based efforts, I am glad guide writing has become a more dedicated job role—especially as I continue to have my arse handed to me in Elden…