Hi everyone! When we announced Hardware: Rivals recently, we mentioned that we were going to be running a Beta in the near future. Well, I’m pleased to announce that the Hardware: Rivals Beta will be launching exclusively to PlayStation Plus subscribers worldwide on September 30th. In case you missed our previous post, Hardware: Rivals is…
For the first time ever, I am genuinely worried about Fortnite’s future. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney announced this week that 1,000 people—about a fifth of all staff—would lose their job. The company brings in an estimated $6 billion a year but is “spending significantly more” than it is making, Sweeney said, citing a “downturn…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
Prokop Jirsa is the lead designer of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, and now one of Warhorse Studios’ two creative directors. Our Joshua Wolens recently spoke to him about their games’ love of making things difficult for players, but another topic that came up was their systems-driven nature and the role a PC Gamer article played…
Have you ever wanted your Discord client to look like it was made in the halcyon days of the mid-to-late 1990s? Complete with windows form buttons and gradient-blue topbar? Of course you have. One crew of programmers have cooked up just that as a cute project: They call it… Discord Messenger for Windows! It’s a…
‘Gee Bee’ buzzes onto Switch, Switch 2 PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. While the legendary video game designer Toru Iwatani is probably best known today for being the creator of Pac-Man, it’s important to highlight it wasn’t actually the first title that he created for Namco. Instead, that honour belongs to the 1978 release…
FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Welcome to the first FOV 90 of 2026. In this quiet period for games, I…
Directly to you. After a packed Direct, are you ready for a big weekend of gaming? We sure are! Welcome back to another edition of What Are You Playing. Before we dive into our Switch plans, let’s take a look at the highlights from this week on Nintendo Life. The big news this time around…
Quality-of-life improvements promised. Croc Lead designer Anna Larke pictured with the game around the time of its launch in 2000 Argonaut has announced plans to re-release the Game Boy Color version of Croc to mark the game’s 25th anniversary. Read the full article on timeextension.com Quality-of-life improvements promised. Croc Lead designer Anna Larke pictured with…
The final episode of Pokémon: Twilight Wings has been released on YouTube today. The episode is called ‘The Gathering of Stars’, it’s a little over six minutes and it can be viewed in the video link below. The episode is based on the Isle of Armor and the Crown Tundra, two areas introduced in Pokémon…