Butcher’s Creek should have been named Kill Streak. I mean, what else would you name a game about a man on a naked axe-murder rampage through a cult compound? Released just a few days ago, it’s the sort of short, low-fi and pointedly horrible experience that its lone developer David Szymanski (Dusk, Iron Lung, Squirrel…
Former Sega producer reveals “funny” Mario & Sonic demand. Developers who have worked with Nintendo’s intellectual properties have often shared stories about odd requests and demands from the video game giant. With this in mind, the latest story to surface comes from former Sega of Japan producer, Ryoichi Hasegawa. During a chat with Arcade Attack…
Between the exclusive RTX 40-series features required to run path tracing, and the mesh shaders snub for older graphics cards, you might be thinking that Alan Wake 2 isn’t a very well-optimised game. That’s not true, actually. This rather stunning videogame runs rather well on entry-level graphics cards. It’s true that Alan Wake 2 is…
The Planet Crafter is a survival game that goes way beyond the traditional remit of the genre. You’re not trying to stay alive by building campfires and hunting animals and smashing together a rock and a stick to make a pickaxe appear in your inventory. Rather than bending to suit the world, you bend the…
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is out next week, but you can play the 2.0 update now. It’s added a whole host of tune-ups like vehicular combat, new skill trees, balance tweaks to the RPG system, and a revamped police force—but who cares about that? You can do cool rocket jumps on your motorbike now, which…
This past July, we announced that Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition and its hundreds of hours-worth of content are arriving on PS4 on December 4. Today, we’re pleased to announce that a free demo is coming… right now! Visit the demo page and download now! What’s included in…
Mr Worldwide. Nintendo has officially lifted the lid on Mario Kart World, and it looks glorious. Yesterday’s overview trailer was absolutely packed with features, showcasing open-world racing, new power-ups and fresh ways to make it to pole position. In fact, there was so much stuff to keep up with, that we feel like we’ve missed…
I’ve been running our Computex 2026 liveblog throughout this year’s show, and as a result, I’ve had a front row seat watching all of our reporting rolling in. It’s been an excess-filled event full of exotic hardware releases, but out of all of them, I think the product I want the most is the new…
Attack Vector and Sleeper Case get a facelift. The relationship between Genki and Switch 2 might forever be defined by that pre-reveal CES showcase, but the accessory manufacturer has produced a lot of gear for the new hybrid in the months since. While we have liked most of the Switch 2 accessories we’ve seen so…
Nothing about PUBG and Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton’s recent decision to become an “AI-first company” look good. The company plans to drop over 130 billion won ($88 million) into the project, recently stopped hiring new employees, and started a voluntary resignation program for its employees in South Korea this week. Far down the ladder from…