Free Play Days – Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, A Little to the Left and Hell Let Loose

Don’t call it a layoff: Ubisoft issues a full return-to-office order for all employees as it confirms more studio closures are coming

Stuffed away in a corner of Ubisoft’s latest high-speed skid off a cliff is a note for employees: “To support the effective implementation and operation of this new model, the Group also intends to return to five days per week on site for all teams.” Employees who have been working remotely in any capacity, in…

Read More

V Rising declares a 1.0 release date, climbing from the grave of a years-long early access to become your next time vampire

V Rising, a game that ah-ah-ah’d its way into a fairly successful early access in 2022, is finally hurling aside the stone lid of its early access tomb to suck away some more hours of your life. A nifty isometric ARPG-slash-survival-game by Stunlock (previously known for Battlerite and, more unfortunately, Battlerite Royale), V Rising landed…

Read More

Masters of Albion is a ‘Best of Peter Molyneux’ greatest hits collection in one game, but I fear it might not measure up to the games that inspired it

First, the good news: Peter Molyneux has learnt (one of) his lesson(s). Masters of Albion will not try to flog you NFTs, no one said the words “play to earn” in the entirety of its hands-off demo, and I didn’t see a single unfathomable cube in the 40ish minutes I watched Molyneux walk me and…

Read More