You Can Download The Community-Made Half-Life 2 RTX Demo Right Now
Whether or not, you’ll be able to run it is a different matter entirely. After years of development, the folks at Orbifold Studios have just dropped the first demo for Half-Life 2 RTX — a remake of Valve’s critically acclaimed 2004 first-person shooter. Half-Life 2 RTX was first announced by Nvidia at Gamescom 2023 as…
ID@Xbox: Developers of All Sizes Are Finding More Success With Xbox – $5 Billion Paid Out to Date
Category: ID@Xbox March 18, 2025 ID@Xbox: Developers of All Sizes Are Finding More Success With Xbox – $5 Billion Paid Out to Date Guy Richards, Director, ID@Xbox With GDC kicking off, our team is in San Francisco to celebrate with independent developers who continue to inspire us every day with their ambition, creativity, and passion….
Ratings board gives away Silent Hill f’s gut-churning tricks, listing face-slicing, arm-sawing and, worst of all, ‘exposed buttocks’
The ESRB—Entertainment Software Rating Board—is, notionally, there to stick age ratings on games that make sure little Timmy and Sally aren’t scarred for life by the torture scene in GTA 5. In reality, I’m beginning to suspect the whole thing is a gigantic operation made to scupper games industry PRs’ carefully laid marketing plans. Like…
The best game design schools, ranked by the Princeton Review 2025
Whether you’re just getting into game design or honing existing skills, the perfect game design program for you is out there. Read up on the 50 best undergraduate and 25 best graduate programs in the country and beyond. Charting a path for your education isn’t as easy as videogames make it out to be. As…
Helldivers 2’s next warbond’ll let you be a real space cowboy, and draw on those Automaton scum with a lever-action rifle
Alright, pardner, it’s time to hike up your cowboy boots and put on your best duster—because Helldivers 2 has just announced a new warbond, and reports say it’s both rootin’, tootin’, and potentially shootin’. As per the video above, the Borderline Justice warbond is the next in the line of Arrowhead’s goodie bags, and it’s…
New Survival Horror Game ‘Phase Zero’ Could Easily Be Mistaken For A Lost PlayStation Classic
A demo is expected soon. The Polish developer SPINA Studio has announced its debut game, and it could easily be mistaken for a lost PlayStation classic — judging by the trailer and some of the screenshots that have been shared from it so far. Similar to Tainted Pact’s Flesh Made Fear, which we covered last…
Cataclismo review
Merlons. The very word strikes terror into the hearts of invaders everywhere, for their ability to increase the range of units and strengthen defensive walls. Also, there might be an archer behind them—but I’m pretty sure it’s the wall thing that gives the Horrors sleepless nights in this city building tower defence game (reverse the…
The Half-Life 2 RTX demo is out now and well worth a go… if your graphics card can take it
Hey, you can finally try out Half-Life 2 RTX. It’s been a long ol’ wait for this one, the team of modders/developers at Orbifold Studios have spent a good few years on this already, but at least two levels are ready to play right now. Head over to the Half-Life 2 RTX steam page and…
New Leak Suggests LEGO Pokémon Sets Might Finally Come Our Way Next Year
Mega(blok) Evolution. After many years of exclusivity with MEGA Bloks, it looks like The Pokémon Company might finally be teaming up with LEGO in 2026. That is, if a recent leak is to be believed. According to a post on the fittingly-named r/Legoleak Reddit forum, the LEGO Mexico Facebook page uploaded a short video teasing…