One of the UK’s best video game stores gets a level-up. If you’ve been following our network of sites for a while, then you might recall that our sister site, Nintendo Life, paid a visit to the UK city of Leicester to investigate a store called Super Game Shack, which was boldly opened when the…
After a hands-on preview with Hyper Light Breaker in late 2024, we walked away liking Heart Machine’s neon-splashed Drifter follow-up quite a bit. Our Ted Litchfield called it “a great action game that nails the look and feel of Hyper Light Drifter in a 3D open world,” which left him hopeful for how the game…
AMD and Intel have taken very different approaches to increasing the core counts of their processors. In the case of Team Red and its Ryzen CPUs, it went down a chiplet route, putting a block of cores and cache into one tiny chip, that can be easily doubled or more to get extra cores. Intel,…
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has probably not penned his last email thanking employees for their hard work while pointing them to the door. After Microsoft laid off around 9,000 employees today, including a number from Spencer’s gaming division, a rumor began circulating that the Xbox head will step down after the next generation Xbox…
Football Manager is one of those games that now feels like an institution. I play the newest entry and, even though it’s a much-improved and more sophisticated experience, I am still in some sense a teenage boy at a beige PC with my treasured copy of Championship Manager 97/98. I’ve been playing some version of…
This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following content: Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch Cyber Shadow – The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow on a journey to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin. Slash through the techno hordes, leap past traps and nimbly navigate…
March was certainly a good month for videogames! Bloodborne ruled the PS4 charts on PlayStation Store, perhaps expectedly. Read on for the full list of PlayStation Store’s top sellers on PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. PS4 Games 1 Bloodborne 2 Battlefield Hardline 3 Surgeon Simulator: A&E Anniversary Edition 4 HELLDIVERS 5 Dragon Ball Xenoverse 6…
Walking into the Stern Pinball Factory just outside Chicago was an experience that left me in awe. Stern Pinball, a company that dominates the market with their self-estimated 90% share of all pinball machines sold today, operates an incredible facility that blends offices, an assembly line, a testing area, a showroom, and more into one…
Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has confirmed the layoff of an undisclosed number of employees, telling Game Developer the cuts were made as a result of reduced demand for external development partnerships. “A portion of Behaviour Interactive’s business has traditionally focused on external development partnerships. In recent months, demand for mobile and casual external…
Split Fiction, the new co-op action game from Josef Fares and the team at Hazelight Studios, looks to be a hit: Hazelight revealed on Bluesky today that the game surpassed one million copies sold in just 48 hours. “The love you all show for our game is overwhelming!” the studio wrote. “Everyone here at Hazelight…