Sam Barlow talks for the first time about the doomed sequel. “This is one of the most troubled franchises in history,” says Sam Barlow of the Legacy of Kain series. “I think every single entry, even if they launched, launched in a cut, curtailed, broken state. This was a franchise that has never gone to…
Get ready to embark on a thrilling adventure, explore a dark fantasy world, and test your strategy skills with Free Play Days! One Piece Odyssey and Gord are available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Core and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play from Thursday February 1 at 12:01 a.m. PDT until Sunday, February…
West Midlands Police chief constable Craig Guildford, the head of the UK police force that admitted earlier this week that it had used faulty information from Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant in its controversial decision to ban Israeli football fans from a November 2025 Europa league match, has announced his resignation (via the BBC). His retirement…
Razer had a bountiful display of products to show at Gamescom 2026, many of which come with substantial price tags. However, my eyes lit up when I saw the new Razer Reclusa X Mini 65% keyboard, especially as it’s got a $50/£60 MSRP. I picked it up and twisted it around in my hands, expecting…
IO Interactive’s long-awaited Hitman-with-hair game 007 First Light is out today, and as an astute observer of videogames you will have noticed that we don’t have a review up just yet. Why might that be? Who can say. What we can say is that it’s coming: PC Gamer’s resident Double-O agent Joshua Wolens is hard…
There was a point in the most recent Path of Exile 2 league that I thought I would have to quit playing the game. Every 20 minutes or so, the entire game would freeze. I’d wait for a solid 30 seconds before everything came back to life, praying I wouldn’t lose my character the second…
Today, Nintendo debuted a Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase, a video presentation focused on Nintendo Switch games from Nintendo’s development and publishing partners. The video is the first in a series of upcoming Partner Showcase presentations that will be released this year. Highlights of the debut showcase include details about two new games in the…
Sailing the high seas. Following Nintendo’s recent investigation into the Switch “pirate” James ‘Archbox’ Williams, the video game giant is now reportedly seeking “new targets”. As highlighted by Stephen Totilo of Game File, the company doesn’t appear to be done with the SwitchPirates subreddit just yet: Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Blizzard’s Unannounced Survival Game team, laid off in January 2024. Photo via a developer who asked to remain anonymous. (Image credit: Blizzard Survival Game team) The scale of the past year of videogame layoffs is a hard thing to wrap your head around. We’re confronted with more big numbers almost every week: the latest “regrettable”…
Streamer Emiru says that, among other things, Twitch has agreed to donate $100,000 to an unspecified violence protection charity following her assault at TwitchCon. Things initially kicked off back in mid-October when, during a TwitchCon meet and greet, a man was able to bypass security and the line to approach Emiru and pull her into…