Mmm, bananas. Nintendo has announced that a special Direct focused on Donkey Kong Bananza will be heading our way this week on Wednesday 18th June 2025. The announcement was made via the Nintendo Today! app, where we learnt that the showcase will begin at 2pm BST and will last for roughly 15 minutes. You can…
Yu Suzuki is believed to have been involved. The late pop icon Michael Jackson wasn’t just a gamer – he was a keen fan of Sega and collaborated with the Japanese company multiple times during the ’90s. Sega would adapt the Moonwalker movie into a series of video games and would later work with Jackson…
Another week, another flare up in the AI discourse. Spurred on by Eurogamer’s fascinating, polarising Arc Raiders review (penned by PC Gamer contributor Rick Lane), Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani gave his take on the game’s use of AI, the broader discussion surrounding the technology, and how it relates to Helldivers 2. Speaking on The Game…
Category: Games November 20, 2025 Free Play Days – Nowhere Prophet, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, For the King II, Wildgate and more Kyle OceanMarketing Manager, Xbox Plenty to explore this weekend with Free Play Days! Police Simulator: Patrol Officers (XPA), Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game and Wildgate are available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass…
Expectations were high for the first game from Build a Rocket Boy (Barb), the studio founded by former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies after his departure from Rockstar North in 2016. Benzies was one of the key leadership figures that had overseen GTA’s rise from a pioneering open world romp into a global cultural…
After the unhappy reception for Battlefield 2042, EA went all in on player feedback, methodically addressing complaints and promising that the next Battlefield game will center the opinions of fans from the start, with what EA CEO Andrew Wilson calls “the biggest playtesting initiative in franchise history.” Wilson has been talking up Battlefield 6 (or…
Bop to the beat. The MAR10 Day celebrations this year have been fairly lowkey, but we’re not entirely done just yet. In case you missed it, Nintendo has added a new soundtrack to its Nintendo Music mobile application and sure enough it’s a Mario one! Following on from Super Mario Bros. 2 last month and…
A nifty tribute to an RPG classic. A Japanese merchandise company called Hakkokudo has today released a new keychain, based on the classic Nihon Falcom RPG series Ys. The acrylic keychain, which measures 50×55×10mm, is modelled after Adol Christin, the main protagonist of the Ys series, and is intended to be the first in a…
“I was just zoning out, thinking about random game ideas”. When people in the past talk about the inspirations behind Capcom’s arcade fighting series Street Fighter, they typically default to discussing the role of Irem’s Spartan X (better known as Kung Fu Master in North America) — and for pretty good reasons too. Both games…
Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is my most-played game over the last month, a simple “line go up” game where you buy, sell, and short against the predicted events of an alien baby’s life. These alien babies can range from war-heroes-turned-generals to unlucky foundry workers who die in the factory they’re born into. Each baby…