Part of ensuring “long-term stability and success”. Sumo Group, the UK-based games studio behind Snake Pass dev Sumo Digital and publisher Secret Mode, has announced that its development team will transition to work “exclusively on development services for partners” and has warned of “an impact on our studios and people” as a result (thanks to…
Our relationship with digital media is becoming increasingly ephemeral. If it isn’t the fact many of us are working in the cloud these days, it’s streaming giants like Netflix unceremoniously nixing shows from its library or Steam gently reminding you that you don’t own your digital games. When it comes to anything faintly resembling preservation,…
Arrives February 13th. The developer Gelato Games has announced that its Metal Slug-inspired Metroidvania Guns of Fury will be released on Nintendo Switch and PC later this month, hitting digital storefronts on February 13th. The exciting genre mash-up is being developed by the two-man team behind the iOS/Nintendo Switch platformer Goblin Sword (John Christodoulatos and…
Gaijin Entertainment’s War Thunder is usually in the news for one repeated reason: The people who play this military simulator take it incredibly seriously, and have a habit of leaking classified information onto the game’s forums in an effort to win Internet arguments. But when they’re not targeting each other, the favourite target of the…
Being the guy that all my friends (and relatives) come to for tech advice, I’ve had my eye out for a truly great budget wireless gaming headset for some time. Coming in well under $100, the OXS Storm G2 nails it in both look and price but I was cautious if those full-range 50 mm…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is rife with sim-y, medieval stuff. You can whet your blades, forge horseshoes, throw some dice, do your laundry, wash yourself in every trough in Czechia, and, of course, do alchemy. If you’re anything like me, that last one is a problem. In my 75 hours in KCD2, I never once…
Well lather me up and call me a belated Christmas turkey, there might—might—be some hope left for reasonably priced gaming PC in this RTX 50-series generation. Assuming, that is, some of the first prices for RTX 50-series laptops are anything to go by. Asus has just revealed prices for a bunch of its new RTX…
I never cease to be amazed by portals in video games. Even though the tech is nearly two decades old (and older still, if you include the use of portal rendering for hidden environment transitions in Thief and other early 3D games), Portal’s seamless, real-time transitions through holes in space still feel like magic to…
Cruelty Squad is undoubtedly one of the weirdest indie breakthroughs of this decade, a wilfully obtuse and unpleasant immersive sim in which you play a corporate assassin in a lo-fi 3D world painted with vomit. But we dug its counter-cultural (and counter-mechanical) approach and, following its success, the developer has since been working on a…
It does eveything. While modern-day consoles have long since abandoned the idea of storing save data on removable memory cards, we’ve seen new “smart” cards appear for consoles such as the PS1, Dreamcast and GameCube. These devices are the functionality of old-school memory cards but introduce next-gen features such as (almost) limitless storage and cloud…