Nintendo Download: 27th August (North America)
MGS! Elden Ring! Orbitals! COD Beta! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch 2 eShop – Highlights Call of…
Peter Cullen, The Voice Of Optimus Prime And Mario, Has Died Aged 85
“Real heroes don’t yell and act tough”. Canadian actor Peter Cullen, who voiced Transformers‘ Optimus Prime, has passed away at the age of 85. A prolific voice actor for several decades, Cullen’s career started in the 1960s, and he supplied his vocal talents to a wide range of productions over the years, including Spider-Man, Knight…
Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft’s self-proclaimed ‘broader commitment to game preservation’
Microsoft has dabbled in dubious DRM over the years, having previously announced then unannounced disc-based DRM for the Xbox One back in 2013. Sony scored some free public praise on that blunder. Yet it seems like the pendulum has finally swung the other way. Sony has announced it is ending support for physical games entirely,…
Holy crap, it’s happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player’s world its own procedural magic system
Even as it achieved fractal complexity by modeling feline alcohol poisoning, procedural bardic traditions, and delayed-action thermonuclear dragonfire, the creators of Dwarf Fortress—brothers Tarn and Zach Adams—have maintained still loftier ambitions for their legendary fantasy sim. In recent years, that effort has been guided by one goal: Creating magic. Procedural, universe-specific magic, interwoven with the…
Almost 20 years later, Arkane’s founder says he understands why Valve cancelled the Ravenholm game that never was: ‘It all came down to the economics’
One of the quiet tragedies of Valve’s game library is a standalone Ravenholm game that never came to fruition—it was being worked on by Arkane Studios in the late 2000s, and it would’ve probably been pretty damn good if Valve had the moolah to make it. Over a decade later, an entire hour of footage…
Scott Pilgrim EX: Bringing three new heroes to life in Back in the Band DLC
When we decided to reunite the full Sex Bob-omb lineup for Scott Pilgrim EX – Back in the Band, available now, we knew that simply adding three new playable characters wasn’t enough. Stephen Stills, Kim Pine, and Knives Chau each needed to feel like they had always belonged in the game, both mechanically and visually….
Free Play Days – Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 Open Beta, Control Ultimate Edition, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, and More
Jump into different worlds with Free Play Days this weekend! Naruto To Boruto: Shinobi Striker, and ARK: Survival Ascended are available this weekend for XBOX Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and Essential members to play from Thursday, August 27 until Sunday, August 30. Additionally, Control Ultimate Edition and Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves are free for all…
Nottingham Band Pillow Fort Is Celebrating Its Debut Album With A Fully Playable GBA Cart
Features all 10 songs from the album. There’s been something of a trend when it comes to using old-school game cartridges as delivery methods for music – we’ve recently seen the “brutal party slam band” Party Cannon publish an album on an N64 cart, for example – and Nottingham-based alt/emo group Pillow Fort has followed…
Japanese Charts: Nintendo’s Trio Of 2026 Smash Hits Keep It On Top
Spla-BOOM. The latest Japanese boxed charts data is in from Famitsu, and thanks to consistently strong sales for Rhythm Heaven Groove, Splatoon Raiders, and Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, Nintendo has found itself once again dominating the top ten. The main newcomer this week is STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT, which takes up three spots this week thanks…