Imagine a situation where someone phones an elderly relative and it appears to be a favourite grandchild on the call, begging for money to help out in an emergency. It sounds exactly like the child and the problem really sounds urgent; what should they do? The FBI suggests they might want to say something like…
Okay, listen, in my Infinity Nikki review I said that styling battles—where you take the clothes you’ve accumulated and use their attached scores and tags to duke it out with an NPC—sort of took a backseat in this game, especially compared to previous non-adventure entries in the series. That’s still mostly true, until I realised…
Includes new areas, a new playable character, and fishing! Two years after the hit indie RPG Chained Echoes released, developer Matthias Linda — now having formed Umami Tiger, his new development studio — has announced Ashes of Elrant, an expansive new DLC package that launches in Q2 2025. This story DLC will take place right…
Zainsoft’s Dios was one of two games released for the PC-8801MC CD-ROM drive. A long-lost PC-88 game has recently been rediscovered and preserved online, as revealed in a recent video by the YouTube channel Basement Brothers. Zainsoft’s Dios is a sidescrolling action platformer that was originally released across several Japanese computers in 1989 on floppy…
Winning matches and grinding competitive ranks might be the main goal of Marvel Rivals, but the true draw is playing dress-up with your favourite comic book superheroes. While you can earn some cosmetics by completing in-game challenges, events, or via the battle pass, many of the most sought-after skins require units. Units are one of…
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, PS VR, and free-to-play games topped the download charts last month. November’s PS5 list saw spooky newcomer Phasmophobia rise from the dead, landing in the top five of the US and EU charts. Metro Awakening claimed the top spot on November’s PS VR2 list in the…
“He’s nipped behind there to have a fag and he knows that you can’t see him”. Peter Molyneux is one of the world’s most famous game designers and has had a hand in influential titles such as Populous, Magic Carpet, Black & White and Fable. He’s also famous for allowing his imagination to sometimes run…
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle seems to’ve been whipped into good shape by Bethesda, a much-needed win for the studio—capturing for fans (including our own Ted Litchfield, who gave it an 86 in his review) the pure distilled essence of the action adventure classic, like a modern Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay…
The Witcher 3 was an excellent game. An all-timer game. One of the greats. But it had one fatal flaw: The total absence of Iorveth, everyone’s favourite focoist guerilla elf boyfriend from The Witcher 2. But per the third volume of What Lies Unseen—a datamined development history of The Witcher 3 from modders Moonknight, Ferroxius,…
All machines break. Those of us who have owned enough hardware over the years will be familiar with the frustration that comes with a dead or malfunctioning system, and that’s before you get to the hassle of looking up part numbers, scouring YouTube tutorials, and digging that screwdriver set out from the back of your…