Die bard. When you’re going off to battle, you want to bring your best and strongest warriors with you. In most games, these fighters come in the form of muscle-bound, gun-toting avatars of destruction. In Yaza Games’ Inkulinati, your champions are the odd animals that litter the pages of medieval manuscripts, led across the battlefield…
Third time’s a charm? After mining the C64 back catalogue with THEC64 Collection 1 and THEC64 Collection 2, you’d assume it was slim pickings with this third instalment – and, to a degree, you’d be right. While there are some big names included in THEC64 Collection 3 – such as the amazing Boulder Dash and…
Everyone has those old games laying around their parents’ loft that nobody plays anymore. But the real question is are they worth anything? Crucial has crunched the numbers to determine which video games have held their value or increased the value since its release! Ranking Game Average Resale Price Year Released 1 Super Mario 64…
“A group of zealous grognards are developing something amazing”. After plenty of speculation, Microsoft finally revealed its plans for the Xbox brand yesterday, and it felt like the entire gaming world had something to say about it. The headline news is that four Xbox games are going multiplatform, but they don’t include Starfield or Indiana…
“The fish starts rotting from the head”. ZA/UM, the developer behind the sublime CRPG Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, is reportingly planning to lay off 24 workers after cancelling its next major project, codenamed ‘X7’. This comes via Sports Illustrated’s GLHF, which reports that the 24 workers currently at risk make up roughly a quarter…
Helldivers 2 dropped its first live-service twist last night, as its robotic automaton faction abruptly invaded several human planets, forcing players to heel-turn away from the Terminid frontline to undertake defensive missions halfway across the galaxy. It’s likely this event has been planned by developers Arrowhead Game Studios for a while, but according to the…
Baldur’s Gate 3 walked away from the DICE Awards with another handful of trophies: Outstanding Achievement in Story, RPG of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Design, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, and Game of the Year—adding to an already massive list of well-deserved accolades. Its developers, however, devoted much of their speech time to…
Good news: Palworld players have found yet another way to get one over on the system by violating the laws of god and man alike. Not content with killing the game’s bosses using physics-defying staircases, they’ve got a new trick: butchering their pals without killing them thanks to a well-timed mounting. Obviously, that sentence is…
Alan Wake 2 was beloved by critics when it launched in October last year, with our own Robin Valentine awarding it a score of 89 in his Alan Wake 2 review calling it “a glorious sprawl of surreal horror” that “will stay with you long after you’ve seen every terrifying encounter, cheesy manuscript page, and…
You know all those Xbox rumours? The hot new hardware including a handheld, the idea that Microsoft is giving up on consoles altogether and releasing its exclusive Xbox games on third party platforms. Turns out it’s true. Well, most of it. Microsoft made a fairly comprehensive Xbox data dump yesterday including an official podcast on…