What’s on the cards for you? Welcome to another edition of What Are You Playing? where we all get to chat about our gaming plans for the weekend! Before we get into that good stuff though, let’s take a look at what went down in Nintendo land this week. We were treated to the release…
Sit back, relax, and enjoy your first Wordle win of the weekend. However you want to solve Saturday’s game, from a cheeky peek at today’s answer to mulling over a helpful clue for the January 20 (945) game with your morning coffee, you’ll find everything you need below. Today’s puzzle was my favourite sort of…
Tread carefully, Link. Early last year, there was a rumour going around about LEGO working on a Legend of Zelda ‘Deku Tree’ set. Now, in an update, the well-known Lego leaker and Instagram user ‘1414falconfan’ is claiming the set will arrive this September and will contain 2,500 pieces. The rumour stems from a marketing survey…
“It’s not even subtle”. The ‘Pokémon-with-guns’ game Palworld launched on Xbox, PC and Game Pass yesterday and while it’s already surpassed one million sales, it’s also making headlines for certain other reasons… As highlighted by IGN, some Pokémon fans have taken to social media and other parts of the internet to share the “similarities” between…
Halo Infinite’s next big update is coming January 30 with a new arena map, a new operation, a free Mark IV Spartan core, and the long-awaited ability to equip shoulder pieces on any armor. 343 showed off the update, which also includes new Covenant items in Forge, in a livestream today. It looks like a…
Slave Zero X: Episode Enyo is a weird tie-in for a weird game: a free prequel Quake mod for the upcoming 2D character action game Slave Zero X, itself a prequel to the 1999 PC/Dreamcast mech game, Slave Zero. That context might make it seem impenetrable, but even if you’re not already “Slave Zero-pilled” (sorry),…
In a November financial briefing picked up on by My Nintendo News, Square Enix CEO Takashi Kiryu said that he wants to structure Square Enix “to ensure higher quality from each title by slimming down our lineup.” It’s the exact kind of thing CEOs say all the time, and most videogame publishers seem to vacillate…
Microsoft said today that it was hacked by a “Russian state-sponsored actor” called Midnight Blizzard, also known as Nobelium. That’s the same group of hackers suspected to be responsible for the major SolarWinds supply chain hack that occurred in 2020. “Beginning in late November 2023, the threat actor used a password spray attack to compromise…
The Indiana Jones developer might be involved. If you’re a Quake fan, you might have heard some rumours about a possible return. Well now, in an update, it seems a new entry has been teased. At Xbox’s Developer Direct this week, a brief scene during MachineGames’ Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gameplay reveal featured…
In case you haven’t heard the good news, the Nazi-punching experts at MachineGames revealed their next game during yesterday’s Xbox Developer Direct stream: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It was a strong debut for the long-awaited action adventure project, and in keeping with the Wolfenstein studio’s speciality, we were pleasantly surprised to learn The…