Jonathan Rogers, one of the co-founders of the studio behind Path of Exile, isn’t afraid to call his own game too old to be the perfect action RPG. The first PoE had its moment and now it lives comfortably on updates made to please its most dedicated fans. It’s not going anywhere, but it’s also…
Who would have thought storage could be so sexy? Peanut butter and jelly go together, and the same goes for Coke and Rum. Heck, we can think of any number of combinations that make sense, but storage and sex appeal? That’s a first for us, and when we heard Seagate was combining the two, Maximum…
It’s been over a month since Starfield was launched around the globe but Intel has finally addressed performance issues and a handful of bugs with a new set of drivers for its Arc graphics card range. New GPU driver releases aren’t typically hold-the-front-page news items, but Intel Arc owners have been facing some pretty annoying…
When asked to explain why Valve never made Half-Life 2: Episode 3 for the recent 20th anniversary documentary, Gabe Newell said that he “couldn’t figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward.” For the Valve founder, the Half-Life games can’t just push Gordon Freeman’s story forward. They have to push videogames forward in…
Switch version also announced. EA has today officially confirmed it is bringing EA SPORTS FC 26 to the Nintendo Switch 2 on 26th September 2025. The game will also be released on the same date for the original Switch. This new entry will offer an “overhauled gameplay experience” powered by the community’s feedback, Manager Live…
By the end of my brief time playing The Children of Clay, a free horror game available on Steam, I had taken my headphones off and was holding myself away from the screen as I selected each action. It was a bright and cheery morning around 11 AM, the sun was shining, my coffee warm,…
In a recent interview on Nightdive Studios’ Deep Dive podcast, former Looking Glass Studios programmer Marc LeBlanc talked about how he sees the System Shock Remake’s success as proof that there is an audience for games that challenge their players’ critical thinking and ingenuity, and that he hopes to see more developers respond to that…
I recently watched The Magic Faraway Tree, in which Andrew Garfield plays a dad with dreams about making homegrown tomato sauce in the country. I was particularly charmed by a scene in which Garfield generates enough electricity for his tween daughter to enjoy a shonky video call via pedalling a busted-up bike alone. Well, one…
Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Google or RSS, or download here Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve prepared a superb sampling of video game greatness for you this week. Interviews on Far Cry 5 and The Sims 4, chatter about Destiny 2 and Undertale, yet another update on Darkest Dungeon (really), and even a few throwbacks to our…
“Imagine a game with only five houses”. The utterly brilliant translation site Shmuplations has just published a 1989 discussion between Shigeru Miyamoto and Shigesato Itoi, and during the surprisingly in-depth chat between the two legendary game designers, the former predicts the arrival of ‘cosy’ titles like Animal Crossing. Originally published in Gamer Handbook and published…