The best deals in the 2024 Steam Spring Sale
The first big Steam sale of the year is here. The Steam Spring Sale features the biggest discounts we’ve seen so far on some of our favorite 2023 games, and even a few smaller discounts on brand new games from this year—January mega-hit Palworld among them. Meanwhile, some of our older favorites are discounted to…
‘The journey was long’: two years later than planned, boomer shooter Project Warlock 2 blasts out of early access with a 50% discount and a request to submit your own loading screen tips
Project Warlock was a thoroughly entertaining FPS throwback which caught the bloody wave of the boomer shooter revival right at its height in 2018. As such, I was excited by the prospect of a sequel, and one was duly revealed at the PC Gaming Show in 2021. Then, years passed. My eyesight deteriorated, flecks of…
We’re Teaming Up With Lost In Cult To Create ‘The Console Chronicles’
Over 400 pages of console history. It gives us immense pride to announce that we’re joining forces with the award-winning team at Lost in Cult to create The Console Chronicles, a new book which aims to celebrate the history of the home video game industry. At more than 400 pages, this book will not only…
90s Old School Poker Games That Are Still Fun to Play
Poker games from the 1990s had something that modern titles often lack. They focused on the cards, the betting, and the basic psychology of bluffing. No elaborate animations interrupted the flow of play, and you didn’t need to download gigabytes of data to start playing. These games worked because they understood what made poker enjoyable…
Round Up: The Previews Are In For Yoshi And The Mysterious Book
Gearing for the Booker Prize? Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is mleming its way to its 21st May 2026 release date, and we have a bunch of previews to showcase to see how it’s holding up so far. Our own Jim Norman recently went hands-on with the latest Nintendo title and came away feeling pretty…
“This Could Be The MTV Of Games” – Sega Once Tried To Convince The Beastie Boys To Make A Video Game For Sega Channel
“We were trying to think dynamically on how we could make it more of a destination”. With Sega’s cable-based digital distribution service, Sega Channel, being in the news once again, thanks to the Video Game History Foundation’s recent discovery of over 100 previously undumped ROMS, we thought we’d share something interesting with you. Over the…
Developer_Direct Returns on January 23 – A Celebration of What’s Coming for Xbox Players
Category: Developer_Direct January 9, 2025 Developer_Direct Returns on January 23 – A Celebration of What’s Coming for Xbox Players Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief It’s time to get a look at what’s next – Developer_Direct is back. On Thursday, January 23 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK, fans will get an inside…
Nintendo World’s New Donkey Kong Ride Will Literally Send You Off The Tracks
Well, in a totally fake kind of way. Toward the end of 2023, it was revealed that a Donkey Kong expansion would be making its way to Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Japan. Now, thanks to some keen investigation from CoasterTalk (thanks, Gizmodo), some more information has been discovered regarding the site’s new rollercoaster…
The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the Internet Archive so AI companies can’t scrape its content
The internet, which was once a useful thing, is about to become a little less so: A new report from The Verge says Reddit is going to start blocking the Wayback Machine from indexing most of its content. The Wayback Machine, part of the Internet Archive, takes “snapshots” of websites as they exist at various…