As Steam has grown over the years, so has the Steam Community Market, the online marketplace where Steam users buy and sell in-game items and other digital stuff to one another. To accommodate that growth, Valve has kicked off a beta test for a major update to the market, designed to make it easier to…
After more than a year spent bribing guards, climbing walls, shivving rivals, and digging a tunnel with a sharpened spoon, Back to the Dawn hit version 1.0 this month. If you’re not familiar, it’s a time-management RPG where you have 21 days to escape a high-security prison and can spend your time inside getting to…
Make some space. We’re now just weeks out from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond‘s anticipated release, and more details about it (including some previews) are beginning to circulate online. In case you missed it, the estimated digital file sizes for the Switch and Switch 2 Edition of Samus’ long-awaited adventure have also gone live on the…
It is Monday which means it is time to check out the latest UK video game software charts. This week sees Ring Fit Adventure having the highest chart position since it launched in October 2019 as it re-enters the charts this week at number four. Here’s the GfK Top Ten for the week ending 8th…
In a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, prolific actor J.K. Simmons dove into his relationship with the games he’s acted in. While not much of a gamer himself, the script for Portal 2 (where Simmons voiced Aperture founder Cave Johnson) seems to have left its mark on the actor. “Tom Britney from…
A year ago, longtime Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto celebrated some major series milestones, including one very big number: 23 million. That’s how many copies of Monster Hunter: World Capcom had sold by early 2024 (including copies bundling in the game’s expansion, Iceborne). If you take a look on Capcom’s website, where it maintains a…
While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon. The Premier Edition of the mysterious sci-fi adventure Lifeless Planet is coming to PlayStation 4 July 19! This remastered version is…
The 2017 survival horror game Darkwood is really good and creepy as hell, an accomplishment that’s doubly impressive because it’s played from a fairly distant top-down perspective: There’s no up-close gore or monsters jump-scaring into your face, but hoobie-doobie is it intense. A sequel is in development, but it’s not being made by original developer…
Heavy hangs the crown of expectation. Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is a sequel to the 2004 cult classic RPG by the now-buried Troika Games, and it has a lot to live up to. It needs to fight off the first game’s powerful air of nostalgia, while also stepping into the daylight during an…