One tragedy about the fall of Arkane Austin—aside from Microsoft’s seeming unwillingness to give studios a chance beyond the next quarter—is the pervasive feeling that the studio, whose devs were previously known for their immersive sims, was forced to make something way outside of their wheelhouse. Redfall was a live service shooter, and a pretty…
Hilko Janssen’s satirical sim is coming to Steam Early Access this Fall. I’ve had my eye on Car Park Capital ever since I first saw development GIFs of the game all the way back in 2024. As someone who played a lot of simulation games like Theme Park, RollerCoaster Tycoon, and SimCity 2000 on my…
Good news everyone: we’ve got even more Silent Hill: Townfall to help fill the void until its release. But instead of a short story or teaser trailer, we have 18 minutes of poor old Simon Ordell wandering around the abandoned (and increasingly hostile) town of St. Amelia. It’s the first extended cut of playthrough we’ve…
Brace yourselves. Nintendo has now officially confirmed the expected price increase for the Switch 2 in the UK. From 1st September 2026, the console will go up from its current price of £395.99 to £419.99. In Ireland, the current price of €469,99 will increase to €499,99, so exactly the same as other regions that use…
If your games started unexpectedly crashing after getting a Windows update on or after August 11, you aren’t alone. And Microsoft says it’s looking into the problem. Microsoft reports the following “symptoms” popped up for “a limited number of games”: The game application becomes unresponsive The game application closes without notice The error “EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION” is…
33 Games also has “a major licence” it will be announcing soon. 33 Games is a relative newcomer in the retro gaming space, but it has already made waves with a re-release of Gremlin’s 2D platformer Zool on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, and has followed that up with new physical launches for Utopia…
A cybersecurity advisory jointly authored by multiple US agencies, including the NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA, warns the owners and operators of industrial facilities of an “active cyber threat” to Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers. “The threat actors are conducting reconnaissance and capability development against US-based Siemens PLC installations using AI-generated exploitation scripts disguised…
Redfall is one of the biggest industry disasters in recent memory—coming from Arkane Austin, a studio known for an all-time classic in Prey, the game was panned both critically and commercially. Even we, at PC Gamer, dubbed it the “first Arkane game we don’t like“. It also served as the death knell for the studio…
Seeped through. FromSoftware is getting ready to kick off its network test for The Duskbloods this weekend, but it looks like a gameplay video has leaked ahead of time. WARNING: descriptive spoilers of the footage to follow. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Dark Castle series returns, just in time for its 40th anniversary. Two classic Macintosh platforming games, 1986’s Dark Castle and its 1987 sequel Beyond the Dark Castle, have made a surprising return on Steam. Built as a “living interactive animation” by a team that included Mark Pierce, Eric Zocher, and Jonathan Gay, Dark Castle was…