World of Warcraft: The War Within has been collecting dust in my digital library (and a bit of subscription money, oops). Not for any particular reason, I’ve actually rather enjoyed myself—it’s just that I happen to be a games journalist, and as such I have to keep up with a lot of different games for…
An RPG simply isn’t an RPG without a collection quest ending in a super special weapon, which is exactly what the Forged of Star-Stuff quest in Avowed is. You’ll need to track down the location of four pieces of rare starmetal across the Living Lands and bring them to the one blacksmith qualified to turn…
Just a few days ago, I caught up with Hermen Hulst, formerly the managing director of Guerrilla. In his first interview since becoming Head of Worldwide Studios, Hulst provides insight into his new role overseeing PlayStation’s international network of game developers and creators. Our talk covers a lot of ground: from upcoming film and TV…
Prototypes are at Gamescom as we speak. While ’80s rivals such as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision fought for domination of the TV, the Vectrex offered gamers something different – it came with its own built-in screen capable of producing vector graphics like those seen in arcade titles like Asteroids. Sadly, it wasn’t a commercial…
Cain claims a lot of modern games “try to be everything to everyone”. Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has released a new video on his YouTube channel, suggesting more modern games should look back on how ’80s video games were put together to produce higher-quality titles (thanks, PC Gamer, for the spot!). In the video, entitled…
Free blades if you’ve played TOTK or AoC. It’s not too long now until we finally get our hands on Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment on Switch 2, with that 2nd November release date rapidly approaching. To sate our appetites in the interim, Nintendo has dropped a new teaser trailer showing off Koei Tecmo’s very…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
Revealed today at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live showcase, Swords of Legends is a brand new singleplayer action RPG based on Chinese mythology, and if that title rings a bell you’re very likely thinking of Swords of Legends Online, the Chinese MMO that came our way in 2021. But this is a completely separate and different…
K.O.’d by server issues Street Fighter V didn’t have the smoothest launch in the world. One of the problems is that users reported a myriad of issues with Capcom’s servers—painfully slow matchmaking, outright outages, and disconnects were some of the complaints. Capcom was quick to roll out several fixes, but for many, the problems persisted….
Trust me, I’m a professional. The Saturn may have lost out to the Sony PlayStation in terms of market share, but one thing it got right was its controller. Sure, the PS1 pad boasted a forward-thinking design complete with four shoulder buttons and ergonomic ‘prong’ grips, but its D-pad was a distant second to the…