Up against Astro Bot, Metaphor and more. The longlist for the 2025 BAFTA Game Awards is here and Nintendo’s own The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is in the running for the top prize. 58 games have made it onto the BAFTA longlist this year, with each of the 17 categories currently home to…
In 2018 Hideo Kojima visited Valve headquarters to talk about Death Stranding. Based on emails now public thanks to the ongoing Musk v. Altman lawsuit, Kojima and Gabe Newell seem to have hit it off, if they weren’t already buddy-buddy: after the meeting Newell promised to introduce Kojima to people at the then still-not-well-known OpenAI,…
There are two things I know about Killer Instinct. In the original ’90s fighting game, Orchid had a finisher where she flashed her chest at the opponent, giving them a fatal heart attack, and in the 2013 reboot, Rash from Battletoads was OP. Killer Instinct was a bigger deal on Xbox than it was on…
Quickly blaze a path to a magnificent Wordle win with today’s answer—it’s only a quick click away, after all. Or, if you’d rather take your time, feel free to spend a while pondering our helpful clue for the January 14 (939) puzzle. Whatever helps you win your daily game: the way you want to win…
It’s almost hard to make out what’s even happening in the trailer for Romeo is a Dead Man, a new action game from Suda 51’s studio Grasshopper Manufacture, with all the gore covering the screen. The main guy’s head explodes 20 seconds into the trailer and then he’s turns into a cyborg who tears apart…
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, a game with a title that feels like it ought to have a colon or an em dash somewhere in there, is finally here and it’s selling like whatever the nautical equivalent of hotcakes is. Hardtack, I guess. Not only did it sell 2 million copies in a single day,…
Last week, we asked for daring shots from the middle of the action of your favorite game. You shared characters fighting, leaping and defying gravity using the hashtags #PS4share and #PSBlog, and we’ve selected the shots that blew us away. Aloy launches into attack mode in this crisp shot from Horizon Zero Dawn by @LUCKYless11….
First reported by Tom’s Hardware, The July Steam Hardware Survey results are in, and it’s more bad news for Intel, which saw a 0.75% drop last month while AMD gained 0.74% of Steam users. This shift, which has been a trend for years now, puts Intel CPUs at 59.5%, edging perilously close to losing first…
It’s well weapon. Commodore International lifted the lid on its next hardware project yesterday, and it’s fair to say that the announcement didn’t go down all that well with everyone. Given Commodore’s heritage in gaming, many were hoping for something more along the lines of the (excellent) C64 Ultimate, but instead, we got a Y2K…
There’s a lot going on this week, folks. Monday saw a thick glut of Steam Machine news, and today Rockstar switched on the Grand Theft Auto 6 info-hose. I am here to tell you not to care about any of it. Here’s the real story: Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 have got new patches. Baldur’s…