Disney Dreamlight Valley has announced that its next free update, Return to Beast’s Castle, will be dropping on October 1. As the title suggests, it will whisk us back to the Beauty and the Beast realm, and plans to add a few fan favourite characters for us to invite to the valley. As it stands,…
Retro Studios has tweeted this evening that they are looking for a lead producer to help them create the long-awaited Metroid Prime 4. The company has been recruiting people from all development backgrounds to help create the latest instalment in the beloved Prime franchise which made its excellent debut on the GameCube in 2002.
Qud news! Kitfox Games and Freehold Games have announced that Caves of Qud is finally on its way to Switch via a Q4 2025 release. That’s not even very far away! For those who haven’t heard of the game before, Caves of Qud is a game that spent a whopping 15 years in development and…
Can vertical shooters be erotic, though? Japanese publisher City Connection will bring the 1998 Sega Saturn vertical scroller Steam Heart’s Saturn Tribute to Nintendo Switch on 28th May. Giga’s rather adult slice of retro hardcore-shooter action — first released for PC-98 in 1994 with the Saturn version (both Japan-only) arriving in 1998 — was also…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview releasing to the Beta ring today. It’s important we note that some updates made to these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We will continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes…
Last week, we asked you to share epic moments from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (without spoilers) using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: TalentedDoge shares Cloud swinging his sword diagonally across the frame sorathluna shares Aerith posing against a blooming flower background HazzaniVP shares Zack leaping into action mobhaine shares Tifa in…
“Watch this space…”. 35 years ago this October, British publisher EMAP launched Mean Machines magazine, a console-focused spin-off of CVG, its leading multiformat monthly. Spawned from the CVG ‘Mean Machines’ section created by Tony Takoushi in 1987, the magazine would become one of the most commercially successful of its era. It lasted 24 issues before…
Warfare in Ancient Egypt gave a whole meaning to the ‘heat of battle.’ Conditions were extreme down there on the banks of the Nile, with temperatures soaring so high that soldiers would wear leather armour and breezy kilts to stop themselves overheating. The Total War series has long factored in the effects of weather on…
Fight night. The weekend is finally upon us, so it’s time for another edition of What Are You Playing! We thought that things might slow down a little after last week’s Galaxy Movie extravaganza, but nooo. We got a new Pokémon game in the shape of Pokémon Champions (complete with bugs and unusual resolution quirks),…
City of Heroes is one of my favourite games, and I’ve played enough MMOs to have very specific opinions on quest journals. I actually interviewed the hardworking fans behind its officially-sanctioned private server, Homecoming, and three of its original developers who were there for its shutdown. It’s still unmatched as an MMORPG, and I desperately…