My first experience of Cyberpunk 2077, nearly three years ago, was rocky. I poured 120 hours into it across the first month, becoming smitten with its cast of rebellious crooks and corpo sleazebags, as well as Night City itself, but I couldn’t even walk down the street without encountering a barrage of bugs and oddities….
Elden Ring’s co-op focused spinoff, Nightreign, is set to release sometime in 2025, but thanks to Nightreign’s official website, we now know that its pre-launch network test will be held in February. The bad news is that it looks like this test will only be accessible on PS5 and Xbox Series consoles. On the official…
Puts the ‘Shock’ in ‘100 Meg Shock’. Nalua Studio has released a Steam demo of its adorably creepy Neo Geo release, Necro Pop, which is currently in development for PlayStation, PC, Xbox, and Switch, as well as original Neo Geo AES and MVS hardware. Described as an “arcadevania”, Necro Pop follows the exploits of ghost…
Why Classic Game Design Still Works One of the defining features of early video games was their simplicity. Developers working in the late 1970s and 1980s faced strict technical limitations. Hardware could only support limited memory, graphics, and processing power. As a result, developers focused on creating clear objectives and tightly balanced gameplay mechanics. This…
“Sanctuary falls”. Breaking: At BlizzCon 2026 this week, Blizzard has announced Diablo V will be coming in Spring 2029. Platforms and a specific release date have not been revealed at this stage. “Prepare for the next era. Diablo V has been announced. Visit Diablo5.Blizzard.com to sign up for future updates.” Read the full article on…
This year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase concluded with a clip from Resident Evil Requiem (before the ‘one more thing,’ at least), and sets up the story of the ninth mainline Resident Evil game with a gruesome flashback. Requiem will star FBI analyst Grace Ashcroft, who uncovers the “hidden truth behind the outbreak in Raccoon…
Modular laptop company Framework has some good news and some bad news. The good news is that memory costs from suppliers have reportedly remained steady over the past few months. The bad news is that it’s all outta storage and has to buy new stuff at inflated prices. “We’ve seen memory costs on DDR5 suppliers…
As was foretold, Deltarune chapters 3 and 4 are now live, and in case there was any doubt, yes, it remains a massively popular game—at this moment, it’s the top-selling game on Steam, and amongst the top-ten most played, too. While the release date was known, having been announced in April (although there was apparently…
Following a response from AdHoc Studio. The superhero comedy Dispatch is out on the Switch and Switch 2 this week and as we’ve already highlighted in our review, the ‘Visual Censorship’ toggle has been removed from the Nintendo versions of the game, meaning censorship is automatically activated with no option to change it. Read the…
Firaxis was brave with Civilization 7, altering the basic structure of the decades-old grand strategy series in ways that were bound to be controversial. I liked some things about Civ 7’s new “Ages” system, which requires players to swap to a new civilization twice over the course of a campaign, but it hasn’t been especially…