Industry analyst Matthew Ball, who recently released a “State of Videogaming in 2026” report saying games are “losing the attention war,” also predicted that in-game advertising will become more prominent in PC and console games, as developers and publishers seek out new revenue streams. He reiterated that point in a subsequent interview with The Game…
EVE Online developer CCP Games just released its end-of-year statistics for its ruthless space sandbox, in celebration of what has been a big year for the veteran Icelandic MMO. The game received two new expansions which introduced player-created freelance missions and an overhauled mining experience, as five new ships. CCP’s stats suggest these expansions went…
OLED is very nearly the perfect display technology. But two possible problems remain. The first, limited full-screen brightness looks like it’s been cracked by Samsung and LG’s next-gen panel tech. And now new evidence that burn-in isn’t necessarily much of a worry is here. YouTube channel, Monitors Unboxed, has been running a long term test…
New this week to Days Gone is the latest “bike” challenge, Dead Don’t Ride. Take your seat behind the wheel of an electric golf cart to pick up and deliver passengers at locations around the Salome Hotsprings. There are 36 passengers waiting for rides if you manage to make on time deliveries. You’re working against…
A referent interview with Shigeru Miyamoto has been published by Japanese site The Nikkei. In the interview Miyamoto talks a little about the much-loved Mario series and says that he is now trying “to avoid casting Mario too rigidly, giving him freedom to explore different character scenarios.” This a change from the past, but we…
Sometimes, I don’t want world-spanning quests and epic theatrics out of my RPGs—some days I just want to be a little guy hitting monsters and seeing my numbers go up. Dice ‘n’ Goblins, which releases on Steam today, is a perfect fix for that kind of hankerin’. The premise of Dice ‘n’ Goblins is that…
Pokopium needed? Just in case the reveal of Gen 10 for the Nintendo Switch 2 wasn’t enough, Pokémon Pokopia is also gracing us with its presence when it launches later this week on 5th March 2026. We’ve reviewed it, of course, and came away feeling really good about the cosy life-sim spin-off, awarding it a…
If you wanted to play a sneaky assassin guy (like I often do) in the excellent CRPG, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, you paradoxically never, ever wanted to pick the Assassin prestige class—it was that bad. In the game’s 2.2 update accompanying the release of its Lord of Nothing DLC on November 21, though, Assassins…
Despite my goth demeanour, I am, what they call in the ‘biz, a big old scaredy-cat. But even I have to admit I’m eyeing up this spooky Halloween Humble Bundle that’s chock-full of banger indie horror games. The biggest one by far on offer in the Indie Fears Bundle is Mouthwashing, a game which Ted…
In yearly tradition, Minecraft is letting us choose what kind of creature will be included in its next major update. The mob vote is back for 2023: Ahead of the yearly Minecraft Live show on October 15, we’ll be able to cast our votes on three different mob hopefuls, which Mojang has begun introducing today….