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The Blood of Dawnwalker review

CD Projekt Red alumni create a familiar dark fantasy adventure, but one with bold and provocative ideas of its own, that's mostly, enormously successful. Read...

4 days ago

Cult simulator Join Us recruits four real ex-cult members to "experience the game's darkly satirical take on cult life"

Join Us, the upcoming co-op game where you can establish your own cult, has recruited four former cult members to "recruit followers, build their compounds, de...

4 days ago

Sony's next PlayStation State of Play coming this Thursday, followed by a Japan and Asia-dedicated showcase

Our next port of call when it comes to major livestreams filled with game reveals isn't too far off. Sonytoday announced the date of the next PlayStation State...

4 days ago

Xbox CEO refuses to confirm whether next console Helix will have a disc drive

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma will not confirm if its next console system, codenamed Project Helix, will have a disc. Read more #physicalmedia #microsoft Read full ar...

4 days ago

Here's every announcement from Pokémon World Championships

The 2026 Pokémon World Championships wrapped up in San Francisco this weekend, marking the franchise's 30th anniversary alongside the inaugural Pok&eacu...

4 days ago

Forza Horizon 6 appears to have been quietly delayed on PS5

If it feels like Xbox has gone quiet on the anticipated PlayStation 5 port of Forza Horizon 6, that's because it has indeed been months since that version of t...

4 days ago

Fable's main story will take around 15 to 20 hours to complete

Xbox and Playground Games have given a rough idea of how long Fable will take to finish: 15-20 hours. Read more #ps5 #fable2026 #xboxgamestudios #actionadvent...

4 days ago

Ed Sheeran gives surprise performance of Pokémon anime theme and Celestial at World Championships

Ed Sheeran made a surprise appearance at the Pokémon World Championships this weekend, opening the closing ceremony with Celestial and an acoustic rendi...

4 days ago

The Witcher 4 already runs on all target platforms - CD Projekt Red not taking any chances after Cyberpunk 2077

The Witcher 4, CD Projekt Red's next major game, will hopefully not suffer the performance problems of the studio's former major release, Cyberpunk 2077. The d...

4 days ago

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta Steam numbers haven't budged in the second weekend, despite Warzone's arrival and transformative patch

We're deep in the second and final session of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta. This open portion is available on one more platform - Switch 2, and can...

4 days ago

Activision sends a legal rep to a Call of Duty cheat seller's front door, films the whole thing, posts it online

Activision has posted footage of one of its legal representatives turning up at the Ohio home of a notorious Call of Duty cheat seller and handing over a cease...

4 days ago

Phasmophobia's second Quality of Life update adds Restricted maps, VR fixes, and much creepier deaths

Kinetic Games has released Phasmophobia's second Quality of Life update, adding a raft of new Restricted maps, streamlined Evidence collection, VR fixes, and c...

4 days ago

12TB Valve archive leak includes early Portal 2 builds and hints of Half-Life 2: Episode Three

A leaked archive said to contain around 12TB of old Valve development files, dated between 2003 and 2013, has surfaced online, and fans are already combing thr...

4 days ago

Multiple developers report equipment stolen from their Gamescom booths

Multiple exhibitors at Gamescom have reported thefts of laptops and other equipment from their booths in Cologne, with one indie developer saying the loss has...

4 days ago

Rockstar confirms GTA 6 won't have microtransactions or generative AI at launch

Rockstar has confirmed Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch without microtransactions or generative AI. Read more #grandtheftautovi #modernday #fullproduct #firstpe...

4 days ago

EA breaks its silence after Iron Man gameplay leak, admitting "well, that didn't go as planned"

EA has broken its silence on the leaked Iron Man footage that surfaced yesterday, admitting, "well, that didn't go as planned". Read more #nintendowii #ps3 #...

4 days ago

GTA 6's gameplay reveal pulled in 3.97 million viewers across commentator livestreams, overwhelming Twitch and Netflix in the process

Reaction streams to Grand Theft Auto 6's first gameplay presentation peaked at 3,970,738 viewers across livestreaming platforms, making it the biggest gaming s...

4 days ago

Squadron 42 delayed to 2027, with Star Citizen dev blaming GTA 6

Cloud Imperium Games has delayed Squadron 42, its long-in-development Star Citizen spin-off, to Q2 2027, with studio boss Chris Roberts arguing the game would...

4 days ago

Playdate maker Panic is passing tariff refunds on to customers

Panic, maker of the crank-powered handheld Playdate, is forwarding Supreme Court-ordered tariff refunds back to customers. Read more #panic #playdate #refunds...

4 days ago

Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd & Pichu gets first trailer

The Pokémon Company International and Aardman have released the first teaser trailer for Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd & Pichu,...

4 days ago

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is aiming to be the "definitive" game for the setting, and I think it might be exactly that

In a small room inside a crowded Koelnesse convention centre, a short presentation on Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is shown to a gaggle of tired writers. Creati...

4 days ago

What we've been playing - "Forget the classics: remaster the duds"

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Kelsey didn't have to sacrifice a limb to...

4 days ago

Hell Let Loose: Vietnam review

The most surprising thing about Hell Let Loose: Vietnam is how much DNA it shares with Big Walk. They both frequently involve traversing large expanses of terr...

4 days ago

Footage of new Iron Man game from EA Motive appears to leak, showing blistering speed and freedom, as MIA superhero game finally reappears

What appears to be footage from EA Motive's long-in-development - and somewhat missing-in-development - Iron Man game has leaked. Read more #nintendowii #ps3...

4 days ago

Rockstar says GTA 6 runs at 30 FPS, while it's reportedly unsure about a 60 FPS performance mode

UPDATE 3.30PM BST: Performance perfectionist Digital Foundry has scrutinised the latest GTA 6 trailer (which can be downloaded for a closer, purer appraisal) a...

4 days ago

"Somebody will make the Half-Life 2 of AI" - after the Rideshare controversy, Saber CCO says something will come along and "change people's minds" about gen-AI

Saber Interactive made headlines recently when its boss had an ugly spat with a former employee about the company's use of gen-AI in taxi game Rideshare Stimul...

4 days ago

Star Wars Zero Company understands that Star Wars games should feel less like the movies and more like the toys

I'm still early days on Star Wars Zero Company, but I think I'm in love. And this is kind of expected and also kind of strange. It's kind of expected because t...

4 days ago

GTA 6's map is so massive, you could fit two GTA 5s in it - and we know roughly how long it'll take to beat too

As part of its massive GTA 6 info blowout, Rockstar has been talking sizes - both of the map kind and length kind - confirming its latest open-world epic unfo...

4 days ago

Twitch suffers major outage following Grand Theft Auto 6's extended look gameplay trailer premiere

Popular livestreaming platform Twitch suffered a major outage soon after the premiere of the Grand Theft Auto 6 extended look on Netflix. Read more #grandthef...

4 days ago

GTA 6 has more than 10 times the animations in GTA 5, and double the amount in Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar confirms

Everyone was expecting GTA 6 to be massive, sure, but comparing the amount of unique animations in the game to what was included in Rockstar Games' previous wo...

4 days ago

GTA 6: This is what a billion dollars gets you

There are plenty of layers to GTA 6, if the game's 26-minute Netflix teaser is anything to go by. Read more #grandtheftautovi #firstperson #ps5 #racing #actio...

4 days ago

Ghost of Yōtei: Complete Edition's Most Wanted roguelike mode brings back Tsushima's Jin Sakai

During today's State of Play showcase, Ghost of Yōtei developer Sucker Punch brought a first-look trailer at Most Wanted. This is the roguelike mode the...

4 days ago

Monster Hunter Ascendance gets a new gameplay trailer, showing new elder dragons, a floating island region, and a major glow up for a certain character

A new gameplay trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance was just shown at the Sony State of Play, showing off a variety of new features coming with the exp...

4 days ago

Everything announced at Sony's State of Play September 2026

It's showcase time! After a packed Gamescom, Sony's doing its own thing once more, this time giving a taste of everything coming to PlayStation 5 in the coming...

4 days ago

Guild Wars 3's devs think they've found an answer to one of MMOs' biggest problems, but can ArenaNet pull it off?

Close your eyes and imagine a standard MMORPG. The way it moves, the way it plays. Save for a few finer intricacies, they've largely played the same for over t...

4 days ago

PlayStation State of Play live report - all of today's news from Sony's September 2026 showcases

Here we go again: Sony is showing off two State of Play showcases today, the first focusing on games coming to the PlayStation 5 over the coming weeks and mont...

4 days ago

Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen devs say Western and Japanese players want different things from the game

It seems catering to Dragon's Dogma 2 players is a tougher balancing act than we may realise. Capcom developers currently working on the game's upcoming Dark A...

4 days ago

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is seemingly on its way to Switch 2

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced could be the next big 2026 release to come to Switch 2. That's according to a retail listing, which suggests the game is s...

4 days ago

How does Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney reckon we can fight the component crisis and industry "Crash 2.0"? By building more factories, for one

It's pretty obvious to anyone that's been paying attention that the games industry is in a pretty rough place at the moment. No matter where you look, there ar...

4 days ago

"We can get any IP" - Saber CCO on why reviving dormant franchises is the big, obvious secret to the publisher's success, and why Xbox could learn from it

It is no secret to those paying attention to the video game industry that Saber Interactive's fortunes have change dramatically in recent years. First surging...

4 days ago

Planet Coaster and Jurassic World developer Frontier partners with Disney for a new video game

Frontier Developments - the developer behind Planet Coaster and Jurassic World - has announced a partnership with Disney. As part of this collaboration, a new...

4 days ago

Following Nintendo's example, Sony and Microsoft argue they have no obligation to pass tariff refunds onto customers

Lawyers representing Sony and Microsoft have argued, in two separate lawsuits, that the platform holders are not obligated to pass tariff refunds back to consu...

4 days ago

Kingdom Hearts almost led to Disney making its own version of Super Smash Bros, former dev says

Kingdom Hearts bashing together a bunch of Disney's best toys (and being quite successful in the process) led the Mouse House to briefly begin work on a crosso...

4 days ago

Iconic Banjo-Kazooie composer is more hopeful about a sequel these days, but knows "like three companies" have already been turned down

Grant Kirkhope - the iconic video game composer behind the Donkey Kong Rap and the Banjo-Kazooie games - thinks a potential Banjo-Threeie is slightly more like...

4 days ago

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe gets a surprise Switch 2 update, bringing eight-player split-screen to the evergreen racing game

Nintendo heard us. Our Mario Kart 8 Deluxe parties weren't simultaneously ruining enough friendships, so the evergreen racer can now be played in split-screen...

4 days ago

Ace Combat 8 reveals live service online multiplayer modes that include PvE, PvP, PvPvE battles, and a hangout space

Bandai Namco has revealed the live-service-like Ace Combat Online, a separate, companion selection of online modes coming with Ace Combat 8. Read more #acecom...

4 days ago

Lego Skylines is already looking like a treat, but I suspect the real magic's in the stuff Paradox won't talk about just yet

How's this for an unhelpful opener: in a lot of ways, Lego Skylines is exactly what you think it is; but in others, it's probably not. Conceptually, it's a win...

4 days ago

Nvidia's controversial, face-changing, gen-AI DLSS 5 tech releases tomorrow for one game, and seems to tank frame-rates

Nvidia's hotly debated DLSS 5 tech, which uses generative AI to apply graphical filters to existing games, arrives this week, albeit only in one game. The game...

4 days ago

Square Enix denies it's going private following Japanese reports to the contrary

Square Enix, the Japanese publisher and developer behind Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest and many other legendary franchises, has had to release a...

4 days ago

World of Warcraft fans so eager to find confirmation of "Classic Plus", they've dug "wow 2" evidence out of Blizzards' backend

World of Warcraft fans are currently obsessing over colours, as dataminers pull hues from Blizzard's website that are labelled under a curious "wow 2" tag. Thi...

4 days ago

September's first wave of Xbox Game Pass games revealed, and it brings RuneScape to console for the first time

The first wave of games coming to PC and Xbox Game Pass in September have been revealed, and it's a little barren. Probably the highlight is the arrival of new...

4 days ago

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis isn't even out yet, but already it feels like an old relic - in all the wrong ways

Last year, on a bit of a whim, I ended up playing Tomb Raider 1's superb remaster and Crystal Dynamics' 2007 remake Tomb Raider: Anniversary. Both, it turns ou...

4 days ago

Amazon's Sophie Turner-led Tomb Raider series broke UK safety laws during production

The UK's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has said the production of Tomb Raider, the Amazon MGM-produced TV series, has breached UK safety laws at Shinfield...

4 days ago

Capcom quietly releases new trailers for Monster Hunter Wilds Ascendance, teasing changes to all 14 weapon types

We know that we're getting Monster Hunter Wilds' first expansion, Ascendance, at sometime in 2027. Initially, we were expecting to see more about the game at e...

4 days ago

The next StarCraft may not be made by Blizzard, according to a new report

Nexon, the giant Korean developer and publisher, is said to be close to inking a deal with Blizzard over the rights to develop a sequel in the StarCraft franch...

4 days ago

A behind-closed-doors demo of The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past has been a great reminder: CDPR's writing is some of gaming's very best

Last week, as Gamescom 2026 first began to open up to media and business visitors, I double-timed it to CD Projekt Red's booth. I had been promised the very fi...

4 days ago

No Rest for the Wicked delayed to 2027, promises new beta and founders packs for early buyers to tide people over

No Rest for the Wicked - the upcoming Action RPG from Ori developer Moon Studios - has been delayed into next year. Originally intended to release into version...

4 days ago

The Grand Theft Auto run button has changed after 25 years - GTA 6 no longer requires you to tap a face button to peg it

For nearly 25 years, Grand Theft Auto games have uniquely mapped your sprint movement to a face button on a controller. Although some Rockstar games offered al...

4 days ago

Rockstar Games unveils its official GTA Online RP server, mere months before GTA 6

Rockstar Games hasn't said much of anything about GTA 6's potential multiplayer offerings, but the developer is making strides for GTA Online's roleplaying com...

4 days ago

PlayStation argues "reasonable consumers" already know they don't actually own their digital games

As PlayStation's plan to scrap the production of game discs inches closer, Sony's lawyers are arguing that "reasonable consumers" already know that they don't...

4 days ago

CD Projekt Red never considered charging for The Witcher 3 remaster, and says expansion Songs of the Past came from a couple of "happy accidents"

Polish developer CD Projekt Red apparently never considered charging players for the recently revealed Remastered edition of The Witcher 3, and it has explaine...

4 days ago

Paradox's Afterworld feels like the first grand strategy game I can properly wrap my head around

I've got a bit of a funny relationship with Paradox's grand strategy games. I love the idea of them, of waging and flirting my way across history on the most g...

4 days ago

Mortal Shell 2 dramatically improved in almost every way by first major update

On Saturday, Mortal Shell 2 received its biggest update yet, a little over a week after release. Developer Cold Symmetry was seemingly keen to address as many...

4 days ago

CEO of Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group Brian Ward steps down after overseeing billions in mobile gaming acquisitions

Brian Ward, the CEO of the Saudi-Arabian-state-owned Savvy Games Group, has left his role. During his tenure, he oversaw $38bn of investment into various gamin...

4 days ago

"It reflects the realities of a market that has changed profoundly" - Life is Strange creator Don't Nod responds to concern about impending layoffs

UPDATE 2ND SEPTEMBER 10AM BST: Don't Nod has expanded on the worrying situation it faces in a statement sent to Eurogamer this morning. Read more #platformer...

4 days ago

Laid off id Software developer says crunch on Doom: The Dark Ages' Revelations DLC was "brutal" with up to 17-hour days

Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations, an expansion-sized DLC, was released in July, in the same week Microsoft announced its sweeping 3,200 staff layoffs. The lay...

4 days ago

Microsoft will give you $5 to buy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on Xbox (or Xbox on PC)

Microsoft has kicked off a promotion seemingly out of nowhere to push people to pre-order Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on its platforms, rather than those of...

4 days ago

CD Projekt Red powerless regarding PS5 disc edition of The Witcher 4, but promises a game box with "feelies" whatever happens

CD Projekt Red, as influential as it is, has said it cannot do anything to guarantee a PlayStation 5 disc-based edition of The Witcher 4 when the game is relea...

4 days ago

"Most" of the developers behind critically acclaimed Star Wars Zero Company were furloughed ahead of launch

Most of the developers behind the critically acclaimed Star Wars Zero Company were furloughed weeks before the game's launch last week, as a legal dispute betw...

4 days ago

Orbitals review

Orbitals' twin protagonists Maki and Omura have this adorable little habit. When they leave behind a tool – a ground-pound backpack or hacked microwave o...

4 days ago

As the legal hunt for the GTA 6 leaker continues, Take-Two reportedly tries another more secretive Discord subpoena, this time specifying individuals

Rockstar parent company Take-Two has escalated its hunt for the people behind the numerous Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks from two weeks ago. The publisher has filed...

4 days ago

Onimusha: Way of the Sword review

Legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi considered himself more an artist than a fighter. A keen strategist and a self-proclaimed master of war, I think it's Musa...

4 days ago

Dutch artist responds to the White House's Build the Wall game with Build that Bridge

A Dutch artist has released Build that Bridge, a free browser game built as a direct response to Build the Wall, the Tetris-style minigame the White House laun...

4 days ago

The Blood of Dawnwalker has sold 1 million copies in just 3 days

The Blood of Dawnwalker has sold more than a million copies worldwide in just three days. Read more #rebelwolves #ps5 #rpgaction #xboxseriesxs #rpg #pc #sales...

4 days ago

Age Twisters is a genuinely charming co-op game hoping to bridge the generation divide - and one of my loveliest surprises at Gamescom

Despite the horrors its name might imply, Age Twisters it's a surprisingly nifty little thing. I had the opportunity to check it out at Gamescom, and to my del...

4 days ago

Xbox Cloud Gaming's new hourly cap is reportedly set exactly where Microsoft stops making money on it

A new report suggests that Xbox has capped its cloud gaming usage to 15 hours for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers because that's when the service stops being pr...

4 days ago

Sony clarifies PlayStation disc production is dropping by 10 percent in 2028, not to 10 percent

Sony has pushed back on a wave of reports suggesting PlayStation disc manufacturing is about to be gutted by 90 percent after comments from a Sony DADC executi...

4 days ago

Gamescom apologises for how it initially responded to indie developer hardware thefts

Gamescom has apologised for the way it "communicated about the theft of hardware belonging to several indie developers" last week, admitting, "our first respon...

4 days ago

White House launches Arcade.gov, a minigame site parodying immigration enforcement and border security

The White House has launched Arcade.Gov, a website of browser minigames built around Donald Trump's immigration and border policies. Read more Read full artic...

4 days ago

BioWare doesn't need advice for Mass Effect 4, says veteran designer, as long as "people get out of the way"

Original Mass Effect cinematic designer and Mass Effect 2 lead cinematic designer Armando Troisi has insisted the current BioWare team doesn't need outside adv...

4 days ago

Gen-AI controversy aside, Crazy Taxi: World Tour feels like classic arcade Sega - and it's an absolute blast

Crazy Taxi was not my favourite Dreamcast game (please don't ask me to choose between the triumphant rhythm triptych of Rez, Space Channel 5, and Samba de Amig...

4 days ago

What we've been playing - "Well this is embarrassing, we're wearing the same outfit!"

Unluckily for you all, Bertie's having a well-earned long weekend (possibly skiing, possibly jumping on the spot, possibly just having a nice lie down after th...

4 days ago

After AI slop accusations, Humankind 2 studio says its new trailer was definitely "made by humankind" and at least five chickens

A large portion of the internet pointed their virtual fingers at Humankind 2's new trailer and shouted 'AI slop!' Developer Amplitude Studios is now denying th...

4 days ago

It looks like No Man's Sky's next update is imminent as Sean Murray breaks out the emojis again - and fans reckon it's a big one

Yes, it's time to brace yourself once more, No Man's Sky fans: Sean Murray is delving into his big bag of emojis, indicating - with reliable certainty - the ex...

4 days ago

Nearly a decade on, legendary director Hideki Kamiya says he's "100% serious" about reviving Xbox's canned Scalebound

Hideki Kamiya was being super serious about resurrecting Scalebound, PlatinumGames' dragon-filled romp that was cancelled by Xbox nearly a decade ago. Read mor...

4 days ago

Hype for GTA 6 is giving PS5 and Xbox console sales a much needed 30% boost

GTA 6 is already giving PlayStation and Xbox consoles a much needed sales boost, at least in the UK, even though Rockstar Games' inevitable pile of cash doesn'...

4 days ago

Next week, for the first time ever, Nintendo is hosting two Directs back-to-back - and the first one is dedicated to The Legend of Zelda's 40th anniversary

Back in June, we learned that we're officially getting a The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, which is supposedly coming to Switch 2 later this year (a...

4 days ago

Playing Mass Effect spiritual successor Exodus was the best kind of surprise

My relationship with Mass Effect begins and ends with the first game (let's just blame the M35 Mako and leave it at that), and so Exodus - which is making no b...

4 days ago

Something strange is happening to the Starcraft website, as BlizzCon inches ever closer

The Starcraft website is suffering from some mysterious visual glitches and distortion roughly a week before BlizzCon. As a result, fans of the RTS series are...

4 days ago

No Law was one of the most exciting games I saw at Gamescom: a cyberpunk immersive sim that solves one of Deus Ex's biggest problems

Sometimes you see a game and can tell that the developers just get it. No Law is one of those games. Having seen it first hand at Gamescom, it has quickly beco...

4 days ago

Xbox places monthly time limits to its paid cloud gaming service, insists only a fraction of players will be impacted

Xbox has announced hard monthly time limits will be added to its cloud gaming streaming service this November. Don't worry though, if you run into these limits...

4 days ago

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is getting a physical version, but it will require an internet connection to download

The third and final entry in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series will launch on just one disc - unlike both Remake and Rebirth, which were spread across two - bu...

4 days ago

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation finally gets a 2027 release date, as Final Fantasy Resonance gets a surprise demo

We already knew that Final Fantasy 7 Revelation was going to launch sometime in 'spring 2027', but today director Naoki Hamaguchi took to Sony's State of Play...

4 days ago

A Lego replica of the original PlayStation will be available next month

A Lego replica of the original Playstation was just revealed at the Sony State of Play, and it'll be available to order starting next month. Read more #firstp...

4 days ago

GTA 6 is getting two limited edition dualsense PS5 controllers

Two limited Edition Grand Theft Auto 6 PS5 Dualsense controllers were just revealed during the Sony State of Play livestream. Read more #grandtheftautovi #fir...

4 days ago

Final Fantasy Resonance is somehow even better than all those beautiful trailers make it look

Let me paint you a picture. It's the second day of Gamescom 2026, everyone is hot and sweaty, the schedule is rapidly deteriorating as previews run late, inter...

4 days ago

Until Dawn 2's sun-kissed horror gets a PS5 release date - and the studio behind last year's brilliant Dispatch is involved

Following its big Summer Game Fest unveiling earlier this year, Until Dawn 2 has been given a release date as part of Sony's latest State of Play showcase. And...

4 days ago

Crimson Desert's first DLC is called Charting the Unknown, and it's out next month

It didn't take long for Crimson Desert to get some new stuff. During today's State of Play presentation, developer Pearl Abyss unveiled Charting the Unknown. T...

4 days ago

Sony's discless PlayStation PR disaster isn't going away as State of Play once again flooded with protests

Today's Sony State of Play livestream was packed full of new game trailers, reveals, and announcements for PlayStation fans. However, if you took a look at the...

4 days ago