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An unexpected and fun surprise from the PC Gaming Show was the reveal of Klei Entertainment’s newest game. Rotwood is a multiplayer action game, and it’s expected to enter early access at some point, but that date is up in the air for now. Thanks to the Steam description, we know a little more about

Not-E3 2022 continues today with the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase, and we’ll be liveblogging it right here. Will we see more of Starfield that isn’t CGI target footage and concept art? Could we get a closer look at Playground Games’ mysterious new Fable? Will Redfall get its first major public appearance since, uh, the

2017’s Serial Cleaner was all about stealthfully infiltrating a murder scene and cleaning up the mess before the cops got their hands on any evidence. Developer Draw Distance is taking that concept and expanding on it further with Serial Cleaners, offering more ways to play and even more gruesome crimes to cover up. [embedded content] Unlike

When I was a student I used to spend way too much time scrolling through the endlessly refreshing collection of horror flashfiction on r/nosleep. Consequently I’m a fan of horror anthologies in the vein of No Code’s Stories Untold. Upcoming freak ’em up The Fridge Is Red (developed by 5Word Team) looks like r/nosleep having

We have officially entered the most hype time of the gaming year, and the staff of Game Informer is in full Summer Game Fest mode this week. Part of our team is in Los Angeles to check out many of the games featured during the summer showcases, and the home team is working just as hard watching presentations

Ever since Diablo Immortal launched amid a storm of controversy last week, people have been trying to work out how much it really costs to play this theoretically free game. I’ll be honest that maths has never been my strongest suit, but figuring out how games work under-the-hood is one of my favourite things to

Today during Devolver Digital’s Summer Game Fest live stream, a new trailer for Skate Story was revealed. And honestly, you just need to see it. It looks so cool. Check it out:  For the uninitiated, Skate Story has been floating around for a while. Since 2020, developer Sam Eng has been slowly revealing the game

Despite Matthew almost wilfully misunderstanding the topic for this week’s Electronic Wireless Show podcast, we manage to settle down and talk about the games we’d most like to have toy sets of. What game d’you think would be the best Lego set? Action figures? Obscure 80s and 90s toy? Oh, we have fun on this

For readers of the One Piece manga, the longest arc in the series focused on the secluded country of Wano is coming to an end in just a couple of weeks. Eiichiro Oda, One Piece’s creator, has announced a brief hiatus for the manga in preparation for the start of its final saga, which begins

When I look outside my window, I often see our two cats scrabbling up our back wall as they hop over the fence to visit the neighbour’s garden. Up and down they go, covering distances seemingly impossible for their tiny, wiry frames, yet without coming to any harm whatsoever. It’s an instinct the team at

There are a few PlayStation studios that we haven’t heard much from in a while, one of which is the Days Gone developers Bend Studio. That changes today with a blog post detailing the history of Bend Studio and giving a tiny hint at what the team is up to with its next project. The post details

Grand strategy global war game Hearts Of Iron IV will be engaged by new expansion By Blood Alone later this year, Paradox Interactive have announced. The new pack will let you design your very own warplanes, while also indulging alternate history fans with its focus trees for Italy, Ethiopia and, interestingly, neutral Switzerland. Check out

Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince is coming this August, and a new trailer shows off the rogues’ gallery of bosses fans can expect to confront in the sequel. The follow-up to the 2017 Zelda-inspired adventure launches on August 16. Like the first game, players steer an adventurer named Lily through a choice-driven story told

Over the past few weeks I’ve sampled so many retro-styled FPSes, I’d class it as a form of training. I’m now attuned to their look, their pacing, their good and bad points. So, it came as no surprise when I found myself testing out the closed alpha of yet another of their ilk: Ripout, an

After a night of being offline following the Collision event, Fortnite is back, once again shaking up the norm with new biomes to explore, skins to unlock, and gameplay techniques to master. In the final moments of last night’s event, we saw Obi-Wan Kenobi locked in combat with Darth Vader. The feared Sith Lord is

Happy Pokémon Go Fest, trainers! We have two long days of catching Pokémon in front of us. To be a part of this festival, you need to buy the ticket in the in-game item shop for $14.99. As we complete research challenges that lead to a mythical encounter with Shaymin, we’ll want to be on

Amazon Games has partnered with Disruptive Games, the studio behind Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 and Diablo II: Resurrected, to create a new intellectual property that will release on a variety of machines. Described by Amazon Games as an online multiplayer action-adventure with cooperative and competitive play, this new experience appears to be

Xalavier Nelson Jr has a bit of a love hate relationship with screens right now. As development on his studio’s gutsy market game Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator was wrapping up at the end of last year, he tells me he remembers “just being really angry at the concept of the borders of the screen”.

The developers of survival horror game The Callisto Protocol have announced that it’ll be coming out in December, and revealed a new gameplay trailer to watch with the sound off through your fingers.

Stray, the game about being a little cat exploring around a big cybercity, has a release date – and it’s soon! July, in fact. That’s next month! Time flies when you’re excited about getting to be a ginger tabby kitty.

A new trailer for Final Fantasy XVI was released during today’s PlayStation State of Play, and it revealed a whole lot of war, turmoil, and primals.  It also gave us extended looks at gameplay and a summer 2023 release window, which might come as a surprise considering producer Naoki Yoshida said in April that FF

The Steam Deck‘s docking station has been delayed, says Valve. Unfortunately, there’s currently no way to tell when the issue might be resolved.

Now that the calendar has shifted from May to June, Pride month has officially kicked off. In support of LGBTQIA+ communities, Microsoft will be donating money to charity, selling a new controller design, and more to celebrate. Starting on June 9, the faceplate design you see above will be available in the Xbox Design Lab as a customization option through the

I used to draw Abe’s Oddysee levels. Then Abe’s Exoddus, when that came out. Also, before them, every other platform game I ever got my hands on. Take a sheet of plain paper, turn it horizontal, draw two long lines across it, dividing it into three strips. That’s a level; that’s a side-scrolling environment. That’s

Summer Game Fest kicks off on June 9, and host Geoff Keighley has unveiled the full list of game publishers and studios participating in the event.  This year’s #SummerGameFest will feature events, activities and updates for fans from more than 30 partners, with more to be announced. It’s going to be a great month for video

Perspective puzzlers Monument Valley and Monument Valley 2 are heading to PC this summer. They’ll be expanded – not just for bigger screens, but also “with more intriguing impossibilities than ever before.”

If you’ve ever wondered if people in the world of Star Wars play sports that don’t involve racing repulsorcrafts, we now know that they play at least one: Blitzball.  No, you didn’t misread that – it says Blitzball, you know, the underwater hockey-like sport played by Tidus, Wakka, and others in Final Fantasy X. That’s

To be honest, I found Computex 2022 kind of underwhelming; this is usually the biggest event in the PC gaming hardware calendar, and had returned to Taipei after an all-remote 2021 show, but ended with only a smattering of major announcements in the bag. We got nothing on Intel’s Arc graphics cards, and Nvidia’s keynote

Fast Four Word is a clever idea. It’s a Wordle-like in which you begin with a four-letter starting word and must enter a new word which changes just a single letter. So if the starting word is AHEM, as it was yesterday, you could change the first letter and enter THEM. From there, you have

Nintendo has revealed a sneak peek at an upcoming music track from Splatoon 3. Nintendo describes “Sea Me Now” by in-universe band Front Roe as having “a melodious, punkish sound” that has been “swimming up the charts in Splatville lately.” True to the description, the track veers closer to what we had in the first