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The second annual Video Game Accessibility Awards happened last night, on March 13, and it saw many studios take home awards for their accessibility efforts in gaming in 2021.  Hosted by AbleGamers’ Steven Spohn and Sony Santa Monica studio writer Alanah Pearce, this awards show highlighted what studios were doing to make games more accessible

I no longer want to play any game released prior to 2005, but you may feel differently. You may look at the Gold Box D&D games and think, ‘Yes, what I crave is hours upon hours of late-80s/early-90s CRPGs about dying in a sewer.’ If that is you, then good news: they’re coming to Steam

It’s Friday yet again, and you know what that means: It’s time for another edition of Weekend Warrior! This week has been an absolute whirlwind with the Sony State of Play on Wednesday, plenty of new game reviews hitting the site (check out Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, Gran Turismo 7, Triangle Strategy, and WWE

Do you smell that? That’s the smell of justice, courtesy of John Cena, err, Peacemaker. If you haven’t had your fill of The Suicide Squad and James Gunn’s accompanying Peacemaker TV show on HBO Max and are looking for more from everyone’s favorite murderous justice-deliverer man, then Funko has you covered with five new Pop figures. 

Nintendo and Capcom are giving Nintendo Switch Online users an entire week of access to Monster Hunter Rise starting today for no additional cost. The trial, which is going from March 11 through March 17, allows players access to the entirety of Monster Hunter Rise while the offer is active. Nintendo’s download page for the trial

Intel’s 12th Gen notebook processors and the mobile version of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 Ti are now finding their way into gaming laptops, after their respective reveals this January. And both have found their way into the MSI Raider GE76, that top-spec GPU getting paired with a fittingly top-spec CPU: the Core i9-12900HK.

I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned this to you, dear readers, but I am currently mid-emigration. In about two weeks I’m moving to Ireland, which means for the past four months my live has been hellish. The paperwork the move involves, especially now we have from our European womb been untimely ripped, is a Kafkaesque

WWE 2K22 launches tomorrow with a roster of over 80 superstars that you can view right here. However, those won’t be the only wrestlers in the game. 2K has rolled out the content roadmap for DLC character packs to give players a heads up on who to expect and when. The roadmap consists of 28

Distant Worlds 2 review in progressDistant Worlds 2 is an enormous 4X strategy game about building space empires that refines the formula from Distant Worlds. I’ll have more to say soon, and I’ve a feeling it’ll be mostly good. Developer: Codeforce Publisher: Slitherine Ltd. Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam, Slitherine Price: £33/€40/$40 I

Trek to Yomi is a stylish action title that may not have been on your radar before, but its latest trailer during today’s State of Play presentation shows off why it may be worth keeping an eye on.  The game, developed by Shadow Warrior makers Flying Wild Hog, is an action sidescrolling take on classic samurai

I have enjoyed seeing Wordle fans make a million new daily puzzle games to make us guess words in strange and cruel new ways. I have enjoyed even more seeing Wordle fans make daily puzzle games which aren’t about guessing words, using familiar elements for whole new challenges. Heardle makes you guess songs by listening

Half the point of the Steam Deck is that it’s portable, but the other half is that it’s a PC. With the right tools, then, you can plug into a monitor, add a mouse and keyboard, and get playing as if it were a (somewhat) conventional gaming rig. But how well does the Steam Deck

Batman’s Batkids will swing by for open-world antics in Gotham Knights on the 25th of October this year, Warner Bros. announced today. This is the game which looks kinda Batman: Arkham-y but doesn’t have Batman, instead letting us play as his various protégés. And it’s got online co-op, which sounds Batnice.

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, more games companies have decided to suspend some business with Russia. In the past few days, Activision Blizzard, Epic, and CD Projekt (including GOG) all announced plans to stop selling games or stop selling things in games to Russia, joining a list which also includes EA and Microsoft.

There are still a couple of months left in Season 1: Heroes of Reach in Halo Infinite, but creative director Joseph Staten has revealed some of what we can expect in Season 2.  More specifically, Staten has revealed in a new blog post that Season 2 will be called Lone Wolves. It will launch with

Kairosoft are bringing five of their games to Steam later this month, including the beloved, life-consuming Game Dev Story. The others on the way are Hot Springs Story, Station Manager, Dungeon Village and Dream House Days DX – all of which contain the same moreish business management loop.

Hitman 3‘s second year saw the addition of Elusive Targets Arcade, which brings permanent new assassination contracts to the murder sandbox as opposed to the previous time-limited targets. Three new Arcade contracts were added this week, alongside tweaks which make existing and future Arcade contracts a lot simpler.

Another week is in the books, and a new month has risen. We’re officially in the thick of March, and while game releases are still coming in hot as they did all throughout February, something about this weekend feels like there’s a tad of a respite. With Triangle Strategy’s launching today, many may choose to

Russia openly attacked and invaded Ukraine on February 24 after weeks of mounting tensions between the two countries, with hundreds of Ukrainian citizens reportedly killed by bombings and Russian militia as a result. As the world watches this historical and terrifying event unfold, efforts have begun to aid civilians and organizations on the ground floor

Square Enix previously laid out the roadmap for Final Fantasy XIV, including the expansion of the Trust System which helps out solo players. Now they’ve shared more details of patch 6.1, due mid-April, which promises the MMO’s first post-Endwalker content.

The House of the Dead: Remake was announced last Spring and set to hit Switch sometime in 2021. That obviously didn’t happen and it’s been a minute since we’ve seen or heard anything about the game…until today, because Forever Entertainment has released a new trailer that reveals the remake’s release date.  Fortunately, those anxious to

Surrealist indie game Glitchhikers, originally published in 2014, is getting expanded and re-released later this month. Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between is described as a “reborn and reimagined” version of the original, taking players on a trip through all the liminal hits: a late night drive, a deserted airport, an empty park, and an overnight train.

Doom II co-creator John Romero has released a new level for the famed FPS and 100% of the proceeds will go to the people of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Red Cross, and the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund.  The last time Romero released a new level for Doom II, it was 1994, when the game

Lost Ark has revealed a roadmap that will bring more content to the Western version of the game, starting this month. March will see the addition of more story, as well as a late-game activity called Abyss Raids, where players will need to work together to defeat a Guardian within a set time limit.

If you missed out on watching the Marvel Defenders series like Daredevil and Jessica Jones while they were on Netflix, as of yesterday those shows are no longer available. The good news is Disney is making room on its streaming service for all of the MCU-related TV shows. The countdown is on. Marvel’s Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage,

I have to confess that I am waiting for the minutes to tick down to the end of my shift, because Far: Changing Tides is out today and I want nothing more than to take a rickety old sailboat out for an atmospheric glide across the seas. I can already smell the grease and the

The GTA Trilogy sparked excitement when first announced last October. Slated to be a definitive edition of GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas, the Trilogy boasted Unreal Engine-amplified graphics and modernized control schemes. This includes enhanced lighting effects, upgraded character/vehicle models, and higher resolution textures. Unfortunately, the fandom disappointment was almost immediate when the

“Collect berries and plant greens to avoid scurvy and ensure a healthy diet,” reads the Steam description for Farthest Frontier. Yes, this is exactly what I want from a middle ages-ish citybuilder – one from the makers of action-RPG Grim Dawn. Come watch its first trailer below.

It’s been nearly three years since the release of Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield, which began Generation 8 of the long-running pocket monster-catching series. And now, following yesterday’s reveal of Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, we’ll be diving headfirst into Generation 9 later this year on the Switch.  A new generation of Pokémon is exciting for a number of reasons.

The next mainline Pokémon games have been revealed as Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, and they’ll be released on the Switch in “late 2022.”  This news comes by way of today’s Pokémon Day steam. Pokémon Red and Blue were released in Japan on February 27, 1996 and these days, The Pokémon Company celebrates the yearly