Ska Studios (The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, Charlie Murder) has released its 2D Dark Souls-like Salt and Sanctuary on Steam today.It usually costs £13.59, but is on sale for £12.23 until 24th May.For those unfamiliar with Salt and Sanctuary, it's a 2D metroidvania with a combat s … | Continue reading

The previously rumoured Tetris movie is in the works and it's estimated to cost $80m with the plan being for it to be the first film in a trilogy.As reported by Deadline, Tetris The Movie, as it's currently called, will be a "sci-fi thriller".The film is a joint venture between t … | Continue reading

Electronic Arts has announced that it has signed a new deal to make another project with Unravel developer Coldwood Interactive."At EA, we love working with creative and passionate development teams, in our own studios and our partners," said EA executive vice president Patrick S … | Continue reading

The world's most successful MMO is still rolling, and this year it's getting its first expansion since 2014's Legends of Draenor. World of Warcraft: Legion adds a new area, the Broken Isles, along with a stack of updates and an increase in the level cap from 100 to 110. If you le … | Continue reading

Five more 3DS games are joining the Nintendo Selects range next month, including The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros. and Paper Mario: Sticker Star are also headed to the budget selection, which will all be priced at £15.99/€19.99.The Nintendo-p … | Continue reading

Doom has moved on. id Software's new take on its old classic once again straddles a fault-line between the partly colonised surface of Mars and a rollicking Death Metal album cover version of Hell, all goat motifs and bubbling plumes of gore. But each chapter does feature a secre … | Continue reading

Footage has leaked online of the long-lost Elder Scrolls game once planned for PSP.The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion would have been a companion game to Oblivion on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.It had been publicly announced and been given a rough release date of spring 2007, … | Continue reading

The headlines are clear enough. Requiring a mere 180W, and using just a single eight-pin PCI Express power input, the GeForce GTX 1080 offers a 25 to 30 per cent increase in overall performance compared to Titan X, combined with a 28 per cent reduction in TDP. It is the fastest g … | Continue reading

Sony will hold its annual E3 press conference at 6pm Pacific on Monday 13th June.Here in the UK, that's the usual eye-bleeding 2am on Tuesday 14th slot.We'll have a livestream of the event and be reporting live from the audience as usual if you do choose to have a coffee and stay … | Continue reading

Paradox always has big plans for its grand strategy games in the months and years following their release. Take the excellent Crusader Kings 2, for example, which received its latest major expansion in February, almost two years after launch."As long as enough players keep buying … | Continue reading

Fan favourite Call of Duty: Black Ops will be playable on Xbox One today, via the console's backwards compatibility service.At least, that's what it looks like - the title is advertised as "playable on Xbox One" right now via the Xbox 360 dashboard.Black Ops has been tipped for b … | Continue reading

Revolutions are precarious things. They're frequently characterised by an intoxicating underdog narrative; one which charts the glorious rise of the oppressed masses to topple their cruel overseers. By the same token, however, that surge of momentum can be a very dangerous thing … | Continue reading

Microsoft will be making nearly 1m expired Xbox Live Gamertags available again as of Wednesday, 18th May.Starting at 7pm UK time, these Gamertags will be released over a 24-hour period to give folks in other timezones an equal chance to snag some.These Gamertags were names used f … | Continue reading

A Dark Souls 3 fan has made a mod that lets you play From Software's latest action-RPG from a first-person perspective.Made by modder Zulliethewitch - who created a similar mod for both Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 - makes the game look like From's King's Field series of first-per … | Continue reading

Dark Souls 3 developer From Software recently released a PC patch to fix some of the game's PvP glitches. Unfortunately, it made things worse by causing the game to freeze for a lot of folks. As such, From just removed the update."The patch has been removed temporarily to fix the … | Continue reading

In the UK, politicians, film stars and CEOs are currently under the spotlight for squirrelling away cash in an attempt to avoid tax.Whether you're a rich tycoon with an empire in property or a politician's dad with an offshore trust fund, it seems like no one wants to pay more th … | Continue reading

Xbox 360 games released on multiple discs can now be made available via the Xbox One's back compatibility service.The first, Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut, actually went live over the weekend. Now, Microsoft has confirmed the feature has been fully implemented."I can c … | Continue reading

Shadow of the Beast is a weird game. It's rock hard, incredibly clunky and by modern day standards, a little bit pants. But for whatever reason (almost certainly David Whittaker's incredible soundtrack) it remains a fond favourite for many nostalgic gamers out there.News of this … | Continue reading

Few video games have been as well served by their box art as the Commodore Amiga's Shadow of the Beast. Roger Dean's airbrushed panorama is both prehistoric and futuristic. It shows a thicket of rangy trees, each one blasted with red leaves, while, in the middle distance, two gle … | Continue reading

Square Enix is bringing mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius west.Brave Exvius, co-developed by Square Enix and gumi inc (Brave Frontier), is a free-to-download game for iOS and Android devices, and it's out on these shores this summer. Expect in-app purchases.The story revolve … | Continue reading

Remember Hitman's Elusive Target missions? The first of these special one off missions was supposed to launch sometime in March, but for whatever reason it was delayed right up until this weekend just gone. The Forger - as the target was known - was hidden somewhere in Hitman's P … | Continue reading

Flying Wild Hog's 2013 remake of 3D Realms' campy 1997 first-person shooter Shadow Warrior was so successful that the Polish developer has more than tripled in size in the last three years. This swift evolution from a niche team of around 30 to a triple-A developer roughly 100 st … | Continue reading

Earlier this month West Ham signed a professional FIFA 16 player - making it the first team in the Premiership to do so.Now a German football team has taken the next logical step and bought a professional eSports team.Schalke have taken over League of Legends team Elements and wi … | Continue reading

A hardcore Mario fan has decoded the hidden RNG system in Super Mario 64 - and discovered how it affects nearly every frame of the game.In the video below, YouTuber pannenkeok2012 begins by laying out how the RNG system actually generates its numbers. The game is then able to pro … | Continue reading

Zangief, Street Fighter's famous muscle-bound wrestler, has never been considered one of the best characters in the game. But he's never been this bad.Now Street Fighter 5 has been out for a few months, players are starting to settle on a tier list.At the top are characters such … | Continue reading

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is the new UK number one and the most successful launch ever for the series.Launch week physical sales were up by 66 per cent over Uncharted 3, released back in 2011 on PlayStation 3.Doom turned up in second place, behind Sony's platform exclusive, but … | Continue reading

Thimbleweed Park's pitch is simple: Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion creator Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick are making an oldschool point-and-click adventure that looks, sounds and plays like a Lucasarts title from the late 80s. You look at Thimbleweed Park once, think "yeah, I get … | Continue reading

Peppy online shooter Overwatch comes from developer Blizzard, who you may remember from such games as StarCraft, World of Warcraft, Diablo and Hearthstone. If you do remember those, then keep an eye out for these sneaky Blizzard Easter eggs when you jump into Overwatch. Or don't, … | Continue reading

Space, as Captain Kirk once said, is big and empty and boring. Okay, maybe not boring, but it's sufficiently large that you can quite easily miss the important stuff that's going down if you've got your head stuck up the wrong nebula. We seem to be terribly alone out there, which … | Continue reading

Browsing your local mobile phone emporium, it's hard not to feel a slight twinge of regret that we're no longer blessed with the kind of variety that typified the "feature" phone era; that wild and often unpredictable age before Apple and Google dominated the landscape and big-sc … | Continue reading

The mixed reception for the Spectrum Vega and Elite's maligned Bluetooth keyboard may have dulled the resurgence of 8-bit gaming lately, but the announcement of the Spectrum Next computer proves that there's still life - and love - in the old machines. And it's with good reason; … | Continue reading

If Naughty Dog is to be believed, Nathan Drake's adventures have come to an end after ten solid years of bullet-riddled archaeology. You and I, on the other hand, aren't fictional characters and thus our adventures must continue; but that doesn't mean we can't learn a thing or tw … | Continue reading

The human intellect! It's an omnivorous Thing Engine that chews up anything fed to it and spits out the useful and the beautiful. You plug a disease in one end, you get a cure; you plug in ideas, you get a story; you plug in the universe and you get physics, smartphones, lasers. … | Continue reading

Microsoft has discontinued its DIY game creation kit Project Spark.As of today the title is no longer be available on the Xbox Marketplace or Windows Store.Existing users will see support for Project Spark shut down after 8th December 2016. After that no one will be able to uploa … | Continue reading

Classic Atari arcade games Centipede and Missile Command are going to be adapted into feature films.As reported by Deadline, the upcoming movies are part of a new deal between game publisher Atari and movie studio Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films, the company currently in post-production … | Continue reading

Blizzard has confirmed its stance on cheating in Overwatch, stating that any player using hacks, bots, or third-party software will be "permanently banned" from the game."These assertions aren't new or groundbreaking for Blizzard," said community manager Lylirra in a forum post t … | Continue reading

Since we've only just received Doom review code, we're going to have a full review up next week. In the meantime, here are some early impressions of the campaign.Remember the original Doom's pistol? It's the crappy little pea-shooter you fall back on when you've no other option, … | Continue reading

A global governing body for esports, The World Esports Association, has been announced in London.WESA has been founded by ESL, the world's largest esports company, with the backing of eight big esports teams.Put simply, it is hoped WESA will become the FIFA of esports (albeit wit … | Continue reading

Max Payne is one of my top ten games of all time. There's something about the scrunchy-faced hero's first rampage through New York City that's stayed with me ever since I first played it in 2001. Aoife, on the other hand, had never played Max Payne until this month. Imagine growi … | Continue reading

I've just realised it's Friday the 13th today. What an incredibly appropriate day to release a video game about murdering a never-ending army of bloody thirsty hell-spawn. Anyway, the decade-long wait is over and the new Doom is finally here - but is it any good? Our review may n … | Continue reading

On paper Naughty Dog's Uncharted series is as generic as it gets. It's about a good looking white, heterosexual man going on exciting globe-trotting adventures, killing bad guys and wooing a spunky blonde reporter. On this level, it's functional at best and banal at worst. But di … | Continue reading

Earlier this week, Disney cancelled its popular toys-to-life franchise Disney Infinity and announced that developer Avalanche Software would shut down.The move was part of a general pull-out from producing its own games, Disney said. Infinity had seemed to be doing well, but the … | Continue reading

Hello! Hopefully everyone's had a chance to read Wes' spectacular feature on the life and death of Lionhead by now, but if 20,000 words isn't enough to satisfy your curiosity, I had a chat with Wes to discuss how the piece came together. Oh, and we recorded it! That's lucky! Alt … | Continue reading

There's a new Xbox One game which requires Kinect.Kung-Fu for Kinect is due out next month from Finnish indie Virtual Air Guitar Company. It's a side-scrolling beat-'em-up where you strike poses with your body to perform martial arts-inspired moves.The last high-profile game to t … | Continue reading

Why did I decide to walk all the way to the sea in one evening while playing Fallout 4's new Survival Mode? I don't know. Does the swallow question why it flies south in winter, or the salmon why it must hurl itself against the rapids? All I know is that on firing up a new save, … | Continue reading