Features

A close-up crop of the box art for Rescue on Fractalus!, showing the text of the title in front of a man running toward a spaceship cockpit, while an enemy aircraft shoots at him from the sky.

Feature

Retrospective | 40 years on, Rescue on Fractalus! remains a rare reminder of the magic of Lucasfilm games

Behind Jaggi lines.

Jan. 31, 2025 Geoffrey Bunting

22 comments

Opinion

It's taken eight years, but finally Game Pass is positioned to save the Xbox console business and give Xbox a point

Amongst the doom and gloom around Xbox consoles, there is still reason to be hopeful.

Jan. 31, 2025 Tom Orry

261 comments

A desert, and a character is on their knees looking into the oncoming maw of a gigantic sandworm. If they don't move - and it doesn't look like they're going to - they're in trouble. A screenshot from Dune: Awakening.

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Dune: Awakening proves MMOs can still be interesting and try new things

Spicy.

Jan. 30, 2025 Robert Purchese

26 comments

A poster for Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles, showing Kenobi and Mace Windu facing off against droids and wielding light sabres.

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Now Playing | Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles is often Y2K movie gaming at its most frustrating, and yet it charms in a way that defies logic

Maul rats.

Jan. 30, 2025 Christian Donlan

13 comments

A view of the Golden Gate Bridge in Watch Dogs 2

Feature

Taking a virtual hike: the slow, eerie pleasure of YouTube's video game walking tours

"Sometimes good ideas take time to develop…"

Jan. 29, 2025 Michael Thomsen

8 comments

The interior of a train or tram in the opening of Half-Life 1. It's a small carriage with open sides - there are no windows - so you can see the interior of the Black Mesa research facility as Gordan Freeman travels through it. It's a mix of grey metal walls and seats and yellow posts and handrails.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Trains

Something to choo on.

Jan. 29, 2025 Robert Purchese

46 comments

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Now Playing | Ninja Gaiden 2 Black dropped on Xbox Game Pass and now I can hear bird song again

What a difference a game makes.

Jan. 28, 2025 Christian Donlan

89 comments

Split header image showing both Ninja Gaiden 4 masked protagonists: Ryu with lightning behind him and Yakumo crouched down in the dark

Feature

How Ninja Gaiden 4's two protagonists will honour the series' legacy

Back to black.

Jan. 27, 2025 Ed Nightingale

30 comments

Feature

Can a Steam profile be a real memorial for a lost life?

Will and testament.

Jan. 26, 2025 Alice Bell

45 comments

A man looking happy is stood in front of a house. The image shows lots of consoles around the man. These are the memories he has of gaming in the house he lived in as a child.

Feature

Is your childhood home where most of your favourite gaming memories are found? What a strange feeling it is when it's no longer yours

Can it be that it was all so simple then?

Jan. 25, 2025 Tom Orry

52 comments

Feature

What we've been playing - horrible villages, outlaws, and parties

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Jan. 25, 2025 Robert Purchese

140 comments

Key art from the old game F-19 Stealth Fighter, showing the game's title in big lettering above a nose-on depiction of the small nimble craft itself. It's shrouded in shadow. It is a stealth fighter after all.

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Strange but not true? Did a US game publisher really get raided by US intelligence services over a fighter plane that never existed?

The hunt for truth in the legend of the F-19.

Jan. 24, 2025 Robert Purchese

105 comments

Naoe pets a black and white cat in the Hideout of Assassin's Creed Shadows.

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I turned my Assassin's Creed Shadows hideout into my personal cat and tanuki sanctuary, human allies be damned

De-based building.

Jan. 23, 2025 Katharine Castle

7 comments

Naoe and Yasuke appear next to the start screen for Assassin's Creed Shadows inside the Animus Hub

Feature

Animus Hub revealed: Ubisoft's new Assassin's Creed start screen and modern day story wrapper that's definitely not just another launcher

Infinity and beyond.

Jan. 23, 2025 Katharine Castle

50 comments

Sandy landscape scene from Dune: Awakening

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Deserts

That Sandy.

Jan. 23, 2025 Robert Purchese

49 comments

David Lynch and a child sit at a table filled with art supplies working on some art in this screen from the documentary, David Lynch: The Art Life.

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Sitting in the mud with David Lynch: what his life is still teaching me about games and everything else

Beautiful!

Jan. 22, 2025 Christian Donlan

24 comments

Nvidia's Bryan Catanzaro with a GeForce RTX 50-series graphics card

Interview

Digital Foundry | The Nvidia AI interview: Inside DLSS 4 and machine learning with Bryan Catanzaro

DF talks with Nvidia's VP of applied deep learning research.

Jan. 21, 2025 Alex Battaglia

25 comments

Feature

How Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's past, present and future can be found in Fantasian

"I would like to continue giving birth to something new before I perish."

Jan. 21, 2025 Ed Nightingale

19 comments

A screen from Digseum showing various artifacts on display in a museum and pixel-people crowds.

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Now Playing | Animal Crossing museum obsessives now have a clicker game that's ideal

And a bit about trowel envy.

Jan. 20, 2025 Christian Donlan

5 comments

Mario dressed in a sharp suit dances with a lady in a jazz club in Super Mario Odyssey

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With Switch 2 and presumably a new 3D Mario on the horizon, it's time for me to admit Super Mario Odyssey always felt a little weird

Of twists and turns.

Jan. 19, 2025 Christian Donlan

132 comments

A photograph taken by Eurogamer's Victoria showing two Xbox controllers on a notepad that has some puzzle solutions written on it. A Eurogamer branded pen is artfully included in the tableau.

Feature

What we've been playing - great escapes, unexpected ends, and Salem Socks

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Jan. 18, 2025 Robert Purchese

126 comments

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Digital Foundry | Switch 2's reveal: what have we learned about its next-gen potential?

Nintendo's teaser gave very little away.

Jan. 17, 2025 Richard Leadbetter

59 comments

Hyper Light Breaker screenshot showing three characters running towards the camera

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Now Playing | Hyper Light Breaker offers loot, lore, and... the tiniest touch of Fortnite?

Void rage.

Jan. 17, 2025 Christian Donlan

7 comments

A product image of the Switch 2 with a sad face emoji superimposed over the middle of the screen.

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If Switch 2 is the end of innovative Nintendo, there's much to be sad about

What happened to the company that used to surprise us?

Jan. 17, 2025 Robert Purchese

308 comments

Jason Statham, the actor, in front of a Switch 2

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If the Switch 2 is safe, then I'm Jason Statham and I want to star in it

Bigger, better, more badass.

Jan. 16, 2025 Christian Donlan

103 comments