Secret Mode

This could be a scene from a Japanese horror film, except it looks like a scene from an old adventure game. It's painted in two colours, one a kind of brown for the environment, and one in purple showing a hunched over girl holding the end of a bed, hair obscuring her face. She is out to get you.

Feature

The anatomy of a scare: how do games frighten you?

Jump. Stare.

Nov. 13, 2024 Robert Purchese

Minecraft Dungeons header showing blocky chaos on a boat

News

Nintendo reveals three full games in latest Switch Online trial

Minecraft Dungeons! Left! Golf!

Oct. 22, 2024 Victoria Kennedy

A collection of jars, cartons, and bottles that must be arranged in the right way for the scene to look right.

Feature

What we've been playing - island puzzles, organisational fun, and hairpin turns

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

Oct. 19, 2024 Tom Orry

Lucy in her Vault Dweller ensemble and Maximus in his Power Armour in Amazon's Fallout adaptation

Feature

What we've been playing - oil rigs, court cases, and great adaptations

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

July 26, 2024 Robert Purchese

A very colourful, 80s cartoon-like piece of artwork for the game Anger Foot. It shows the game's main character on the left hand side of the screen, leaping into a group of enemies on the right hand side, foot first.

Feature

What we've been playing - door kicking, cursed oil rigs, and surprisingly still-powerful old games

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

July 12, 2024 Robert Purchese

An angry bald man eating a delicious looking fry up on a oil rig

Video

Would Still Wakes The Deep be better without the monsters?

Oil be damned.

June 20, 2024 Ian Higton

Football players in red celebrating in EA Sports FC 24

News

EA Sports FC 24 leads next wave of Xbox and PC Game Pass games for June

Still Wakes the Deep! SteamWorld Dig!

June 18, 2024 Ed Nightingale

Review

Still Wakes the Deep review - astonishing artistry can't quite keep this oil rig horror afloat

Not all is as it seas.

June 17, 2024 Matt Wales

News

Xbox Game Pass June titles announced

Octopath! Callisto! Still Wakes the Deep!

June 6, 2024 Tom Phillips

Still Wakes the Deep official screenshot showing a semi-flooded corridor inside the rig

Preview

Still Wakes the Deep mixes perfect horror timing with an environment that was already terrifying

The Chinese Room returns with the world's most atmospheric oil rig.

June 3, 2024 Christian Donlan

Nightscape showing a boat sailing on a river under a sky of stars.

News

Xbox showcases four indie games backed by ID@Xbox

Botany! Jump Ship! Nightscape! Deep!

April 2, 2024 Tom Phillips

A twisted metal walkway is illuminated by supernatural orange light in this screenshot from Still Wakes the Deep.

News

Oil rig horror Still Wakes the Deep gets release date

Everybody's gone to the rupture.

March 21, 2024 Tom Phillips

A top-down image of an empty draw surrounded by batteries waiting to be placed in it

Feature

What we've been playing

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

Feb. 23, 2024 Robert Purchese

Montage of images from four games: Animal Well, Star Wars Dark Forces remaster, Harold Halibut, and FF7, behind the number 2024

Feature

The most exciting games of 2024

Year we go.

Jan. 4, 2024 Christian Donlan

A screenshot from Bramble: The Mountain King. Two children stand in front of a huge, car-sized toad with a crown on. In the game's reality, the children have been shrunk.

Feature

What we've been playing

A few of the games that have us hooked at the moment.

Nov. 17, 2023 Robert Purchese

Still Wakes The Deep artwork of a helicopter flying towards the oil rig at night, its search beam shining on the dark waves.

Interview

Under the surface of Still Wakes The Deep

Inside The Chinese Room, as it enters a fresh era.

Nov. 16, 2023 Tom Phillips

News

Here's everything featured in the Xbox Partner Preview showcase

Spooky oil rigs! Haunted granny! More!

Oct. 25, 2023 Matt Wales

Still Wakes the Deep artwork showing a bright, malevolent light streaming in from behind a door, as seen from inside an ordinary looking room festooned with party trimmings.

News

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture studio's oil rig horror Still Wakes the Deep debuts gameplay

Coming to PC and consoles "early" next year.

Oct. 25, 2023 Matt Wales

A screenshot from The Evil Within showing an aproned man with a barbed-wire-wrapped safe for a head standing in a filthy tiled corridor.

News

Shinji Mikami's survival horror The Evil Within is next week's Epic Store freebie

Alongside Eternal Threads.

Oct. 13, 2023 Matt Wales

News

The Chinese Room reveals how Still Wakes the Deep's environment will evolve

Rig Bang Theory.

Aug. 27, 2023 Vikki Blake

News

Everything featured in today's Nintendo Indie World Showcase

Cats! Crimes! Plates! Dance! Cats!

April 19, 2023 Matt Wales

A messy pile of envelopes, letters and stamps

Review

A Little to the Left review - cozy puzzling hits the limits of its form

Thinking outside the box.

Nov. 15, 2022 Liv Ngan