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News

Cuphead receives Xbox exclusive anniversary update

Spilling the tea.

Sept. 29, 2023 Ed Nightingale

33 comments

A screenshot of the game Cocoon, showing a largely dark scene that's illuminated in the middle by a glowing green orb of some kind. A little character with insect wings stands nearby.

Feature

Supporters | Game of the Week: The impossible becomes the possible in Cocoon

Made fierce with dark keeping.

Sept. 29, 2023 Christian Donlan

4 comments

Widowmaker in an Overwatch 2 cut-scene, peering down slightly at the camera with her gun held up beside her.

Feature

What we've been playing

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

Sept. 29, 2023 Robert Purchese

106 comments

An image from the game Midautumn, showing a purple-skinned character with long white hair and white wide eyes confronting a purple blob. They hold what looks to be a shovel - or a giant fly swatter.

Feature

Midautumn builds upon Hades to explore an Asian diaspora experience

On telling the types of stories that are "harder to tell".

Sept. 29, 2023 Khee Hoon Chan

3 comments

Key artwork from the game Cocoon, showing a small insect-like character, with wings, looking into a large transparent dome that has a world within. And a dome with another world within. Which has a dome with another world in.

Review

Cocoon review - prepare to be astonished

Bug's life.

Sept. 28, 2023 Christian Donlan

114 comments

Stardew Valley farmer carries some corn towards a farmhouse

News

Stardew Valley 1.6 includes new late-game content and another major festival

A bountiful harvest.

Sept. 28, 2023 Liv Ngan

4 comments

News

The Callisto Protocol one of October's PlayStation Plus Essential games, leak suggests

UPDATE: Weird West and Farming Simulator 22 also confirmed by Sony.

Sept. 27, 2023 Liv Ngan

58 comments

Official Vampire Survivors art showing a red-eyed vampire next to his identical vampire friend, who is upside down.

News

Vampire Survivors getting frosty new map in free Chilling Update "soon"

Plus new character, weapon, and more.

Sept. 27, 2023 Matt Wales

Close up of crab protagonist in Another Crab's Treasure

News

Crab Soulslike Another Crab's Treasure gets Steam demo next month

Moonlight Greatclaw.

Sept. 27, 2023 Ed Nightingale

5 comments

The hero stands backlit in an elevator in El Paso, Elsewhere. All around is dark

Review

El Paso, Elsewhere review - hectic monster blasting with killer style

Motel shootout.

Sept. 26, 2023 Christian Donlan

13 comments

News

Vampire Survivors dev says it's "investigating" proper online co-op

But no promises!

Sept. 25, 2023 Matt Wales

6 comments

News

AR horror Scrylight will "blur the boundaries of what’s real and what isn't"

"There's no getting away from the terror."

Sept. 24, 2023 Vikki Blake

1 comment

News

Team Cherry has quietly updated Steam assets for Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hornet trail.

Sept. 23, 2023 Vikki Blake

13 comments

Neurocracy 2.049 promo screen showing Xu Shaoyong's Omnipedia page.

Feature

Supporters | Game of the Week: Neurocracy and the manipulation of memory

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.

Sept. 22, 2023 Christian Donlan

2 comments

The retro-inspired Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. We see the four brightly coloured turtles together in a forested area, all pulling iconic poses.

Feature

What we've been playing

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

Sept. 22, 2023 Robert Purchese

90 comments

Neurocracy 2.049 illustration showing a helicopter crash at a chinese airport against a blue sky.

Review

Neurocracy 2.049 review - a brilliant futurist mystery of truth and technology

Murder on the Outlook Express.

Sept. 22, 2023 Ruth Cassidy

18 comments

News

Party Animals developer addresses "confusion" around playing offline

"We regret the misunderstanding."

Sept. 21, 2023 Victoria Kennedy

15 comments

A pixelart interpretation of a night sky, showing a colourful array of stars twinkling above.

Feature

Supporters | Five of the Best: Night skies

Stars here.

Sept. 20, 2023 Robert Purchese

18 comments

News

Terraria developer donates to open source engines in wake of Unity policy changes

Plus 500 devs sign open letter against new fees.

Sept. 20, 2023 Ed Nightingale

13 comments

Duck, corgi and dinosaur characters in Party Animals hold on for dear life as gravity attempts to suck them into a a black hole

News

Xbox Game Pass sees September out with plenty of day one additions

Lies of P! Party Animals! Payday 3!

Sept. 19, 2023 Liv Ngan

20 comments

A Shadows of Doubt screenshot showing a man walking along a neon-lit, rain-slicked street, sheltering from the rain beneath a black umbrella.

News

Procedural detective noir Shadows of Doubt adds infidelity investigations next week

As part of first major update.

Sept. 19, 2023 Matt Wales

6 comments

A sun-bathed plaza with swords-people in En Garde!

Review

En Garde! review - swashbuckling charm erupts in every direction

Cannon event.

Sept. 18, 2023 Christian Donlan

32 comments

Artwork for Weird West of a werewolf looking over to a distant house

News

Weird West, Prodeus amongst Game Pass leavers at the end of the month

Well I'll be darned.

Sept. 18, 2023 Liv Ngan

10 comments

A screenshot from food game Nour, showing rows of toasters and a pile of toast. Don't ask me why.

Feature

Making food in Nour is an absolute disaster - it's delightful

Michelin bizarre.

Sept. 18, 2023 Robert Purchese

15 comments

The playable characters in The Devil In Me.

News

Here's the TIGA Games Industry Awards 2023's shortlist

Celebrate "the cream of the UK’s game development, business and education community".

Sept. 17, 2023 Vikki Blake

6 comments