Latest Articles (Page 828)

Hello, and welcome to our new series which picks out interesting things that we'd love someone to make a game about.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and Borderlands 3 are out now on Stadia, Google has announced.

Horizon Zero Dawn and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy are coming to PlayStation Now, Sony has announced.

The Ezio Collection is still a notable absence but Ubisoft continues to bring its back catalogue of Assassin's Creed titles onto Nintendo Switch, this time with The Rebel Collection - combining the last two last-gen series entries into one release. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag and AC Rogue are now available on Switch with all DLC included. It's a whopping 20GB install in total, so what does this actually deliver? Are we getting a mildly upgraded last-gen experience or a hybrid release with some of PS4 and Xbox One's enhancements?

Pokémon Go has one final big update due before the end of 2019. This time, it's all about making your favourite Pokémon feel as close to you as Ash to a certain Pikachu.

Developer ConcernedApe's hugely popular farming and village life sim Stardew Valley is depositing a bountiful harvest upon Switch, Xbox One, and PS4 players today, courtesy of the game's sizeable 1.4 update.

Just in time for the holidays, Hello Games' exploratory space sim No Man's Sky has a brand-new update, this one adding a music and audio creation tool to its ever-growing list of features.

"You can trust me," it says, as I tip-toe as swiftly as I dare into a dark corner, concealing myself - I hope - against a pile of damp, forgotten boxes. It lurches drunkenly from side to side, eyes glowing in the inky blackness of the room, head spinning at unnatural angles as it scans the space, primed for the slightest flicker of movement.

This weekend's live Star Wars event added lightsabers to Fortnite - and now fans are properly having fun with them.

AMD's Radeon RX 570 and RX 580 have dominated performance in the lower end of the enthusiast graphics card market for a while now, so the announcement of a successor in the form of RX 5500 earlier this year drew a lot of interest. The RX 5500 has since made its debut as an option for pre-built desktops from vendors like Acer and HP but the promised standalone cards never materialised. That changes today as custom designs from a range of AMD partners debut under a new name: the Radeon RX 5500 XT.

Pokémon Shirts, the range of smart-looking custom Pokémon fashion, is now available to order from the UK.

Surgeon Simulator, Bossa Studios' weirdly popular game about cack-handed medical malpractice, is getting a sequel and it's heading to PC next year.

Since we last spoke, Red Dead Online has made the move to PC, and with the Moonshiners update has finally caught up to its console counterpart, wrangling it into submission with its 4K 60FPS lasso. This fancy new patch grafts in the second season of the much-loved Outlaw Pass, a new wardrobe worth of cosmetics and a brand new Frontier Pursuit to pursue in Moonshining, which introduces property ownership and a separate five-mission narrative.

Until I played Boneworks, I never knew how much fun the simple act of gripping and holding something was (get your mind out of the gutter, you!). Holding and gripping things is something we do every day; from this morning's coffee cup to the mobile phone you might be reading this article on. Gripping and holding objects is second nature to most of us and as such it's not really something that the average person would stop their day to think about.

Destiny has always had a confusing, convoluted story - and so its timeline of events has ever been a vague collection of pieced-together entries by fans doing the best they can with snippets of lore scattered across the game's various gubbins.

Tonight's Fortnite live event was a mash-up of marketing and spectacle, as the Millennium Falcon, TIE Fighters and John Williams' classic themes mixed with a holographic Geoff Keighley, a comedy Stormtrooper and a dancing JJ Abrams.

A couple of months back, Imogen reported Lance McDonald - the modder behind a number of cool hacks in Bloodborne and Dark Souls - had uncovered the horrifying realisation P.T.'s terrifying antagonist, Lisa, is, quite literally, attached to you as you roam that looping hallway. A few weeks later I had the dubious pleasure of reporting that the camera hack had also uncovered Lisa's headless body lying in a bloody bathtub.

THQ Nordic is mulling over whether or not it should remake the fantasy RPG Gothic and to help it decide, it's released a free playable teaser to give you a taster.

Daybreak Games has confirmed it's switching off PlanetSide Arena's servers at 5pm PT on 10th January, 2020 (that's 1am on the 11th January UK time), just three months after it launched in early access.

Batman: The Telltale Series is back only this time, it's with a noir twist.

There's a story-based DLC heading to The Outer Worlds in 2020.

A lot of situations in games seem chaotic at first - the disorder of large-scale battles, wave upon wave of enemies raining down onto you until their number and actions become indiscernible, or the rapid alteration between dodging projectile fire and melee attacks in a run and gun game. But while combat can be chaotic, you win by creating order, finally achieving flow by finding patterns and thus reaching the magical point where a game's difficulty and your skill level meet.

WolfEye Studios, a developer founded by some of the minds behind Prey and Dishonored, has unveiled Weird West, a new cowboy-themed action-RPG coming to PC.

Sea of Thieves hasn't, it's fair to say, been the most welcoming of experiences for fledgling pirates, what with the online-only game's proliferation of bloodthirsty player ships, marauding AI monstrosities, and an almost complete lack of initial instruction. It's taken nearly two years, but finally, as part of its new Christmas-themed update, Rare has given its nautical multiplayer sandbox a proper tutorial - and, quite unexpectedly, it's an absolute delight.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps, developer Moon Studios' gorgeous follow-up to the equally beautiful Ori and the Blind Forest, will no longer meet its originally announced 11th February release date, and is now due to arrive a month later on 11th March.

The Last Autumn, developer 11 Bit Studios' second bit of paid DLC for its superb post-apocalyptic city builder Frostpunk, will be out on PC in January - and there's a brand-new trailer to get you in the pre-apocalyptic mood.

In fantasy terms, Spiritfarer has focused on the equivalent of the Grey Havens, the place in The Lord of the Rings where you go and never return. This is a "cozy management game about dying", which is a very appealing pitch. There's a short demo on Steam that you can play right now. Do play it. Spiritfarer is already wonderful.

Before we even get to this weekend's December Community Day extravaganza and Pokémon Go's forthcoming holiday 2019 event, developer Niantic has been quietly adding things behind the scenes set for release in 2020.

This is my kind of apocalypse, I think: nature reclaiming urban spaces, school buses repurposed as makeshift bridges. I'll even take the mutant wildlife that needs battering with a frying pan. And look! It's real-time battering when I was suspecting turn-based. Eastward is alright!

We're getting another adventure with Bigby Wolf and Snow White after all - yes, Telltale's The Wolf Among Us is back for a second run of episodes.