Prior to the launch of the Mayhem Collection DLC for LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight later this week, a new outfit for the Joker has been shown off for the first time. Upon its arrival earlier this year, one of the most popular aspects of Legacy of the Dark Knight with fans ended up being…
Arguably one of the best games that’s currently on PlayStation Plus will be leaving the service next month in October 2026. Outside of the free games that roll out on PS Plus to kick off each month, those on the Game Catalog happen to stick around for a much longer period of time. Sadly, these…
It’s not unusual for companies to reward us when our birthday rolls around, if you’ve shared your date of birth, that is. In some places you might get a free treat, while in others you might get a discount code, encouraging you to ultimately make another purchase. Well, Xbox is one such place where…
Breakout hit Wardogs is outpacing Arc Raiders and Helldivers 2 on Steam in terms of copies sold at launch, new data shows. Bulkhead’s tactical first-person shooter released in early access form on Steam on September 10 and hit a peak of 428,666 concurrent players soon after, becoming one of the…
LionsgateUsually, movie adaptations are made after books find success with readers. We wouldn’t have Harry Potter, Twilight, Dune, or Project Hail Mary if the original books didn’t prove popular. But occasionally, screen adaptations are so successful that more source material is written just so we…
The PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct airs this Sunday, September 20, at 9am PT / 12 noon ET / 5pm BST You can catch the show live on PC Gamer, YouTube, Twitch, Steam, and many more places It's going to be a 90-minute show with more than 10 world premieres and will feature more than 35 games The PC…
Free-to-play RPG Aniimo has finally released, but is Aniimo multiplayer? You might be looking to explore the game's massive open world with friends, and want to know if there's any co-op support before you try it out. So, here's a quick overview of the Aniimo multiplayer situation and how it all…
Buzzkiller! For the last few years I've been labouring to transform my terror of spiders into guarded appreciation, even wonder. I've been drawing pictures of spiders, and writing stories about them. When I spy a spyder (spider) in the wild, I make a strenuous display of hunkering down to utter…
Fable’s director has discussed how the game being vital to XBOX’s platform DNA helped with its longer development cycle. The next major game for Xbox is undoubtedly Fable, and a lot is riding on it due to the legacy of the previous installments. Playground Games, known for the highly popular Forza…
It's been a good while since we last heard about Balatro's big 1.1 update—a year, almost to the day, since developer LocalThunk delayed it into 2026. There's still no sign of it, but the community did catch sight of LocalThunk yesterday when he popped into the Balatro Discord to let everyone know…
Steam users have been blessed with a soulslike demo that’ll probably fly under the radar, but not if I can help it. Now live on the Steam store is a free taster for Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember, developed by Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo. I recently had the pleasure of sampling this action-packed…
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Record-breaking video game auctions have been coming thick and fast in the last few years, with many SNES games selling for hundreds of thousands. In many cases, the running theme of these sales has been the inclusion of Nintendo mascot Mario, whether in his original…
Call of Duty developer Treyarch has said it’s “ready to make something new” as it waves goodbye to two years of Black Ops games. Treyarch led development on two Black Ops games back-to-back: 2024’s Black Ops 6 and 2025’s Black Ops 7. With Season 6 hitting Black Ops 7 on September 17, the developer…
Scavland’s development team at NoShadow continues to impress indie gamers everywhere. The squad, which numbers barely more than a dozen staff members, has kept up a phenomenal update cadence for the post-apocalyptic shooter, and the most recent change is no different. It’s already at update 0.7.0,…
Resident Evil director Zach Cregger has revealed which actress he would cast as a live-action Lady Dimitrescu — and we think he's made the perfect choice. To be clear, the iconic Lady D from 2021's Resident Evil Village does not appear in Cregger's upcoming Resident Evil movie, as it tells an…
With RuneScape: Dragonwilds fully launching across PC and consoles, you might be wondering if the game has crossplay support. Are you on PC while your friends are spread across Xbox, PlayStation and Switch? If that sounds about right, here's what you need to know about cross-platform multiplayer in…
The 2026 Resident Evil movie has had a ton of mixed opinions in the build-up to its release, with many questioning whether it sticks to the source material, and the early verdicts and impressions seem overwhelmingly positive. Right now, official reviews haven’t dropped. But many have already had…
Just over one year ago, Build a Rocket Boy released MindsEye, an ambitious but somewhat bizarre third-person shooter that proved to be something of a catalyst. It drove immense negativity online, gave rise to damning legal accusations and claims of sabotage, and performed so badly in a commercial…
Microsoft, at this point, drips gore from head to toe. The megacorp has made a hobby of shuttering studios and laying off thousands of devs, in attempt after attempt to right the listing ship of its games business. No luck yet, on that front. You might wonder how Playground's upcoming Fable reboot,…
A plucky ducky of a horror game is arriving in 2027, with QUIET serving up its own brand of alien-inspired terror. QUIET has been building noise for a while, so much so that it’s reported that over a quarter of a million players tuned in to try out the game’s debut playtest. You might have caught…
Into The Pooch, amirite If the organisers of Crufts ever have to produce a season of Robot Wars, the results probably won't be a million miles away from Dog in the Machine - a new turn-based tactics puzzler that's sort of Into The Breach but with a greater emphasis on props and tricks. The story in…
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave comes out tomorrow for Nintendo Switch 2. That means today is your last chance to save $10 off physical copies of the game at Amazon and Walmart. In case you’re wondering if the game is any good, you can hop over to our 10/10 review to see what our critic thought of it.…