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.…
If you want to get your Ranged level up early, the first thing you need to know is how to make a bow in RuneScape: Dragonwilds. Of course, you're not going to be crafting yourself a Tbow off the bat, so a simple bow is going to have to do. Thankfully, it's a simple process, so here's a quick guide…
Season 3 appears to be the final addition to HBO’s live-action adaptation of The Last of Us, and it will be released in 2027. Last year, Craig Mazin, the showrunner of the adaptation, mentioned that the team had already considered “Season 3 and Season 4,” which led many viewers to believe there…
World of Warcraft: Forever's an interesting pitch—instead of no changes, it's an all-changes version of vanilla WoW. Updated talent trees, new quests, essentially an envisioning of the OG game where, save for the new sky elves, all of the fresh additions are horizontal. New dungeons and raids all…
PlayStation 5 users will soon be able to get their hands on several new PlayStation 5 accessories, but not in time for Grand Theft Auto VI’s launch. The launch of the PlayStation 6 remains several years away at the very least, with Sony vowing to spend these remaining years of the PS5’s life cycle…
"I will be seeing BARB through till the very end" Update: The IWGB Games Worker Union have issued the following statement to RPS from vice-chair Ben Newbon: We cannot add any further insight into the heartbreaking job losses at BARB, a company that we think has been slowly spiralling for a long…
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Multiple developers of the disastrous MindsEye have said they’ve been laid off, casting doubt over the future of its controversial developer, Build A Rocket Boy. Story-driven action adventure game MindsEye was initially designed to be a part of Everywhere, the ‘Roblox for adults’ creation platform…
This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first…
Courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment BlizzCon 2026 revealed the latest character coming to Overwatch, a Support hero named Doctrine, who is broken out of a high-security prison by ex-Talon members Sombra, Reaper, Widowmaker, and Doomfist. Doctrine appears to be an old ally of Doomfist’s, wielding…
The Witcher 3 is getting an expansion, Songs of the Past, over a decade after its release—along with a pretty hefty remaster. And you might think hey, how is CD Projekt Red working on all of this and The Witcher 4 at the same time? The answer, like many studios, is that it's not doing it alone. The…
Also scorns Asha Sharma's talk of trimming the management layers Former Doom: The Dark Ages producer Andrew Willis has shared tuppence on the state of the blockbuster videogame trade, arguing that the biggest companies and most popular series are going through a familiar "cycle" whereby the…
Sony has today released a new system update for PS5 and PS5 Pro consoles around the globe. Generally speaking, most new PS5 updates that are released don’t tend to do very much to the hardware. Outside of improving stability and performance, it’s rare for Sony to tweak much else with the PS5…
Not one, but two high-profile games have been unearthed through screenshots: A Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands spin-off was a success, resulting in development on a sequel, whose status remains a mystery, although it’s believed to have been canceled, and the in-development Brothers in Arms. Lost Boys…
Back in the fall of 2021, gamers and Marvel fans were treated to a surprisingly good Guardians of the Galaxy title. Simply, but aptly named Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, the game was a single-player action-adventure that spun an original tale based on the ragtag group of heroes. But despite…
Let’s talk about FEX, bay-bee The Steam Frame, unfortunately RAM shortage-ravaged as it is, is unique among virtual reality headsets for its ability to run Steam games – VR or 'flat' alike – entirely on its own, internal compute hardware. It is, in effect, a SteamOS PC for your face. Yet as I waxed…
Courtesy of Playground Games and Xbox Games Playground Games’ upcoming reboot of Fable is one of Xbox’s most exciting projects, bridging the older games and new fans just as Gears of War: E-Day does. But the modern RPG has the difficult task of reviving a beloved series and surpassing what makes…
Planar drivers are a key feature of the upcoming models. (Image credit: PlayStation) Sony has revealed two new PlayStation headsets They're intended to supersede the previous PlayStation Pulse models There's no word on pricing yet Sony has just unveiled the "next line of PS5 audio products" with…
FilmDistrictMost action heroes don’t have much of an inner life, as moviegoers aren’t paying good money to watch James Bond contemplate the nature of his existence beyond concluding which secret base he needs to blow up to perpetuate it. Sure, John Wick misses his wife and dog, and Ethan Hunt likes…
Top Discussions Tim Willits doesn't think Rideshare's generative AI is damaging Saber's reputation "Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier": Nighthawks devs claim vampire RPG has erroneously been slapped with Steam adult content label Review: Steam Frame review: Another…
Pokémon's coveted 30th anniversary trading card set has gone on sale, though its launch has seen some stores jacking up prices, while long lines of customers have camped outside overnight. High demand and a limited supply have impacted every recent Pokémon card release, but huge attention is being…