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Archive Spelunker Archive Spelunker Wes Fenlon Senior Editor From the archives: This Extra Life columb was originally published in PC Gamer 313 (January 2018). It appears as originally written, with…

The lack of news on The Duskbloods – finally ended by June’s Nintendo Direct announcement of a playtest – has kept the hype for FromSoftware’s next game at bay for…

There are major changes happening atop Maryland-based ZeniMax Online Studios, developer of the Elder Scrolls Online, Game File has learned. Joe Burba, a 14-year veteran of the studio who was…

“For the longest time, we went one by one,” Ata Sergey Nowak, co-founder of Torpor Games, the studio behind strategy game Suzerain, tells me, explaining the four year gap between…

Glen Schofield has announced his retirement after a 35-year career in the industry. “The past couple of decades have been some of the greatest times in video games,” Schofield said…

Denshattack review An uproariously kinetic mashup of racing, rhythm, and score attack stuntery, Denshattack goes off the rails in all the best ways. Developer: Undercoders Publishers: Fireshine Games, Boltray Games…

Comic-Con is coming! It can be overwhelming, even for someone who has been going for more than a half-century. To help you navigate the hundreds of hours of programming, I’ve…

Quarantine Zone- The Last Check – now on Game Pass and Xbox Every zombie apocalypse story eventually reaches the point where somebody has to make the impossible decisions. Quarantine Zone:…

Need to know What is it? A nocturnal farm sim in a town of supernaturalsExpect to pay: $35/£30Developer: Little ChickenPublisher: Xseed Games, Marvelous EuropeReviewed on: Intel Core Ultra 7 265,…

What am I even on this planet for, really? To play videogames? To partake in an unhealthy diet? To make awkward sexual passes at the consenting partner of my choice?…

The wait for GTA 6 on PC lasting past this November’s been a foregone conclusion for a while now, but if you’re interested in a bit of developer perspective as…

League of Legends Classic has been revealed in earnest by Riot Games. A recreation of an older MOBA experience, League Classic is taking core moments from the early seasons and…

Last week, to mark its 30th anniversary, EA rebranded Criterion as Criterion: A Battlefield Studio. The storied studio that created Burnout and in recent years has shepherded the Need For…

Over the past year, a new upcoming indie horror game has been making waves on the internet by the name of Shift At Midnight. It’s an asymmetric co-op horror game…

After decades of superhero movies and shows dominating our screens, it’s easy to forget why we fell in love with the comic book world in the first place, but a…

Minecraft has been incredibly lucrative for 4J Studios. The Dundee-based firm, which was established in 2005 by Chris van der Kuyl, Paddy Burns, and Frank Arnot, has ported Mojang’s game…

Prepare your butts, The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu reviews are in and they’re quite mixed. Having spent more than 25 hours with The Mound myself, I can see why its…

It’s an unfortunate rite of passage nowadays for popular indie games to have their concept taken from them by ripoffs that are devoid of any real creativity. The latest casualty?…

Today, July 15th, unionised Microsoft workers are set to hold a series of co-ordinated rallies outside the offices of Xbox-owned studios, in protest of the mass layoffs the company set…

Centuries of collective game development experience discarded in minutes. That’s how the fifth round of mass layoffs at Xbox since 2023 unfolded, according to those impacted by the cuts. Multiple…

Battlefield Studios has released our first look at Season 4 in Battlefield 6. This new trailer arrives a week ahead of Season 4’s launch on 21st July, and shows plenty…

Sometimes a movie comes out at exactly the wrong time. The Losers hit theaters in 2010, directed by Sylvain White from a screenplay by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt, adapting the…

Following the release of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, an undertaking by a bunch of Ubisoft studios based all over the world, union protests at one of said studios have…

This article is part of ExDev Week. As is often the case with studios specialising in outsourcing and co-development, NeoBards Entertainment is not a household name – despite having worked…

Image: Compulsion Games South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games was one of the teams let go during Xbox’s recent layoffs, and now, just a week later, it’s put out the…

Those of you that have been playing Slay the Spire 2 in its current early access form will have seen that some of the placeholder art looks, well, arguably…

Glenn Schofield, the creator of Dead Space and The Callisto Protocol, has announced his retirement after 35 years in the industry. In a LinkedIn video post, Schofield thanked his family,…

Amid all the problems that besiege Microsoft’s Xbox division, the studio divestitures, the layoffs, the declining business, and even the loss of a few million Game Pass subscribers, lies one…

RuneScape is having a bit of a home improvement moment, quite literally. An update went live yesterday that focused completely on player-owned housing, revamping how you both use and construct…