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Fortnite developers Epic Games have confirmed plans to honour refunds for cosmetics related to D4vd, following the American singer being charged with murdering a 14-year-old girl. Players will have to…

If you’re a fan of sci-fi RPGs, then there’s an excellent chance you’ve already played Mass Effect. It is the de facto choice for anyone seeking to blast off into…

The full source code for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty has leaked online. The files, posted to 4chan, reportedly include the raw, uncompressed source code for “every version…

Xbox Live and Xbox party chat appeared to be down for users on Saturday with many complaining about facing the 0x80004005 error. At the time of writing, Downdetector noted over…

In a new video on his YouTube channel, veteran RPG designer Tim Cain outlined how he’s seen the internet change games and game development, from the first message boards to…

If Dig In were called a ‘historical wave defence strategy base-builder’ or similar I wouldn’t have been jarred by it. Odds are I’d have skimmed right past. Instead, Icelandic…

The ESA’s first event since the late, largely lamented E3 has been built with a very different objective. Rather than a brash, sprawling conference centre with consumers as the explicit…

A Visual Novel That Rises High Above the Original One of the things I liked most about Arcadia Fallen was that, while it took place mostly in and around a…

In case you missed it, Valve confirmed the Steam Controller’s price and release date yesterday. Naturally, as part of that reveal they’ve faced a bunch of questions about the other…

Marvel Comics prides itself on its vast and diverse multiverse that’s home to infinite parallel Earths with their own gripping tales of recognizable superheroes. The multiverse has also become a…

A Cinematic Dystopia Worth the Wait I think it’s fair to say we’ve been waiting a good while for REPLACED. The game has been in development since 2018, making a…

The new Steam Controller verdict is in: James likes it. And now it’s back out again, as Julian has also been poking and prodding at Valve’s made-for-PC controller ahead of…

Last Flag, a third-person hero shooter that launched just two weeks ago, is halting production. In a lengthy statement posted to Discord, the team at Knight Street Games said that…

Tuesday, a report from Wired dug into a strange instruction patched into Codex CLI, an AI coding tool: “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals…

Gamers everywhere just gained a cleaner path to play on their Windows 11 machines. Microsoft started pushing out Xbox Mode on April 30 in select markets, with the update spreading…

Take a deep breath. Listen to some birds chirping. Watch some plants sway in the gentle breeze. Ahhhhhh. Life could be a dream. At least, it could be if the…

Roblox has announced a photorealism upscaler called Roblox Reality, which will generate high-fidelity visuals on top of the platform’s core engine. In a blog post, Roblox vice president of engineering…

A little while ago our deputy editor James ‘RAM-bo’ Archer said he wanted us all to get more involved with hardware criticism, because we all appear to think that…

Between Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, the Microsoft subscription service has added five day-one games this week. None are particularly noteworthy, but one is a new installment…

The Justice League has long been DC Comics‘ most potent team. The League has counted just about every hero on Earth among their ranks, and they’ve been saving the multiverse…

2nd May Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we’ve been playing. This week, Victoria falls in love – at least…

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out…

Welcome to your first weekend in May! We’re actually starting to see some sun here in the UK which is denting our gaming time somewhat – but no matter, we’re…

I’d class few of Cyberpunk 2077‘s endings as unflinchingly happy, most are at least a bit bittersweet – as you might expect, given the grave situation the game’s protagonist finds…

Subnautica 2 is finally headed into early access on May 14th, following a lengthy legal battle between publishers Krafton and founders at Unknown Worlds rooted in when that launch should…

Eliana Russi, head of B2B at Gamescom Latam, gives an emphatic answer when I ask what Brazil’s game development scene needs to take it to the next level. “Money!” she…

Since Asha Sharma took over as the new chief executive officer of Xbox, the most immediate change she made was to make Xbox far more communicative than it had previously…

Disney Villains – Ursula Issue 3 (Image via Dynamite Comics) If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s Ursula’s unquenchable thirst for power. Issue 3 of Disney Villains: Ursula…

Microsoft has officially begun rolling out its new full-screen gaming experience for Windows 11. Earlier this year, the company confirmed plans to introduce a console-like interface for PC gaming, and…