Gaming

I like a factory simulation that fervently embraces the basic evilness of factory sims, these games about wrapping a smoking, clanking straitjacket around a realm of organic colours and unsuspecting…

The GamesIndustry.biz Summer Party will take place Wednesday July 15, returning once again to Horatio’s Bar on Brighton Pier. Kicking off at 7pm and running until midnight, tickets include access…

As Xbox has declined, with console sales plummeting and Game Pass figures plateauing, many have wondered if Microsoft, which is considerably larger than its gaming business, would lose interest in…

DC Comics is announcing Batman/Superman/Weird Al: World’s Weirdest #1, an all-new 40-page one-shot comic book that brings the World’s Finest together with the one, the only, the undisputed king of musical…

I’m not sure I can imagine greater horror than that of the “desktop idle sim”. My computer’s desktop already fills me with confusion and dismay. It’s a mixed media moraine…

Viz Media dropped its spring 2027 manga publishing lineup today, and there’s some great news for Jujutsu Kaisen fans: Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo, the sequel to the acclaimed manga, is getting…

I really should learn to take this stretch of trail a bit more carefully. The one that runs precariously alongside the edge of a lake, dipping and getting muddier right…

If you had told me just a few years ago that there was about to be a Silent Hill renaissance, I would’ve called you a liar. But it’s happened; and…

For five years, the Xbox Series X vs PS5 debate was a coin flip: two $499 boxes, near-identical Zen 2 silicon, and a marketing war over teraflops. In mid-2026 that…

It’s hard to believe there was a time when Resident Evil felt like it was on its last legs. But instead, the long-running survival horror series has gone from strength…

Microsoft Corp. is reportedly considering spinning out or restructuring its struggling Xbox gaming division as it weighs long-term structural overhauls to revive profitability. Microsoft’s leadership is considering a complete spin-off,…

In case you missed the opening night of this year’s Summer Geoffs, Like A Dragon/Yakuza devs RGG Studio’s Japanese history-hopping crime brawler Stranger Than Heaven got a release date. That…

Mark Waid loves comics so much that he decided to buy his own comic shop. In 2013 Waid bought Alter Ego Comics, a Muncie, Indiana area store. Waid admitted that…

Crimson Desert. It’s basically an everything game at this point, so it’s not too suprising that the latest update developers Pearl Abyss have put out takes the Red Pudding further…

The general consensus on Asha Sharma’s first 100 days as Xbox CEO has been largely positive. She has certainly confounded the fears of early detractors who took one look at…

We all fear losing jobs and hate job-hunting, right? I tried to feed-off from that anxiety as pivotal point when making Re:Re:Ghosted. Well, being an indie-developer and “self-publisher” and when…

If you’re looking for an ergonomic PC mouse, you’re probably already considering the Logitech MX Master 3S, or the Logitech MX Master 4. I’ve used both as my main productivity…

The DayOne team are all home from a spectacular Summer Game Fest, and ready to bring you a ton of news, reviews and great content as usual. Next week’s biggest…

Following some instances of Forza Horizon 6 players losing saves and ending up having to start over from scratch, developers Playground Games are starting to roll out fixes. For PC…

Wuxia-inspired action game Phantom Blade Zero is arguably one of the most anticipated games of 2026, but no game is as anticipated as Grand Theft Auto 6, as the many…

Planet Zoo and Planet Coaster developers Frontier have a new Planet game in development that involves neither zoos nor rollercoasters, a scandalous turn of events. The project features a “completely…

The end of the financial and academic years approach, here at Links HQ, with a full audit required of every single one of this week’s links, below, before the end…

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A new retrospective on Maxis’ creature simulation game Spore outlines the operational challenges that shaped its nine-year development cycle. Speaking to The Design Room, key team members, including chief designer…

With the Steam Frame set to launch at some point in the summer, according to Valve, we don’t have that long until we’re expected to see the VR headset on…

The main politician behind the Californian bill backed by the Stop Killing Games campaign that’s currently making its way through the state’s legislature has admitted that ensuring it’s enforced likely…

Xbox has been on a media rampage recently, with new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma expressing in several interviews that Xbox is about to go through big changes, which the executives…

I don’t tend to think of Spore as a game that really came from any one person, moreso an omnipresent entity that just somehow installs itself on your computer….

We’re just under three months since the release of Crimson Desert, the open-world action RPG from Korean studio Pearl Abyss. The game has continued to break sales records since it…