Gaming

For decades, fans have imagined the wonderfully ridiculous possibilities of Luke Skywalker meeting Spider-Man, Darth Vader crossing paths with Doctor Doom, or Han Solo somehow finding himself in the middle…

Kinetic Games are keeping busy! You may have heard yesterday that the Phasmophobia developer is publishing the next game from Her Story and Immortality’s Sam Barlow (who’s roped in…

First-person sneakalot The Lost Wild is about surviving on an island overrun by dinosaurs, from the relatively affable diplodocus to the absolutely intolerable allosaurus. I’m not sure how you…

Marvel’s Wolverine developer Insomniac has clarified the game will be “fully playable” on disc when it releases for PlayStation 5 on 15th September. It won’t, in other words, be a…

Scrolling through social media recently, I stumbled on a Reel (and I’m sorry; I forgot to save it, so my apologies to its creator for not being able to link…

Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation arrived earlier this month, and the reaction has been a little iffy. It holds a respectable 73/100 aggregate score on Metacritic—lining up quite nicely with…

Mattel has announced the formation of Mattel Game Studios, a global development organisation that will create games based on the company’s IP. It follows the company’s February acquisition of 100%…

Cross paths with adventure with a new Free Play Days this weekend! The Gears of War: E‑Day online multiplayer beta is open from August 13 at 12pm PT until August 17 at 10am…

It is time to confront the terrible truth that I once took part in a school fashion show. I ran in two categories, Ballroom and Street, a serious test…

Octavio Parra/Shutterstock If you love trading cards or comic books, you likely know that managing your collection takes more than just buying…

I’ve spent something like seven hours in funny-thinky cooperative puzzler Big Walk, and the concept of more Big Walk is something that confounds and, just a little bit, frightens me….

Kaboomania – now on Xbox If you remember when games were happy to throw a few pixels on screen and let you get on with blowing things up, Kaboomania should…

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered arrived on Switch 2 earlier this week, immediately drawing praise for its well-optimised state. This is actually a bit of a problem – not…

It’s been nearly seven years since the release of the Xbox Elite Series 2, which means we’re well overdue for a new one. It sure looks like that’s set to…

What’s that? It’s been 10 years since No Man’s Sky launched? Oh! That’s gone by a bit too quick! In that time the planet hopping survival game has changed…

Microsoft has two new Xbox controllers ready for Gears of War: E-Day, and both lean hard into the series’ grim visual language. Pre-orders opened today for the main limited edition…

CodeDev Group, also known as The Unreal Guys, has launched a new studio called Full Spectrum Interactive. The studio is led by a group of UK industry veterans, including head…

“That game with the massive dead body was created using generative AI!” roared the masses. “Oh shucks,” said I, “Don’t worry, I’ll soon find another massive dead body game…