Steam Deck, Mac, and other Linux-based enjoyers of superhero shooter hit Marvel Rivals can once again play without fear of being pulped under an unlawfully swung banhammer. Developers NetEase had recently doled out bans of up to 100 years to players they suspected of cheating, but in their eagerness, failed to distinguish between legitimate compatibility
Month: January 2025
Who doesn’t love a battle pass? Well, hopefully you if you’re planning on hopping into Call of Duty Black Ops 6‘s Squid Game crossover event, which kicks off today, January 3, and will run until January 24. You see, it technically comes with not one, but two battle passes, a regular one and a premium
The ongoing PS5/PS5 Pro disc drive shortage has left a large number of players frustrated as they struggle to secure the add-on. The detachable standalone drive was introduced with the PS5 Slim, but unlike the PS5 Pro, the Slim comes bundled with a drive unless players opt to purchase a digital console. PS5 Pro players
A heads up for PS Stars members who wish to maintain their level, as has been the case since the beginning, the annual progress reset happened earlier this week. This means that players have one year to fulfill the requirements to maintain their current level, failing which they’ll lose their level by 2026. How the
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer Warhorse Studios has some good news for fans of the action role-playing game. Those looking forward to the upcoming PS5 title will be pleased to note that the game will be in the hands of reviewers an entire month ahead of launch on February 4, 2025. Fans happy with Kingdom
Warning: Spoilers for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle lie ahead. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is pretty fun, at least in part because its Nazi baddies say some hilarious stuff at times. Everyone’s seen Gantz getting his choo-choo on in the cinematic trailer Machine Games put out prior to release, but main baddie
Kanye West aka Ye is apparently having a blast playing The Last of Us Part 2 nearly five years after the game’s controversial launch. Screenshots of Ye’s Instagram status about the game are making rounds, in which he posted a clip of him playing on Survivor difficulty, and declared that TLOU 2 is the “best
2025’s already had plenty of GTA things to talk about three days in thanks to some alleged leaks and definitely real projections surrounding GTA 6, which is set to come out later this year. GTA 5‘s still chipping in though, with a team of modders having recently released a huge project for it that’ll let
The yearly speedrunning superstream Awesome Games Done Quick is starting this weekend, and it’s set to be a musical one. The events will include a player who will beat a set of Elden Ring boss battles using a saxophone as a controller, and 16 minutes of Crazy Taxi with a live backing band rocking out
How would a younger me react to the concept of game seasons? “Leave me alone, please. I’m busy replaying The Suffering 2 for the sixth time to see a new 15 second cutscene that recognises which combination of morally aligned beginnings and endings I’ve picked. It reads your save from the first game and everything!”.
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Sokomonster – smashing onto console and PC It’s time for a city-smashing adventure with a monstrous twist as Sokomonster invades Xbox, PlayStation and PC. The latest from Afil Games, the studio behind the likes of Kiting Cat in recent weeks, is Sokomonster, a unique puzzle game that blends strategic thinking with a healthy dose of
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues. What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle
Kinda Funny Games presenter Imran Khan has said on gaming forum Reset Era that the Punch-Out series is effectively a dead franchise at Nintendo. Khan said that he spoke to someone a while back who was involved in the last Punch-Out game from Next Level Games and asked them about a new game. The person
I come and go with the work of Ken Levine, celebrated auteurman and reported burnout-inducing manager, but I’m interested to see more of Judas, his current project at Ghost Story Games. The concept for Judas is that you’re trapped in a computer-run society housed aboard a colony ship, the Mayflower. The titular Judas has managed
Earlier this year we announced we’re giving you more options than ever before when it comes to joining console gaming with Xbox – and now is the best time yet to dive in and experience everything Xbox has to offer! Available now, you have the choice of a variety of storage and design options with
2025 is the year in which we’ll finally, finally get to see 2XKO come out. If it feels like an age since whispers about Riot’s in-house fighting game were floating around… you’re right! The developers at Radiant were aquired all the way back in 2016 – roughly 8 years ago. This year we’ll finally see
Yep, you’ve read the headline, this is serious stuff. Someone claims to have posted some images taken in a Rockstar office of GTA 6 playing on a monitor to Reddit, and it might have shown us what the developer’s bins looked like back in 2021. That’s assuming it’s actually genuine, of course. The alleged leaked