Gaming

A reliable leaker has given us our first real insight into the potential performance of the upcoming PS5 Pro. The console, which was announced by Sony last week, will likely target a 60fps framerate at a dynamic resolution of 1600-2160p in some titles. The information comes from the YouTube channel ‘Moore’s Law is Dead’ which

As many fans assumed, Splatoon 3’s Grand Festival was its final Splatfest, so regular updates for the game are coming to an end. Over the weekend, Splatoon 3 held a big Grand Festival, heavily implied to be the finale of the last two years of Splatfests. Now, as announced on the official North America Splatoon

Deadlock is still early in development, so some players have been able to play however they like without any kind of punishment – but the newest update should stop that. Valve is working on a brand new shooter, one of the hero variety, if you hadn’t heard, but it being still in the testing phase

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 Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints

Apologies to those of you hoping to escape to a cosy Hobbit life, but Tales of the Shire has been delayed into 2025. While there’s a seemingly infinite number of cosy games to play at any given moment, Lord of the Rings fans were unsurprisingly particularly excited by Tales of the Shire. You get to

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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 Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints

Absurd Ventures, the company formed by longtime Rockstar mainstay Dan Houser a few years ago, has announced that it’s formed a fresh studio under its umbrella. The studio, called Absurd Marin, comes with a starting staff of several former developers of Ascendant Studios’ ill-fated Immortals of Aveum. Yep, that’s the Immortals of Aveum that came

Blue Manchu’s Void Bastards, published back in the day by Humble Games, was a ‘strategy-shooter’ roguelike I enjoyed enough to grab twice, one DRM-free and another on Steam. More than five years later after its launch, Wild Bastards is taking things in a new direction I haven’t been vibing with. I was really excited to

Gaming accessory brand CRKD has announced a range of premium licensed Rocket League controllers that are compatible with the Nintendo Switch. Each product is available to pre-order now and is limited to just 10,000 units. First is the Nitro Deck Rocket League Silver Edition, a new variant of the Nitro Deck handheld dock for Nintendo

All 25 members of staff on the gaming team at Annapurna Interactive – publisher of acclaimed indies like Outer Wilds, Stray and Neon White – have reportedly resigned after talks to spin-off the division as an “independent entity” broke down. According to a report from Bloomberg, corroborated by IGN, Annapurna president of interactive and new

Space Marine 2 appears to be the current hotness. It’s popped off on Steam, hitting an impressive player count entirely with early adopters before smashing that figure once again as soon as the gates were thrown open by the game’s public release. The result is multifaceted. Not only do 40K fans get a loving send-up

Developer Rebellion has revealed brand-new Atomfall merchandise ahead of its 2025 release. The survival-action game may not be arriving until next March, but that doesn’t mean fans can’t already secure some exclusive merch ahead of time. Today, the indie studio behind Sniper Elite: Resistance and Zombie Army announced the Atomfall Survival Pack, a unique merchandise

Warning: Major Spoilers for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt lie ahead. Which ending to the base version of The Witcher 3 you get depends on a lot of things. There are the big obvious choices, along with a heap of smaller ones, and it’s the former that really shapes the final proper cutscene you get

My first console was the SEGA Master System. It was awesome. My second console was the SEGA Mega Drive. It was awesome. My sort-of third console was the SEGA Mega CD. It was awesome (to me). My fourth console was the Sony PlayStation. It was awesome. My fifth console was the Nintendo 64. It was

The PS5 Pro games list has now been revealed by Sony – at least in part. In a recent technical presentation, PlayStation 5 Pro was revealed, alongside some glimpses of PS5 Pro-boosted games. We don’t have the full list of every game that’ll be improved by the new console, but we do know a handful

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum is, perhaps unsurprisingly, supposedly going to be split into two films, according to Ian McKellen. It seems like Warner Bros is looking to continue its tradition of stretching out Lord of the Rings films into slightly too long with its next project, The Hunt for Gollum

Let me fill you in on a secret. This morning I wrote the outline of a reaction to the PS5 Pro announcement that Sony had yet to make, including my desire to pre-order it. I felt I had a pretty good idea of what to expect. In many ways I was right. In one major