Gaming

In case you’ve not been keeping tabs on the live service space in recent years, it’s a bloodbath. A feast or famine venture where developers can either bring home some serious crash (see Helldivers 2), or drown in tumultuous waters like the recently released and often mocked Concord. For every game that succeeds, there are

I’ve been saying it for years: the only things Animal Crossing is missing are rocket boots and superpowers. Okay, I’ve not been saying that – but now that I’ve seen it’s a thing, I’m quietly obsessed. Floatopia, a free-to-play Animal Crossing-like from NetEase Games, is like a toybox life sim crossed with that anime trope

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro: One-minute review Whether you play on Xbox or PC (or both), the new Razer Wolverine V3 Pro controller is a must-own if you’re looking for a seriously premium gamepad. The brand’s penchant for top-notch build quality is here, but that was also true of its predecessor, the Wolverine V2 Pro. However,

Black Ops 6 Beta start date (Image credit: Activision) The Black Ops 6 beta will go live on August 30 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM BST. You can actually preload the game now, just make sure to download the Call of Duty launcher, and the Season 5 update. This will make the

Everybody Still Hates Chris, the animated continuation of 2000s sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, finally has a release date. You can only wonder how long people could hate Chris Rock for, but as it turns out, it’s quite a while, as people are continuing to hate him in the upcoming Comedy Central show. Earlier this week,

Mountaintop Studios has officially announced the launch day of its debut title, Spectre Divide. The free-to-play shooter arrives next week – on Tuesday, September 3 on Steam. Spectre Divide comes from a team of Riot, Bungie and Respawn veterans and brings a new twist to the competitive shooter formula. Having recently wrapped up a couple

Amazon Prime Gaming members can now claim three Lord of the Rings games free of charge.  To celebrate the upcoming release of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 on August 29, Amazon is now offering subscribers the chance to add three games inspired by the Tolkien universe to their collections. 

What makes a good arcade racing game in 2024? Aiming to be a bit like what the Forza Horizon series has morphed into, aside from the whole open-world thing? Yeah, alright. This, I’d assume, may well have been the conversation that took place when Milestone began putting together its plans for Monster Jam Showdown. Showdown

Okay imagine this. A 26-year-old big, bearded man walks through Gamescom – having drunk three Red Bulls and smoked five cigarettes – and stumbles towards the Infinity Nikki booth. It’s this massive, adorable set-up with rows of PCs along cutesy white booths. I hop right in, finding myself in control of a young lady, as

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

The latest PlayStation-published live-service shooter Concord is here, and launch numbers are looking pretty bad so far. When it comes to concurrent player counts, numbers don’t always matter, particularly for single-player games, but live-service titles are a different story. Valve’s new hero shooter Deadlock, which it finally officially revealed last week, had a concurrent player

Sabacc cards on the table first, right: Star Wars Outlaws won’t win many Game of the Year awards. There are a lot of reasons for this, not least because there have been other major releases this year which have been bolder, better marketed, or which have advanced the medium in some exciting way. Other major

Thrustmaster T-GT II: One-minute review The mid-range of the best racing wheels is a tricky space where competing technologies vie for space, but Thrustmaster makes a compelling argument with a wheel, wheelbase, and pedals bundled for $799.99 / £699.99.  That’s a lot pricier than Logitech’s all-conquering G923 bundle, but the advantages are clear: a quick-release

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

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

Gaming accessory brand CRKD has unveiled the Atom, an incredibly compact controller that would fit perfectly on a keychain. Yesterday I went hands-on with some early production samples at Gamescom and I think that it might just be one of the best mini controllers that I’ve ever tried. The Atom is available to purchase now

If you’ve been on social media over the past couple of years and are into the video game, odds are you’ve seen or heard of Squirrel with a Gun. It’s a game in which you play as a Squirrel with a gun, and it’s just had a console release date revealed to go alongside the

Sailing around in a little boat and occasionally sinking because you couldn’t be bothered to get up and kill the sirens trying to break it apart is a key part of what makes exploration – or just commuting between missions – in The Witcher 3 a blast. Though, if you’ve ever thought Geralt could do