Gaming

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, February 23 (game

Avowed doesn’t have a planned PlayStation release currently, though if you’re playing on PC, some mods will let you imagine you are. You kind of have to assume that Avowed will come to PlayStation at some point, right? After all, why would Xbox head Phil Spencer go on and on about the games it publishes

Nier is celebrating its 15th anniversary later this year, and to mark the occasion, Square Enix is hosting a special livestream. This coming April 22, it’ll have been 15 years since the original Nier released on PS3 and Xbox 360, a title that received pretty mixed reviews but has obviously gone on to birth an

Hori Split Pad Pro: One-minute review The Hori Split Pad Pro was easily one of the best Nintendo Switch controllers when it first launched in conjunction with Daemon X Machina over five years ago, offering a fantastic wired-only Joy-Con alternative that delivered superior comfort and performance at the cost of a few nice-to-have features like

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 Connections hints. 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

Skyblivion, the massive modding project that’s remaking The Elder Scrolls IV in Skyrim’s engine, has just shown off some fresh quest gameplay at C3 (Community Creations Con) ahead of its 2025 release. What was intended to be about half an hour of quest gameplay turned into about 40 minutes, but hey, sometimes you just walk

Eternal Strands has quietly become one of early 2025’s biggest surprises. While it’s not topping the sales charts nor dominating the online conversation, the sentiment which surrounds it is generally positive, and in the age of bloated open-world experiences (which are otherwise good), many players are finding great comfort in its smarter approach to world

Atari 7800+: One-minute review The Atari 7800+ is the latest attempt at a retro console from the iconic gaming brand. I was hopeful going into this one, as I was quite fond of the previous Atari 2600+ which I awarded four stars in my review. Unfortunately, I feel like the Atari 7800+ is a step

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, February 21 (game

George R.R. Martin, creator of Game of Thrones and acclaimed writer of books you’d shrivel up and die halfway through if you attempted to get through one during a single bath, says there’s been some chatter about possibly doing an Elden Ring movie. How much involvement the writer’d have if that were to happen remains

We should finally get to play Skyblivion this year. The massive modding project that’s remaking The Elder Scrolls IV in Skyrim’s engine has been in the works since 2012, and now it’s seemingly on the home stretch. It’s not had a full release date penned in yet, but we’ll be getting to see a bit

GTA 5 is getting a free PC upgrade in March that adds previously released PS5 and Xbox Series X features The update will add GTA Online features, improved graphics, ray-tracing features, and more New minimum and recommended specifications have been shared ahead of its release Rockstar Games has announced that a free PC upgrade for

The developers behind Skyblivion, the massive modding project that’s remaking The Elder Scrolls IV in Skyrim’s engine, have now revealed that they’ve finished landscaping every region of their map of Cyrodiil. There’s still stuff to do before the mod can hit its current 2025 release window, but it sounds like this is a pretty big

There’s GTA news! No, sit your bum down, it’s not GTA 6 trailer news. It’s GTA 5 news. The free update that’ll finally bring the PC version of the most lucrative game ever to game has just been given a concrete release date – it’s dropping on March 4. Having teased this update was coming

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 Connections hints. 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

It’s ok everyone, former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida has said that – to his knowledge – none of the first-party studios under the console maker’s command have been forced into making live-service games. They’ve more likely just chosen to get on board with the “big initiative”, for the small reason of thinking it’d give them

Starfield still exists, believe it or not, and has just gotten an interesting mod that’s made me consider re-installing it just so I can roleplay as some kind of intergalactic version of Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition. It’s Neeher’s ‘Ship to Ship Transporter‘ and it’s one of those mods that you look at and think to

One-minute review The Mobile Controller MG-X Pro is the most disappointing mobile gaming controller that I’ve ever tested. For the lofty price of $119.90 / £99.90 – which is a whopping $19.91 more than the Backbone One 2nd Gen in the US – you’re getting a mobile controller that performs worse, has a lower build