Gaming

Destiny Rising – a mobile game and alternate timeline prequel to Bungie’s hit sci-fi FPS Destiny 2 – has been announced. Developed and published by Netease Games under the liscense of Bungie, closed beta registration for what will surely be a controversial project in the eyes of Destiny fans are now live. The game was

In case you were living underneath a rock with the insulindian phasmid, a whole bunch of new projects and studios that involve developers who worked on Disco Elysium and look like they could well appeal to people who liked Disco Elysium were announced last week. While they all look interesting, the last one that 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 Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints

Toei Animation announced today that One Piece is taking a break from the Egghead Arc until next year, but you’ll still have some anime to keep you going. It’s rare that the One Piece anime takes a particularly long break, but after a long uninterrupted stretch of episodes, it’s finally taking one. As announced by

The co-creator of RuneScape’s next MMO, Brighter Shores, has caught a delay of exactly one day because there’s some election coming up, apparently. Hey, did you know that there’s an election coming up in the US? You might have missed that fact, it’s not like it’s been all over the news no matter where you’re

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 “Bros” part of Super Smash Bros. has always been a bit of a mystery, but series creator Masahiro Sakurai has shed some light on what it means. For the most part, the name Super Smash Bros. title makes a lot of sense – super, because, well, Super Mario, Super Nintendo Entertainment system, Nintendo just

It’ll likely be a while before we get to play Crystal Dynamics’ upcoming Tomb Raider game, but luckily Aspyr has another round of remasters coming our way. Tomb Raider fans haven’t been able to play a completely new entry in the series since 2018, and since then the rights have changed hands a touch, but

LG’s UltraGear products have long set the standard for gaming monitors. And LG’s 2024 UltraGear monitors have raised the bar so high it’s gone into orbit. With up to 30% brighter OLED displays than rival monitors, astonishingly fast refresh rates for stunning performance and a choice of sizes from compact to all-encompassing, there’s an UltraGear

A group of former members of the original development team of RPG darling Disco Elysium have today revealed their first new title under a new UK studio: XXX Nightshift. No, you’re not getting deja vu – this really has happened twice in one day, with this reveal following hot on the heels of the announcement

Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero has surpassed over 100,000 concurrent players on Steam, following the conclusion of its early access release window. As of writing it is at the top of the store’s Top Selling list. The game, which is brilliant by the way as noted in our review, hit this eye-catching milestone overnight. Before that,

Nintendo has released a day-one update for its adorable new device, the Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo. Earlier this week, instead of announcing the long-rumored Nintendo Switch 2, the Japanese company unveiled its new hardware, an interactive alarm clock that detects movement and plays sounds to make waking up more bearable. Now, Nintendo has released the

The Phantom Menace is the one Star Wars movie that probably received the most tie-in games back in the day, and it appears that Lucasfilm Games is making sure we remember all of them. After a straightforward re-release of Episode I: The Phantom Menace earlier this year, it’s been announced that Aspyr is remastering Jedi

Almost no one is denying anymore that Marvel Studios has hit a bit of a slump in recent times, yet it’s also managed to put out some bangers and utterly demolished the box office this summer with Deadpool & Wolverine. This explains why Sebastian Stan is defending the hell out of the House of M

Refresh 2024-10-09T19:30:10.296Z Don’t forget to buy your disc drive! (Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Hardware Writer Dashiell Wood has this advice for those gearing up to pre-order a PS5 Pro: “If you have a large physical game collection, definitely don’t forget to pick up the compatible disc drive in the pre-order rush. They’re available for

Gladiator 2 might not even be out yet, and Ridley Scott might be getting quite close to his 90s, but he’s already working on a script for a third one. After a 24 year gap, the 2000 historical epic classic Gladiator is finally getting a sequel, with Ridley Scott still at the helm, an impressive

I’m not exactly sure what Sega’s gameplan here is, but the developer has another live-action adaptation in the works, this time about Shinobi. These days, it’s all about IP. Exploiting it, flogging it like a dead horse, whatever, if it’s a pre-existing IP, someone will find some way to make it even bigger and adapt

I think Junji Ito might be cursed. Or at least, maybe his work is, because when it comes to animated adaptations of any of his manga, they just never seem to come out right. 2018 saw the release of the Junji Ito Collection, which was made up of a range of his stories, more anthological