For more than a month, Sonic fans have been seeing a gradual drip-feed of news on the next 3D Sonic game, Sonic Frontiers. However, one thing that has been noticeably absent from all the info on the game has been a release date. It has either been “later this year” or “this holiday season”. Well,
Audio player loading… Rare has announced a slight delay to the start of Sea of Thieves season 7 to ensure quality and avoid crunch. The announcement was made in a blog post (opens in new tab) on the official Sea of Thieves website. In the post, executive producer Joe Neate explains that the ambitious nature
Audio player loading… Xbox players can jump into a bunch of classic Bethesda and id Software games for free right now, as Microsoft has rolled out a slate of new game previews for Xbox Insiders. If you’re signed up to Microsoft’s free beta platform, you can play The Elder Scrolls: Arena, The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall,
Audio player loading… I love the Switch, to the point where I can forgive many of its shortcomings. Sure, it can’t do 4K. It often can’t muster a stable performance. It’s inundated with terrible ports. Oh, and the online infrastructure could be much, much better. All things worthy of criticism. But they’ve never been outright
Audio player loading… Sony is facing a class action lawsuit regarding a game-crashing PS5 defect. But do the accusations hold any weight? Plaintiff Christina Trejo of Illinois filed the lawsuit after discovering the PS5 was prone to shutting down entirely during gameplay. The court documentation (opens in new tab) states that the defect “affects users’
Audio player loading… The first story details of God of War Ragnarok have been inadvertently revealed, confirming the game will feature all nine realms of Norse Mythology. The PlayStation Store description of God of War Ragnarok was recently updated, giving us our best look yet at the upcoming sequel’s plot. While brief, it goes beyond
Audio player loading… The latest bunch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass have been announced, and there’s a few big names among them. The most tantalizing game in the new Xbox Game Pass line-up is Torment: Tides of Numenera. It’s the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment that harkens back to the early days of
Audio player loading… Tempted by PS Plus Premium but turned away by the monthly cost? It now has a 7-day free trial for new subscribers to try out. If you’re curious about what the newly revamped PS Plus offers, you can try it for free right now. Sony is currently offering a weeklong trial so
Audio player loading… Star Wars: Hunters, an upcoming team-based arena shooter set in the galaxy far, far away has been delayed to next year. The competitive multiplayer brawler pits teams of characters against one another in fights across the Star Wars universe. It’s scheduled to release on Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android devices. Although it
Audio player loading… Blizzard is giving away beta access to dedicated Diablo 4 fans who get permanent tattoos. In the lead-up to Diablo 4’s release next year, the publisher is offering free Diablo-inspired tattoos as part of its Hell’s Ink promotional campaign. The event is running now until September 10, and offers winners of a
Audio player loading… Alienware breaks through the refresh-rate ceiling as its new m17 R5 and x17 R2 gaming laptops come with the industry’s first 480Hz displays. Admittedly, it’s tricky to conceptualize what a 480Hz display even looks like in action. Dell describes what this tech brings to the table (opens in new tab) and it
Stray has seemingly been a resounding success for developer BlueTwelve Studio and publisher Annapurna Interactive as it has broken the publisher’s record for concurrent player numbers on Steam by quite a margin. The game is still in the top 15 games by current player count on the platform too. Stray concurrent player numbers exceed 60,000
A Sonic Frontiers release date leak may have happened in an update to the Steam backend, and if the release date is true then the game will be going head to head with Skull & Bones, with God of War Ragnarok due to be released the day after. November could turn out to be quite
I’ve not been slow while writing news stories this evening, I have throttled my performance to protect myself. In this I may have something in common with the Steam Deck. Valve tweeted earlier today to let users “in the midst of a heatwave” know that at temperatures over 35 degrees centigrade, the Steam Deck may
Each week Sony brings PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation VR, and PlayStation Plus owners new content, add-ons, games, and more. Here is the complete global PlayStation Store update. PlayStation LifeStyle catalogs the PlayStation Store updates for the major regions across the globe. Check back every Tuesday to keep up to date with each week’s PlayStation
It seems like the first screens for Yakuza 8 have been revealed, but not via official channels. Japanese YouTuber and MMA fighter Mikuru Asakura, who will appear in the game, recently uploaded a video of his tour through Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. During his time there, he filmed several workstations which showed updated designs for Ichiban,
Long awaited cat ’em up Stray is out as of today, which is good news for us humans who play videogames. It may also be good news for actual cats, if the Twitter account Cats Watching Stray is any indication. It seems like cats can’t get enough of watching their virtual doppelganger on screen, and
I’m a huge fan of watching the AI fight each other, whether that’s spawning demons in Dwarf Fortress’s Arena mode or carting around a suicidally incompetent security guard in Half-Life. Enter CacoFrendo, a mod for the original Doom that lets you pet the Cacodemon until he becomes your pal and fights on your side.