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Lucia in GTA 6 next to the Nintendo Switch 2.

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Seriously Tho | Sure, the Nintendo Switch 2 has finally been revealed...but what does that tell us about GTA 6?

Right, everyone’s fired off their hot takes - now it’s time for the real work to begin.

Jan. 20, 2025 Mark Warren

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Leon Kennedy has a gun pointed at a zombie, its had visible in the foreground, in key art for Resident Evil 6.

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Real Slop Hours | One of the worst Resident Evil games could be coming to current-gen consoles, if a new ESRB rating is accurate

Though it seems more like a remaster than a remake.

Jan. 20, 2025 Oisin Kuhnke

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A person wearing a futuristic suit holding a gun while stood in a jungle setting in key art for Crysis.

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You Know The Meme | Turns out the devs behind Crysis made its highest settings so hard to run is because they were thinking about the PC you would own in 2010, not the one your were stuck with in 2007

Do I even need to ask the question?

Jan. 19, 2025 Oisin Kuhnke

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Some characters facing of against a dragon in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

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Veilgone? | UPDATE: Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director Corinne Busche is leaving BioWare, having spent 18 years at publisher EA

Busche, along with John Epler, was one of the main figures responsible for overseeing Veilguard's final push across the release finish line.

Jan. 17, 2025 Mark Warren

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Wasted | Massive GTA 5 Liberty City modding project bites the dust after "friendly takedown" chat with Rockstar, dev says there's "no negativity" between it and Take-Two

"We appreciate all the support that the project has received."

Jan. 16, 2025 Mark Warren

The undead plague horde in Rorikstead in Skyrim mod Death Consumes All.

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More To Playgue | Massive Skyrim mod inspired by The Witcher 3's Hearts of Stone gets an extra 20 hours added to its questline about the Dragonborn fighting a full-on plague

Version 2.0 of Death Consumes All definitely looks to have made it close to as beefy as CD Projekt's DLC masterworks.

Jan. 14, 2025 Mark Warren

A character in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

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Mankar Come On, Man | Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remake is reportedly reworking some gameplay systems, including two I'm worried might stop me re-creating the funniest clip ever

Look, leakings that may or may not be accurate, all I want is to watch guards flop about going 'Unnnghhh' with totally straight faces.

Jan. 14, 2025 Mark Warren

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Not Fin-ished | SEGA looks like it could be bringing back one of the smuggest blowhole-owners gaming has ever seen, if new trademarks mean anything

Damn Ecco, you might be helping to save the environment or some shit, but you don't have to look as pleased with yourself.

Jan. 14, 2025 Mark Warren

On the left, a speedrunner and a live band playing at Games Done Quick, a crowd dancing in the background. On the right, Crazy Taxi key art showing a character speeding down a hill, a passenger almost flying out the back seat.

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Need A Pick-Me-Up? | I need you to stop what you're doing and watch this Games Done Quick Crazy Taxi speedrun that has a live backing band

Pure cinema.

Jan. 12, 2025 Oisin Kuhnke

Some Helldivers 2 players wearing gear from the Dogmatic Reach Warbond mod.

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Warmods | Helldivers 2 players are modding their own Warbonds into the game, and the latest one's perfect for Halo fans

Hey, a diver can never have too much gear to pick between before diving pod-first into the Voteless hordes.

Jan. 10, 2025 Mark Warren

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Winston Chu and the gang having a word with Wei Shen in Sleeping Dogs.

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A Real Shenme | Sleeping Dogs movie no longer in the works, because there's no Wei we can be allowed nice things

Our favourite not quite GTA with kickass martial arts is no longer coming to the big screen.

Jan. 10, 2025 Mark Warren

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Boomer Schooler | “It always felt like this vague form of superficial hell to me” Doom: The Gallery Experience devs on turning a 90s shooter into high culture

Read on to find out which Renaissance paintings they think Doomguy himself would get a kick out of.

Jan. 8, 2025 Mark Warren

Skyrim's Dragonborn shouting in front of a violin.

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Miner Key | Good news culture lovers, a Minecraft YouTuber is hopping on Classic FM to blast banging choons from Skyrim, Street Fighter, and more

And here's the symphony that plays when an army of creepers blows up your entire town, delivered by the brass section of the New York philharmonic.

Jan. 8, 2025 Mark Warren

Key art for Mighty No. 9 showing the titular character with various other characters posed around him.

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So Long, Farewell | It's time to finally say goodbye to your dreams of a Mighty No. 9 3DS port, as Amazon seemingly starts cancelling very old orders of the failed Mega Man successor

I mean, if you were holding on this long, that's on you in my opinion.

Jan. 6, 2025 Oisin Kuhnke

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Doomguy carrying around some wine while looking at art in Doom: The Gallery Experience.

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Culture Classic | Doom: The Gallery Experience takes you to the real hell - trying not to choke on wine and cheese by sniggering at the nude bits of classical art

*cough* Oh, yes, it's a *cough* masterpiece, you can tell by the shading around the er...excuse me a moment...

Jan. 6, 2025 Mark Warren

Bayonetta, a very tall woman with long black hair and a skin tight black suit, is facing away from the camera looking at a very large moon.

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The Year Of Serving | Bayonetta celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, and despite a recent staff exodus, PlatinumGames has teased it has "a few things in store"

"Keep your eyes peeled."

Jan. 6, 2025 Oisin Kuhnke

The Crazy Taxi FRV in Helldivers 2 opposite a horde of Voteless.

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All's Fare In War | Helldivers 2 mod turns the FRV into a souped-up Crazy Taxi, so naturally here's a video of it running down Voteless while blasting The Offspring

A ride that's pretty fly, for a Super Earth guy.

Jan. 6, 2025 Mark Warren

Liberty City in GTA 5 opposite Trevor and Michael looking at a thing.

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New York Groove | Huge new GTA 5 mod will let you run around a full recreation of Liberty City as Michael, Trevor, and Franklin, if you fancy returning to Niko's old haunts ahead of GTA 6

I've got no idea if you can run into Mr Bellic, but surely it's worth hopping on the plane to find out.

Jan. 3, 2025 Mark Warren

GTA 6's protagonists next to a GTA Online protagonist buying a thing.

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Breaking The Bank | GTA 6 is projected to make over $1 billion in pre-orders, and double GTA 5's first year, no doubt letting a bunch of suits buy ten car garages they don't need

Yep, just a small amount of money, to help counteract an estimated budget of up to $2 billion, because numbers can be ridiculous.

Jan. 2, 2025 Mark Warren

An adventurer walking on a road leading away from the Imperial City in Skyblivion.

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Cyrodiil You Soon | Skyblivion, the huge Oblivion remake mod in Skyrim's engine, is now in its release year and its devs only have one region of Cyrodiil left to complete

By Azura, things currently still look on track to let you hop into the massive mod's Imperial province by the end of 2025.

Jan. 2, 2025 Mark Warren

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PASS THE GAMES | The best Game Pass games on Xbox and PC in 2025

Our top picks of the greatest games on gaming's best subscription service.

Jan. 1, 2025 James Billcliffe

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TOP OF THE DROPS | The best PlayStation Plus games on PS4 and PS5 in 2025

Our top picks for Sony's money-saving subscription service!

Jan. 1, 2025 Connor Makar

2B from NieR giving a little robot thing a cheeky pat on the head.

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This Can Continue? | "I’ve been hearing the fans’ expectations" - As Nier approaches its 15th anniversary, the series' producer teases what's next for one of the weirdest RPGs around

"I’d appreciate it if you could patiently look forward to what’s coming."

Dec. 28, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Zombies Origin | One of the most beloved Call of Duty games, and a unique shooter from the X360 era, are seemingly coming to Game Pass

Game Pass continues to amass a large library of classic Call of Duty games, and it appears the list will be gaining one major addition next year.

Dec. 24, 2024 Sherif Saed

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Dead Dead | Just in case you had any hope the horror series wasn't dead, EA said no to a Dead Space 4 pitch from the original co-creator

Remember when EA managed to fool us into thinking that maybe it's ready to really bring back Dead Space? Well, that was fun while it lasted.

Dec. 23, 2024 Sherif Saed

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Rayman in Captain Laserhawk: The G.A.M.E.

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Ray-Aw, Man | Rayman stars in a weird NFT game vaguely inspired by the coolest Far Cry DLC that Ubisoft's just quietly plopped out, because of course he does

Also, he's seemingly now a Die Hard baddie who makes a lot of probably very salient points about how America sucks.

Dec. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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MassConaughey | Remember Exodus? Here's its first gameplay, featuring a not quite Commander Shepard sci-fi slapping up a space bear

The game also has Matthew McConaughey in it, doing video games for the first time.

Dec. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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A Polite Prod | If you want a Need for Speed: Most Wanted remake, it seems all you need to do is keep asking for it, as one actor from the series says that "anything is on the table" at EA

What about everything?

Dec. 8, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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GTA 6's main characters robbing a store.

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Mum's The Word | Wonder why Rockstar is staying so quiet about GTA 6? According to one former GTA 5 dev, it's for quite a simple reason

It's all thanks to you fans.

Dec. 8, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Decisions, Decisions | Yes, your choices in past Dragon Age games don't matter as much as they could in The Veilguard, but BioWare wants you to know "that doesn't mean they're gone"

"The big thing for us is we wanted to make this story, every single choice you make, feel relevant to it."

Dec. 7, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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A man walking around a city with a gun in his hand in Grand Theft Auto 3.

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Hit And Run | "We were worried when we saw Xbox coming" - One former PlayStation exec on securing exclusivity for GTA 3 before its upcoming competitor could get to it

"We knew exclusivity was the name of the game in a lot of fields."

Dec. 6, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Eternal Strands screenshot showing the player character controlling blue strands of light magic while facing off against a dragon-like creature.

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Stranding Around | Dragon Age: The Veilguard fans that were left wanting should be excited that the series' original designer's next game just got a release date

Eternal Strands might just have what you were looking for.

Dec. 6, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Solas and Ghilan'nain in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

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A Fresh Start? | "We've been doing elven gods and elves and the blight for four games now" Dragon Age: The Veilguard devs discuss where the series could go story-wise in the future

"Everything has changed, and what does that change look like?"

Dec. 5, 2024 Mark Warren

Manny Vargas from Fallout New Vegas sniping some fools from the mouth of Novac's Dinky the dinosaur.

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Motell Me More | Alleged Fallout season two set pics have fans speculating New Vegas' Novac could show up, but I'm not believing it til I see the Dinky the dinosaur

There'll seemingly also be at least one nod to the Great Khans, if these snaps are legit.

Dec. 3, 2024 Mark Warren

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Pixel Monsters | Far from slowing down in the face of legal trouble, Palworld has announced a mystery collaboration with Terraria for 2025

There are no brakes on this train.

Nov. 28, 2024 Fran Ruiz

Two people stand on a balcony looking out over a floating sci-fi city.

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Hard Times | Not even the director of Mass Effect can survive the games industry right now, as his own studio and "all-new" sci-fi game get shut down

2024 continues to look a bit bleak.

Nov. 26, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Sleepers or Junkers? | "Need For Speed is always too ahead of its time" Veteran NFS developers on the series' habit of polarising releases that end up beloved

"I was shocked how highly rated some of the fans made that game. Because I had thought that’s a bit of a lump of coal in my resume."

Nov. 21, 2024 Mark Warren

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The Tarnished sizing up to a boss in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree.

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The Lands Buytween? | Sony is reportedly in talks to buy Elden Ring and Dark Souls developer FromSoftware's owner Kadokawa

The megacorp behind PlayStation is looking to "add to its entertainment portfolio", according to Reuters.

Nov. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Some Fallout fans cosplaying as NCR and Caesar's Legion soldiers.

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Mojaving Fun | Fallout fan fest in real-life version of New Vegas' Goodsprings features NCR vs Legion battle re-enactments, and a Todd Howard cosplay with "an actual piece of trash"

The Fallout community's annual trip to the Mojave came with plenty of cool cosplays, as has become the tradition.

Nov. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

Half-Life 2 key art of Gordon Freeman attacking alien appendages with a crowbar.

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Doing Numbers | Despite being a 20 year old single-player game, Half-Life 2 just hit an all-time high concurrent player count thanks to that anniversary update

Turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks.

Nov. 17, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Dragon Age: Inquisition key art showing a knight with a burning sword reaching out towards demonic looking creatures.

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Keepin' On | Not ready for Dragon Age: The Veilguard but struggling to import your world save states from the Keep into Inquisition? You're not the only one, and BioWare is trying to fix it

To be fair, it was only last month that The Veilguard came out, BioWare's probably a bit busy right now.

Nov. 17, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

CJ in GTA: San Andreas Definitive Edition.

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Good Colours | I'd forgotten how stylish the original GTA: San Andreas was until the latest Definitive Edition update

Ah yes, this game had what the kids call 'aura' these days.

Nov. 17, 2024 Fran Ruiz

Fancy a look at Half-Life 2: Episode 3? For Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, Valve shares a jam-packed documentary showing some of the infamous episode that never was

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Get A Life | Fancy a look at Half-Life 2: Episode 3? For Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, Valve shares a jam-packed documentary showing some of the infamous episode that never was

Oh, and the game is free for the next couple of days!

Nov. 16, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

A character wearing T-51 power armour in Fallout 76.

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Wasteland Walkout | UPDATE: "We are not afraid to do what's necessary" Hundreds of Fallout and Elder Scrolls devs at Zenimax go on strike against Microsoft

The need to bargain over issues like remote work options and outsourcing is the crux of the one-day action, union claims.

Nov. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

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Keanu Reeves taking off headphones in Secret Level.

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Oh Dear | The latest Secret Level trailer says it's "inspired by your favourite games", which makes that Concord episode feel extra awkward

I'm not sure if including one of the most commonly used songs in trailers helps sell this much either.

Nov. 13, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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The stamp of GOG's preservation program in front of some classic games.

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Good For Old Games | GOG is launching a new preservation program, and it looks like good news for PC folks who love playing classics without having to mess around

"We continue our mission to make games live forever."

Nov. 13, 2024 Mark Warren

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Bad Call | Battlefield: Bad Company's original lead is happy to bring his ideas for a third game to life, but he knows EA won't do it

We're not likely to get a third Battlefield: Bad Company game, and it has nothing to do with the originals' creator's willingness to return to the series.

Nov. 12, 2024 Sherif Saed

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Touching Down Soon | It's In The Game: Madden NFL is about to give EA's American football series the documentary treatment, and here's hoping it does a deep-dive on that Greg Jennings touchdown

Sure, he was putting the team on his back, but there has to be more to it than that.

Nov. 11, 2024 Mark Warren

"We really heavily focused on freedom to play the game the way you wanted" - Fallout: New Vegas' director on Obsidian's goals in the face of bug criticisms and Fallout 3 comparisons

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Choices, Choices | "We really heavily focused on freedom to play the game the way you wanted" - Fallout: New Vegas' director on Obsidian's goals in the face of bug criticisms and Fallout 3 comparisons

"You always have to prioritise things."

Nov. 10, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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John Marston dressed in his original Red Ded Redemption outfit in Red Dead Redemption 2.

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Sweet Cowboy Blues | “We've waited 14 years for this game” The story of the Red Dead Redemption PC remaster mod looking to bring RDR2 to classic New Austin

Reality Redemption’s developer says it’s the product of loving Red Dead’s “final frontier vibes” taking on “a fresh challenge”.

Nov. 8, 2024 Mark Warren