That Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 beta last month didn’t totally sell me on the next 12 months of CoD, but the fact that Treyarch is leaving one of the most annoying, disliked weapons behind is scoring some points with me. For the first time in years, Call of Duty will launch without a … Read more
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: T & E Soft Released: 1989-1991 Platforms: MSX2, X68000, Mega Drive (Image credit: Mobygames, T&ESoft) It’s spooky season, and what better way to celebrate the month … Read more
Hi-Rez Studios has announced the upcoming closure of two of its games, Divine Knockout and Realm Royale Reforged, which will be taken offline in February 2025. The pending shutdowns come less than a month after the studio laid off an unspecified number of employees, saying at the time that the cuts were necessary “to ensure … Read more
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, which has now spread into Lebanon and threatens to further destabilise the Middle East, has dominated global news coverage since the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel. Recently, Twitch banned the popular user Asmongold following a racist anti-Palestinian rant, which thanks to his profile put Twitch’s policies around … Read more
What’s your favourite part of Silent Hill 2? Mine has to be James Sunderland’s various superpowers: Teleportation, phasing through walls, psychosexual yearning, all the abilities he got after he was bitten by a radioactive widower. They’re what make him such a potent horror game protagonist but, alas, apparently the first two of them are bugs, … Read more
Valve Deck duo, Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat, have been doing the press rounds recently as Australia is finally getting itself a proper Steam Deck release in that territory. As part of that, Yang and Aldehayyat have had to field the now-standard questions about a potential Steam Deck 2. Unsurprisingly, their answer in an interview … Read more
The millionth Steam Next Fest of the year is coming to an end—don’t worry, it’ll be back before you even have time to uninstall all the demos—and a quick glimpse of the charts might leave you a bit down in the dumps if you’re tired of multiplayer games sucking all the oxygen out of the … Read more
Logitech has a somewhat confusing lineup right now, with the G Pro 2 Lightspeed intended to replace the old Pro and the X Superlight 2 Dex intended to go alongside the standard Superlight 2. They are familiar designs to anyone accustomed to Logitech, and this is both the biggest selling point and the largest criticism … Read more
It’s no secret that Vampire Survivors takes a hell of a lot of inspiration from Castlevania. In its early days, players even accused the developer, Luca Galante, of ripping off certain Castlevania sprites, which Galante later confirmed were actually from asset packs (even if they were almost like a mirror copy). So this latest DLC … Read more
X, formerly known (and still colloquially referred to) as Twitter, has recently moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Texas. This mirrors a 2021 move from California to Texas for one of Elon Musk’s other companies, Tesla, and has since resulted in Musk appearing in public in many different cowboy hats. Now X has updated … Read more