Celeste developer starts 2025 with a ‘huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure’ as creative difficulties and internal conflict lead to the cancellation of Earthblade
Celeste developer Extremely Ok Games has announced the “difficult decision” to cancel its follow-up project Earthblade, citing long term creative difficulties compounded by a conflict within the studio regarding the rights to Celeste. In a blog post published on the Extremely Ok Games website, studio director Maddy Thorson wrote, “We are opening the year with […]
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 2 will let players battle on boats and bullet-trains, with the Terminator entering the fray ‘shortly after launch’
I thought I was above getting excited over brand crossovers in multiplayer shooters, so it is to my great shame I admit my heart rate spiked when Activision revealed the Terminator is coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Look, everybody has a weakness, and there hasn’t been a good Terminator film in over […]
‘That’s why they call me the Elden Ring sicko’ proclaims streamer as he beats FromSoft’s RPG at NG+1000 without taking a single hit
As someone who struggled to beat Elden Ring on its standard difficulty, I’m constantly amazed by the streaming community’s ability to wrestle FromSoftware’s RPG to the ground with a reality-defying number of limbs tied behind its back. Whether that’s MissMikkaa beating the game all the way through to NG+7 with a level 1 character, or […]
Wordle today: Answer and hint #1316 for January 25
We’ve got the perfect selection of hints for the January 25 (1316) Wordle. Scroll down a little and you’ll find just the help you’ve been looking for. Hoping someone, somewhere, will just tell you today’s answer? Not a problem. All the help you need is right here. So close. I was so, so, close to […]
I missed this co-op open world base-builder when it first came out, but it’s got over 10,000 positive Steam reviews and it’s free to play all weekend
I know base-builder fans are always on the lookout for a new open world co-op game to dive into with their pals… and while I don’t have a new one to tempt you with today, there is one from a few years ago that you might not have heard of. I hadn’t, and I play […]
WoW’s Plunderstorm battle royale mode is much more popular the second time around: ‘I can just play and screw around’
World of Warcraft’s controversial battle royale mode relaunched a week ago, once again pitting PvE mount and transmog collectors against hardcore PvP enjoyers. And this time around… almost no one is complaining. Blizzard made some smart changes to the way its pirate-themed Plunderstorm worked. The rate of earning plunder, the game mode’s currency, has increased. […]
Synduality Echo of Ada review
Synduality Echo of Ada is one of those games that feels custom-made for me. A third-person mech action game that takes the extraction shooter formula and twists it into something more social and accessible, with an unusual structure hiding a wealth of optional story tied into a recent anime series. It aims high, but an […]
Ascend through ‘ten thousand meters of concrete and decay’ in this horrifying ‘first-person roguelite speed-climbing game’
White Knuckle – Announcement Trailer – YouTube Watch On If you’ve ever thought to yourself, I wonder what Jusant would be like if David Szymanski made it, you’ll be thrilled to hear about White Knuckle, “a first-person roguelite speed-climbing game” being developed by three-person indie studio Dark Machine Games. Even better, you can partake in […]
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is Team Ninja making a statement of intent, and I am here for it
I wasn’t expecting much from Thursday’s Xbox Direct, but then isn’t that always the way: It turned out to be the most laser-targeted assault on my gaming desires in years. What Microsoft is calling “The Year of the Ninja” saw the announcement of Ninja Gaiden 4, a mere decade after the disappointing Ninja Gaiden 3: […]
Assassin’s Creed Shadows started with a single Ghost of Tsushima-like protagonist, but ‘it’s not representing what the samurai and shinobi are if it’s the same character’
I bet some of you had the same reaction I did when Ubisoft first told us that Assassin’s Creed Shadows would have two protagonists: Why do you need sneaky shinobi Naoe and stalwart samurai Yasuke when you could just make one character who’s super stealthy and a master swordsman? It worked well enough for Ezio […]
By opting out of an open world for Avowed, Obsidian says it can give players more interesting choices to make: ‘Pacing is really tough in open world games’
Earlier today, Xbox Wire published a lengthy interview with Obsidian, in which the studio laid out its philosophy for storytelling, narrative design, and handling player choice in Avowed. Given that it’s a Microsoft-published story about a Microsoft-published game, it’s a bit fawning, but it’s worth a read to see Obsidian explaining how it works to […]
While I’m trapped indoors by one of the UK’s worst storms, I’m enjoying one of my favourite pastimes: trudging through gnarly weather in videogames
Yesterday afternoon, my local medical centre sent me a text warning me that going outside the next day might prove to be fatal. A couple of hours later, my phone started going nuts, scaring the heck out of my dog and, frankly, me, as an alert prepared the country for Storm Eowyn. This morning, as […]