Software & Gaming

Ahead of its release earlier this year, the PlayStation 5 exclusive Stellar Blade drew a great deal of comparison to 2017’s spectacle fighter NieR: Automata – with the latter’s creator himself stating that the former is “much better than NieR: Automata”. In a somewhat surprising move, the two properties are …

Each month, all those with a PlayStation Plus subscription are able to get their hands on a few select games which can be added to your library – and remain playable as long as you have an active subscription. As announced during the State of Play, October’s line-up has now …

It looks like Assassin's Creed Shadows will have at least one highly unexpected feature – an RTS-style base building mechanic, allowing players to manually place houses and build their own little villages in the Japanese countryside.  The new mode was revealed in a developer diary published early by IGN China. …

Stellar Blade is making headlines again this week. No, not for the expected announcement of the PC version. Instead, Shift Up, along with Sony, are being sued for trademark infringement, by a film production company that shares the same name as the PS5 game.  As it turns out, there is …

God of War: Ragnarok launched on PC this week to mixed reviews, due to continued protests around Sony's PSN account linking requirements, due to the vast number of countries blocked from accessing PSN. Fortunately for those outside of PSN-supported territories, modders have been quick to work out a way to …

Behaviour Interactive has been on a bit of a spending spree lately, putting that Dead by Daylight money to good use by acquiring additional studios, and partnering up for various spin-offs set in the Dead by Daylight universe. This week, Behaviour Interactive closed its latest deal, acquiring the studio behind …

With Assassin's Creed Shadows being set in Japan, Ubisoft had big plans for its appearance at the Tokyo Game Show this month, hoping to win over Japanese gamers. However, just days before the event, the publisher has abruptly pulled out. Ubisoft will no longer be showcasing its games at the …

Razer rolled out its ‘Snap Tap' feature for Huntsman V3 Pro keyboards a while back, allowing gamers to easily counter-strafe in shooters without having to double tap any keys. Now, Razer is rolling the feature out to more keyboards as part of a free update.  Razer Snap Tap is available …

Two of this year's biggest flops have both been live-service titles. Prior to Sony's embarrassing release and unrelease of Concord, we had Rocksteady's Suicide Squad game. While Suicide Squad's campaign earned a little bit of praise, everything outside of that was critically panned, including the game's first two seasons of …

It looks like the Legacy of Kain games are indeed set to return. Ahead of Sony's State of Play stream later this evening, a PSN listing has already revealed one of the surprises – The Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered.  The remaster will package together both …

Platinum Games has made some fantastic games for Nintendo consoles over the years. Now, the company is in the process of acquiring the trademark rights back. We're still awaiting news on IP like Astral Chain, but in the meantime, it appears that Platinum Games has taken ownership of The Wonderful …

The list of over 600 games and applications that feature RTX technologies continues to grow, with new additions this week including The Casting of Frank Stone and Witchfire, as well as the hit management sim, Satisfactory. Aside from The Casting of Frank Stone, Witchfire and Satisfactory getting DLSS upgrades, Spiders' …

Frostpunk 2 was released on September 20th and things seem to be off to a good start so far, with 11-Bit Studios confirming that 350,000 copies have been sold in the first three days.  With the 350,000 copies it sold, 11 Bit said that Frostpunk 2's expected income has already …

2024 is a big year for Sonic the Hedgehog, with the Blue Blur returning in remastered form via the upcoming Sonic x Shadow Generations alongside the 3rd entry in the Sonic film series – set to premiere this December. With the rest of 2024 being a known quantity, SEGA is …

TMNT Shredder’s Revenge successfully revived the much-loved franchise upon its release back in 2022, creating an arcade-like brawler which equally harkens back to days of old while simultaneously improving upon the genre’s formula. Though the game already got a ton of post-launch support and even surprise DLCs, the team at …

DON’T NOD hit it big with the release of the much loved choice-based adventure game Life is Strange back in 2015. Since leaving the IP behind however, the studio has struggled to replicate this success. Unfortunately, it seems their most recent projects have not done too much to help swing …

With decades worth of beloved franchises, Capcom have more IPs than they know what to do with. As such, many classic series have seemingly been long forgotten. However, with the uptick in remasters/remakes released recently, the publisher is asking fans what dormant franchises they would like to see return. As …

Concord marked the latest attempt by Sony to capitalise off of the hype and perceived popularity surrounding live-service games. Released on the 23rd of August, the Destiny x Overwatch like Hero Shooter lasted less than two weeks before being fully shut down by Sony – refunding all of the roughly 25,000 copies which were estimated to have sold during that time. In the immediacy following this monumental failure, there have been a variety of opinions on just why this game flopped so spectacularly. While certainly not the only reason, I believe that the primary cause of its failings is simple: Hero Shooters are boring.

The situation surrounding Sony's recently released, and quickly delisted game, Concord, continues to get more confusing. As it turns out, there really was a huge amount of positivity around the project internally at Sony, despite the total lack of public interest from fans. On top of that, it has been …

In recent weeks, there have been rumblings that Sony is planning a new State of Play stream for September, unveiling the next wave of titles for PS5 (and PC). Now, Sony has confirmed its plans, with the stream set to go live tomorrow evening.  Today Sony confirmed last week's leak, …

Final Fantasy 16 has got off to a great start on PC. The game has launched to a very positive reception from Steam gamers and has even risen up to be the fourth most concurrently played game in Square Enix's catalogue on Steam, beating out the likes of Kingdom Hearts, …

One of the most popular entries in the Naruto video game sphere is 2008’s Ultimate Ninja Storm. Initially released exclusively on the PlayStation 3, the game is now making its way onto iOS and Android. For the uninitiated, Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm is a 1v1 3D fighter with flashy combat …

While The Elder Scrolls Online doesn't make as many headlines as some other MMOs on the market, it has been a hugely successful venture for Zenimax Online. Back in April, we learned through a GDC talk that the game had earned around $2 billion in lifetime sales. Since then, other …

Back in July, we reported on a leak which claimed that Microsoft was planning to wind down its console sales in EMEA regions, instead wanting to push potential customers towards Game Pass. It seems Microsoft might also take a similar approach with the Middle East. As reported by known Saudi …

While there were some fears that Microsoft was preparing to bow out of the console race, instead focusing on its role as a 3rd-party publisher, the console maker confirmed on multiple accounts that they are working on the next generation of Xbox consoles. It seems Microsoft will once again release …

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic, the adoption of digital gaming media has ballooned, with no signs of things going back to the way they were. Case in point, 75% of all games sold in the UK last month were digital – a 10% increase year-on-year. As reported by Christopher Dring …

Steam has achieved a new record for concurrent players, surpassing 38 million concurrent users this past Sunday at around 3:00PM. That's an increase of one million players in just over a month since its previous record. Setting a new record with 38,367,277 concurrent players on the platform, the top most-played …

Valve's recent updates to a test app have unveiled someone at the company is testing various games with a new Proton compatibility layer for ARM64 devices. The introduction of an ARM64 version of Proton, labelled “proton-arm64ec-4” (via SteamDB), has led to some wondering where Valve is planning to make use …

A $40 'premium' PvP game with a cosmetics store and battle passes ... what could possibly go wrong?

Studio RGG has officially revealed the next Yakuza game for PC and consoles. This time around, we're leaving the urban organised crime life behind, swapping it out for a swashbuckling adventure starring fan-favourite character, Goro Majima.  Yakuza has had a few interesting spin-offs over the years. The previous, Like a …