It's been a good while since we last heard about Balatro's big 1.1 update—a year, almost to the day, since developer LocalThunk delayed it into 2026. There's still no sign of it, but the community did catch sight of LocalThunk yesterday when he popped into the Balatro Discord to let everyone know…
Steam users have been blessed with a soulslike demo that’ll probably fly under the radar, but not if I can help it. Now live on the Steam store is a free taster for Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember, developed by Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo. I recently had the pleasure of sampling this action-packed…
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Record-breaking video game auctions have been coming thick and fast in the last few years, with many SNES games selling for hundreds of thousands. In many cases, the running theme of these sales has been the inclusion of Nintendo mascot Mario, whether in his original…
Call of Duty developer Treyarch has said it’s “ready to make something new” as it waves goodbye to two years of Black Ops games. Treyarch led development on two Black Ops games back-to-back: 2024’s Black Ops 6 and 2025’s Black Ops 7. With Season 6 hitting Black Ops 7 on September 17, the developer…
Scavland’s development team at NoShadow continues to impress indie gamers everywhere. The squad, which numbers barely more than a dozen staff members, has kept up a phenomenal update cadence for the post-apocalyptic shooter, and the most recent change is no different. It’s already at update 0.7.0,…
Resident Evil director Zach Cregger has revealed which actress he would cast as a live-action Lady Dimitrescu — and we think he's made the perfect choice. To be clear, the iconic Lady D from 2021's Resident Evil Village does not appear in Cregger's upcoming Resident Evil movie, as it tells an…
With RuneScape: Dragonwilds fully launching across PC and consoles, you might be wondering if the game has crossplay support. Are you on PC while your friends are spread across Xbox, PlayStation and Switch? If that sounds about right, here's what you need to know about cross-platform multiplayer in…
The 2026 Resident Evil movie has had a ton of mixed opinions in the build-up to its release, with many questioning whether it sticks to the source material, and the early verdicts and impressions seem overwhelmingly positive. Right now, official reviews haven’t dropped. But many have already had…
Just over one year ago, Build a Rocket Boy released MindsEye, an ambitious but somewhat bizarre third-person shooter that proved to be something of a catalyst. It drove immense negativity online, gave rise to damning legal accusations and claims of sabotage, and performed so badly in a commercial…
Microsoft, at this point, drips gore from head to toe. The megacorp has made a hobby of shuttering studios and laying off thousands of devs, in attempt after attempt to right the listing ship of its games business. No luck yet, on that front. You might wonder how Playground's upcoming Fable reboot,…
A plucky ducky of a horror game is arriving in 2027, with QUIET serving up its own brand of alien-inspired terror. QUIET has been building noise for a while, so much so that it’s reported that over a quarter of a million players tuned in to try out the game’s debut playtest. You might have caught…
Into The Pooch, amirite If the organisers of Crufts ever have to produce a season of Robot Wars, the results probably won't be a million miles away from Dog in the Machine - a new turn-based tactics puzzler that's sort of Into The Breach but with a greater emphasis on props and tricks. The story in…
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave comes out tomorrow for Nintendo Switch 2. That means today is your last chance to save $10 off physical copies of the game at Amazon and Walmart. In case you’re wondering if the game is any good, you can hop over to our 10/10 review to see what our critic thought of it.…
If you want to get your Ranged level up early, the first thing you need to know is how to make a bow in RuneScape: Dragonwilds. Of course, you're not going to be crafting yourself a Tbow off the bat, so a simple bow is going to have to do. Thankfully, it's a simple process, so here's a quick guide…
Season 3 appears to be the final addition to HBO’s live-action adaptation of The Last of Us, and it will be released in 2027. Last year, Craig Mazin, the showrunner of the adaptation, mentioned that the team had already considered “Season 3 and Season 4,” which led many viewers to believe there…
World of Warcraft: Forever's an interesting pitch—instead of no changes, it's an all-changes version of vanilla WoW. Updated talent trees, new quests, essentially an envisioning of the OG game where, save for the new sky elves, all of the fresh additions are horizontal. New dungeons and raids all…
PlayStation 5 users will soon be able to get their hands on several new PlayStation 5 accessories, but not in time for Grand Theft Auto VI’s launch. The launch of the PlayStation 6 remains several years away at the very least, with Sony vowing to spend these remaining years of the PS5’s life cycle…
"I will be seeing BARB through till the very end" Update: The IWGB Games Worker Union have issued the following statement to RPS from vice-chair Ben Newbon: We cannot add any further insight into the heartbreaking job losses at BARB, a company that we think has been slowly spiralling for a long…
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Multiple developers of the disastrous MindsEye have said they’ve been laid off, casting doubt over the future of its controversial developer, Build A Rocket Boy. Story-driven action adventure game MindsEye was initially designed to be a part of Everywhere, the ‘Roblox for adults’ creation platform…
This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains “the Xbox guy.” In the run-up to Xbox’s 25th anniversary, he’ll be sharing his memories from the platform’s first…
Courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment BlizzCon 2026 revealed the latest character coming to Overwatch, a Support hero named Doctrine, who is broken out of a high-security prison by ex-Talon members Sombra, Reaper, Widowmaker, and Doomfist. Doctrine appears to be an old ally of Doomfist’s, wielding…
The Witcher 3 is getting an expansion, Songs of the Past, over a decade after its release—along with a pretty hefty remaster. And you might think hey, how is CD Projekt Red working on all of this and The Witcher 4 at the same time? The answer, like many studios, is that it's not doing it alone. The…
Also scorns Asha Sharma's talk of trimming the management layers Former Doom: The Dark Ages producer Andrew Willis has shared tuppence on the state of the blockbuster videogame trade, arguing that the biggest companies and most popular series are going through a familiar "cycle" whereby the…