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I am pretty confident in my ability to judge video games. I've been playing them (increasingly badly over more recent years!) for almost 40 years and writing about them for…

EA shareholders have approved the proposed $55bn acquisition of the video game giant by Saudi Arabia and private equity firms, leaving only the US government in the way of what…

In early 2025, partway through a subathon to mark her second birthday, the AI VTuber Neuro-Sama became the world record holder for the largest Hype Train. Many claimed her…

Parrying is about subtlety. It's the act of scrutinizing fisticuffs and sword fights with a furrowed brow, familiarizing yourself with the cadence of combat right down to…

The promising James Bond game 007 First Light has been delayed. Danish developer IO Interactive announced the release date change this afternoon, signalling a two-month shift to…

Starsand Island is one of many life simulation games that's targeting an early 2026 release, with a demo of the first 10 in-game days playable on Steam right now. Inspired by a…

A key former member of the Grand Theft Auto team has said Rockstar toyed with ideas for many non-American settings for the series, including the capital cities Tokyo, Rio, Moscow…

Yohei Shimbori is known for his service at Team Ninja, and also as the director of 2019's fighting game Dead or Alive 6. He has now made it clear via an X message (noticed…

At Gamescom 2025, Machine Games revealed a new trailer for the big expansion coming to their Indiana Jones game, titled The Order of Giants. Set in the heart of Rome, the…

Sometimes you just know. A few seconds into Sektori, through an alluringly vague tutorial and out the other side into your arrowhead cockpit, dropped into the little starting…