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Lego Horizon Adventures screenshot showing Aloy posing with a spear.

Feature

Lego Horizon Adventures is a perfect match - a breezy, light-hearted approach the series has perhaps always needed

Hands-on with the bold PlayStation experiment also coming to Nintendo Switch.

June 12, 2024 Chris Tapsell

48 comments

Dragon Age: The Veilguard screenshot showing three characters facing off against a ruddy big dragon.

Feature

Whisper it, but Dragon Age: The Veilguard has me thinking the unthinkable: it looks like BioWare is back

"The lesson was: get back to what you do well."

June 11, 2024 Chris Tapsell

167 comments

Star Wars Outlaws screenshot showing the silhouettes of Kay Vess and her pal Nix.

Preview

After a worryingly dated hands-on with Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft's galactic open world feels less exciting than expected

A long time ago...

June 10, 2024 Chris Tapsell

232 comments

Avowed screenshot showing a fiery-eyed figure in a mask.

Interview

"I dont believe in living in fear" - Obsidian talks Avowed release date prospects and Xbox studio closures

"I do feel a strong sense of security... I really trust in our leadership," director says.

June 10, 2024 Chris Tapsell

49 comments

Official Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 screenshot showing one player sliding and shooting at another diving sideways into a pool

Preview

Forget Levolution and Drivatars, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 now has 'omnimovement'

Treyarch's Yale Miller and Matt Scronce give us an extended look at the new BLOPS.

June 9, 2024 Chris Tapsell

20 comments

Maggie Thatcher sits in Downing Street in this still from the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 teaser trailer.

News

Sorry, you can't play as Margaret Thatcher in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

A Conservative choice.

June 9, 2024 Chris Tapsell

28 comments

Crowds walk along the Vice City beach in swimwear in this GTA 6 screenshot.

Guide

GTA 6: Everything we know so far

What to expect from Grand Theft Auto 6.

May 16, 2024 Lottie Lynn

7 comments

Image showing Xbox + Bethesda as the title, along with a montage of Dishonored, Wolfenstein, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Starfield, The Evil Within, and Prey, above a list of Bethesda studio brands.

Opinion

What is the point of Xbox?

The platform holder has repeated the same terrible mistakes for over a decade. The reason is simple: its priorities are back-to-front.

May 9, 2024 Chris Tapsell

586 comments

A render of the infamous G-man from the Half-Life universe, from the series' most recent outing, Half-Life Alyx. A slim white male with neat cropped hair, wearing a suit, stares ominously at the camera. He has an unhealthy pallor, as if he's smoked for far too long.

Feature

Supporters | Five of the Best: Minor characters

Let's dig in.

May 2, 2024 Robert Purchese

12 comments

Homeworld 3 official screenshot showing a spaceship to the left departing a giant spaceship dock to the right, against a solar orange background

Feature

What to Play This May 2024

Our recurring series curating the month ahead.

May 1, 2024 Chris Tapsell

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Flintlock official screen showing Nor and Enki overlooking a large settlement in otherwise rocky, arid, sunny environment

Preview

Flintlock's breezy visual panache suggests another fine addition to the burgeoning "souls-lite" genre

God of Nor.

May 1, 2024 Chris Tapsell

22 comments

Harold from Harold Halibut is standing looking forlornly into middle distance. He is wearing a beige shirt and trouser braces. The background is soft focus but it looks like there is graffiti behind him.

Review

Harold Halibut review - sub-aquatic sci-fi adventure is a little too prog-rock

Space-mod at sea.

April 15, 2024 Chris Tapsell

63 comments

Saxs Persson on stage in front of a background that reads creative.fortnite.com in large letters

News

Interview | Epic Games: mobile "gatekeeping" is "at the heart of why the industry is in a rut"

Saxs Persson talks storefronts, UGC, and "rehabilitating" the word "metaverse".

April 12, 2024 Chris Tapsell

76 comments

Lego Fortnite official screenshot showing a pink-haired Lego minifig character running towards the camera in front of a Lego castle, flanked by Fortnite characters like Fishstick.

News

Fortnite exec on kids making games: Island Creator Program is 18+ because "this is professional labour"

But wants to "mindfully change that" for creating with Lego.

April 12, 2024 Chris Tapsell

6 comments

Dungeons of Hinterberg officials creen showing the character overlooking a purple and icy blue frozen mountain world.

Feature

What we've been playing - indie preview special edition!

A few things that caught our eye at GDC, Day of the Devs, and ID@Xbox.

April 5, 2024 Robert Purchese

95 comments

The Crush House key art showing a pastel pink and orange Love Island style reality TV house with pool and partying characters

Preview

The Crush House is a "thirst-person shooter" that holds a mirror to reality TV production

"When you watch reality TV, you experience a lot of the same emotions as watching horror…"

April 5, 2024 Chris Tapsell

18 comments

A child with their back to the camera uses a laptop.

News

Roblox Studio boss: children making money on the platform isn't exploitation, it's a gift

UPDATE: Roblox responds.

April 4, 2024 Chris Tapsell

59 comments

A before and after of a backpack in Roblox, on the left a plain untextured backpack model, on the right one with a weathered red leather texture applied by the Texture Generator AI feature.

Feature

Roblox's new AI creator tools conjure all the wonder and scepticism of a magic show

Roblox Studio talks new AI features, UGC, and the "shift from players to creators".

April 4, 2024 Chris Tapsell

15 comments

Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot showing four party members with a sword raised, on a ledge overlooking a forest

Interview

The big Larian interview: Swen Vincke on industry woes, optimism, and life after Baldur's Gate 3

"When you push too hard, it breaks."

March 28, 2024 Chris Tapsell

30 comments

Screenshot from Super Mario Wonder showing Mario, Peach, Luigi and co looking up at Bowser, who is under the influence of the Wonder Flower and transformed into a flying fortress

News

How Super Mario Bros. Wonder's devs narrowed down 2000 ideas for its effects

"I thought: if I'm going to change the environment anyway, I might as well go hard!"

March 28, 2024 Chris Tapsell

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Photograph of Takuhiro Dohta of Nintendo, in dark blue Nintendo jumpsuit, explaining something with hands raised.

News

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom devs explain why it was a much bigger overhaul than you'd think

"Are we really doing this? Development is going to be chaos."

March 26, 2024 Chris Tapsell

48 comments

Baldur's Gate 3 official screenshot showing an armoured character against a backdrop of a giant skull and flaming sconce

News

Larian's next game will have different "tone, style, way of doing it" to Baldur's Gate 3, but won't "dwarf" it

Swen Vincke elaborates to Eurogamer.

March 22, 2024 Chris Tapsell

24 comments

Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot showing: Astarion looking pouty and pitiable

News

Larian's next game won't be Baldur's Gate 4, DLC, or anything with Dungeons & Dragons

"We're gonna move away from D&D and start making a new thing."

March 22, 2024 Chris Tapsell

51 comments

Ubisoft Neo NPC game demo showing a character talking to the player, with generated dialogue text on screen.

News

Feature | Ubisoft unveils generative AI "NEO NPCs", and the spirit of Peter Molyneux's Milo lives on

"What's in it for the player?"

March 19, 2024 Chris Tapsell

52 comments

Dune: Awakening in-engine screenshot without the UI showing three different land vehicles and an ornithopter driving away from the camera in the desert

News

Dune: Awakening won't feature sandworm-riding at launch - and no penis-sliders either

"A lot of sandworm jokes though."

March 4, 2024 Chris Tapsell

3 comments