It feels like open world games have been having a bit of an extended, existential crisis these past few years. Like there's a sense that something within the classic formula of big maps, question marks and to-be-coloured-in icons that's served us so well, back
An analyst who claimed Final Fantasy 16 had sold 3.5 million copies has apologised, insisting the figure was an estimate and not confirmed sales. Toyo Securities analyst Hideki Yasuda has since revised the firm's report to emphasise the figure derived from its
Assassin's Creed Shadows has topped over two million players, "surpassing the launches of [Assassin's Creed] Origins and Odyssey". Assassin's Creed Shadows launched on Thursday, 20th March, and by that same afternoon, it had already notched up more than a mill
Keita Takahashi, the creator of Katamari Damacy, has revealed he left Bandai Namco so he wouldn't "be limited to only working with [...] Japanese people". Takahashi - who left Bandai Namco in 2010 after 11 years and recently announced his next project, To a T,
Assassin's Creed Shadows marks a significant technological evolution for Ubisoft's flagship series, with a revitalised Anvil Engine that taps into some of the latest rendering technologies, alongside other innovative systems. We've already seen how transformat
There are, on balance, a couple of things I am always ready to read about. One of these things is to do with anytime some academic type puts an oil painting in an X-ray machine or something like that and discovers all these mysteries in the underpainting. Path
22nd March Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie rekindles a career as a travelling salesperson; Tom Orry struggles to get his WiFi working; and Tom Phillips enjo
If the thrill of bopping Monster Hunter Wilds' base game menagerie is starting to fade, you'll no doubt be wanting to know what's next for Capcom's latest mega-hit. And following a couple of previous teases, the publisher has now confirmed it'll be fully detai
Surprise! Dragon Age: The Veilguard has just gained a few more weapons on PC, thanks to the arrival of the Rook's Weapons Appearance Bundle. This unexpected Steam freebie is available for PC players at no extra cost, and has popped up now while the game is cur
Valve's Steam Deck pushes out impressive frame-rates in a wide range of software - up to and including a range of current generation exclusives. A broad array of demanding games are at least playable on the portable and many cross-gen or last-gen games excel.