Monster Hunter is back with a bang on current-gen consoles. Wilds - the latest series entry - features a seamless open world in a series first, plus plenty of visual bells and whistles courtesy of Capcom's RE Engine. So can the longstanding series hold up to c
The most exhilarating and refined Monster Hunter yet, even if its attempts to balance the old and new don't always quite coalesce in its ongoing quest to please all audiences. Let us consider for a moment the duality of Monster Hunter. At a basic level, it cou
After reports circulated over the weekend that NetEase is allegedly pulling back on its international game investments by "actively shopping around more of its non-Chinese studios", NetEase-owned Rebel Wolves has reached out to assuage fears, reiterating that
Obsidian's fun and colourful Avowed doesn't sound like a one-and-done effort by the developer behind The Outer Worlds and Fallout: New Vegas. Avowed arrived last week to a positive reception, and now a Bloomberg interview with the game's director Carrie Patel
Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza has found its sea legs on Steam, where it launched to the series' second-biggest concurrent player haul to date. A peak of 22,327 PC players played Pirate Yakuza over the weekend, according to Steam's own stats - avast total higher
Brace yourself, Assassin's Creed fans - it looks like early copies of the upcoming instalment, Assassin's Creed Shadows, have broken the street date. Unsubstantiated reports are beginning to circulate that not only have some fans been able to download the full
Peter Jason - a Hollywood stalwart known to most gamers as Fallout 2's Drill Sergeant Arch Dornan in Fallout 2 and Gears of War's Dizzy - has died aged 80. As first reported by Variety, Jason died in his West Hollywood home on Thursday. In a tribute posted to
Julian Gollop, creator of the original X-COM game - known as UFO: Enemy Unknown here in the UK, and followed up by Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown later on - has told Eurogamer that he would be quite happy to return to the series in some form. Also, that he's fin
Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin has reiterated there's "some talk" about an Elden Ring film, though his involvement will likely be limited due to being "a few years behind" on his latest book. The author provided lore and worldbuilding for FromSoftwar
Yellow paint; waypoints; sparkling particles lighting the path forward. According to some, modern games have become reluctant to let players off the leash. So conspicuous has the level designer’s hand become when guiding players that the fundamental act of eye