Doom is back, and this time it’s bringing its signature blend of demon slaying chaos and heavy metal energy to medieval times. Doom: The Dark Ages launches on May for PC, Xbox Series X S, and PS unless you’re eyeing one of the pricier editions, which grant early access starting May ....

   My favourite genre of YouTuber is: person who hyperfixates on one mundane detail of a blockbuster video game and gets strangely poetic about it . When you offer me a five hour video essay about an obscure adventure game from , I will hide in the closet. But if you idly wonder where the rivers...

   Here’s your feelgood story for the weekend, possibly: the creators of megahit Palworld are using some of their Palbucks to set up a new publishing arm, and their first project as publisher is an untitled horror game from Surgent Studios, the struggling developers of Tales Of Kenzera: ZAU. Read...

   A performance and settings guide for a ropey PC port of a Final Fantasy game Sweet, I haven’t done one of these in four whole months. In fairness to Final Fantasy Rebirth, which Nic says can be great as a game per se, it does make some effort at settling into Windows. It has rebindable M K...

   If you turn years old in the next couple of months then, sorry, you are dead. I don’t make the rules, that’s just how Clair Obscur: Expedition explains the lack of elders in its very French yet very JRPG world. The fantasy game will see you journey across a dangerous landscape to stop the mad...

   How many times can video games riff on that one Dr Who episode with the weeping statues At least once more. Surgeon Simulator devs Bossa have just announced Don’t Get Got, in which you and up to seven of your so called friends are trapped in a large school with randomised objectives and safe rooms...

   Good news for anyone eager to meet a big talking catfish. A new trailer for action adventure game South Of Midnight sees players battering monsters from the folklore of the US’ Deep South. It shows hero Hazel arguing with her mum before a supernatural hurricane cuts off the family drama and sends...

   Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo have surprise released Ninja Gaiden : Black, an Unreal Engine version of Xbox hack and slasher Ninja Gaiden . It’s out right now on Steam and Microsoft’s Game Pass service. I’d say it has materialised from the darkness like a ninja, but there are a lot of ninjas in...

   Typical, really. I get all excited about sharing details from a preview event for upcoming FPS Doom: The Dark Ages, then it turns out the gameplay reveal video is going public before the embargo anyway. Then the alleged release date allegedly leaks, allegedly. How am I supposed to present myself as...

   We called Amplitude’s fiendish and fanciful strategy game Endless Legend the best X of , and its hexcellence hasn’t dimmed with age. The music, the amazing variety in terrain and units, the sheer quantity of words bringing to life every last quest, minor faction, creature, and environmental...

   Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo have announced Ninja Gaiden, the first new numbered entry in the bloodthirsty third person action series since . Trailered at this evening’s Xbox Developer Direct, it releases for PC in fall , and they’re working on it in collaboration with Bayonetta and Nier...

   Assassin’s Creed Shadows has a lot riding on it. Between its multiple release date delays in response to Star Wars Outlaws not selling as well as Ubisoft would’ve liked, and Ubi potentially being bought by Tencent as they clamour for help, there’s a sense that Shadows needs to deliver not only a...

   Where were you on October th last year If you were Edwin, Brendy, or myself which, statistically, you are not you were writing news articles about one of three aspirant spiritual successors to detective RPG Disco Elysium. It was an I’m Spartacus ass day of press releases, culminating in...

   Kingdom Come: Deliverance is billed as a faithful recreation of th century Bohemia, with an open world setting derived from primary sources and historical consultancy that seeks to challenge misconceptions , but I’m enjoying it partly for the inconsistencies. As I amble into a random village,...

   Few games place me so betwixt the yin and yang of frustration and flow state as Snow Riders. Here is a compact selection of ski slopes, each one yodeling the promise of my smooth and exhilarating descent over fresh powder. But wait, someone has littered this Ski Sunday with obstacles, forcing me to...

   Dwarf Fortress’s Adventure mode a procedurally generated campaign that lets you approach the famously dense colony sim like a more traditional roguelite is now out as a free update on Steam. The game represents perhaps the most cavernous, yawping blind spot in my entire pile of shame. I do own...

   Readers, I have spent two full days in the benchmark pits to tell you what you’ve already guessed: the GeForce RTX is very fast, too expensive, and laden with more AI tech than Philip K. Dick’s cheese dreams. At least two of those points will, I’m sure, send the average graphics card shopper...

   In a dramatic turn of events, the Royal Shakespeare Company have finally acknowledged that video games are cool and theatre simply does not have enough buttons. They are partnering with a game studio to create a playable adaptation of Macbeth from the point of view of someone examining Lady Macbeth...

   Some eager beavers who bought the GeForce RTX at launch were, quite infamously, rewarded for their investment with a defective power adapter, one that that could melt the plastic in their graphics card like it was Ronald Lacey’s face. Nvidia reckon that won’t be an issue with for the...

   You’d think Talha and Jack Co would have earned themselves a nice custard cream and a sit down after having just released Judero last September, but they’re back already with a crowdfunder for Mashina a robo stuffed adventure where you’ll Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop motion...

   Back in December, a bunch of cool games had the extreme impoliteness to sneak onto digital shelves while we were losing our hair, souls and marbles covering various gaming award shows. One of those games was Escape From Castle Matsumoto which can be excused, admittedly, because it’s a game about...

   The creators of All Will Fall are pariahs, as far as I’m concerned. You should warn your children to avoid them. If you encounter them in the street, you should jerk away with a muttered oath, making a sign to avert evil spirits for these are the scumbags who’ve decided to develop a city building...

   Celeste and Towerfall creators Extremely OK Games have announced the cancellation of their pixelart exploration platformer Earthblade, in what studio director Maddy Thorson calls a huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure . The decision to call it quits follows a bust up within the...

   I can’t get out. I’m trapped in a tractor full of beer and spare tires. I haven’t taken a shower in days and a fly has gotten into the cab, buzzing around my ears, anticipating the feast that will come from my sweaty summer death. I just spent nearly an hour driving this tractor to the shop, buying...

   The high end prebuilt PC market is a battleground for premium prices, but catching a solid deal can save you a significant chunk of change. Case in point: Dell is offering the Alienware Aurora R GeForce RTX gaming PC for , ., a full , off the usual price. It’s a rare sight to see...

   This review contains some story spoilers for the original FF and subsequently some elements of Rebirth, but doesn’t spoil how Rebirth ultimately reinterprets these elements. I argued with myself for several weeks in university about whether to go to a seminar discussing T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song...

   Fanatical has kicked off its Lunar New Year sale, packed with fantastic discounts perfect for anyone on PC who’s ready to expand their ever growing Steam library. Go ahead, tell yourself you’ll play these games right away we’ve all been there. Read more

   In the UK, May has hitherto been a month of innocent delight and sacred observance, with no less than two bank holidays. On May Day a festival of ancient origins that shares a date with International Workers’ Day the youths of the village garb themselves in daisies, erect huge candy striped...

   Halo has a history of embracing wacky game modes, and Halo Infinite players are seeing that tradition continue this week with a new playlist of game modes. Action Sack is a returning playlist for the series. It first appeared in Halo as a rotating set of modes that would see you quickly cycling...

   Your grace, the act of assigning blame is often as satisfying as resolving the issue itself, opens brilliant little browser strategy Vox Regis by Sheepolution. From your tower, you gaze down at four factions, each with their own members and complaints. If any one faction gets too large, they’ll...

   Each year, the Game Developers Conference GDC release the results of their State Of The Game Industry Survey, which collects responses from over developers. The th annual survey which you can find in full here queries respondents on topics including layoffs, generative AI, the live...

   Many moons ago in the Before Times, a mysterious cataclysm scattered a number of seasoned BioWare developers across the face of heaven. The developers fell upon the mortal planes like comets. Where each landed, a game development studio took root. Inflexion Games. Summerfall Studios. Humanoid...

   Or months ago, maybe. I don’t know and I have no time to check, because I’m playing the Steam demo for The King Is Watching. I wrote about it last year, but that was an older demo build. Things were different then, but the core of this minimalist city builder strategy remains: you’ll need to...

   Debate continues to rage on the internetworks about whether premium video games, and especially the ones with the largest budgets, need to have higher price tags. This time, the culprit is Matthew Ball of analyst firm Epyllion, who remarks in a sprawling State Of Videogaming report that some...

   The relaxing fish catchin’ and scratchcard gamblin’ of Webfishing proved itself deeply attractive to anyone looking for an easygoing escape. So it makes sense at least one other developer is looking to apply the same lo fi principles to their own hangout game . The simply titled Sledding Game...

   Steam are throwing a Real Time Strategy Fest this week, encompassing discounts and demos, and people who like clicking on Orc emitting huts are eating well. Of the new strategy game demos I’ve spotted so far, the one that interests me most is Calyx, in which you are at war with a mass of alien...

   Capcom have declared that they hope to bring down the recommended PC specs for open world dinosaur tipping simulator Monster Hunter Wilds, just a month before release day on th February, and a few weeks ahead of the final open beta. Much like an exhausted hunter applying a carving knife to the...

   One piece of worldbuilding advice I’ve always found useful is to go at least one level deeper than the obvious. To wit: why have a lantern, asks FPS Mohrta, when you can have a horrible vulture esque creature called a lantern beast that lives on your head to light up the dark for you Found a good...

   Cyclopean: The Great Abyss appears to have glorious dungeon graphics but I can’t say for sure because I can’t get torches to work. I think your character is supposed to kindle them automatically when you venture into a dungeon at which point the view switches, classic Ultima style, from top down...

   An unannounced PvE Action RPG set in one of Games Workshop’s fantasy properties was apparently in development until being cancelled late last year, according to a new report from mp st. News of the project was pieced together by mp st from several LinkedIn profiles belonging to former employees...

   Please excuse the eyeball jelly. I’ve just got done tearing my face away from the screen it was attached to by the glitter and amphetamine infused superglue secreted by Mindwave’s minigame barrage. The current Steam demo is a generous slice of a wonderful thing its developers describe as a ...

   Isn’t Straftat a pleasing word to say Straftat. It almost demands an angry bark, an accusatory finger. Straftat The bite sized two player shooter was one of our favourite games of last year, summoning the fast paced killthrills of ancient Quake servers as much as the quickfire v scraps of the...

   Superhero card game Marvel Snap has been taken offline in the USA as part of the US government’s ban or divest policy towards ByteDance, the Chinese company best known for owning and operating shortform video streaming service TikTok. Read more

   As much as I’d like to dredge up an old RPS tradition and write Severance is back repeatedly for words, I’ll resist the urge and instead just slide a nice free game over to your side of the table, hidden underneath an inconspicuous pile of photocopies. Lumon by Mark Gomersall is a free...

   In a bid to shore up the Treehouse finances following several staff departures, I’m announcing a new line of official Maw spin off products. Presenting: New Viscous n’ Delicious Mawflakes The ultimate cosmic breakfast cereal, available in all the colours of the rainbow plus others that aren’t...

   Ok, let’s get it out of the way up top: I probably won’t be losing any sleep over dinosaur horror game Code Violet not coming to PC either. While I’ve still got a pavlovian response to anything that reminds me even a little of Capcom’s sadly abandoned Dino Crisis series, the trailer below doesn’t...

   On this Sunday, I find myself deeply nostalgic for chunky scart cables, terrible bookmarks though they may make. Book for now Read more

   Sundays are for resting, supposedly, but it can also be for mopping the floors, washing the bedding, and catching up on work because you simply have too much to do. Remember the Electronic Wireless Show Two of its hosts, Alice Bell and Nate Crowley, have started a new podcast about video games ...

   I don’t think we’ve ever written about Intravenous, but the topdown shooter has been on my radar since its release last year. It’s a blend of tactical stealth and frenetic Hotline Miami spraying, and it just got a major update to add Steam Workshop support and a map editor. Read more

   Sons Of The Forest is about being chased by fithy cannibals who cannot swim, so the latest update ought to be useful to players. Its major new feature is the addition of rafts, which players can construct and then float about on like a s Tom Hanks. Read more