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Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree managed to get me excited about a tiny golden circle in the corner of a screen. Not an epic boss, beautiful vista or stunning revelation, but the non-combat area icon, suggesting I might get to learn just a little bit more about this dark, vast and scary world. FromSoftware

Review info Platform reviewed: PS5Available on: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PCRelease date: June 18, 2024 Still Wakes the Deep is a beautifully crafted juxtaposition of the manmade, natural, and supernatural. This narrative-led, survival horror game from developer The Chinese Room is a brief but chilling adventure on the Beira D, a North Sea oil rig,

It’s finally that time of year again; the next Nintendo Direct is officially happening tomorrow, on June 18. The news was announced on Nintendo’s official X / Twitter channel, and the Nintendo Direct will be broadcast at 7am PT / 10am EDT / 3pm BST / 4pm CEST. As ever, you’ll be able to watch

Not-E3 season might be coming to a close, but Nintendo has locked in its summer Direct date for this week. Always the ones to leave an announcement til the last minute these days, Nintendo has finally confirmed that its annual summer Direct will be taking place tomorrow, June 18, 7am PT/ 10am ET/ 3pm BST.

First of all, Still Wakes the Deep is an incredible artistic achievement. It may be The Chinese Room’s best ever game, blending the tense creeping horror of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs with the evocative, beautifully researched world-building of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. And there are familiar themes here: a sense

Here’s your Sunday Connections, here to give you an early brain workout for the day. Or a late brain workout if you prefer to play later on. Either way, it’s a challenge. What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Wordle hints and answers,

General manager over the Warcraft franchise at Blizzard John Hight has announced he’s leaving the company after almost 13 years. Earlier this week, Hight shared on his personal Twitter that he is leaving Blizzard to “start a new quest.” While Hight was most recently overseeing the broader Warcraft series at Blizzard for the past decade

The live-action adaptation of Until Dawn has started the casting process, with several up-and-comers joining the project. While it seems like a bit of an odd choice overall, back in January it was announced that Supermassive Games’ Until Dawn was getting the ole live-action treatment, as is the trend in Hollywood at the moment. The

Connections is the kind of game that can trip you up if you don’t pay attention – as I found out today. Don’t let that happen to you, by taking advantage of my helpful hints. What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Wordle

Motor racing is just like any other sport. Its heart beats to the dorky drum of things scribbled across chalkboards before the game has even really kicked off in the eyes of the spectator. There are always fifteen different front wing designs, 150 different ways of setting up your gears, and fifteen thousand different things

The PlayStation trophy list for Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition has leaked online, suggesting the remaster of the beloved Gamecube, PS2, and OG Xbox classic could be materializing soon. Spotted by VGC, achievement tracking website Exophase currently has the trophy list for Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition live, and at the

Following layoffs at ZA/UM earlier this year, some of the developers affected have provided some details about the Disco Elysium spin-off game they were busy working on prior to it being cancelled as part of them being let go. As with all of the Disco Elysium stuff we haven’t gotten since the orginal came out,

The whole thing now, I’m told, is that everybody has a short attention span. Are you still reading? Are you drifting? Focus! The old-man-shouts-at-cloud element blames this on phones, on social media, on whatever else. Whatever the reason, it feels like a real phenomenon – and perhaps that’s why the real time strategy genre has

Life is Strange: Double Exposure will respect the player’s final decision from the first game and won’t be declaring either original ending canon, Deck Nine has confirmed. Following the game’s initial reveal at the Xbox Games Showcase last weekend, an extended livestream aired last night, which included interviews with key developers and Max’s returning voice

Bioware has confirmed that Dragon Age: The Veilguard will not be open-world, but “mission-based”. Speaking to IGN during Summer Game Fest 2024, director Corinne Busche was able to clarify that the new locations players will be able to explore in The Veilguard are more linear than those of Dragon Age: Inquisition.  She explains that this

Delicious in Dungeon season one is finally coming to a close (after 24 episodes) today, but Trigger has just confirmed that season two is now in production, so rejoice! The anime, originally titled Dungeon Meshi, has been enjoying a great deal of success in recent months thanks to its mix of both lighthearted moments and

Bad Boys: Ride or Die‘s $100 million production budget (a reasonable one in today’s Hollywood climate) might make it yet another easy win for everyone involved, as it’s earned over $120 million worldwide in just six days and shows no signs of significantly slowing down before the end of the month. That could soon be