Booked For The Week is our weekly chat with industry folk about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future. Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books!
Darksiders, the slightly edgy take on the Zelda format, is getting a brand new game though don’t expect much from it just yet. It’s been six years since the last entry in the main Darksiders series was released, Darksiders 3, which received some pretty mixed reviews upon its release. Aside from the spinoff title Darksiders
Summary Valorant is live now and free-to-play for everyone on Xbox Series X|S. Regular balance patches are essential to creating a highly competitive landscape – especially for tactical shooters. Valorant on Console receives the same regular balance updates that PC players experience – patches every two weeks. Valorant is now live on Xbox Series X|S–
Today’s Connections is not too bad, but there are hints below if you need them. 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, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.
Image: Nintendo Life Patrick the starfish from Nickelodeon’s Spongebob SqaurePants series could be getting his very own video game, according to a new online listing. For a brief amount of time, the online store ‘igabiba‘ had a page up for “The Patrick Star Game“, which is described as an open-world physics-based playground by Outright Games.
In my experience, tower defense games are either strategic masterclasses, like every instalment of the Kingdom Rush series, or completely miss the point of the genre by disregarding the importance of the towers, as seen in Dead Ground. The next contender in this increasingly populated market, Lesson Learned: Cult of the Elizabeth, comes courtesy of
Aniplex and Type Moon have announced through a trailer that Fate/Stay Night Remastered will summon its way onto Switch on August 8th. It is now available on the US Switch eShop at a discounted price of $26.99, a 10% sale off of its MSRP of $29.99, which will last until August 21st. This marks the
World of Warcraft: The War Within, is almost here. It’s an ambitious looking expansion, taking players deep underground to lands and cultures unseen up until this point. But according to associate design director Maria Hamilton and lead prop artist Jordan Powers, this new selection of zones was built on the back of one special zone.
Every now and then, a joke is just too good to stay a joke. Such is the case for Divorced Dads, a collectible card game that has its origins in a viral video skit from comedian Graeme Barrett, aka AudioOpera. You’ve probably seen something of his when doomscrolling Instagram or Tiktok; his most-shared video by
At THQ Nordic, we think of ourselves as a true variety publisher. No matter what kind of gamer you are, there’s a home for you in one of our digital worlds. For our 2024 Digital Showcase we wanted to demonstrate exactly that, with games including a remake of a beloved Disney classic, a new IP
It’s Saturday, it’s the weekend, and it’s time for another Connections puzzle from the NYT. This one isn’t too tricky – but there are hints below if you get stuck. 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, Strands hints
Image: Nintendo Update [Sat 3rd Aug, 2024 03:30 BST]: Nintendo recently launched a website in Japan featuring replays of the fastest times in the Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition tournaments. The same ‘Donkey Kong Barrel Roll’ replay (which can be seen in the original story below) is notably featured on this page (thanks, OatmealDome). You
Aero The Acro-Bat is back! Remember the good old days of gaming? When mascot platformers where all the rage? If you do, you’ll probably remember Aero the Acro-Bat. But no matter whether you do have fond memories, or are coming in fresh, it’s time to swing into action again as Aero the Acro-Bat launches on
I’ve never learned to drive, but every so often a well-meaning friend tells me I’d be good at it, because ‘look, Edwin, you play all those driving games, surely they’ve taught you the basics’. Friend, here is what driving games have taught me: traffic lights are there for regional flavour; drifting is the same thing
Every year, the team here at THQ Nordic puts months into crafting a Digital Showcase we think you’ll love, filled with news on previously announced games and teases of what you can expect from our dev teams in the future. Variety defines what we do, and that has never been truer than in our 2024
Just one week after Valorant entered open beta testing on PS5, the game leaves beta testing behind. Version 1.0 has been released on the PlayStation Store and the full game is now available in the US, Canada, Europe, Brazil, and Japan. In typical Riot Games style, there was no announcement before Valorant’s full release, but
Video game publication Game Informer has announced its closure after 33 years of operation. Once one of the most popular and recognizable brands in games media, GI is the property of embattled U.S. retailer GameStop, which itself has been in a downward spiral for eons at this point. Game Informer magazine made its debut in
The makers of beloved anime series Anohana are reuniting for a brand new film which has just got a release date. Fureru is the latest project from the Super Peace Busters creative team, who are made up of writer Mari Okada, director Tatsuyuki Nagai and artist Masayoshi Tanaka. The trio first worked together on the