Issue #221

NEWS Link to heading

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Is The Second-Highest Rated Game In The Series On Metacritic

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League fails to meet Warner Bros. expectations

An anonymous modder has brought one of the best mobile games, Infinity Blade, to PC 5 years after it left the App Store

Rainbow Six Siege director says making a sequel after 9 years would be a mistake: ‘I’m not going to name names, but you see games go through sequels and just completely drop the ball’

Yes, Baldur’s Gate 3 mod support will be a thing, please don’t be a jerk to Larian in the interim

Pedro Pascal Comments On The Last of Us Season Two

Stumble Guys is Switch bound

Stardew Valley’s long-awaited 1.6 update is coming to PC in March

PlayStation announces plans to lay off 900 people, will close London Studio

Pokémon Presents February 2024: Everything Announced

Nintendo is suing the makers of the Switch emulator Yuzu, claims ‘There is no lawful way to use Yuzu’

EA cutting 5% of workforce

Rockstar Games Is Asking Employees to Return to Office Amid GTA Security Concerns

Tekken boss says microtransactions are prevalent because dev costs are larger

REVIEWS Link to heading

Penny’s Big Breakaway

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

Wrath: Aeon of Ruin

Ultros

Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster

FEATURES Link to heading

Helldivers 2 showed me how badly live service gamification has broken my brain

From Helldivers 2 to Last Epoch, 2024 is already the year of server issues

Helldivers 2 is the secret long-lost cousin of Metal Gear Solid 5

10 Times Nintendo Revolutionized Gaming

Skull and Bones: the good, the bad, the ugly - and the utterly bizarre

The best video games of 2024 so far

According to experts on kernel level anticheat, two things are abundantly clear: 1) It’s not perfect and 2) It’s not going anywhere

Helldivers 2 lore is funny and unapologetically political: bugs are oil, bots are commies, ‘Managed Democracy’ is a scam

Are games too much like pornography? | 10 Years Ago This Month

PlayStation’s Most Underrated Exclusive Still Grips Me 7 Years Later

We have an actual person with the title of Game Master’: A single Helldivers 2 dev named Joel is pulling the strings on its galactic war like an all-powerful D&D dungeon master, war will become ‘more and more sophisticated over time

The Best of CES 2024

Pokémon Card Fervor Has An Artist Scared For His Safety

Children are bullied into spending money on video games claims study

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

Confess a gaming “sin” you regularly commit

What game are you addicted to right now?

What Game Had The Biggest Turnaround In Public Opinion?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Age of Empires Mobile - Gameplay Trailer on New Year New Age Livestream

Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Deadly Omen Reveal Panel

BODYCAM First Gameplay Demo | New UNRECORD with Ultra Realistic Graphics in Unreal Engine 5

Gameplay, Vanguard & More | Dev Update - League of Legends

Vampire Survivors - v1.9 Space-54 - Free Update Out Now on Nintendo Switch, Steam, Xbox & Mobile

FUNNY Link to heading

Oh well…

I hear something….

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

How the structure of the game industry is changing | Gilles Langourieux interview

How to find and get a job in today’s video games industry