Issue #246

NEWS Link to heading

gamescom Opening Night Live 2024: Everything Announced

Everything announced at the Future Games Show at Gamescom

Everything Announced at the Pokémon World Championships 2024

GTA San Andreas VR Is Officially “On Hold Indefinitely”

Terraria style city builder Necesse lays out fresh update roadmap

Epic Games’ free games have been working out great, but a lot of the store’s exclusives “were not good investments” says CEO Tim Sweeney

Games actors raise concerns over recording sexually explicit scenes without notice

Black Myth: Wukong Marketing Team Offers Content Creators a Steam Key — but Bans ‘Feminist Propaganda’ and All Talk of Covid

You’ll be able to watch The Borderlands film at home very soon, it seems

Zotac Gaming officially launches its Zone handheld gaming PC with a super fancy AMOLED HDR screen

Rockstar Classic Bully Launches On New Platforms Via GTA+ This Week

It’s Official, The Nintendo Museum Opens October 2024

Black Myth: Wukong already Steam’s most played single-player game of all time

Xbox Game Pass adds Atlas Fallen, Core Keeper, and Star Trucker in late August to early September

“I just can’t get enough”: Fans can’t stop playing this Animal Crossing-like’s “2-hour” demo, with some spending literal days in-game

Callisto Protocol is free on Epic Games Store this week

Amazon “Still Trying To Find The Hook” For LOTR MMO

Microsoft unveils new accessibility hardware including Xbox Adaptive Joystick

REVIEWS Link to heading

Tactical Breach Wizards

MSI Crosshair 16 HX

FEATURES Link to heading

Arena Breakout: Infinite is a snack-sized Tarkov I can’t stop playing, but has some awful monetisation

How to Follow the Complete Dragon Age Timeline

Tracing a line through design, with the developers of Paper Trail

Does a passion for computer games have to ruin your budget?

The Silent Hill 2 Remake Is Significantly Better Than The Trailers You’ve Seen

The state of games publishing: “The era of the generalist indie publisher is over”

Splitgate 2 Hands-On: The Evolution, Not Revolution, of a Great Idea

Civilization 7: The First Preview

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 – The First Preview

Bethesda seems to be channeling its inner Dead Space with Starfield Shattered Space - and it genuinely looks interesting

Monster Hunter Wilds Hands-on Preview: Exactly What I Hoped For

Amazon’s widening bet on games: “We’re not hell bent on just being MMOs”

10 Best Years In Gaming, Ranked

Avowed: We Finally Played Obsidian’s First-Person RPG and It’s Fantastic

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

What game was a love from first sight to you?

What games have aged like fine wine?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Pokemon TCG Pocket trailer

Silent Hill 2 Remake PS5 4K Gameplay

SILENT HILL 2 | Story Trailer (4K:EN/ESRB) | KONAMI

Armageddonica | Announcement Teaser Trailer

Tomb Raider the Legend of Lara Croft | Official Teaser | Netflix

Assassin’s Creed Shadows - Official Gameplay Overview Trailer

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Official Gameplay Showcase

We Played Monster Hunter Wilds And It Rules Hands On Preview

Dune: Awakening – Gamescom Gameplay Presentation

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Gameplay Overview | gamescom 2024

Star Wars Outlaws Everything To Know

FUNNY Link to heading

We do a lot of pretending

VR Gym motivation

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

The biggest challenges for indie developers, with Jason Della Rocca | Podcast

Bridging history and gameplay: Lessons from historiographical video game design

Exploring the challenges of AI-generated art in game development