Issue #253

NEWS Link to heading

Ubisoft Is Reportedly Considering A Major Change To Its Structure

After 20 years, World of Warcraft will now let players do solo raids

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has Gone Gold

343 Industries becomes Halo Studios, multiple Halo games in development on Unreal Engine 5

Until Dawn Movie Wraps Filming

The Epic Games Store for mobile could introduce the iconic free games program by 2025

A sequel to Alien Isolation, one of the best survival horror games of all time, is real - and it’s in development now

Judge orders Google to open Android to other stores in Epic lawsuit ruling

Switch modder denies wrongdoing following Nintendo lawsuit

Red Dead Redemption Finally Has a PC Release Date 14 Years After It First Launched

Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down

US teen becomes the first known player to complete Tetris

Brighter Shores confirms November launch date following October 22 closed beta

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy is Coming to Switch on October 31

Nintendo Announces Alarm Clock Called Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo

A Quiet Place Game Has Mic Detection That Alerts In-Game Aliens With Your Noises

Turkey and Russia ban Discord

Nintendo playtesting mystery new Switch Online feature this month with up to 10K people

Disco Elysium spiritual successor in development from leads of cancelled sequel

REVIEWS Link to heading

Dygma Defy - Keyboard

Sony INZONE M10S - Monitor

Diablo 4: Vessel Of Hatred

NHL 25

Undisputed

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Silent Hill 2 review

HyperX Quadcast 2 S - Microphone

Until Dawn

FEATURES Link to heading

Gaming is a good thing for the workplace, apparently—so if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to ‘do some extensive training’

The making of Fallout Tactics: ‘I sound like I’m down on it now, but I still love what we made’

Diablo 4 already reinvented itself once this year. Can Vessel of Hatred do it again?

6 Years of Culinary Adventures: How Cooking Diary Found Its Recipe for Success

CleanPlay aims to reduce carbon footprint of gaming | The DeanBeat

Silent Hill 2’s remake is authentic and compelling - but technical problems need addressing

Death Stranding 2 Is An Uncompromising Celebration Of The Bizarre

Meet The Halo Fan Who Built A Life-Size Warthog In His Garage

10 Years Later, I Think I Finally Understand Alien: Isolation Hate–But It’s Still A Masterpiece

A decade of Alien: Isolation: how Creative Assembly made an all-time horror classic

Behind the scenes at Blizzard: Jason Schreier talks misconduct, swingers parties and what press got wrong

Satisfactory, the factory-building game so compelling it has invaded my dreams

Frostpunk 2 set off a personal and ideological storm in my head

How Charles Cecil survived crowdfunding: “I was nervous our fans were going to turn against us”

Japan is where mobile is massive, because it embraces just how big it can be

Sand: The First Preview

The Future of Zelda Is Echoes of Wisdom, Not Breath of the Wild

Roblox: Inflated Key Metrics For Wall Street And A Pedophile Hellscape For Kids

Mario & Luigi: Brothership – The Final Preview

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

Which game did you clock in the most hours into as a kid?

What “Overwhelmingly Positive” rated game on Steam disappointed you the most?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Exclusive - The Last Of Us Part 2 - PS5 Pro PSSR Upgrades Tested

Fallout: México - Official Reveal Trailer | 🇲🇽

Sunderfolk - Official Gameplay Trailer

Starfield Is Going Through An Identity Crisis

Why You Should You Care About Witchfire

[ArcheAge Chronicles] Developer Diary - Our Vision

FUNNY Link to heading

They always come back

Why yes, I do speak with animals [Baldur’s Gate 3]

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

Download this free guide on direct-to-consumer marketing and monetisation

What Washington State is doing to juice local game development