Issue #297

NEWS Link to heading

Titan Quest 2 Early Access Roadmap Revealed

Diablo GM Rod Fergusson Leaves Blizzard

“This is Battlefield’s biggest Open Beta ever,” says EA

Upcoming Game Pass games

EA’s Stock Reaches a Record High on the Back of Explosive Battlefield 6 Open Beta

You can play horrifying sci-fi RPG Hell is Us ahead of launch thanks to new demo

Ubisoft Accidentally Revealed They’re Making A Far Cry Show

League of Legends is getting its first major control scheme change in 16 years: the option to use WASD to ‘get new players to the fun parts of League faster and with less friction’

PayPal Has Blocked Steam Purchases Made Using The Majority Of World Currencies

Itch.io deny mass delisting of paid adult content included “blanket” restrictions “targeting LBGTQIA creators”

80% of gamers across the UK and U.S. have encountered cheaters in online games

Arkane employees demand Microsoft sever ties with Israeli military: ‘We don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza’

Gamescom 2025 to host over 1,500 exhibitors, achieving new record | News-in-brief

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl Roadmap for 2025 includes A-Life updates and an upgrade to a new version of Unreal Engine 5

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Classics Catalog lineup for August 2025 announced

PUBG Ends Support for PS4, Xbox One, Transitions to Current-Gen Consoles

Roblox Is Not Doing Enough To Protect Kids, Lawmaker Says

PlayStation and Xbox players can now vanish into the beautiful bucolic world of Dorfromantik, one of the best puzzlers of the last few years

Games Pages On Steam Might Soon Look A Bit Different Than What You’re Used To

REVIEWS Link to heading

Thrustmaster T128

FEATURES Link to heading

Sony’s confidence in PlayStation is well-placed | Opinion

How payment networks control the definition of acceptable sex in videogames

35 years after being dazzled by my first video game, Split Fiction showed me there’s no stopping their ability to astonish

How the IBM PC 5150 was made, and a look inside the very first PC

Why Grounded 2’s early access launch had to feel like a ‘complete’ game

Nintendo’s scholastic esports deal is a win for marketing, not for the competitive scene

Death Stranding 2 is the World’s Fair we deserve

When Video Gaming and Mental Health Become Problematic: What Parents Should Know

‘You’ve got basically one AI playing in the mind of another AI’: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how AI is coming full circle back to gaming

Gaming Culture: How It Quietly Surpassed the Hollywood Empire

Fighting Games Have An Accessibility Problem, But Not Because Of The Games Themselves

The next Fast & Furious video game might be good?

As AOL bins dial-up for good, it’s impossible to fully state the impact it had on gaming and the internet - but we’ve tried

The MMOs we grew up with are gone, and it’s all our fault because we loved them to death

Steam can’t escape the fallout from Visa and Mastercard’s censorship

Gamescom 2025 preview: The 6 games we’re most excited to see

Cronos: The New Dawn – Bloober Discusses Crafting Their Own Blend of Survival-Horror

Is whale-chasing a viable strategy in an era of recession? | Opinion

Titan Quest 2’s middle-ground ARPG complexity is exactly what the genre needs

‘I didn’t realise the game’s impact for years’: the making of the original Football Manager

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

Your most what the f… moment in gaming

What are your single player “must-plays” of the last decade

VIDEOS Link to heading

Ghost of Yōtei - Kusarigama Gameplay | PS5 Games

ZOMBIE ESCAPE! Parkour POV Chase - Dying Light: The Beast

Digimon Story Time Stranger – Who Will You DigiRide With?

Tiny Bookshop Launch Trailer | Wholesome Games Celebration

Football Manager 26 | GUESS WHO’S BACK | #FM26

Wuyang | New Hero Gameplay Trailer | Overwatch 2

Lost Ark: Eye On Arkesia (August 2025)

Neo Berlin 2087 - Gamescom 2025 Gameplay Trailer | PS5 Games

Crimson Desert - 13 Minutes of Gameplay

The Riftbreaker - First Hour Of Gameplay

REANIMAL – The First 13 Minutes of the Mystery Horror Adventure (Exclusive Gameplay)

FUNNY Link to heading

He should be hired ASAP.

Greatest line in gaming history

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

Discoverability is the industry’s “Achilles’ heel,” marketing survey finds