Gamescom has apologised for the way it "communicated about the theft of hardware belonging to several indie developers" last week, admitting, "our first response did not strike the right tone, and it did not show the people affected the empathy they deserved". Read more
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The White House has launched Arcade.Gov, a website of browser minigames built around Donald Trump's immigration and border policies. Read more
Original Mass Effect cinematic designer and Mass Effect 2 lead cinematic designer Armando Troisi has insisted the current BioWare team doesn't need outside advice on developing the next installment because so many of the people who built the original trilogy are still at the studio. Read more
Crazy Taxi was not my favourite Dreamcast game (please don't ask me to choose between the triumphant rhythm triptych of Rez , Space Channel 5, and Samba de Amigo , however), but there's a specific bit of it that's forever seared into my brain: the giddy thrill of cresting over that one San-Francisco-inspired hill and barreling down toward the ocean, all while The Offspring's All I Want 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah'ed me into a state of gaming nirvana. Read more
Unluckily for you all, Bertie's having a well-earned long weekend (possibly skiing, possibly jumping on the spot, possibly just having a nice lie down after the chaos of it all), meaning you're stuck with me on intro duties for What We've Been Playing this time around. Read more
A large portion of the internet pointed their virtual fingers at Humankind 2's new trailer and shouted 'AI slop!' Developer Amplitude Studios is now denying those claims and has even released a behind-the-scenes clip to prove a whole human crew (plus five chickens) made the Gamescom ONL reveal. Read more
Yes, it's time to brace yourself once more, No Man's Sky fans: Sean Murray is delving into his big bag of emojis, indicating - with reliable certainty - the exploratory space sim's highly anticipated 10th anniversary update will be with us very soon. And there's hope among the playerbase that Cosmos, as the update was previously confirmed to be called, might be a big 'un. Read more
Hideki Kamiya was being super serious about resurrecting Scalebound , PlatinumGames' dragon-filled romp that was cancelled by Xbox nearly a decade ago. Read more
GTA 6 is already giving PlayStation and Xbox consoles a much needed sales boost, at least in the UK, even though Rockstar Games ' inevitable pile of cash doesn't drop for another couple of months. Read more
Back in June, we learned that we're officially getting a The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake , which is supposedly coming to Switch 2 later this year (and we first heard rumours about it back in Marc h). But, as we approach the latter quarter of the year, we still don't know much about this remake, what it looks like, how it plays, or... well, anything really. Read more
My relationship with Mass Effect begins and ends with the first game (let's just blame the M35 Mako and leave it at that), and so Exodus - which is making no bones about being something of a Mass Effect spiritual successor, born from some of the same creative team - isn't a game that's been anywhere close to my radar. But the Gamescom gods contrived to put Exodus on my appointment schedule, and while the 45 minutes or so I played wasn't what I was expecting when I first sat down, I've come away both intrigued and impressed by what developer Archetype Entertainment is trying to achieve. Read more
The Starcraft website is suffering from some mysterious visual glitches and distortion roughly a week before BlizzCon. As a result, fans of the RTS series are fiercely speculating on a possible reveal. Read more
Sometimes you see a game and can tell that the developers just get it . No Law is one of those games. Having seen it first hand at Gamescom, it has quickly become one of my most anticipated games from the show. Read more
Xbox has announced hard monthly time limits will be added to its cloud gaming streaming service this November. Don't worry though, if you run into these limits, you can always buy more hours on the Xbox store. Read more
The third and final entry in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series will launch on just one disc - unlike both Remake and Rebirth, which were spread across two - but the downside is that Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will need to download extra game data on all formats, if you buy the physical edition. The previous games in the series were 'content complete' on disc (before any post-launch updates, at least), and could be played out the box. That will not be the case for Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, no matter what platform you purchase it on. Read more
We already knew that Final Fantasy 7 Revelation was going to launch sometime in 'spring 2027 ', but today director Naoki Hamaguchi took to Sony's State of Play livestream to inform us all that the game has a locked-in release date: 8th April, 2027. It'll launch worldwide, and on all platforms - that's PS5, Nintendo Switch 2 , Xbox Series X/S, and PC - at the same time (the first game in the series to do so). Read more
A Lego replica of the original Playstation was just revealed at the Sony State of Play, and it'll be available to order starting next month. Read more
Two limited Edition Grand Theft Auto 6 PS5 Dualsense controllers were just revealed during the Sony State of Play livestream. Read more
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Let me paint you a picture. It's the second day of Gamescom 2026, everyone is hot and sweaty, the schedule is rapidly deteriorating as previews run late, interviewees go over their allotted times, and dashing from booth to booth adds minutes onto every single journey. I get to the Square Enix booth, only to find that - thanks to some sort of communications snafu en route - my name is not down for the slot I had carved out to play Final Fantasy Resonance. "Don't worry," says a smiling PR trying to keep it together, "you can play on Switch 2 if you don't mind standing up?" Read more
Following its big Summer Game Fest unveiling earlier this year, Until Dawn 2 has been given a release date as part of Sony's latest State of Play showcase. And it's not far away at all, launching for PS5 in the suitably dark depths of winter: arriving 28th January next year. Read more