Software & Gaming

Following their split with Sony, Paramount is now set to distribute the upcoming Street Fighter adaptation – with the film arriving in October 2026.

Square Enix’s Creative Director Tetsuya Nomura has offered development updates for both Final Fantasy VII part 3 as well as Kingdom Hearts 4.

Following its announcement a couple years ago, the live-action Life is Strange adaptation has officially been greenlit by Amazon.

Reviews for Ghost of Yotei will go live a week ahead of the game’s official launch – suggesting that Sony are feeling confident in this much-anticipated sequel.

After delaying its debut by a year, Sports Interactive has given us our first look at the long-awaited new match engine for Football Manager 26. Built on the Unity engine, the visual overhaul for the football management series is substantial, resulting in a slight increase in the game's hardware requirements. …

Konami's long-awaited remake, Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater, has had quite a successful launch, but technical issues have somewhat soured the celebration. The publisher has announced that the game sold over one million copies on its launch day across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox, despite players reporting significant performance issues. …

It's a sad time for handheld gaming fans, as the Nintendo 3DS era has now officially come to a complete close. This week, Nintendo officially ended its repair service for the New Nintendo 2DS XL, the last and final model in the beloved console family to be supported by the …

Machine Games impressed greatly with Wolfenstein: The New Order and its sequel. Unfortunately, the story of B.J. Blazkowicz has been on pause since the 2017 release of Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, but the studio may finally be ready to wrap up its planned trilogy. Over the past few years, …

August was a big month for Helldivers 2, as Arrowhead welcomed a whole new platform to the ranks. Helldivers 2 is now out on Xbox consoles for the first time and so far, it appears to be a massive hit.  Alinea Analytics shared their list of the most downloaded games …

Borderlands 4 is less than a week away at this point. For those eager to get in as soon as their pre-order unlocks, Gearbox has now finalised its launch-day plans, revealing global launch times for the game on all platforms. Interestingly, PC players will get in hours earlier than those …

Last year, PowerColor entered the gaming peripheral market with its new brand, Alphyn. The launch kicked off with two great products, the PowerColor Alphyn AM10 wireless mouse and the Alphyn AH10 wireless gaming headset. We gave both positive reviews when they launched at their initial MSRPs of £99 and £79, …

Gigabyte is getting in on the hardware game bundle action this month. For a limited time, anyone buying select Gigabyte graphics cards or gaming laptops will also receive a free copy of Borderlands 4, which has been garnering plenty of positive reception from early previews.  If you buy a Gigabyte …

For months, we've been hearing rumours that Valve is working on a new home console, one that would bring the Steam Deck experience to the living room. Now, a recent trademark filing suggests that Valve is close to an announcement.

Ahead of its arrival this December, Bungie has announced a developer livestream dedicated to the upcoming Destiny 2 expansion ‘Renegades’.

In the year and a half since its launch, Ubisoft's underrated metroidvania Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown has managed to attract over 3 million players.

Netflix’s animated series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft will officially end later this year following the conclusion of the show’s Second Season.

Within hours of its launch, Hollow Knight: Silksong managed to become one of the most played games on Steam – with over half a million concurrent players.

While we haven't had a new Batman Arkham game for PC and consoles in over a decade, the series has been living on in VR. Last year, Batman Arkham Shadow launched for Meta Quest VR headsets and now, it looks like a sequel is on the way.  Batman Arkham Shadow …

We've hit the first Thursday of the month, which means it is time for another mega-update for GeForce Now. This week. Nvidia revealed 17 new games joining the cloud gaming library over the next several weeks, including the long-anticipated Hollow Knight: Silksong. The game was originally planned as an expansion …

MindsEye had a lot going for it pre-launch. The game was a new open-world shooter produced by former Rockstar alumni but the game launched in a rough state and ultimately flopped. Now, IO Interactive has spoken up about the project, which may have killed the company's future plans for publishing …

Marvel Rivals is officially landing on the last-gen PS4 as part of Season 4’s launch – though there is currently no Xbox One version in sight.

IO Interactive’s 007 First Light has gotten its first proper gameplay showcase – alongside confirmation of the game’s release date.

After years of waiting, it appears Insomniac Games is gearing up to give us our first proper look at Marvel’s Wolverine – possibly as soon as this month.

Following its official announcement last year, the Amazon-produced live-action Tomb Raider show has now officially found its Lara Croft.

Alesh Slovak, the developer behind the popular HTPC gaming distribution ChimeraOS (a SteamOS-like operating system), has just unveiled a new project called Kazeta. It's a new, lightweight Linux-based operating system designed to replicate the simplicity of a classic games console by using SD cards as physical game cartridges. Brought to …

Last week, we reported on a new round of lay-offs taking place at Crystal Dynamics. At the time, I reported that this was likely impacting the Perfect Dark team, as Microsoft/Xbox opted to cancel the game this year. Now, we have confirmation on that and as it turns out, the reason for the delayed impact at Crystal Dynamics was due to a deal that was brewing between Microsoft, Embracer and Take-Two, which would have seen Take-Two taking over the game and funding it through to completion. 

A few months ago, a leak revealed a few new classic games due to join the Nintendo Switch Online library. Now, just ahead of next week's rumoured Nintendo Direct showcase, Nintendo appears to have confirmed this leak.  In an announcement this week, Nintendo confirmed that Forsaken 64 will be joining …

Dying Light: The Beast is just a few weeks away and now, Techland has revealed the PC system requirements. Despite this game spinning off from a Dying Light 2 DLC to its own standalone game, the PC system requirements have made a bit of a jump compared to Dying Light …

Earlier this year, we heard from a number of readers who had issues obtaining their paid-for product after pre-ordering RTX 5090 graphics cards from uwgamespecialist.nl, a tech retailer in the Netherlands. Following our initial report, the CEO of uwgamespecialist claimed that an internal investigation would be launched but by July of this year, we learned that the company was in fact still scamming customers. Now another couple of months later, the company appears to have shut down.

Unlike many other live-service titles, Marvel Rivals looks set to be coming to last-gen consoles with the launch of Season 4.