Software & Gaming

We may need to brace ourselves for an unexpectedly high price for Valve's upcoming Steam Machine. While the system is marketed as a PC-based console alternative, Valve has said that it intends to price it "like a PC" rather than a console. 

Avalanche Studios has officially shut down its UK office in Liverpool. The news follows on from the cancellation of a publishing agreement between Avalanche and Xbox Game Studios for the long in-development game, Contraband.  Shortly after the cancellation of the publishing deal, Avalanche Studios said that it was pausing development …

GeForce Now has nine more games joining the cloud gaming library this week. Following on from last week's addition of Black Ops 7, there are actually seven more day-one games dropping on the service.  One of the big highlights for this week is Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy, a follow …

Mafia: The Old Country’s long-promised Free Ride Update is finally here, adding first-person driving, new challenges and a ton more.

Following the disappointment that was Battlefield 2042, EA / DICE came back bigger and stronger than ever with the recent release of Battlefield 6. While the game is already a certified success, EA themselves have now claimed Battlefield 6 to be “the best selling shooter game of the year.”

Following in the footsteps of PUBG and Genshin Impact, Embark Studios will no longer support the last-gen version of The Finals come March of next year.

Ghost of Yotei is getting its first big post-launch patch, with next week’s update adding a NewGame+ mode, additional cosmetics, charms and much more.

AMD's GM and SVP, Jack Huynh, has posted a video teaser confirming the imminent release of the company's newest iteration of FSR, dubbed Redstone. The Redstone update represents the most significant architectural shift in FSR history, fully leaning into machine learning and AI acceleration.

ArenaNet, a subsidiary of NCSoft, has announced Guild Wars Reforged, an update and modernisation of the classic 2005 MMORPG. The update will be free for all existing owners and will launch on December 3rd for Steam and Windows PC. The project is a co-development venture between ArenaNet and the small …

Ahead of its release next year, Capcom has confirmed that Resident Evil Requiem will NOT make use of the Switch 2’s mouse mode feature.

Following two successful Seasons, Peacock has announced that their Twisted Metal TV show adaptation has been renewed for a Season 3.

Sony has now revealed its line-up of games leaving PlayStation Plus Extra / Premium next month, including the likes of Sonic Frontiers.

Over a decade on from its initial release, the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot has been officially announced and released for the Nintendo Switch / Switch 2.

A new YouGov study commissioned by FRITZ! highlights that British and European consumers place significantly more trust in routers manufactured within Europe compared to those from other regions. More than half of respondents expressed little or no confidence in routers made in Russia or China. The survey was conducted throughout …

Hypixel Studios is making a return after splitting off from Riot Games. Riot had acquired the studio to finish up their game Hytale, but after more than five extra years of work, the game was still no closer to release. Now, Hytale is back in the hands of the original …

NetEase's new open-world RPG, Where Winds Meet, has had a massive launch, pulling in over 2 million players on its first day. The free-to-play title also peaked at over 193,000 concurrent players on Steam alone. However, given that the game is also available on PlayStation 5, the total player count …

The next wave of titles for Game Pass has been announced. Following on from this month's release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, nine more games are also set to join the library

Take-Two CEO, Strauss Zelnick, is no stranger to making headlines. While the company's biggest studio, Rockstar Games typically focuses on console game development, before bringing its games to PC later, Zelnick reckons the days of the console are numbered, as the industry shifts more and more towards PC as the …

NieR: Automata creator Yoko Taro has revealed that “a lot of projects I was involved in got discontinued midway through development.”

EA is rumoured to be working on a remaster of sorts for the decade-old Sims 4 instead of a proper dedicated Sims 5 sequel.

Following a less-than-stellar launch back in 2023, Cities: Skylines 2 publisher Paradox Interactive and studio Colossal Order have parted ways.

Ahead of its arrival in May of 2027, Nintendo has offered a first look at the live-action Legend of Zelda film via new screenshots.

The Game Awards has unveiled its full list of nominees for 2025, with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, and Hades II emerging as frontrunners across multiple categories. The event will take place on December 11th at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. In the coveted …

Microsoft has announced its next Xbox Partner Preview stream, promising new trailers, updates, and world premieres from third‑party studios. The showcase will highlight upcoming projects from IO Interactive, Tencent, and THQ Nordic, alongside fresh Game Pass announcements. The event will be broadcast on November 20th at 10AM PT / 1PM …

Intrepid Studios' long-in-development fantasy MMORPG, Ashes of Creation, is set to launch on Steam Early Access on December 11th. This move marks the next major phase for the game, which has been in various forms of intermittent testing since 2020. In preparation for the Steam debut, the current Alpha 2 …

Arc Raiders has broken its concurrent player record on Steam for the third time since launch, climbing to nearly half a million simultaneous players this past weekend.

Capcom has shed new light on Resident Evil Requiem, the upcoming third entry in the modern Resident Evil saga, with producer comments pointing to a darker, more traditional survival horror experience. Speaking to Press Start, producer Masato Kumazawa said the team’s goal was to “put the horror back in survival …

Since the first game’s arrival in 2017, the Horizon franchise has grown massively, with recent figures putting the series at 40 million copies sold. Despite being a single player focused franchise, Guerrilla Games have revealed in the wake of NCSoft’s Horizon Steel Frontiers MMO announcement that “from the first moment we imagined Horizon, we always thought about it as a multiplayer game.”

Despite their generous 30-day refund policy, GOG has revealed that just 0.03% of users had exploited the program last month.

Following the last update back in July, Sony’s Horizon franchise has reportedly sold over 40 million copies since the first game's launch in 2017.