Software & Gaming

Dispatch consistently garnered more and more hype as each episode dropped over the past few weeks. Now with all eight episodes out, the game has hit a new sales milestone, achieving over two million players.  The milestone, shared on BlueSky, is particularly notable given the developer's pedigree. AdHoc Studio was …

Poncle, the developer behind the breakout hit Vampire Survivors, has unveiled a spin-off game called Vampire Crawlers. The announcement, teased with a satirical trailer promising high-fidelity graphics before revealing more 2D pixel art, shows the studio is applying its unique chaos engine to an entirely new genre. Set for a …

Almost a year on from its initial announcement, game gifting to friends has finally gone live on the Epic Games Store for PC.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 continues to slowly but surely reach a wider audience, with the sequel having now exceeded 4 million copies sold.

A decade on from its initial release, Tales of Berseria Remastered has now been announced for the PS5, PC – and for the first time – Xbox and Nintendo Switch.

Following a mixed bag of a launch, Gearbox have revealed that they are giving away Borderlands 4’s first paid Bounty Pack DLC to all players for free.

Despite being powerful enough to run many current-generation games, Nintendo opted to keep the internal storage for the Switch 2 relatively small to keep costs down. The console ships with just 256GB of storage, which is already presenting an issue, as big games like Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade will …

In a surprising move, former rivals Unity and Epic Games have announced a major collaboration that will expand opportunities for game developers across both ecosystems. The partnership, revealed today at Unity's annual developer conference, signals a significant step towards a more open platform philosophy. The core of the collaboration is …

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.