Software & Gaming

Poor PC optimisation isn't the only problem players are having with Monster Hunter Wilds right now. Capcom has one-upped itself in the microtransaction department with £6 vouchers to edit your character after the initial set-up phase. Fortunately for those of us on PC, mods can bypass this entirely. 

Since its release in 2008, Sonic Unleashed has remained exclusive to console platforms. Originally released for the Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 and Nintendo Wii, PC gamers have had to rely on emulators in order to experience this legendary title in the 3D Sonic line-up. Fortunately, a group of fans have now changed that with their own PC port. 

Edge of Eternity resonated with JRPG fans and ended up being a huge success during its Steam Early Access phase. Now with development of that game complete, the team is moving on to its next big project, Edge of Memories, bringing in writers and designers from the Nier and Xenoblade series to help push the quality bar even higher. 

As they do every month, Microsoft has announced the line-up of Game Pass titles which are set to leave the service in a couple weeks’ time.

Almost exactly one year after hitting 34 million concurrent users, Steam has surpassed itself with 40 million concurrents.

In a surprise update, Night Dive Studios’ Turok: Dinosaur Hunter Remaster has gotten a native current-gen upgrade alongside a ton of new features.

Over 10 years since its last entry, the Katamari series looks to be returning, with Bandai Namco pushing a trademark for the game ‘Once Upon a KATAMARI‘.

Despite being well over a decade old at this point, 2025’s Call of Duty will reportedly still support the last-gen PS4 and Xbox One.

The Pokémon Trading Card Game is experiencing a surge in popularity, with the mobile adaptation Pokémon TCG Pocket recently surpassing a staggering 100 million downloads. This news comes alongside exciting announcements from the latest Pokémon Presents event, revealing new content and features for both the physical and digital card games. …

MercurySteam, the acclaimed studio behind Metroid Dread and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, announced its new project, Blades of Fire. The studio is partnering with 505 Games to bring this action-adventure fantasy game to life. The game thrusts players into the role of Aran de Lira on a quest to defeat …

Split Fiction, the latest game from Hazelight Studios, is just around the corner. In preparation for launch, the studio has now revealed detailed PC system requirements for the game. While higher than the likes of A Way Out and It Takes Two, the minimum specs required are very reasonable. 

While Monster Hunter Wilds has gotten off to a great start sales-wise, PC players are hammering the game in the Steam reviews section due to performance issues. Capcom has already responded to the complaints, promising improvements.  Right now, there is a large disparity between performance players had during the Monster …

Monster Hunter Wilds has launched and already seems to be a massive hit. On Steam alone, the game garnered over 1 million concurrent players in the hours after launch. 

Ahead of its premiere on the 4th of April, Warner Bros. have released the ‘Final Trailer’ for the upcoming A Minecraft Movie.

Playground Games has now detailed the PS5 version of Forza Horizon 5, with the Pro console getting ray-tracing on track among other enhancements.

Further sparking rumours of their addition to Xbox Game Pass, Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 has now been added to the PC Microsoft Store:

Prior to its release on the Xbox Series X|S last year, Microsoft confirmed that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle would also be swinging its way onto PS5 in 2025. While we have yet to get a concrete release date, one insider has now claimed that the game is planned for launch sometime this April.

This year's Pokemon Presents stream didn't have too many surprises but Game Freak did announce a new game – Pokemon Champions, a PvP battle focused Pokemon game with crossplay across Switch and Mobile devices.  Pokemon Champions takes out all of the exploration and Pokemon-capturing mechanics in order to purely focus …

Today during the annual Pokemon Presents livestream, The Pokemon Company gave us the latest update on their next major game, Pokemon Legends Z-A. Unfortunately, the game won't be coming out as early as we expected, with it now having a late 2025 release window. 

4A Games is making some internal changes. Previously, 4A Games spanned multiple teams, including a studio based in Ukraine. With 4A Games Ukraine now spinning off to work on a new IP, the studio is rebranding. Now known as Reburn, the studio has revealed an all-new game - La Quimera. 

AMD has done very well with its hardware game bundles in recent years and that isn't stopping in 2025. This week, AMD has launched its latest hardware bundle, offering up free copies of Capcom's highly anticipated Monster Hunter Wilds. 

The next wave of games heading to GeForce Now have been announced. This week will see seven games joining the library, including the PC Game Pass version of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and the deck-building rogue-like hit, Balatro.  Balatro was one of the best games of 2024 and has …

Monster Hunter Wilds is launching this week, complete with support for DLSS and other RTX features. As a result, it is also time for a new Game Ready driver.

NetEase responds to the Marvel Rivals controversy, claiming: “Depending on the circumstances, support for a project may be increased or withdrawn entirely.”

Nacon has announced the 2025 edition of its Connect showcase, featuring Hell is Us, Edge of Memories, new controllers and more.

It seems COD isn’t the only series trying to replace its voice actors with AI, as the French dub team for Apex Legends were given new agreements focused on AI.

Initially planned to launch this past winter, Sonic Rumble is now set to arrive some time in Spring 2025 for mobile and PC.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, the eagerly anticipated remake of Metal Gear Solid 3, is due to launch in late August, so it is a bit soon to be talking about PC system requirements. Still, that hasn't stopped Konami from releasing PC specs well ahead of time, and confirming that the game will require a ray-tracing capable graphics card. 

Fable has been delayed from 2025 to 2026. As it turns out, this could have something to do with Microsoft's evolving multiplatform strategy, as rumour has it that Fable will now launch on PC, Xbox and PS5 simultaneously. 

We are just days away from the launch of Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom's massive next-gen follow-up to Monster Hunter Worlds, which launched back in 2018 and went on to become the franchise's biggest game in the west so far. There are high hopes for Wilds to capture that same level of interest and now with pre-loading available, the unlock times for the game have been revealed.