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After a draining day's reportage upon the thoroughly alien doings of vast corporate publishers, I like nothing better than to flee, blabbing and weeping, into the arms of a micro-RPG. Scumhead's Franzen - released a few days ago on Steam and Itch - has a couple of big draws, straight off the bat. Firstly and least importantly,...

Some would say the best way to wind down after a rough day down the Content Reactors isn’t to play a grotty occult horror game, but I caught a trailer for Tenebris Somnia earlier, and couldn’t help myself. In this foetid offering from Argentinian devs Andrés Borghi and Tobías Rusjan of Saibot Studios, you play a young...

Sea of Stars developers Sabotage Studio have confirmed that they’re already working on DLC for their warmly-received love letter to classic RPGs, along with their next standalone game. Helping them along the way is Sea of Stars’ fantastic reception, which has seen the game sell a year’s worth of copies in just one week....

We got hands-on with a couple of Payday 3's heists and reckon it's a solid evolution of the robbery formula.

Unity are chopping 265 jobs - around 3.8% of their global workforce - and ending an agreement with digital effects comp…

Dredge's first DLC, The Pale Reach, takes the part-fishing, part-horror game to new, even weirder climes that demonstra…

Reworked skill trees and new minigames aside, Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 update includes a Ukrainian localisation of the game's million-plus-word script. It turns out the Ukrainian version is awash with references to Russia's on-going invasion of Ukraine, all of it seemingly in support of the latter. The news comes via Zone of Games,...

Malenia, Blade of Miquella, is a menace. Even among Elden Ring’s cast of bastard-hard bosses, the Goddess of Rot distinguishes herself as an ender of lives, a relentless steel tempest that has shredded the most prepared and dextrous of adventurers. She’s also been beaten, rather soundly, by a man using only his mouth....

After the closure of original developers Troika, a long-awaited sequel announcement, delays and layoffs at Hardsuit, a secret change of studio (which led to further layoffs at Hardsuit), preorder refunds and the belated reveal that a developer best known for (very good) non-combat narrative experiences would be taking the reins,...

Starfield's three animated shorts help to introduce its world, and give some player motivation to exploring, combat, an…

New sliding tile puzzle adventure Arranger is coming to PC and consoles later this summer.

“We want to give it space so it can be enjoyed the way we believe it deserves.”

Apex Legends developers Respawn Entertainment spill the beans on the surprising success of its launch and the game-chan…

Starfield is adding support for AMD's FSR 3 in beta patch next week, which should improve framerates without any perfor…

Blizzard Entertainment's in-development fantasy survival game has been cancelled alongside sweeping layoffs at the comp…

Bandle Tale: A League Of Legends Story is a cute, but complex crafting RPG adventure from the makers of Graveyard Keepe…

Project Rene could even have an Among Us-like mystery mode, suggests series VP Lyndsay Pearson.

Survival horror gem Subnautica is getting another entry, and the third game is targeting a 2025 release date.

There's a side mission in Cyberpunk 2077 that involves abducting a notorious union-breaker. One wonders if any of the p…

Players found a mysterious trail of breadcrumbs… then modded their way to the end.