• Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill Star Michael Madsen Dies Aged 67 From Cardiac Arrest
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from IGN Video Games
    Michael Madsen, who starred in Quentin Tarantino movies Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, has died aged 67 from cardiac arrest.
  • Microsoft Insists Every Game Shown at Its Xbox Showcase in June Is Safe — but What Were the No-Shows?
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from IGN Video Games
    Amid this week's layoff bloodbath, Microsoft has insisted every game shown at its Xbox showcase in June is safe. But what were the no-shows, and should we be worried about them? IGN runs through the list.
  • Doom creator John Romero's next shooter project loses funding following Microsoft cuts
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    The next shooter project from Romero Games has lost funding following recent layoffs and studio closures at Microsoft. Read more
  • Playing A Short Hike developer's unfinished Paper RPG reminds us we're as shaped by the ideas that don't make it as we are the ones that do
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    We live in a world where we see finished products. Mostly finished products. Early Access has changed the moment in a game's development where we're invited in to play, but usually, we're still on a road to release. There's a linear...
  • The 12 best Switch 2 games
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Polygon - All
    Nintendo’s Switch 2 is at the very start of its life — and, as with every young console, excitement for the new hardware is held in check by the quest for something to  play on it. Nintendo debuted the system with one of the biggest guns...
  • MindsEye Dev's UK Workforce of Around 300 Receive At-Risk Emails as Former GTA Lead Leslie Benzies Finally Addresses Staff
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from IGN PC Articles
    Build A Rocket Boy, the Edinburgh, Scotland-based developer of MindsEye, has issued at-risk of redundancy emails to its around 300-strong UK workforce following the disastrous launch of the game. Meanwhile, development chief Leslie...
  • Lies of P Overture's difficulty options are a DLC highlight, and another string to this approachable "Director's Cut" of the cult RPG
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    It's usually the dogs. Every Souls player knows how infuriating they can be as enemies, leaping from behind corners, gnashing their jaws, surprising players before swiftly removing a decent chunk of their health. If you've played...
  • The Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS Gaming Handheld Is on Sale for 4th of July: It's a More Powerful Steam Deck
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from IGN PC Articles
    One of the best deals to come out of Best Buy's 4th of July sale.
  • Noble Audio Fokus Apollo review: the best of both worlds?
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    More and more companies are making premium wireless headphones as of late, from established players such as Bowers & Wilkins and Focal (creators of the marvellous Bathys ) to newer disruptors such as Noble Audio, the folks behind the...
  • Street Fighter 6 on Switch 2: classic 60fps action with better image quality than Xbox Series S
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Developer Capcom makes its debut on Switch 2 with a stellar conversion of Street Fighter 6 - while also giving us our first sighting of the RE Engine on the system. The bottom line is that for Street Fighter fans, this is the complete...
  • Hades 2's Unseen Update Patch 10 Will 'Likely' Be Its Last Before v1.0 Launch, 'Whenever That Will Be'
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from IGN Video Games
    Hades 2's next patch could be its last before the game emerges from its early access cocoon.
  • Reaper Actual, a Large-Scale Persistent Online Military FPS, Announced for PC
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from IGN PC Articles
    Distinct Possibility Studio, a new development team comprised of industry veterans including longtime Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley, has announced its first project: a large-scale persistent online open-world first-person...
  • Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox Series X/S in August, as first Sony-published game on the platform
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Helldivers 2 is officially coming to Xbox Series X/S on the 26th August. Read more
  • One mere month after it launched, Mario Kart World is making its debut at flagship speedrunning marathon, Summer Games Done Quick
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Mario Kart World will be featured at Summer Games Done Quick 2025. Read more
  • Destiny's alternate-timeline mobile game is launching this August
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Destiny: Rising, the free-to-play mobile version of Bungie's long-running sci-fi shooter series, has been given a release date. It'll officially be whisking players away for some alternate-timeline shenanigans when it comes to Android...
  • Resident Evil Survival Unit Announced, and It's a Real-Time Strategy Spin-Off for Mobile
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from IGN Video Games
    A real-time strategy take on Resident Evil has been announced for iPhone and Android, developed in "close collaboration with Capcom to ensure authenticity and quality."
  • J-pop icon LiSA sees herself in the anime movie Perfect Blue
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Polygon - All
    J-pop musician LiSA, on stage singing into a microphone, lit in dark red A ’90s psychological thriller like Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue and a modern-day comedy like Spy x Family didn’t seem like they had much in common, until J-pop star LiSA connected the dots for us. In a moment of serendipity, I wore a...
  • What really goes into fine-tuning a roguelike, according to Lost in Random: The Eternal Die director
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Polygon - All
    Balancing a game’s difficulty, especially one that’s meant to challenge the player, presents its own challenge for developers. Sometimes, the final game ends up being easier than some developers desired. Such is the case with Lost in...
  • I’m playing Mario Kart World every day, so I guess it was a good launch game
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from Polygon - All
    The Switch 2 launch lineup was weird — or that’s what I thought after watching the April Nintendo Direct, anyway. Sure, Mario Kart World as a launch game made sense from a business perspective. When a re-release of Mario Kart 8...
  • Phil Spencer, Microsoft Gaming CEO, not retiring from Xbox "anytime soon"
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Phil Spencer won't be retiring from his position at Xbox "anytime soon". Read more
  • Why is COD Mobile Season 6 letting me turn into a Gundam in space?
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Pocket Tactics
    Call of Duty ’s image over the last decade is always changing, with lots of conjecture aimed at the series’ departure from mil-sim grittiness. Admittedly, I enjoy my fair share of the collaborations CODM and console counterpart, Black...
  • Job losses, studio closures, cancelled games: what we know about Xbox's devastating wave of layoffs
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    It's been a devastating week for the games industry as hundreds of employees have lost their jobs at Xbox as a result of a round of layoffs across parent company, Microsoft - layoffs that have totaled in excess of 9000. It's been a...
  • Joanna Dark actor asks fans to call for Perfect Dark to be saved, as Adam Jensen's actor details financial loss due to cancellation
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Joanna Dark actor Alix Wilton Regan has implored fans to use their voices to save Perfect Dark, after the game was cancelled by Microsoft earlier this week. Read more
  • Death Stranding 2 desperately needed content warnings
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Polygon - All
    Sam from Death Stranding 2, looking tired and worn with tar streaming from his eyes Content warnings have become, if not standard, then at least more common in entertainment media over the past decade. Films and video games dealing with sensitive topics add small messages alerting viewers and players that they might...
  • Aniplex announces new Resident Evil mobile game
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Polygon - All
    Resident Evil fans have a lot to be excited for with Resident Evil Survival Unit, a new mobile strategy game announced by Anniplex Inc. during AnimeExpo 2025. The game is being co-developed by the JOYCITY corporation. Resident Evil...
  • Microsoft Makes Significant Layoffs Across Gaming Division, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Confirms in Memo to Staff
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from IGN Wireless Articles
    Microsoft has today made significant layoffs to its gaming division, per a memo sent to staff by Xbox boss Phil Spencer and reviewed by IGN.
  • The Sims 4 gets glass walls, rooftop greenery, and some other free bits ahead of next expansion
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Soon, the fairies will be upon us thanks to The Sims 4 's imminent Enchanted by Nature expansion . But before all that, EA has laid the foundations for its impending pixie dust explosion with a free content update - introducing the likes...
  • The Elder Scrolls Online Dev's Unannounced MMO Was Doing Well and Even Scaling Up as Xbox Cancelation Blindsided Staff, Sources Say
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from IGN PC Articles
    Yesterday, amid the layoffs of around 9100 individuals at Microsoft including thousands from its Xbox Gaming Divisions, we learned that one of the impacted projects was an unannounced MMO from ZeniMax Online Studios.
  • Dress to Impress Codes (July 2025)
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from IGN Video Games
    Use these working and active Dress to Impress codes to claim free rewards in DTI, including clothes, shoes, and accessories.
  • Perfect Dark reboot and new Zenimax MMORPG reportedly cancelled as part of latest Microsoft cuts
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    UPDATE 6:27pm UK: Chris Linn, senior producer at Zenimax Online Studios, has confirmed the cancellation of the unnanounced MMO on LinkedIn. Read more
  • EA Will Shut Down Anthem in January
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from IGN Video Games
    EA has announced it will shut down Anthem on January 12, 2026. Because Anthem's only content is online, this means the game will be unplayable after that date.
  • Gachiakuta goes places I’ve never seen in an anime series, and that’s an instant win
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Polygon - All
    It’s hard to reinvent the wheel when the wheel opens the way to success in a billion-dollar industry. But even with well-established, successful genres like shonen anime, some creators aren’t afraid to get creative. Enter Gachiakuta, an...
  • Final Fantasy 14's queer community and the importance of chosen family
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Hello! Eurogamer's week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming continues today as Ed Nightingale examines the importance of chosen family, as seen through the eyes of Final Fantasy 14 's thriving LGBTQIA+...
  • Nexus Mods to get Age Verification in UK / EU for adult content, plus a new cross-platform app upgrade
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from GamingOnLinux.com Latest Articles
    Nexus Mods recently changed ownership, and some major changes have been announced in regards to some of the naughtier mods. . Read the full article on GamingOnLinux .
  • Mecha Break is currently the eighth most-played game on Steam, but players criticise its microtransactions
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Mecha Break is out at last and its initial reception on Steam has been strong. The game has shot past 132,000 concurrent users as of writing, which isn't too shabby by any means. However, while plenty of people are playing it, initial...
  • How to build great playable ads for casual games
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from RSS | Pocket Gamer.biz | PGbiz
    Greg Castro, the VP of global partnerships at Mobvista, offers a guide to creating effective - and fun - playable ads for your casual games. Casual games offer simple, accessible, and highly engaging experiences, but that doesn't mean...
  • Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Video Game News at Gamespot
    Buy now pay later (BNPL) services are becoming more and more popular, and now one BNPL provider has announced a deal with a gaming company to allow people to finance in-game purchases. Affirm has partnered with gaming commerce company...
  • The 10 Most Valuable Pokémon Cards From Japan's Black Bolt and White Flare Expansions
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from IGN Video Games
    Zekrom ex 174/086 and Reshiram ex 174/086 top the list of the most expensive Black Bolt and White Flare Pokémon cards, with prices reaching $347 or more. Here's what collectors are paying for Japan's newest chase cards.
  • Microsoft begins substantial layoff process across gaming division, King, Zenimax, Turn 10 and more impacted
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    UPDATE 5:50pm UK: Bloomberg's Jason Schreier has reported that more studios have been hit by layoffs. Raven Software, one the developers behind the Call of Duty series, as well as Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10. Read more
  • Report: King loses 10% of staff as Microsoft makes games division cuts
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from RSS | Pocket Gamer.biz | PGbiz
    Microsoft has enacted widespread layoffs across its games division that includes around 200 job losses at King. As reported by Bloomberg, people “familiar with the plans” claimed the Candy Crush Saga developer is cutting 10%...
  • Games can be so much more than an escape: they can inspire you to take action
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Hello! Eurogamer's week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming continues today as Caelyn Ellis discovers what games can teach us about taking action - and making a difference - in the real-world. To catch up...
  • Roblox #BoycottTheHatch Controversy Explained
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from IGN Video Games
    Roblox fans are banding together across social media for the #BoycottTheHatch movement. Here's why.
  • How to get Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 online working on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from GamingOnLinux.com Latest Articles
    Want to play the classics Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck? Here's what you need to do to get them working fully. . Read the full article on GamingOnLinux .
  • Meze 99 Classics review: style meets substance in a winning combination
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Audiophile headphones don't have to be super-expensive, as Meze proved with the 99 Neos we reviewed last year. Now the 99 Classics are here, offering a step up in materials - walnut earcups and a spring steel frame - and a subtly...
  • What we've been playing - penny drops, obsessions, and recuperation
    Saturday, July 5, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie puts his feet up and ponders the effect our changing mindsets have on the games we play; Ed finally...
  • Donkey Kong & Pauline Amiibo Up for UK Preorder at £16.99 with Bananza Bonuses
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from IGN Video Games
    Preorder the Donkey Kong & Pauline amiibo for £16.99 at My Nintendo Store UK and unlock bonus in-game content in DK Bananza on Nintendo Switch 2.
  • Honkai Star Rail's 3.4 story made me change my mind about Phainon
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Pocket Tactics
    Ever since the Trailblazer and Dan Heng crash-landed on Amphoreus, the Honkai Star Rail story has blown me away, and the version 3.4 Trailblaze Mission, ‘For the Sun is Set to Die’, brings everything to a head. This isolated world with...
  • NTE Containment Test Begins, Showcases Updates and Improvements
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from IGN Video Games
  • Podcast special: Ashly Burch on the importance of queer roles, mental health, and authentic representation in gaming
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Hello! Eurogamer's week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming continues today with a Pride-themed edition of the Eurogamer Podcast. In the spirit of this week's festivities, and given this is timely and...
  • Nintendo president says children should engage with its characters elsewhere if they can't afford a Switch 2
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Eurogamer.net
    Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa believes the pricing of Switch 2 is appropriate for all ages, and that younger children should engage with Nintendo characters elsewhere. Read more
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