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The bullet heaven genre, poplarised by relatively new hits like Vampire Survivors , finally has a dedicated tag on Steam. Read more

It's been roughly three months since Asha Sharma took over Xbox , and changes to corporate and business direction haven't stopped coming. From scrapping the "This Is an Xbox" ad campaign to dropping Game Pass prices in exchange for new Call of Duty titles not being on the service from day one, today's Xbox is already feeling different. However, Xbox leadership knows the work is only starting, and…

Nintendo sure loves its surprise announcements, and the latest feels especially chaotic even if the game reveal is rather bite-sized. Pictonico! appears to be heavily inspired by Wario Ware and launches next week on mobile phones. Read more

It has reportedly been decided: Sony will keep its narrative single-player games exclusively for PlayStation 5, no longer converting them to PC. Read more

Sony has announced that PlayStation Plus prices are rising for new customers in "select" regions, but that if you're an existing subscriber, the price change does not apply - not unless the subscription lapses or changes. Or unless you are in Turkey or India. Read more

Kwan Perng was one of the main writers on celebrated Destiny 2 expansion The Final Shape and Guild Wars 2 expansion End of Dragons, and now they'll be the lead writer on CD Projekt Red's multiplayer Witcher spin-off Project Sirius. Read more

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight releases this week on Friday 22nd May (tomorrow, 19th May, for Deluxe Edition owners), and a recurring talking point around the game has been how alike it feels to play as the celebrated Batman Arkham games developed by Rocksteady Studios. Turns out there's a good reason for that: Rocksteady helped make it. Read more

As Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 nears completion and we continue to wonder about the long-rumoured FF9 remake , series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has praised a teaser for a hypothetical remake of FF6. The problem is it's fully AI-generated. Read more

I still think the best example of the Switch 2 's funky new mouse JoyCon exists in the horribly named Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster. If you've followed me from my old haunt at VG247 , you'll have heard this before , but I think it bears repeating: the best demo of the new hardware doesn't come from the Switch 2 Welcome Tour or something like Drag x Drive , it comes from a re-release of…

There's something that really stood out for me as someone in the UK who collected American comics at the end of the 1980s. It's that each new comic you got was a doorway to a world of absolute chaos and gimmickry. I'm not talking about the comic stories themselves, but about the American ads that were suddenly blaring out of the alternate spreads. Topps bubble gum cards. Garbage Pail whatevers. E…

Last week's Nintendo Switch 2 release of Sektori , a brilliant twin-stick shooter that's a lot like Geometry Wars, has finally met with enough success that the game's solo creator has been able to pay themselves a living wage. Read more

Subnautica 2 , like its predecessors, has a strong theme of pacifism running through it. Rather than killing aggressive fish, the game instead provides tools for players to avoid or distract creatures to save their own hides. Now that the Unknown Worlds’ controversial sequel has launched, however, this dedication to non-violence has proven frustrating to a subset of the community. Read more

That Nintendo has been battling Palworld developer Pocketpair over " Pokémon-style monster capture and throwing mechanics " for a while now isn't a secret. The results (so far) aren't what the Japanese platform holder would have hoped for, however. Over the past few days, Nintendo has been dealt another blow after trying to obtain a touchscreen-specific patent. Read more

Nex Playground, the family-focused and camera-based console that's had considerable success in the US, is about to be released in the UK and Ireland. Pre-orders begin today at Amazon , Argos and Smyths Toys , and the Nex Playground will launch at an unspecified point in late June. Read more

One of the first things I learn about myself in Zero Parades is that I'm a fuck-up – an omnishambling bad omen with cropped hair and unfair cheekbones. Before I was put on ice, I was supposedly one hell of a spy. But that was then, and this is now. The veteran spy fallen from grace is not a new story, but in careful hands, it is almost always a great one. There are so many tiny little things that…