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It's those bloody typewriters all over again. Developer Wych Elm Games' Silver Pines is fantastic in a whole bunch of ways, from its woozy small-town ambience to its mix of taut survival horror and exploratory Metroidvania. But from the very first moment I saw its save system, its please-insert-coin phone box demands, I knew our relationship was going to be a fractious one. Read more

Happy Halloween! Are you scared? I am: I'm in a theatre play that opens next week and we're not ready yet. I'm also off to a ghost stories evening at the theatre tonight; I've had a few people there tell me, with faces as straight as a ruler, of their eerie encounters. Actually, one encounter involved me. Read more

Yacht Club Games has confirmed that most of its developers are now working on a brand new 3D game (potentially Shovel Knight 3D), after the critically-acclaimed Mina the Hollower did well enough for the team to continue. Read more

After more than two decades dominating the PC MMO battlefield, it sounds like Blizzard Entertainment 's taking the idea of a World of Warcraft console port more seriously than ever. Read more

Things might get even darker over in the world of Lordran without those silly, only sometimes helpful notes left by other players. Developer FromSoftware has announced that it's temporarily closing Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 servers because of an unspecified issue. Read more

I've been captivated by the idea of wrong-footing an audience ever since playing Faith: The Unholy Trinity . That game presents like an 8-bit horror, then proceeds to bend the rules of what an 8-bit game can do - or perhaps what you remember they could do - in order to surprise and scare you. Tenebris Somnia is very similar. Indeed, it's executive produced by the developer of Faith, Airdorf Games…

Crimson Desert is one of 2026's most successful releases. The game managed to sell over 6 million copies in just three months , and ended up being so profitable that its publisher ended up giving each employee at development studio Pearl Abyss a $3,400 bonus . Since launch, the dev has been committed to improving the game and correcting some of the more egregious issues that were present at launc…

A new report has revealed that EA closed BioWare because it was forced to choose between investing in one of two sci-fi projects: a new Mass Effect game or a new Star Wars Battlefront game. And it chose the latter. Read more

Dan Greenawalt, director, founder, and vice president at Turn 10 Games, has departed from the studio after spending 27 years as part of the company. This comes as Turn 10 is merged with Playground Games as part of Xbox's mass restructuring initiative that made headlines as it resulted in 3200 layoffs and four studio closures earlier this year. Read more

Sony has snatched up the movie rights for Mouthwashing, the hit independent horror video game released in 2024. Read more

As I'm sure you're all now already aware, legendary British actor Sir Patrick Stewart has died, aged 86. His Instagram account announced the news yesterday, saying he died at home in Los Angeles surrounded by friends and family, following "a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia". Read more

Yesterday, Ubisoft issued a statement about the future of the Assassin's Creed series, and the publisher's comments included quite a big surprise: there are currently no new remakes of the series' past games in the works. Read more

Bethesda's hugely anticipated and long-awaited fantasy role-playing game The Elder Scrolls 6 could be revealed "as soon as next month", a new report has claimed - right in the midst of Microsoft's ongoing restructuring efforts. Read more

Celeste and TowerFall have both been delisted from Xbox suddenly earlier this week. Per a post on Bluesky, developer Maddy Thorson says this was an intentional move, with the games being removed from sale on Xbox in support of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, which is aimed at protesting various companies linked to, or supporting, Israel's government during the genocide in Pales…

A dataminer has uncovered something peculiar in the code of Mario Kart World . Spiny, a tiny little turtle-looking fella with a spiky shell, was meant to be a driver in the game. Read more