Ye gads, Black Friday week means the PS5 DualSense – a surprisingly great PC controller – is on sale for once
Whereas some bits of games kit are in and out of the sales like they keep forgetting their keys there, The PlayStation 5 DualSense controller is one of those peripherals that just seems to hover around its £60 / $75 list price indefinitely. Which is a shame, as it’s a ...
Top-Down Roguelike Guidus Zero Launches in Early Access
Steam’s Early Access recently got a new addition: Guidus Zero, a top-down dungeon crawling roguelike developed by indie South Korean studio Izzle.The story takes place in a world where a war raged for ages without a clear victor. After it ended, the central continent was declared a neutral zone. A ...
Tell game-install-size inflation to sod off with the 1TB WD Blue SN850 SSD, now £47 / $55 for Black Friday
Recently, PC games have been gorging themselves silly on our storage space. 160GB for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2? 190GB for God of War Ragnarok? If these games were people they’d stand waiting at the Pizza Hut buffet and nab ten of the twelve slices of Pepperoni Feast as soon as they’re slid ...
Random: Kirby Teams Up With Heinz For A Saucy New Collaboration In Japan
Dededelicious.Everyone's favourite pink puffball, Kirby, is teaming up with Heinz (you know, the tomato ketchup guys) for a new range of sauces in Japan. Well, that's not a sentence we thought we'd be writing today, but we can't say we're surprised.Shared by the official Heinz Twitter account, the Kirby range ...
Nintendo Finally Places Echoes of Wisdom on Its Official Zelda Timeline
The official Zelda timeline is the focus of much debate among the series’ hardcore fans, with rumblings over Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom’s place in all this recently settled when Nintendo popped both in a time and place all their own. But where does Echoes of ...
In Bladesong you are both the real hero and villain of any fantasy RPG – the person who makes all the swords
Video games in general have a surplus of weapons. It's gotten to the point that if I had any freelance budget, I'd commission somebody to count them up. Just give me an approximate running total for the industry at large, so that whenever next a shiny-eyed producer regales me with ...
What does it mean to recreate your old home in a video game?
Sometimes a home only becomes a home when you leave. I recently moved out from a London flat I'd rented for over a decade, for instance, and this has properly done a number on me. Being given my notice transformed the place from a transient pile of cadaverous lino and ...
Lizardcube Co-Founder Leaves To Start New Game Company
"my vision has been less aligned with the team".Omar Cornut, one of the co-founders of developer Lizardcube, has announced his departure from the company after his own aspirations and vision became less aligned with the wider team.Lizarcube is known for its work on Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap and Streets ...
I want to remove this horrible demo from my Steam library, but my body won’t let me
When and where did the Steam demo for horror game New Life first find its way to me? When did its non-descript, black hooded protagonist first wriggle, with the transgressive delight of an unbidden slug between naked toes embarking on a 2am fridge odyssey, into the as yet uncolonised crevices ...
