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You’ll have to pay for Bungie’s upcoming Marathon. And if you want to see everything, you’ll need to pay again and again. It’s been less than a year since Concord was released then unreleased within a two week period. It was a wake up call for PlayStation bosses, who rapidly backed away from their Games as a Service push, cancelling a slew of unreleased titles including a game based around God of War. But the folks behind Halo and Destiny…

Idiots on Tiktok have turned the new Minecraft movie into a meme. Kids (and more than a few adults) have been convinced to throw popcorn and drinks, scream loudly, and generally cause trouble in the name of fitting in. The real problem? Some producers are taking notice. The cinema business has been in freefall for a good while now. People are going to less and less films, and with more variety than ever. If you’re not James Bond, Marvel, Star…

Microsoft has released an AI generated version of Quake 2 and it’s proof, as if proof is needed, that AI isn’t the way forward. The version of the game is buggy, hard to control, and breaks when you look up and then back down. It’s just not fun, and the generation part of it doesn’t add a thing. No amount of “a computer made this” makes it better. It comes hot off the back of the terrible Ghibli crap people…

We bought a Steam Deck at Christmas, despite not really knowing how it’d get used. The answer surprised me and in the best way possible. As people once again discuss the viability of the Deck in modern gaming, those of us using it know that it doesn’t really matter.  Digital Foundry released a new video on the Steam Deck’s ability to play modern games including Horizon: Forbidden West, Final Fantasy XVI and Black Myth: Wukong. The result was a mixed…

The rumour is that Xbox’s next console will be a PC in a “TV-friendly shell”.  It’s a gamble, and one that probably won’t pay off in any kind of big way. The good news is that Microsoft probably don’t expect it to, so everything will be built with that in mind. It’s been a long-standing rumour, now stood up by Jez Corden. It’s an interesting idea, but one that fans will be more excited by than the general public. The…

Finnish Cottage 8 is a new kind of horror experience, created and distributed by Savukivi Games. It has the creepy environment of a lone Finnish cabin but coupled with the captivating gameplay of anomaly-hunter games. This is what distinguishes the game: The central mechanism is to observe the anomalies in what seems to be a very mundane environment. The players have to observe the interior of the cottage carefully, notice changes or disturbance, and choose to leave through the front…

It’s the classic response each time someone mentions loving Final Fantasy VII. “Wait until you try Final Fantasy VI,” someone will inevitably say. “Makes VII look amateur.” And I’ve written that as politely as possible. I’ve seen too many hipster rants about the beauty of the SNES JRPG classics, and the message is simple. If you came in with the PlayStation games, you’ve missed out. There’s always been a smugness to the discourse. Oh, you think THAT is good? And…

There have been a lot of op-ed pieces lately about the end of the console wars. With Xbox finding their own way and Sony and Nintendo representing different parts of the industry, it seems there’s now little reason to compare the big three. We’ll do it anyway though, eh? I started a segment on how the gaming industry will look very different in five years. But the reality – for those not deep in the trenches – is that the…

There’s been a lot of discussion lately around Tomb Raider, in part thanks to the wonderful re-releases by Aspyr. But there’s an issue that these remasters highlight: much of what we love about these classics has been left behind. I’m not going to spend the next 450 words harking back to the “better” days of discourse around whether you can get Lara naked or not using Xploder cheats. The gaming world got bigger, and so Lara had to grow too.…

WOMBEX Games has an upcoming indie title, Kryva Hora, that delivers a chillingly effective demo, immediately immersing players in the eerie beauty and dread of the Carpathian Mountains. This is atmospheric horror done right, prioritizing psychological tension over cheap jump scares. From the outset, the demo establishes a palpable sense of isolation. Players navigate a meticulously crafted world of dark woods, shadowy caves, and decaying ruins. The environment itself feels alive, imbued with a sinister presence. Muted colors, creeping mist,…