They were supposed to keep people safe from the horrors of nuclear war and the ensuing, er, fallout, but Vault Tec had other plans.
Starfield’s Shattered Space DLC gets fresh deep-dive from Bethesda, with a bunch of story details about missing serpent dudes and “the vortex incident”
If you’re looking forward to digging into Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion when it arrives later this month, you’re in luck, as Bethesda’s just put out a fresh deep-dive video that sees some of the DLC’s developers talk you through what you’ll be in for when you head off to discover what on Earth’s up with…
Castlevania: Nocturne season 2 gets a release window and a hearty teaser trailer with certified undead hot boy Alucard
Netflix has dropped a brand new teaser trailer for Castlevania: Nocturne season 2, and it sure does seem like everyone’s favourite vampiric blonde boy will play a big part. It’s Netflix Geeked Week, which means that the streamer has a whole bunch of announcements coming including things like Arcane, Black Mirror, and Avatar: The Last…
PS5 Pro’s biggest problem isn’t its price, it’s the PS6
Much like Premier League football clubs signing new players on ridiculous length contracts to (here comes a simplified and likely incorrect statement) spread the cost and avoid coming foul of financial fair play rules, I’ve started to look at the PS5 Pro as a cost/reward per year-type situation. In the end, it all comes down…
After Baldur’s Gate 3 modders made custom maps possible, someone’s already working on their own version of Avernus
Not long after Larian released its official modding toolkit for Baldur’s Gate 3, it took next to no time for one modder to find out how to unlock a developer mode in it that gives folks to do things like creating custom levels. Now, almost as quickly, the early looks at the first few levels…
A Professor Layton game you almost definitely haven’t played has been saved and is getting an unofficial translation, all thanks to a phone that looks like it survived a house fire
You’ve probably never played Professor Layton and the Mansion of the Deathly Mirror, but thanks to some dedicated fans, you might soon be able to. Prior to the advent of smartphones, Japan was very ahead of the game when it came to mobile phones. They could do things that are commonplace these days like email,…
With that big Helldivers 2 patch now imminent, Arrowhead’s dropped the bomb, the 500KG’s blasts will finally be as powerful as they look
Helldivers 2’s much-hyped next patch drops tomorrow, September 17, and Arrowhead’s saved something fairly special for the patch note reveal that’ll likely round out the list of major changes it’s letting us know about ahead of time. You know the 500KG bomb? It sounds like everyone’s longstanding gripe with it has been sorted. If you…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows has got one massive, gorgeous, secret weapon up its sleeve to make it more immersive than ever: clouds
In an open world game, clouds take up a quarter of the screen at all times. They’re massive, important, and – all too often – completely overlooked. I can list a few of my all-time favourite in-game worlds (Destiny, The Witcher 3, Bloodborne, to name a few), and you know what they all have in…
New Witcher 3 mod brings full-blown seasons to The Continent, with hopes of making them switch dynamically in the future
As expected, The Witcher 3’s REDkit modding tools have given modders a chance to have a go at doing a lot of complex stuff they couldn’t beforehand. The latest of these looks to be the first ever proper attempt at giving the whole map full-blown seasons, and its creator says they’re planning to see if…
Diablo 4 made over 1 billion dollars so far, and $150 million of that from those exorbitantly priced skins
Diablo 4 has brought in a lot of money. This isn’t in itself surprising, of course, the game made $666 million in sales at its launch last year, setting a new record for Blizzard. But. has that momentum continued over 15 months later? According to someone who’s in a position to know, the answer is…
Alan Wake 2’s composer says the Lake House DLC has left him “crying constantly”, a “damn ugly snot cry” at that, which can only be good news, right?
Alan Wake 2 has one more piece of DLC due out this October, and working on the soundtrack has left the game’s composer a bit moist. When Remedy announced that it would be releasing a couple of pieces of DLC for Alan Wake 2, I was ecstatic considering just how good that game was. The…
As Nintendo says goodbye to regular Splatoon 3 updates, players come together to settle the score on who the series’ best musical group is
As many fans assumed, Splatoon 3’s Grand Festival was its final Splatfest, so regular updates for the game are coming to an end. Over the weekend, Splatoon 3 held a big Grand Festival, heavily implied to be the finale of the last two years of Splatfests. Now, as announced on the official North America Splatoon…
Helldivers 2’s next patch will finally bring back the eruptor’s shrapnel, but hopefully without causing an explosion in accidental self-insta kills
Arrowhead added a couple of extra bullet points to the list of changes we know are coming as part of Helldivers 2’s big patch tomorrow over the weekend. The big one? The eruptor’s finally getting its shrapnel back, and hopefully in a form that should make you less likely to accidentally do yourself in when…
“It’s likely we’ll add in eventually” Space Marine 2 creative director chips in on Chaos customisation and PvE missions coming to the game
If you’ve been playing Space Marine 2 as of late, you may find yourself among the many keen to see more Chaos space marine content. Be it customisation options for the PvP multiplayer mode, or even some PvE missions to help flesh out the antagonistic faction, there’s a real hunger for some more love for…
Is GTA 6 going to be delayed? A former Rockstar dev thinks we won’t know until May 2025 at the earliest
There are constant questions over whether GTA 6 will be delayed, but one former Rockstar dev thinks any announcement of a delay won’t come until next year. Earlier this month, some rumours started to spread that GTA 6 had been delayed, but Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier (known for his strong reputation when it comes to insider…
Warhammer 40K: Darktide may be coming to PlayStation 5, according to a Taiwanese game rating
Warhammer 40K: Darktide – one of the best Warhammer games in recent years and a very good co-op shooter – may be popping up on the PS5 according to a Taiwanese game rating. This rating, spotted by Gematsu, has seemingly listed the game as incoming to the Sony platform, though there hasn’t been any official…
Getting wound up by badly behaving Deadlock players? Good news, Valve has added in some features to help stop annoying players getting away with anything they want
Deadlock is still early in development, so some players have been able to play however they like without any kind of punishment – but the newest update should stop that. Valve is working on a brand new shooter, one of the hero variety, if you hadn’t heard, but it being still in the testing phase…
Mobile classic Flappy Bird comes back, immediately ruined by fact it is seemingly just a vehicle for blockchain nonsense with the original creator not involved
The classic mobile game Flappy Bird was announced to be making a return this week, except it’s not quite the comeback you think it is. I’m not going to ask you if you remember Flappy Bird, because of course you do, everyone does. It was a very OK mobile game that went viral about a…
Blizzard is working with, uh, Blizzard to celebrate World of Warcraft’s 20th anniversary with some Overwatch 2 skins
Blizzard is celebrating World of Warcraft’s 20th anniversary this year, and to do so it’s… collaborating with itself by putting some WoW skins in Overwatch 2. Collabs are all the rage these days for live-service games, but it can be a bit funny when a developer does it with itself – which is exactly what…
The Watch Dogs movie has wrapped up filming more than 10 years after it was first announced, which I’m assuming means it’s a guaranteed best picture winner
It turns out the Watch Dogs movie is in production, and in fact has already wrapped on filming. Much like the Minecraft movie and the Borderlands movie, the Watch Dogs movie has been in the works for about a decade now, though unlike the Minecraft movie which finally received a trailer last week, and the…
Be careful of spoilers, Zelda fans, Echoes of Wisdom appears to have leaked online
Those of you hoping to go into The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom might want to be careful, as the ROM appears to have been leaked. It seems like you just can’t spend any amount of time on the internet without being wary of spoilers these days, and as leak culture just continues to…
They’re taking the Hobbits to 2025 – cosy life-sim Tales Of The Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game catches a delay
Apologies to those of you hoping to escape to a cosy Hobbit life, but Tales of the Shire has been delayed into 2025. While there’s a seemingly infinite number of cosy games to play at any given moment, Lord of the Rings fans were unsurprisingly particularly excited by Tales of the Shire. You get to…
Stay calm, OG Final Fantasy 7 fans, Remake Part 3 won’t “betray” you, but like the first two, don’t expect everything to go the way you think
It’s still a bit unclear how Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 will end, and the game’s producer hasn’t made that much clearer in a recent interview. When Final Fantasy 7 Remake came out back in 2020, players who hadn’t been spoiled by Square Enix’s spoilerific trailers quickly discovered that the game actually wasn’t a…
In a time of uncertainty for live-service games, Pocketpair makes it clear that Palworld is staying as a premium title
Those of you worried that Palworld will go the full live-service route likely don’t need to be, as developer Pocketpair has no plans to make it free-to-play. Palworld is the kind of game that’s pretty perfectly poised to go free-to-play if it wanted to, as all those sales certainly put it in a strong position…
The best games that bricked consoles
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The best Sims game turns 20 today, calling forth a wave of warm nostalgia in the face of the franchise’s uncertain future
Like many children, I grew up playing whatever video games I could get my hands on, my early choices dictated largely by parental preference and what the owner of the sole computer shop in my rural hometown chose to stock. The original Sims was the first game I ever successfully lobbied to own: actively seeking…
Hollowbody review – A thrilling PSX-style experience that remixes the classic survival horror formula
Forget all about the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, for now at least. Hollowbody is the latest survival horror game on the scene, and when VG247 previously described it as one of our most anticipated horror games, we had good reason to do so. Hollowbody is an exceptional experience that pays homage to many cult…
Following Immortals of Aveum not really doing a thing, some of its former devs sign on with new studio from Rockstar legend Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures
Absurd Ventures, the company formed by longtime Rockstar mainstay Dan Houser a few years ago, has announced that it’s formed a fresh studio under its umbrella. The studio, called Absurd Marin, comes with a starting staff of several former developers of Ascendant Studios’ ill-fated Immortals of Aveum. Yep, that’s the Immortals of Aveum that came…
Wild Bastards has got killer style and ideas, but feels like a scattered shotgun blast instead of a bullseye
Blue Manchu’s Void Bastards, published back in the day by Humble Games, was a ‘strategy-shooter’ roguelike I enjoyed enough to grab twice, one DRM-free and another on Steam. More than five years later after its launch, Wild Bastards is taking things in a new direction I haven’t been vibing with. I was really excited to…
“They blow their load all over me, then I can move out” – Helldivers 2’s next patch will make it easier to take on rocket-toting bots and gunships
We already know Helldivers 2‘s upcoming patch will be bringing with it some pretty beefy buffs to the weapons you can wield as a diver, but Arrowhead’s also taking on the task of makinbg certain enemies easier to fight. With that in mind, rocket devastators and gunships are having some extra limits put on their…
Helldivers 2 players seem pretty cool with Arrowhead sticking stratagems in a Warbond for the first time, provided plenty of free firepower keeps coming
Yesterday, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead revealed the next Warbond that’ll be arriving in the game, Chemical Agents, which is set to kick up a stink when it drops on September 19. Part of this latest Warbond are a couple of stratagem variants – the TX-41 Sterilizer and the AX/TX-13 ‘Guard Dog’ Dog Breath – with…