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In the run-up to Total War: Pharaoh at the end of last year, a slightly strange question popped into my head: "What if someone made a Total...

Valve have launched Steam Families on the Steam Beta Client, a suite of new and refreshed family sharing options that replace Steam's exist...

A heaving expo floor is not a great place to sample a first-person open world hunting game that wants you to monitor your own heartbeat, b...

If you've ever tried to play a hardcore RPG that's way above your brain's pay grade, or got lost in tutorials that use complicated words a...

Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter's #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these sn...

Solo developer Billy Basso's enigmatic Metroidvania Animal Well has been dated for May 9th, publishers Bigmode announced yesterday. In it,...

The Amazon Spring Sale is back, refreshed and renamed as Amazon Spring Deal Days. Maybe because there’s so many of them: this flowery festi...

It's GDC week over in San Francisco at the moment, and such a high concentration of video game developers in one place can only mean one th...

If you’ve ever suspected that harvesting crops in Stardew Valley is faster in one direction than another, validation is at hand. The belove...

I’ll be honest: fried eggs are my least favourite way to enjoy the versatile food. But even a noted fried-egg hater like me was left saliva...

Mojang have announced a new Minecraft subscription service, the Marketplace Pass, which grants access to a catalogue of "150+" community-c...

Developers happy to mimic the style of Hollywood blockbusters in their video game soundtracks are stopping video game music from advancing,...

Combat is such a routine activity in video games that it often doesn't feel much like conflict at all. It's just something done to move t...

The co-creator of long-running free-to-play fantasy MMO RuneScape has revealed the project his new studio has been working on for the last...

Port-o-remaster publishers Aspyr yesterday launched the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, bundling together the two 'What if Battl...

My day in Lightyear Frontier starts out with a bit of farming. On a good day, it’s raining, so I don’t need to water the crops. On a bad d...

I know that "Made one guy admit he was wrong about a subgenre" isn’t the kind of achievement they put in accolade trailers, but I must cred...

If you're fond of the fairly specific blend of doomy theology, rich art direction and Metroidvania-tinted Soulsliking encapsulated by Blasp...

Helldivers 2's Cutting Edge Premium warbond, aka DLC battle pass, is now available to buy in-game, and it is chock-full of oddball gadgetry...

You wouldn’t know because she hardly ever mentions it, but Alice Bee is not a Ready Player One fan. In fairness, the newly revealed Open (o...

The studio behind unexpectedly decent Mickey Mouse life sim Disney Dreamlight Valley are venturing into another fantasy land where anthropo...

This week's announcement that Embracer are selling off Saber Interactive to new company Beacon Interactive has cast further doubt over the...

Cast your eye over the original Outcast from 1999 today, and you'll find a world that's more abstract than alien. Hazy, almost block colou...

I promise that I mean this as an actual compliment, but having played an early build of Ascendant Infinity – Cambridge-based PlayFusion’s d...

Saber Interactive have parted ways with Embracer Group, buying back the rights to both themselves and numerous other studios in a deal init...