Issue #190

NEWS Link to heading

Payday 3 Will Require A Constant Internet Connection

Everyone’s least favourite Diablo game gets the series’ first new class in nearly a decade

Cyberpunk 2077 Has Clawed Its Way To “Very Positive” Steam Reviews After Rocky Launch

HBO’s The Last of Us makes history as the first live-action video game adaptation nominated for major awards

Xbox’s Larry Hryb, Better Known as Major Nelson, Steps Down After 20 Years

Microsoft and Sony sign “binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation”

Xbox Live Gold Being Renamed to Xbox Game Pass Core on September

New handheld game consoles will need replaceable batteries from 2027, EU says

FBI Uses Nintendo Switch Data To Find A Missing Girl 2,000 Miles From Home

Xbox Game Pass adds Venba, The Wandering Village, Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem, and more in late July

Diablo 4’s pre-season 1 patch is here and no one is happy about it

The FTC Is Suspending Its In-House Antitrust Lawsuit Against Microsoft

Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with Overwatch 2

REVIEWS Link to heading

Viewfinder

HyperX Cloud 3

Let’s! Revolution!

Pikmin 4

Lakeburg Legacies

Remnant 2

Exoprimal

FEATURES Link to heading

Starfield’s vision of the final frontier makes space seem like a boring, barren expanse

Microsoft-Activision’s race for the finish line | This Week in Business

The unexpected dread of Cocoon: how the bug became a feature

Why it took 20 years to start making a true Football Manager sequel

WoW’s latest outlaw sabotaged over 10,000 hours of work in a legendary act of MMO griefing

Twitch is in a crucial “trust building period”: it must listen to streamers

EA Sports FC 24 makes big changes off the pitch - but what about on it?

Tears of the Kingdom shows that without change, accessibility in Nintendo games will remain accidental

It’s been 10 years since Valve invented the battle pass and changed gaming forever

Breaking down everything coming in Diablo 4 season 1

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

Study Says 7 Out Of 10 Players Avoid Playing Certain Games Because Of Toxic Communities

Dear devs: stop giving me the best gear when there’s nothing left to do

Which video game do you feel is overrated and why?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Troika’s Baldur’s Gate 3 Proposal

The Making of Vampire Survivors - Documentary

You Don’t Own Your Games Any More | Spot On

PAYDAY 3: Stealth Gameplay Trailer

EA SPORTS FC 24 | Official Gameplay Deep Dive

Alan Wake 2 And The 13 Year Journey To Make It

ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON — Story Trailer

The Crew Motorfest | New Gameplay Today