Issue #271

NEWS Link to heading

Everything announced at Sony’s February 2025 State of Play

Wonder Woman Game Reportedly Struggling With New Batman Still Many Years Away

PlayStation Fans Could’ve Had Another Resistance Game, But Sony Said No

PSN is back: Sony apologises with PS Plus gift to all players

Baldur’s Gate 3 just got a Warcraft-inspired custom campaign

Valve bans all Steam games that force players to watch advertisements

Roblox under investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission

Tibia Is Getting A New Vocation After 28 Years

Nintendo Announces Its Play On Event

Phasmophobia Reveals 2025 Roadmap

Sony Turned Down The Order: 1886 Sequel Due to Critical Reception, Dev Says

Surely not again: Worrying analysis shows Nvidia’s RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card may be prone to melting power connectors

The Riot MMO just lost yet another key staffer, this time its technical director

Alan Wake 2 is finally profitable over a year after release, says Remedy

Prime Gaming gets another 20 games in February, including one for Xbox

Control 2 Entered Full Production this Month

Crysis 4 ‘on hold’ as studio cuts 15% of staff

All the game-changing announcements from Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 Spotlight stream

Diablo 4’s Second Expansion Isn’t Coming Until 2026

Modding Is Coming To Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

PS5 Ships 75.0 Million Units as of December 2024

Xbox currently has more first-party games coming to PlayStation 5 this year than Sony

REVIEWS Link to heading

Diceomancer

The Roottrees are Dead

AOC Gaming C27G4ZXE

Gamakay TK101

The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep

Avowed

MSI Claw 8 AI+ A2VM

FEATURES Link to heading

8 Best MMOs With Fun Grinding

I’m genuinely stunned by the overclocking performance of the RTX 5080, and curious as to why Nvidia left so much headroom

How long does it take to make a Warframe? Well, it’s more complicated than you’d think

Monster Hunter Wilds Beta Players Share Love — and Fear — for Its New Flagship Monster Arkveld

The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games

We’re in a golden age of spy TV shows, but I have to play a 14-year-old MMO to get my videogame espionage kicks

RPGFan Games of the Year 2024: Overall Awards

I Wish Games Still Had Interesting Companion Apps

The Psychology of Game Design: Why You Keep Playing

We need to change our definition of interactivity

The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement

52 of the best PC games to play in 2025

Best books all gamers should read

Monster Hunter Wilds hands-on preview – Capcom take over the world

South of Midnight: The Final Preview

After eight hours with Elden Ring Nightreign, I’m convinced multiplayer Souls is an exhilarating rush

Top of the flops: just what does the games industry deem ‘success’ any more?

Born from “mistakes” on WoW, Legacy Steel and Sorcery shakes up the MMO format

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds: The First Preview

Split Fiction: The Final Preview

What are Hall-effect joysticks and why are they important for Switch 2?

Josef Fares Split Fiction interview – ‘we will not only do co-op’

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

Any hidden games that are not mentioned enough?

What online game has the most positive community?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Gothic 1 Remake | Making Of #01: The Essence of Gothic

Delta Force - Official Black Hawk Down Campaign Release Date Teaser Trailer

Bobby Kotick, former CEO of Activision Blizzard; and Bing Gordon, Advisor at Kleiner Perkins

Atomfall Features Trailer

Assassin’s Creed Shadows ‘PC and New-Gen Features’ trailer

Monster Hunter Wilds - Launch Trailer

Twisted Metal Season 2 | Official Teaser | Peacock Original

Tides of Annihilation - Extended Gameplay Walkthrough

FUNNY Link to heading

reading a book from cover to cover in KCD2

Your average skyrim mods experience

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

The Influence of Game Design on Player Engagement