Issue #277

NEWS Link to heading

Everything announced in today’s Nintendo Direct

Split Fiction is reportedly at the center of a bidding war for its movie rights

GOG Adds F.E.A.R. To Preservation Program “In Honor” Of Monolith Productions

Mojang Won’t Use Generative AI, Minecraft Is ‘About Creativity and Creating’

Minecraft Live 2025: Vibrant Visuals, Flying Happy Ghast, and Everything Announced

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for PS5 launches April 17

Baldur’s Gate 3 actors call for AI regulation as game companies seek to replace human talent

Palworld developer being sued by Nintendo says Switch 2 port still possible

Multiple publishers ‘ready to delay their games’ to avoid GTA6 onslaught, it’s claimed

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Suffers Yet Another Delay, This Time to October 2025

Ex-Blizzard devs reveal spacey extraction space shooter Wildgate that looks, well, wild

After DDOS attacks, Blizzard rolls back Hardcore WoW deaths for the first time

No cloud needed: Nvidia creates gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs on your GPU

Free PlayStation Plus Games For April 2025 Announced

Introducing More In-Game Benefits for Free-to-Play Games with Game Pass

F1 25 Officially Revealed; Releases May 27

Call of Duty: Warzone Drops Back Into Verdansk With Limited Time Mode, Exclusive Rewards, and Black Ops 6 Free Trial

Ghost of Tsushima Real-Life Shrine Bans Tourists After Vandalism

Ubisoft Is Getting $1.25 Billion From Tencent To Spin-Off Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, And Rainbow Six Siege

Everything Announced At The Dreamhaven Showcase

Pillars of Eternity is getting turn-based combat, all but demanding replays

Discord is planning an IPO this year, and big changes could be on the horizon

REVIEWS Link to heading

Atomfall

Logitech G PowerPlay 2

The First Berserker: Khazan

Review: Warriors: Abyss

AI Limit

Rosewater

Nacon Rig M2 Streamstar

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Eagle OC Ice SFF

Grit and Valor - 1949

FEATURES Link to heading

Unmuted #002 - Mateus Karvat

Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon

The Rise of Twitch: How Being Social Became a Product

Indie Games With The Biggest Impact On The Industry

Netflix’s Spirit Crossing Is A Gorgeous Cozy MMO With A Lot To Prove

I played the lost videogame sequel to 1984, and came away more nostalgic than ever for gaming’s awkward adolescence in 1999

Playing As Yasuke in Shadows Doesn’t Feel Like Assassin’s Creed, He’s Something New

Diablo Immortal Previews Tomorrow’s Packed Major Update, The Writhing Wilds

The Best Free iOS Games

Video games can’t escape their role in the radicalisation of young men | Keith Stuart

Steel Hunters: The Final Preview

12 years (and 2000 hours) later, Warframe remains an MMO like no other

Shadow Of The Road Preview - Steampunk Edo

InZOI Turned My Life to Sh*t

The Best Games Of 2025 (So Far)

Honor of Kings: World – The First Preview

Can Discord solve gaming’s discovery problem?

Steam hit REPO hides real class and an understanding of gaming greats behind its chummy chaos and crude emojis

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers – The First Hands-on Preview

Video game book and documentary interviews

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

What’s a game you played as a kid that nobody seems to remember?

We always hear about toxic gaming communities, but what gaming community is the most friendly?

What game never got a sequel but should have?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Ben Starr REALLY Wanted This Voice Role | The First Berserker: Khazan

Wreckfest 2 | Early Access Release Trailer

Atomfall Pre-Launch Trailer

How We Rebuilt Verdansk From the Ground Up - Intel Drop | Call of Duty: Warzone

The First Berserker: Khazan | Early Access Trailer

The Heart and Art of Tales of the Shire | Inside Look

inZOI: Early Access Trailer

FUNNY Link to heading

Geralt getting his priorities straight

Those physics never get old

How Nintendo’s Virtual Game Card feature works