Issue #278

NEWS Link to heading

Everything announced at Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct

Nintendo’s Zelda Movie Now Has A Release Date Even If We Still Know Nothing Else About It

“30 years of history reside in our tape backups”: PlayStation’s building a game preservation mineshaft vault with 200 million files going back to a 1994 build of PS1 JRPG Arc the Lad

Fortnite reveals massive map changes coming next week

Split Fiction has broken not one, not two, but three world records

Vampire survival RPG V Rising gets a big update next month, bringing a new biome, multiplayer duels and the ‘biggest combat overhaul yet’

Monster Hunter Wilds Breezes Past 10 Million Sold, Capcom Explains Why It’s Done So Incredibly Well

“Joel was right,” says The Last of Us creator

RuneScape: Dragonwilds is a new survival game set in the world of the old-school MMO

Oh, you tease—we don’t know when exactly GTA 6 is coming out because Take-Two’s CEO wants ’to maintain the anticipation’

Humble Choice’s April line-up brings Xenomorphs, nautical horror, and tomb raiding

Deltarune Chapters 1-4 Will Launch on June 5th

Roblox gives parents more power over children’s activity on gaming platform

PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for April 2025 Now Available

Microsoft Reveals Xbox Game Pass April 2025 Wave 1 Lineup

Shenmue voted the most influential video game of all time in Bafta poll

GTA 5 arrives on PC Game Pass this month for first time, in Enhanced edition

Nintendo Switch 2 Engineers Reveal Details About Creating the “Pinnacle of All Controllers”

Switch 2 has “10x the graphics performance of the Nintendo Switch”, claims Nvidia

ESA Says Trump Tariffs Will Have a ‘Detrimental Impact on the Video Game Industry’

Prime Gaming members get 22 more games in April

Nintendo delays Switch 2 US preorders over tariff concerns

REVIEWS Link to heading

Razer Blade 16 (2025)

inZOI - Early Access

Bleach Rebirth of Souls

Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game

A Minecraft Movie

Netflix’s Devil May Cry

South Of Midnight

Asus ROG Zephyrus G16

Turtle Beach Stealth 500

The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered PC

FEATURES Link to heading

Unmuted #003 - Troopa

Game of the Year 2025 predictions: The front-runners and challengers to come

Baby Steps First Hands-On Preview: You’ve Got to Fall Before You Walk

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the hardest game I ever played – so why am I back? | Dominik Diamond

The focus on GPU efficiency over fps means this year’s gaming laptops are capable of something they’ve never been good at

Game Pass was always good. Now, it’s finally consistent

2025 Will Be the Year That Will Redefine the Gaming Industry

Path of Exile 2 Dev GGG Talks Dawn of the Hunt, the Huntress, and the New Unique That ‘Might Be Broken’

Doom: The Dark Ages - We’ve Played It!

The Last Of Us Creator Says Joel Was Right, And I Wish He Wouldn’t

The Best April Fools’ Day Gaming Jokes Of 2025

Why every Honkai: Star Rail character is hot, and other revelations from its lead designer

Interview: Inside Honkai: Star Rail - PS5’s Biggest and Most Ambitious Live Service RPG

Den of Wolves Interview: Succession, Heisting, And Storytelling In Multiplayer Games

The timeless genius of a 1980s Atari developer and his swimming salmon masterpiece

The Best Video Games of 2025 So Far

The first Radeon was superior to Nvidia’s GeForce2 in almost every way but it set the tone for how AMD would fair against the jolly green giant for the next 25 years

Bazzite OS: A worthy Windows replacement, or just a passing fad?

Nintendo’s fearsome CEO once called Shigeru Miyamoto in to ask if Tetris was any good, who replied ‘your secretaries and accountants are all playing at lunchtime and after work, and that’s never happened before’

Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on reveals a proper generational upgrade, though its biggest new idea remains unproven

We Played Nintendo Switch 2: First Hands-On Preview

Explaining MicroSD Express cards and why you should care about them

FromSoftware multiplayer is best when it’s a secret

My Excitement For The Switch 2 Is Dying By A Thousand Cuts

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

Switch 2 Game Prices

What’s the most rage-inducing level in gaming history?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Atomfall Might Be The Biggest Surprise of 2025

Equinox: Homecoming – Official Reveal Trailer

Bylina | Official Music Gameplay Trailer

MindsEye - Welcome to Redrock - Official Story Trailer 18+ | 2025

FIEFDOM | Kickstarter Reveal Trailer

Blades of Fire - Gameplay Showcase 1 [ESRB M]

Doom: The Dark Ages New Gameplay - 4K 60 FPS

Hell Clock | Reveal Trailer

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition – Nintendo Treehouse: Live | Nintendo Switch 2

Marvel Rivals Season 2: Hellfire Gala - Official Reveal Trailer

Soulframe: Preludes - Coming in 2025 Trailer

FUNNY Link to heading

Come ON, Nintendo. You were so close to greatness.

Rockstar seeing Nintendo’s $90 game prices

War is where the old send the young off to die

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

Want to know the best way to gain attention on Steam? Add a demo.

Tara Mustapha’s vision to support marginalised developers and build sustainable studios