Issue #279

NEWS Link to heading

Triple-i Initiative Showcase 2025—Everything Announced

Nintendo Has Acquired 2 More Anti-Palworld Patents

A Minecraft Movie Is Most Successful Video Game Movie Of All Time For Its First Friday In The US

FromSoftware aren’t abandoning single player in favour of games like Elden Ring: Nightreign, says Miyazaki

ESA Says Tariffs Will Have A “Detrimental Impact” On Entire Gaming Industry, Not Just Nintendo

Fallout 76 is currently testing the one thing that makes every game better: fishing

Ubisoft is Developing a Turn-Based Tactics Game Set in The Rainbow 6 Universe

Nintendo confirms you will have to pay to use the Switch 2’s C button

Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It’s Not a Free Console Pack-In

Nintendo Switch 2 Won’t Have Achievements

Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con do not feature Hall Effect sticks

Why Switch 2 Is More Expensive, According To Nintendo

Nintendo boss discusses AI use, says games will always have “a human touch”

Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders delayed in Canada to align with the US

2025 BAFTA Games Awards winners announced

Blue Prince is currently the best-reviewed game of 2025

Razer is Starting to Pause its Sales in The US Over Tariffs

Xbox Games Showcase Followed by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct Airs June 8

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Classics Catalog lineup for April 2025 announced

HBO renews The Last of Us for season 3 ahead of season 2 premiere

Star Citizen has now raised over $800m, with still no release in sight

The Last Of Us Complete: Collector’s Edition Announced, Preorders Available Now

Esports World Cup To Feature Insane $70 Million Prize Pool

Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo ‘inspired’ by Quake 2 that runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make

REVIEWS Link to heading

WWE 2K25

Promise Mascot Agency

Blue Prince

The Last Of Us Season 2

Commandos: Origins

FEATURES Link to heading

Unmuted #004 - Macy

The Duskbloods is a PvPvE game that seems to have more in common with online shooters than it does Bloodborne

I’ve been ensnared into the wild life of a drug dealer in Schedule 1

We Played Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - First Hands-On Preview

Nintendo Switch 2 Hands-On Preview

Mario Kart World Preview - Cross-Country Karting

As the games industry continues to be a mess, the devs behind Hyper Light Drifter share why they took to Patreon

How I solved my mid-life gaming crisis with retro games – Reader’s Feature

Nintendo built the Switch 2 for the next societal shutdown

How Digital Gaming Platforms Are Adapting Features from Video Games to Boost Engagement

South Of Midnight’s Emotional Journey Doesn’t Overstay Its Welcome

How a hardcore survival game morphed into an open world town-builder where you play as a corgi mech pilot

Nobody told me that Old School RuneScape was home to a perfect time capsule of mid 2000s cybersecurity

EXCLUSIVE: Blizzard Tells IGN What’s Coming to Diablo 4 in 2025 and 2026, Including New Expansion, New Ranking System And, Finally, Leaderboards

How In-Game Currencies Have Taken Over Gaming

ESO is being completely reinvented in 2025, for new and old players alike

How a 25-year-old Dutch game developer reclaimed her childhood

F1 25 Preview - My Team Improvements Lead The Pack

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

Unpopular opinion: I miss when games let you be a little lost.

My wife thinks video games are juvenile and playing them makes me less attractive.

Are there online games being kept alive entirely by player communities?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Mewgenics - Official Trailer

Mario Kart World – Knockout Tour & GameChat Gameplay – Nintendo Treehouse: Live | Nintendo Switch 2

Mario Kart World – Grand Prix Gameplay Day 2 – Nintendo Treehouse: Live | Nintendo Switch 2

Donkey Kong Bananza – Exploration Gameplay – Nintendo Treehouse: Live | Nintendo Switch 2

Marathon | Save the Date Trailer

The Outer Worlds 2: 11 Minutes of Exclusive Gameplay – IGN First

FUNNY Link to heading

Heavy armor + Inventory full

I’ll never forgive the Japanese

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

The UK games industry has a class problem - here’s how one organisation is trying to fix it

How external development became a critical layer in game development — Keywords CEO interview | The DeanBeat

Bloober CEO: creating a ‘safe,’ sustainable workplace takes priority in studio leadership