Issue #280

NEWS Link to heading

Baldur’s Gate 3’s Huge Patch 8 and Its 12 New Subclasses Finally Have a Release Date

Tomb Raider TV Series Reportedly “Dead”

Blue Prince Dev Reveals Magic: The Gathering Helped Fund Development

Guild Wars 1’s community is organizing a massive 20th anniversary playthrough

Roblox is secretly host to some wild Warhammer 40K fan games

Immortality: Design Works is one of the biggest game art books to date

Sony Announces PlayStation 5 Price Increase in Europe, Australia And New Zealand

666 Players Can Buy DOOM on a Limited Edition Box That Plays DOOM

Stalker 2 devs release “quarterly roadmap” confirming mod tools, A-Life fixes and more

BitCraft lays out its combat and territory philosophy and its plan to stay ‘resilient to griefing’

Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 announced, starting from $299: ‘We can work with our partners to get these out at reasonable prices, which we are doing’

The Last Of Us Season 2 Premiere Sees Strong Viewership, Outperforming First Season

Games Joining Game Pass In April And May 2025, Including Clair Obscur And Call Of Duty

Funcom is delaying Dune Awakening’s launch to June 10 to give it ‘a bit more time to cook’

Portal Fantasy is a new creature collecting RPG with a Stardew Valley feel

Everything announced during Nintendo’s Mario Kart World Direct, including where Rainbow Road is hiding

22-year-old MMO MapleStory is getting the ‘old school’ treatment with the original lead game designer in charge of new classic servers

REVIEWS Link to heading

Schedule 1 Early Access

Cyberpunk Edgerunners

Bionic Bay

Tempest Rising

Tempopo

FEATURES Link to heading

Unmuted #005 - Kenzie Interview

Influencer report highlights gender pay gap in sponsored content earnings

The 20 best games on PC

Blue Prince is the major indie contender for Game of the Year — for now

Switch 2 will end two decades of Nintendo’s awkward voice chat attempts

The era of the bad video game movie is over, if Hollywood lets these guys do their job

Plaything – how Black Mirror took on its scariest ever subject: a 1990s PC games magazine

The best new video games of 2025 so far

Survive the Fall: The First Preview

The best new board games of 2025 so far

The best way to play Blue Prince is to cheat a little

The Real Reason Politicians Blame Video Games For Society’s Most Difficult Issues

18 Games Like Stardew Valley To Play In 2025

This ‘Single-Player MMORPG’ Is A Good Fit For Introverts

Crimson Desert is beautiful and bloody, but lacks its own bold vision

Microsoft Gaming Chief Phil Spencer on ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Gamble, ‘Fallout’ Season 2 and Mixing Hollywood Pursuits With Xbox Biz Priorities

The Outer Worlds 2’s Worlds Are Going Bigger – IGN First

Rematch Hands-On Preview: The Sifu Devs Do Soccer…and So Far They’re Nailing It

Rebellion CEO on Atomfall’s success and launching a new IP on Xbox Game Pass

F1 25 hands-on preview, part two: Drifting when you give it a bootful, but not spinning out as much

How Video Games Inspire Real-World Creativity and Innovation

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

Are we hitting ‘open world fatigue’? Or do players still crave massive maps with endless side quests?

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

VIDEOS Link to heading

Marathon | Gameplay Overview Trailer

Marathon | Reveal Cinematic Short

NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound - Kumori Reveal | Coming Summer 2025

Cronos: The New Dawn - “Don’t Let Them Merge!” Gameplay Trailer | PS5 Games

FUNNY Link to heading

No life squad assemble….

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

How Player Choices Are Shaping Video Game Development?

The huge, hidden web game market no one talks about (and how to get in)

Unity promises to deliver ‘battle-tested’ Switch 2 support