Warhammer 40k Darktide has grown too chaotic, so Fatshark is “toning down” its extremes

Warhammer 40k Darktide is all about blasting your way through the Chaos hordes, so the prospect of it getting too much might seem a little odd. However, as developer Fatshark explains, a gradual ramping up of player power over the years, alongside increases to enemy density to act as a counterweight, have escalated the industrial…

The Five Best Pinball Machines For Beginners

Pinball. The real game of kings. Truly timeless, their design sensibilities date back centuries. Modernized for game halls in the 1930s, these machines have had repeated boom periods. This includes the ‘90s, when they sold the most, and now, as ‘90s kids are get nostalgic and prop up barcades. They also build on each other’s…

Nintendo Says Approximately 40% Of Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Players Are Switch 2 Owners

Image: Nintendo Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream made its debut on the Switch last month, and in case you missed it, it sold over 3.8 million units in its first two weeks. In the latest financial results, Nintendo has also revealed one other interesting fact about the social sim. Although this is a Switch title,…

Saros Doesn’t Like Being a Roguelike, So Why Is It One?

“ARCADE IS DEAD,” developer Housemarque abruptly decreed in all caps on its blog shortly after Matterfall’s release in 2017. This candid manifesto explained how the team saw no future developing the arcadey games it had specialized in for over two decades and was moving onto different genres. Returnal was the result of this shift in…

Monkey Bomb Tag codes May 2026

Though they won’t help boost your skill in this high-risk game of animal agility, the new Monkey Bomb Tag codes below will at least score you some free gems to spruce up your chimp. Monkey Bomb Tag is an easy enough game to understand. It’s elimination tag. Blended with the high-flying acrobatics of our closest…

No, Richard Dawkins, AI is bloody well not conscious

Jacob Fox, PhD in Philosophy, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Flitting between a 600 Hz TN, 320 Hz IPS, and 280 Hz OLED monitor to test which is best for competitive gaming in CS2. And pondering philosophical conundrums between rounds, of course. A couple of months ago, I listened to Richard…

Nobody remembers legendary Marvel writer Chris Claremont’s totally unhinged 2001 X-Men comic

You could be forgiven for forgetting that X-Treme X-Men ever happened. After all, it was running concurrently with Grant Morrison’s New X-Men, which is widely regarded as one of the best X-Men comics of all time. X-Treme X-Men might not be the best, but it’s certainly one of the weirdest, and that has to count…

Psychonauts Maker Double Fine Forms Latest Union At Microsoft

Developers at the long-running game studio Double Fine, which was acquired by Microsoft back in 2018, are forming a union. The group, which is best known for Psychonauts and just recently released the pottery battle game Kiln on Game Pass, filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board on May 7 on behalf of…

Absent a Left 4 Dead 3, modders have just turned Team Fortress 2 into COD Zombies instead

If Valve isn’t going to bring us Left 4 Dead 3 any time soon, we’ll just have to get our zombie game fix elsewhere, and Mann Versus Zombies is looking like just what I need. This total-conversion mod for Team Fortress 2 transforms the multiplayer shooter into a gradually escalating horde survival experience akin to…

Box Art Brawl – Bubsy In Claws Encounters Of The Furred Kind (SNES)

Feature “Stop Tagging Us About Bubsy!” – Fabraz On Being Bullied Into Reviving A Maligned Mascot “We were blown away by the reception” News Bubsy 4D Gets A Free Demo, Available Now On Switch 1 & 2 Get rolling North America Image: Accolade / Launchbox So this is almost certainly the most recognisable box art…