Bithell Games Reveals Vampirium: 1997, An Immersive Sim Where You Work As An Assassin For Dracula

Bithell Games, creators of games such as Volume, John Wick Hex, and Tron: Catalyst, has announced a new immersive sim called Vampirium:1997. The game takes place in an England ruled by Dracula, with players controlling an assassin tasked with eliminating threats to his vampiric empire.   The minimalist point-and-click gameplay challenges players to infiltrate living…

Bethesda HR Forced Staff To Remove Small Memorial To Laid-Off Colleagues

Earlier this week, Xbox began yet another large wave of layoffs across its various divisions and studios, which included many layoffs at Bethesda studios. But when folks at the main Bethesda Games Studio in Maryland tried to pay tribute to their laid-off colleagues via a small memorial, HR allegedly told them to remove it, according…

Emote RNG codes (July 2026)

Use our Emote RNG codes to boost your luck when rolling for the trendiest emotes to show off to your friends. Whether you’re grooving to Doja Cat or whatever meme song is popular right now, there are always thousands of emotes to collect, and you’ll need our help to grab the rarest ones. We look…

Pokemon Winds And Waves Could Have 300 New Pokemon, But Don’t Get Too Excited

Pokemon Winds and Waves won’t be out until 2027, but it looks like a few Poke-leaks are already surfacing. The Switch 2 exclusive is the next mainline entry in the series, and like previous games before it, it’ll introduce a whole new region populated with unique Pokemon. Just how many new Pokemon will there be?…

Switch Online Subscriber? Delivery From Nintendo Store Is Now Practically Free (Europe)

Image: Nintendo Life If you’re a paid Nintendo Switch Online subscriber, Nintendo has just added another neat little benefit. Starting today, NSO subscribers purchasing items over £1 on the Nintendo Store will now be eligible for free standard delivery (within 3-4 days of dispatch). In addition, you’ll also get free express delivery (within 1-2 days…

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Review – More Of Everything Is Permitted

After well over a dozen mainline entries, Black Flag remains one of the most fondly remembered in the long canon of Assassin’s Creed entries. It’s little surprise that Ubisoft chose this installment for a robust reenvisioning. While not a fundamental remake of the original 2013 game, Resynced is also far more than the standard remaster…

Mario Kart Tour Will Be Gone Forever September 29

Nintendo’s mobile success story Mario Kart Tour has been very slowly winding down for the better part of three years now. Despite a moment of respite last July, the game has mostly been left fallow for a long while, and we now know that come September 29 it’ll be ending for good. “We sincerely thank the…

Past Midnight: building the next era of World of Warcraft

Lauren spends most of her time dead in League of Legends, or equally as dead in Valorant. Don’t ask her about Vampire: The Masquerade. Published: July 8, 2026 Game Director Ion Hazzikostas is, perhaps, the perfect person to ask about World of Warcraft. Having joined Blizzard in 2008, he’s spent almost 18 years working on…

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced review roundup: Remake fatigue has set in

Critics are unanimous: Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, first released in 2013, is a great game, one of the very best in Ubisoft’s massively popular series. And most of them are happy to have it back in a new remake, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. But they’re divided on the quality of the remake, and…

Black Flag Resynced release date and launch times

Black Flag Resynced, the much-anticipated remake of the classic pirate-themed Assassin’s Creed installment, is set to release shortly, letting us revisit Edward Kenway, kill a million British soldiers, and sink a navy’s worth of ships. It’s all in the name of plunder, though. The remake is visually quite impressive, but there’s also a bunch of…