Here’s 10 more minutes of the most interesting game shown at this year’s Opening Night Live

I was largely nonplussed by Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, particularly its relentless barrage of identikit fantasy action games that I struggled to tell apart. But one game stood out like a rat-powered computer in an elven glade, and that was Ontos, Frictional Games’ latest horror adventure/existential crisis generator. The Gamescom trailer was a barrage of…

Until Dawn 2 Trailer Shows Character Dynamics – Sep 3, 2026

Plenty of spiritual sequels to Until Dawn have released from the developer of the original game, Supermassive Games, but this is the first proper sequel to the original 2015 game. It is, however, coming from a new developer, Firesprite. The latest trailer shows off some of the difficult decisions players will make and teases how…

Nic Cage’s Spider-Noir Cancelled After One Season

Looks like it’s the big sleep for the latest Spider-Man spinoff. That’s right, Spider-Noir has been rubbed out, see. Bit the big one. And I ain’t talking about no bug. Despite some acclaim, Amazon MGM will not be renewing Nicolas Cage’s anachronistic arachnid. Lights out. Curtains. The big rolled up newspaper. Continuing his capers from…

Riot Games knows its MMO is a big risk. “But f*** it, it’s The Grail, so let’s go.”

There’s no other genre as scary to tackle as the MMO. The most successful MMORPGs – the likes of World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy 14, OSRS, Guild Wars 2, EVE Online – sit atop an ever-growing mountain of failures and cancellations. Even FF14 once had to discard its own corpse upon the pile to take…

GTA Cheat Codes Taught a Generation How Much Fun It Is to Break a Video Game

I have a confession to make: I have never played a Grand Theft Auto game without cheating my way through it. I knew the code to unlock every weapon in GTA 3 so well at the time that I’m confident I could input it on muscle memory alone if you put a controller in my…

Square Enix Announces Tokyo Game Show 2026 Games Lineup

Image: Square Enix The 2026 Tokyo Game Show takes place between 17th – 21st September 2026, and alongside multiple other developers, Square Enix has now revealed its own lineup for the event. According to its official website, it will feature the following new and existing titles at this year’s exhibition: Along with this, the exhibition…

Grand Theft Auto VI Limited Edition DualSense – Sep 3, 2026

Alongside a bevy of video game reveals from PlayStation today, the State of Play also gave us a brief look at two new DualSense controller designs themed around the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.  With the big game set to release on November 19, the new PlayStation designs should offer players a way to…

Promising Konami PlayStation 5 RPG Gets Release Date Window

An awaited and highly promising PlayStation 5 RPG from Konami has finally received a release window. The brand-new game is being developed by a Tokyo-based team at ILCA. Announced earlier this year during the PlayStation State of Play, Konami’s Rev Noir will release in 2027 for PS5, alongside Xbox Series X|S and PC, reports Gematsu….

Ex-BioWare designer says doom and gloom about the next Mass Effect is overstated: ‘I think that they can do it’

Given that Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda were widely considered disappointments, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard had a divisive reception, there’s a certain amount of skepticism about the Mass Effect game BioWare is currently working on. Some have even suggested it might not come out at all. Armando Troisi, a cinematic designer on the Mass…

Granblue Fantasy Relink Company Announces New Publishing Label Aimed At Releasing Smaller Games Faster

While many of Cygames’ recent titles have been subject to favorable reviews and positive reception from fans, including Umamusume: Pretty Derby and Granblue Fantasy Relink, it is also true that many of its games have undergone public, lengthy delays in apparent searches for perfection. In the hope of being able to release more games unburdened…