Author: Matt Wales

Rockstar Games and publisher Take-Two Interactive have narrowed GTA 6’s release window from the previously announced “2025” to “fall” of next year. Take-Two shared the news during its Q4 2024 earnings report, saying it was “highly confident that Rockstar Games will deliver an unparalleled entertainment experience”. “Our expectations for the commercial impact…

American Truck Simulator’s determined trundle across the picturesque highways and byways of the United States continues this week with the launch of its latest paid expansion – and 15th explorable state – Nebraska, on 16th May. Nebraska was revealed to be in the works last August, bringing American Truck Simulator’s current tally of…

The Sims 4 is preparing for a summer of slinky, sexy free and paid updates according to its newly revealed roadmap, starting with a refreshed batch of swimsuits today. There’s not a huge amount to report on the free swimsuit refresh – they now come in more colours and varieties to better suit…

Developer Hinterland has announced its much-loved snowy survival hit The Long Dark will, all being well, get the fifth instalment of its paid Tales from the Far Territory expansion in the “second half of June” – adding, among other things, a cougar to pursue players all over the map and a way to cheat…

Absurd Ventures, the media company established by Rockstar Games co-founder and creative director Dan Houser following his departure from the Grand Theft Auto developer in 2020, is working on an “open world action-adventure”. Absurd Ventures was formally unveiled last June, with a mission statement of “building narrative worlds, creating characters, and writing stories…

Sony has announced its PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games for May, with Rockstar’s acclaimed cowboy epic Red Dead Redemption 2 leading the charge. The latest batch of additions for PlayStation Plus Extra subscribers will be available to download from 21st May, and are as follows: Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4) Deceive Inc.…

Ubisoft has cancelled its upcoming free-to-play shooter The Division Heartland, as it moves to refocus its resources on “bigger opportunities”. The Division Heartland was announced for PC and consoles back in May 2021, when it was original set to launch within a vague “2021-22” release window. Since then, it’s resurfaced intermittently, and an…

Following a flurry of pre-announcement leaks, Ubisoft has shared first official details of its feudal Japan-set Assassin’s Creed Shadows – including confirmation of its 15th November release date and information on its various “premium” editions, a physical collector’s edition, and a season pass giving access to two post-launch expansions and an exclusive quest. …

Bleak realism meets absurdist fairytale in a stylish, surreal, and astonishingly surefooted – if mechanically unadventurous – exploration of faith, free will, and demonic temptation. Indika, unhelpfully for a desperately devout Orthodox nun in early 19th Century Russia, is in communion with the Devil. Or maybe she just isn’t as piously pure of thought as…

It’s been a funny few weeks for Helldivers 2; one day it was riding high on its well-deserved success, the next it was being reviewed bombed into oblivion after Sony decided to foist mandatory PSN accounts on PC players. But now that drama is starting to subside following a dramatic U-turn, all thoughts have…