Author: Tom Phillips

Like the crew of Still Wakes The Deep’s mysterious oil rig, the creators of next year’s promising British horror game feel like they’ve been a little off the radar. When The Chinese Room fully re-emerges in 2024 with a pair of new releases, it will have been four years since the company’s last game…

Video games publisher Humble Games has announced layoffs at the company. Humble staff members first discussed the layoffs via social media yesterday, as they began looking for new jobs. It’s still unconfirmed how many people are affected. In a statement to Videogames.si, which first reported the layoffs, Humble confirmed it had…

The new Turok 3 remaster has slipped out earlier than planned in Europe and Australia, following confusion over the game’s recently-delayed launch date. For fans here in Europe, this means the game is available now but contains bugs and lacks quality-of-life improvements which developer Nightdive Studios had intended to remedy in the…

Nintendo will hold its next Indie World showcase event today, Tuesday 14th November at 5pm UK time. That’s 9am Pacific or midday Eastern if you live across the pond. A post on X, formerly Twitter, from Nintendo stated that the broadcast would last 20 minutes, and feature “new announcements and updates…

Nintendo has announced a new Nintendo Switch OLED and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle, which also includes three months of Nintendo Switch Online. It’s set to launch next Monday 20th November – just in time for Black Friday – priced €349 at select retailers or direct from Nintendo via the My Nintendo…

Indie darling Outer Wilds finally has a Nintendo Switch release date: 7th December 2023. We’ve been waiting years for the Nintendo Switch edition of the accalaimed sci-fi game to finally arrive – now, it’s less than a month away. Outer Wilds: Archeologist Edition, as this version is known, wraps in…

UK boxed sales for Modern Warfare 3 fell 25 percent short on last year’s Modern Warfare 2 launch. That’s according to UK sales figures shared by numbers company GFK (via GamesIndustry.biz). 80 percent of boxed sales were on PlayStation, with 20 percent on Xbox. The new Modern Warfare 3 marks the first time Activision Blizzard…

The Game Awards 2023 shortlist is now out, and it’s dominated by two games in particular: Baldur’s Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2. Both titles are up for eight prizes, including Game of the Year, Best Game Direction and Best Narrative. Best Indie Game nominees include Cocoon, Dave the Diver,…

The newly-launched Modern Warfare 3 still lacks a number of multiplayer maps this week, after developer Activision was forced to pull them from rotation soon after the game launched. Quarry, Rundown and Scrapyard were removed from the game’s Hardpoint playlists last Thursday, 9th November, after players complained. In a post on its…

Unannounced football game Lego 2K Goooal! has leaked yet again, this time with official artwork via a listing on the PlayStation Store. It’s the first time we’ve got an impression of how the game will look, with fantasy Lego characters such as a knight and a pirate with a peg-leg, and what…