Author: Tom Phillips

A mysterious tease from Returnal developer Housemarque Studios has promised an imminent announcement from the studio behind the hugely-popular PlayStation and PC roguelike. Housemarque posted a black-and-white teaser image to social media platform X this morning. It shows a pair of eyes peering through what looks like fractured glass, captioned with a single…

The dinky yellow Playdate handheld has plenty of odd games already – but here’s an even odder proposition we thought we’d never see: WipEout. Yes, that WipEout, of PlayStation fame. Except not quite. For starters, this version of Psygnosis’ classic retro racer is based on rewritten code that has been floating…

Steam hit Manor Lords shifted 1m copies in its first 24 hours, publisher Hooded Horse has said. The medieval city builder/strategy hybrid was always likely to do well, being one of Steam’s most-wishlisted games. Last Friday, on the night of its release, the game had more than 156,000 people playing. Last night,…

Yesterday’s long-awaited Fallout 4 “next-gen” update is now available to download on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S – but has so far received a mixed response from fans. It was sadly to be expected that the update would break compatibility with a large number of Fallout 4 mods – and…

Animal Crossing’s musical pooch KK Slider takes centre stage in a second wave of Lego sets themed around Nintendo’s relaxed life sim series. KK, Isabelle and Audie minifigures are included in a new town hall set which also features an RV and a small café stand. (Brewster minifigure when?!) A second…

Meta is continuing to plough billions of dollars into its AR/VR division Reality Labs, despite losses of more than $1bn every month for most of the last two years. The Facebook and Meta Quest owner’s latest launch is a refreshed range of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which shrink the company’s hardware into a pair…

Switch 2 will feature Joy-Con controllers that connect to the main console using magnets, a new report suggests. Citing sources from accessory manufacturers, Spanish site Vandal states that the Switch 2 Joy-Con will stick to the console itself magnetically, rather than use the fiddly rail system of the current Switch and Switch OLED. …

Bungie has announced it will remove all power limits from legacy gear in Destiny 2, a major decision for fans and the final step in a now-complete U-turn on the controversial decision made four years ago. The decision to cap the power of Destiny 2 weapons – prodding players into the pursuit of…

Pokémon Go has quietly added Wigglet, the white-coloured and suspiciously-shaped species similar to Digglet that debuted in Nintendo Switch games Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and raised a lot of eyebrows. Wigglet’s introduction to Pokémon Go has been unusually low-key, with no official announcement of its appearance in the game on the official site.…

It’s unlikely we’ll see widespread emulation of GameCube or Wii games via emulators on the iPhone App Store, a new report suggests, despite Apple giving the green light to emulation for games from earlier Nintendo consoles. This isn’t because these games are free from copyright, or because of Apple’s vague stance that “retro”…