Author: Vikki Blake

Silent Hill 2 Remake has been rated in Korea. The highly-anticipated horror game – one of gaming’s worst-kept secrets before it was formally revealed back in October 2022 – has been given a mature rating due to, as translated by Google, “excessive violence, excessive blood from hitting and being hit (and there is physical damage…

Red Barrels has opened up about what’s next for its deliciously gory cooperative horror, The Outlast Trials. In a Q&A posted to YouTube, director Alex Charbonneau and community manager Rosie Sarno explor how the game has changed between its early access release in May 2023 and the 1.0 update, which rolled out earlier this week,…

Deviation Games has closed down. Whilst the closure has not been formally announced by partner PlayStation or the studio itself, members of the team have taken to social media and their professional profiles to confirm the “closure” of the studio last week. Newscast: Why are there so many games industry layoffs? Newscast: Why are there…

A 45-minute demo of the upcoming PS5 exclusive, Stellar Blade, was added quietly to the PlayStation Store earlier today. Just half an hour after it went live, however, the free trial – which had not been formally announced or advertised – was mysteriously pulled offline again. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage…

Tropic Haze – the company behind the emulation software Yuzu – has responded to Nintendo’s summons that accuses the company of “illegally circumventing Nintendo’s software encryption”. Earlier this week, Ed reported Nintendo was suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu, claiming more than one million copies of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom were pirated ahead…

Greedfall 2: The Dying World will launch in early access. Citing the game’s ambition as a reason, producer Reda Isber explained in a recent livestream that the team would be “relying heavily” on the feedback of players during the early access period to ensure development was “heading in the right direction”. The team also alerted…

Helldivers 2 creative director has hit back at fans pitting the Helldivers 2 franchise against Halo, saying we “need more compassion and union in the world, and less rivalry.” Responding to the rivalry on X/Twitter, Arrowhead Game Studios’ CEO and Helldivers 2’s creative director, Johan Pilestedt, said that we should just “let gamers love and…

Amazon Prime’s original Fallout show is “almost like Fallout 5”. That’s according to showrunner Jonathan Nolan, who told Total Film that it was the idea of telling an original story set in the Fallout universe that got Bethesda and the team “most excited” about the idea of a TV Show. “From the first conversation with…

According to SteamDB, Starfield’s Steam listing was recently updated, adding an “unknown app” to the Steam backend that’s widely speculated to be the Shattered Space DLC. Whilst there’s been no formal word that the new content – which was bundled in with premium editions of the game – is coming any time soon, similar “unknown…