Author: Vikki Blake

Once again, Helldivers 2 has raised its concurrent player cap, this time to 800,000 players. Arrowhead Game Studios’ CEO and Helldivers 2’s creative director Johan Pilestedt confirmed the cap had been increased over the weekend whilst thanking the “studio of ~100 devs” for their “amazing achievement”. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage…

Indie dev Firenut Games has confirmed its upcoming “dark horror adventure game”, Shines Over: The Damned, will be coming “exclusively” to PS5 later this year. With no name, no weapons, and no teammates, you will be forced into a “mysterious and terrifying world” with nowt but your trusty dog for company, who will “guide you…

Halo co-creator and Battlefield game director Marcus Letho has left EA. Letho – who had been heading up Seattle-based Ridgeline Games, an EA studio dedicated to the Battlefield franchise – has seemingly scrubbed all mentions of Battlefield and EA from their social media bio, as well as updated their LinkedIn to state they’ve now left…

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been nominated across five categories at the Gayming Awards. Taking to social media, Larian confirmed its fan-favourite RPG has been nominated for Best LGBTQ Character, Authentic Representation, Gaying Magazine Readers’ Award, Industry Diversity Award, and Game of the Year. Indie adventure game Thirsty Suitors pulls up right on Baldur’s Gate 3’s…

Rainbow Six Siege’s creative director seemingly doesn’t have any plans for a sequel. Talking at today’s Siege Invitational 2024 in Brazil, Alexander Karpazis said that having watched other live services games “go through sequels” and “just completely drop the ball”, the team would rather “build up” the fan-favourite shooter instead of making a new one.…

Once Human – a multiplayer open-world supernatural survival game coming to PC and mobile devices – is running a fresh beta test from 28th March, 2024. “Once Human is an SCP-inspired multiplayer open-world survival game, where teams of players use firearms and supernatural abilities to survive against the unknowable and powerful Aberrant creatures that threaten…

If you like the look of Dying Light 2: Stay Human but have yet to pull the trigger, I have good news – for one weekend only, Techland is letting PC players jump into the game for free. Showing off the “Reloaded Edition” in “all its glory”, the free trial runs from now until 6pm…

Despite claims it is a “quadruple-A” live-service experience, Skull and Bones’s user Metacritic score has taken a pummelling since the pirate ship game was released on Friday, 16th February. Based on the 222 user scores recorded to date, Skull and Bones’ user score is sitting at just 2.8 out of 10, making it the lowest-rated…

It looks like a demo for Dragon’s Dogma 2 could be on the way. According to a recent Steam update – and spotted by the eagle-eyed community on the Dragon’s Dogma subreddit – an update to Steam’s backend hints that a mysterious “unknown app” was added to Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Steam listing. Furthermore, the app…

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead says it has had to “cap” concurrent players to around 450,000 to “further improve server stability”. In a message posted to the game’s Discord community, the team said it was “working around the clock to solve” the issue, and whilst it’s been able to “mitigate” some of the causes, it was…