Author: Vikki Blake

DreadXP has confirmed its upcoming retro psychological survival horror game, Heartworm, will be released in 2025. Designed for people who “love early console-era survival horror games with cinematic fixed camera angles and low-fidelity visuals”, Heartworm is described as “a nostalgia-wrapped nightmare with a compelling narrative that tackles themes of grief and obsession, supported by a…

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has apologised for ongoing server “capacity issues” and says it is working to “increase server capacity to accommodate all”. Following a pledge to give all players a 50 per cent XP and requisition bonus to compensate for “a problem” that’s giving out incorrect rewards at the end of missions, Helldivers 2’s…

Microsoft is reportedly set to slash more than a hundred jobs at Activision Blizzard’s Cork office. As first reported in the Irish Examiner, minister for foreign affairs, or Tánaiste, Michéal Martin – who raised the issue in the Dáil, the Irish government – revealed that 136 of the approximately 200 jobs in Blackpool, Cork, were…

Palworld developer Pocketpair insists it has no reason to be alarmed about the hit game’s dwindling player count. As Palworld’s 24-hour concurrent Steam count peaks at around 535,000 players – a fair fall from the 2.1 million simultaneous players Pocketpair secured the weekend Palworld launched – community manager “Bucky” stated in a statement on Twitter…

Digital Extremes’ fan-favourite sci-fi RPG, Warframe, is coming to iOS later this month. Courtesy of the game’s recently-launched cross-play and cross-save systems, players will be able to use – and switch between – platforms, which DE says offers the “same expansive, high-quality” experience on Apple devices as it does on PC and consoles. Players can…

Helldivers 2 is awarding all players a 50 per cent XP and requisition bonus to compensate players for “a problem” that’s preventing players from receiving the correct rewards at the end of missions. In a statement posted to X/Twitter, deputy game director Sagar explained that whilst the team was still “working on a fix for…

Journey developer ThatGameCompany has announced a “beautifully curated” book to celebrate the art of its 2019 “social adventure game”, Sky: Children of the Light. Set to launch on 22nd April, The Art of Sky will be an “extraordinary visual odyssey” and feature over 250 pages of ThatGameCompany’s “trademark artistic excellence”. STAR Feature Reveal! The Art…

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady has confirmed that addressing its login and server issues remain the team’s “top priority”, but warned that it may “not be able to fix all those issues right away”. In a statement posted to the official website, Rocksteady said it could “hear and feel your frustration” about…

Nintendo Switch 2 will be backwards compatible. That’s according to Universo Nintendo, a Portuguese website that claims the Switch 2 will not only have backwards compatibility with Switch titles currently available on Nintendo’s handheld system, but developers will also be able to “enhance” these games thanks to the additional processing power. To see this content…

Helldivers 2 creative director and Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt believes games should “earn the right to monetise”, adding that whilst players are welcome to “support this title” by buying microtransactions, Arrowhead is “never forcing anyone to do so”. The comments come in an X/Twitter thread in which Pilestedt responded to a tweet in which a…