Author: Vikki Blake

Silent Hill: The Short Message shows glimmers of the classic horror series at its best – despite the very heavy-handed metaphor, a frustrating chase sequence, and the long shadow of P.T. Content Warning: Silent Hill: The Short Message contains explicit and continual themes and references to self-harm, suicide ideation, child neglect, and child abuse. While…

The Pokémon Company has confirmed it will re-stock the infamous Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat card in a bid to defeat scalpers that sold the free card for hundreds of pounds. The card was initially a free add-on for Pokémon customers, given out at a rate of one card for each item in the Van…

Konami is releasing a collection of Yu-Gi-Oh! games for Switch and PC via Steam. Right now the publisher is holding back on what, exactly, the collection will comprise of, but did tease the names of two games that will be joining the bundle: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of the Great Duelist and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel…

The Last of Us Part 2 was originally designed as an open-world action game that was heavily inspired by Bloodborne. Confirmation came via co-game director Anthony Newman, who revealed during in the fantastic behind-the-scenes documentary, Grounded 2: Making The Last of Us Part 2, that for the first four or five months of development, The…

Pocketpair is spending around half a million dollars a month – that’s around £378,000 – to keep its sleeper-hit Palworld’s servers online. In a tweet, Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe posted a snippet of how the cost of servers have changed since the game launched just a few short weeks ago, joking – I hope, anyway…

The voice actor who played Abby in The Last of Us Part 2 has revealed that not only did she receive abusive messages when the game was released, but abusers also sent death threats about her infant son, too. Talking in the fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary, Grounded 2: Making The Last of Us Part 2, Laura…

EA has apologised to FC 24 fans after a bugged challenge accidentally awarded thousands of players an incredibly expensive and hard-to-get TOTY player. According to a blog posted on the official website, it seems that for 24 minutes on 30th January, players partaking in the new Squad Builder Challenges (SBC) had a spectacularly high chance…

Konami is reportedly “potentially porting” the Silent Hill series to contemporary consoles. That’s according to one of five short documentaries Konami published on YouTube the night it shadow-dropped The Short Message. In the fourth video, a level designer who worked on the highly-anticipated (and long rumoured) playable teaser revealed that Konami had originally reached out…

Microsoft’s next console release may lag behind Sony’s due to a delay in signing contracts with technology partner AMD. That’s according to podcaster Moore’s Law is Dead, who stated earlier this week that Microsoft was “seriously, seriously shopping around with Intel and even NVIDIA apparently for their next-gen console”. Intel bidding for Next Gen XBOX,…