Author: Vikki Blake

A rating for Prison Architect 2 has popped up in Korea. At the time of writing, a sequel to Introversion Software’s wildly popular management sim has not been formally announced, yet Prison Architect 2 has been rated as suitable for “juvelines” by Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee. Prison Architect: Future Tech Pack –…

A Switch rating for Borderlands Collection: Pandora’s Box has popped up in Germany. Right now, the collection is only available on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, and has not yet been confirmed for Switch, which only received a Borderlands 3 port back in October, four years after the threequel was released on other platforms. To see…

To celebrate The Sims 4’s upcoming expansion pack, For Rent, EA is inviting you to “become the ultimate property mogul” and join Llandgraab & Sons Estate Agents for a day to sample what it’s like to be on the other end of a tenancy agreement. On 7th and 8th December 2023, the fictitious agency…

Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch. According to a patent filed in July and published publicly just last week – snappily entitled “systems and methods of dynamically modifying video game content based on non-video game content being concurrently experienced by a user” – Activision wants to keep track…

A canny Stardew Valley player has devised an intriguing way of decorating the in-game spa thanks to a little-known bug that lets players access their inventory out of bounds. By spamming weapon attacks, ItsJinosaur has been able to fully customise the bathhouse/spa, arguably one of Stardew’s most overlooked, and under-used, landmarks. Getting started in Stardew…

Respawn says it has “resolved” the issues that scuppered its recent rollout of cross-progression on Apex Legends. In a message posted to social media, Respawn said that as the issues have now been addressed, it will continue “rolling out more waves over the next few days” but advised players not to unlink their Play Apex…

Two as yet unannounced Borderlands games have appeared on the LinkedIn profile of a former Gearbox employee. A former studio technical director who had previously worked at Lost Boys Interactive on a three-month contract has included references to Borderlands 4 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderland 2 on their professional profile, even though neither game has been…

A Felix the Cat collection has popped up on the ESRB website. As spotted by the Nintendo Switch subreddit, the collection – in which players “traverse 2D pixellated environments using gadgets and vehicles to defeat small cartoony creatures” – looks to be coming to PC, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch. Sadly, there’s no mention of…

Warner Bros. has denied claims its upcoming Wonder Woman project will be a live-service game. A recent job listing for Warner Bros. and developer Monolith Productions’ upcoming Wonder Woman game sought a ‘Lead Software Engineer, Gameplay’, with “live software product or game” experience listed as a “nice to have”. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, this…

Infinity Ward has opened a “brand new studio” in Austin, Texas. Confirmation came via a recruitment advertisement on Activision’s own website, in which the developer put out a call to recruit an “expert UI engineer” to work on Call of Duty at the new studio. “Founded in 2002, Infinity Ward is the original studio behind…