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LEVEL-5 has released a full playthrough of the Tokyo Game Show 2026 demo for puzzle …

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has praised Xbox's ongoing "streamlining" under Xbox CEO Asha Sharma just days after another round of layoffs hit the division. Read more

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• Microsoft CEO says Xbox's 'streamlining' process is 'great to see' following its most recent round of layoffs

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  Satya Nadella says that Microsoft has to "invent the right business model" to deliver gaming to "more and more people".

"Todd, from my time there, he is very protective of it."

LEVEL-5 has released a full playthrough of the Tokyo Game Show 2026 demo for “ghost …

In celebration of the 40th(!!) anniversary of Castlevania, Konami is giving away the original 1986 game for free on the App Store and Google Play. Read more

Bloodborne.

LEVEL-5 has released a full playthrough of the Tokyo Game Show 2026 demo for crime …

Video game database MobyGames will let developers claim video game credits and customise their personal portfolios, albeit only via a new premium tier. Read more

You absolutely do not need it. I feel obliged to note this.

LEVEL-5 has released a full playthrough of the Tokyo Game Show 2026 demo for action …

A US District Judge has granted Nintendo a £3.4 million ($4.5m) default judgment against James Williams, the former Reddit moderator known online as "Archbox", after he failed to respond to a la...

Miraculous rolls, insane GMs, tables being flipped over—I want it all.

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie's still pretending to be a vampire, Kelsey's been breeding an army of cats,...

Skyrim's main quest is better than most of its sidequests

"We still love this game."

Age of Empires and Blizzard's RTS offer a playbook for how to keep the nostalgia fires burning.

Here are my five favorite features from the sewing game.

The Polish developer believes the tank to be "one of the most expensive art assets ever."

"It's, in a way, too bad".

Stop readin' and start watchin'.

The cure for missing old electronics

Konami had the best booth at TGS 2 years in a row

Clear as mud.

In Full Bloom is a sort of creepy-feeling Tamagotchi-style game where there is a giant… creature… which simply needs to eat and eat until it’s eaten enough to get off this strange......

"The game coming to an end almost feels like grief. There is an emptiness and sense of loss that I don't know how to fill..."

Meta’s VR Glasses are aimed at a customer I’m not sure exists, unless we are counting "bored people at the airport."

Hey! I hope you're getting ready to have a good weekend or whatever, but did you see that we announced the next Game Informer cover? It's Grand Theft Auto VI, baby. We have a 14-page story with exclus...

When is a Tiger not a Tiger?Another unrealised arcade port is one step closer to reality, as Capcom's challenging 1987 arcade actioner Black Tiger is currently being converted to the Sega Mega Drive/G...

Publisher SEGA and developer RGG Studio have released a new gameplay video for 50-year action …

Skyrim launched almost 15 years ago while The Elder Scrolls 6 is still marinating over at Bethesda Game Studios. Even so, Bethesda apparently never considered having an outside team develop a spin-off...

The Wardogs grind is real, and kind of exhausting.

The decision was made by vote, and banning won by 53%

Game Informer interviewed the StarCraft team at BlizzCon 2026 about the open-world shooter and asked our biggest questions about the game's production. Lead developers Dan Hay and AnaLee Haertling sha...

(Not Dragon Ball, Please Don't Sue).QuByte Interactive has announced Thunder Hoop Collection, bringing together two of the 1990s' weirdest and most obscure run 'n' gun arcade release: Thunder Hoop (19...

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Bandai Namco Aces have released a five-minute overview trailer for …

Resident Evil Requiem is still doing bonkers business while elongating Capcom's generational win streak, but the new big-screen reboot didn't make as big of an impact on game sales as you might expect...

Complete the last puzzle in Silent Hill: Townfall.

"It wasn’t about pulling together the evidence. It wasn’t about doing the research. That was done pretty early on"

This week on The Game Informer Show, Marcus joins the Video Vans to discuss his review of Control Resonant. Did it resonate with us, and does he think the day-one patch will affect early impressions o...

Update: The chip has shortcomings elsewhere, it seems.Retroid caused a bit of a kerfuffle recently when it announced the Pocket Duo Lite Plus shortly after opening pre-orders for the Pocket Duo and Po...

Side-scrolling Metroidvania game sequel Nocturnal II will launch for PC via Steam on November 10, …

Control Resonant's upside down world is out now, but Remedy Entertainment's not done with the RPG just yet. The Alan Wake and Max Payne maker has detailed some of its post-launch plans for the game, w...

I think I have to play this game about running a pizza shop as a front for the mafia because I once lived near a pizza shop that I swear was a front for the mafia

Grand Theft Auto VI is the biggest game of the year, decade, and quite possibly of all time, and it’s gracing the cover of Game Informer this month. I spoke with several lead designers at Rockstar Gam...

Bleeding Hearts.With the Fall season creeping in, there's no better way to spend the dark, early evenings than with a dose of Survival Horror, and DreadXP has console players covered: spooky indie adv...

RideonJapan has announced Mercenaries Grace: Black Feather and the Golden Right Arm, the latest entry …

Ubisoft Milan, the studio behind the acclaimed Mario + Rabbids games, reportedly came close to making a Zelda spin-off starring the series' biggest villain, Ganondorf, instead of regular protagonist L...

It's actually on sale for $4 at the moment.

Few video game openings make the impression City Escape does in Sonic Adventure 2. After jumping out of a helicopter, Sonic uses a piece of debris to snowboard down the city streets as the generationa...

'Are you devious enough to beat Xevious?'.Here's something a little out of the ordinary for you: a member of the preservationist group Gaming Alexandria, called Jumpman, has just discovered a long-los...

Publisher Good Smile Company and developer Monochrome Corporation have announced new fantasy intellectual property IGNISPHERE, …

Embark Studios has announced a new matchmaking test for Arc Raiders that'll allow players to opt into a PvE version featuring none of the usual player-versus-player violence. It's the developer's res...

The future's so bright you gotta wear shades.

Reviewed on: PlayStation 5...

From the makers of Bounder and Rick Dangerous.It's a great day to be a C64 fan, as legendary publisher Thalamus Digital has released a brand-new title for the world's greatest bread bin. Binky: Frozen...

Artdink has announced A-Train 9 PRIME LINE, the “ultimate edition” of its city-building simulation game …

Sound the alarm! Alert your loved ones! Nearly 18 years after its original announcement, Beyond Good & Evil 2 apparently still isn't dead, according to a Ubisoft Bordeaux developer who says he's been...

It could signal an imminent update.

Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, PC Publisher: Aniplex Developer: Meteorise, Type-Moon Release:...

"I’m wrapping up my time at Antstream at the end of the year".Subscription-based streaming service Antstream has made headlines recently for both good and bad reasons.On the positive side of things, t...

Konami has released the original Castlevania, first released for Nintendo Entertainment System, for iOS via …

CD Projekt Red has shared some insight into Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's fantastic Chimera tank boss fight, explaining it took two years to get the complicated sequence right. Read more

"I realistically was thinking maybe 5k at best," says the maker of ragdoll physics game Happy Wheels.

Nintendo Switch 2 Game Card Coming Soon.Red Art Games, in collaboration with Konami, has released physical editions of Super Bomberman Collection, which launched digitally on PC and console platforms...

Last week brought reports of further layoffs at Build A Rocket Boy, the beleaguered studio behind the poorly received 2025 shooter MindsEye. In the wake of that news, the company - which has repeatedl...

My first MMO character #8: Mollie Taylor

Fangs for the memories.Castlevania turns 40 this month, and to celebrate, Konami unveiled its plans to mark the milestone, including a potential tease for a 3D collection (according to fans, at least)...

I've had an on-and-off relationship with World of Warcraft ever since I first booted it up in my early teens. I love the size of the world, the joy of exploration, the kick from getting a purple drop...

The Guinness World Recordholder for oldest female Fortnite streamer says her one goal is "to go in and eliminate folk."

"Something I absolutely did not need today".Once upon a time, the Oliver Twins were respected as creative forces in the UK 'bedroom' coding scene. The siblings created Dizzy, one of the most instantly...

Is Sony having second thoughts about ending PlayStation disc support? The question has arisen following a report that says Sony sent "a bigger survey than they've sent almost ever before" to developer...

Blizzard devs are having to manually go through a list to flag the names that aren't allowed.

Bungie has announced drastic changes coming to its struggling shooter Marathon, including a shift away from its extraction roots in the coming months. The new mission statement? Making more "approacha...

The studio reportedly had big plans, but nothing in production.

Cyberpunk shop sim Probably Stolen is coming out next month, but the demo alone could easily keep you busy until then.

It's not fun to play and yet I had a great time

Apple quietly rolled back a tiny unofficial feature of one of its best computers when the storage crisis is at its worst.

Publisher Critical Reflex was founded six years ago and has since curated one of the most unique, strange, and interesting game catalogs. If I had to guess, the game that put Critical Reflex into your...

RISCy Business.A modder has given new life to a project left on Atari's cutting room floor some 35 years ago. Using the Atari Jaguar hardware as its base, Homebrewer Clint Thomson has constructed an O...

Publisher and developer Square Enix, and developer TOSE have released new information and screenshots for …

I've had a hunch ever since playing The Blood of Dawnwalker that its divisive time limit feature - whereby you have 30 in-game days and nights to save your character's family from a nasty pack of vamp...

Action-packed business update

Ace Attorney fans have been hoping for the announcement of a new entry for many years now, but today, we got a surprise instead. Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR is a virtual reality version of the fif...

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• The Long Wait For Ace Attorney 7 Continues, As 'Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR' Announced

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  Fans inevitably shout, "OBJECTION!".It's just been announced that we're getting a new Ace Attorney game next year.Rather than a brand new entry, however, it appears this new game will instead be a VR...

Arrives this November.Amazon MGM's upcoming movie on the life of NFL legend John Madden will also cover the creation of the best-selling series of Madden video games.Directed by David O. Russell—who i...

The Switch version of Kowloon’s Gate: Suzaku will launch on October 29, developer JETMAN announced. …

It's been another difficult week for Xbox and the many studios it operates, as a second wave of layoffs has ripped through the company. The saddest news surrounds the impending closure of Hellblade st...

The court entered a default judgement in favor of Nintendo

Control Resonant launches today, and the game’s first update will address one of its biggest pre-release criticisms: its enemies take too long to defeat, and protagonist Dylan Faden feels too weak. Wh...

Overclocking can now be toggled in-game.Analogue has released another firmware update for its Analogue 3D console, and this one adds the ability to toggle overclocking within the game itself.Another w...

505 Games parent company Digital Bros has discontinued development on Armed Fantasia: To the End …

Rockstar Games has announced a limited Goodtime State Vice City collection of goodies for Grand Theft Auto 6 that's ludicrously expensive - £349 - doesn't include a copy of the game, and is pre-...

The release of Sonic Mania in 2017 signaled to many fans that Sega and the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise were listening to fans. Announced as part of the series' 25th anniversary in 2016, the title was...

Cue Bananarama.All Moyses know two things: Fish and Karate. Well, three things: Fish, Karate, and Hamster Archives. Except without the Karate. Or the Fishing. What I'm essentially saying is that the N...

Roguelite rhythm action game Alpha Nomos will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC …

After first hearing about Roman Sands Re:Build, and following along with bits of its development over the last few years, it's been a real ride getting to sit down with it; the demo from a couple year...

Platform: Publisher: Bloober Team Developer: Broken Mirror Games Rating: Teen Bloober Team...

No more need to call 'The Guy' over.Chronic Concepts has opened orders for a delightful-looking device that replicates the coin-operated slot of classic arcade cabinets, allowing players to use real c...

Rockstar Games has announced “Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection,” …

Tim Schafer - the founder of acclaimed developer Double Fine Productions, and the legendary designer behind the likes of Day of the Tentacle and Psychonauts - has spoken out about his studio's recent...

Reviewed on: PlayStation 5...

There's more than one way to Brick Meta Glasses.As part of its "Meta Connect" event, Meta revealed its new Meta VR Glasses: a lightweight take on virtual reality that seems frankly magical compared to...

Roguelike deckbuilder Deck of Haunts will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Xbox …

In an unusual move, developer id Software's free-to-play shooter Quake Champions is transitioning into a paid product, eight years after its original release. As part of the same move, the Microsoft s...

The PlayStation 5 version of “hyper-realistic driving” game BeamNG.drive will launch in Early Access on …

I'm not sure what's more surprising: that Xbox never had a Platinum Trophy equivalent, that Xbox feels the need to have a Platinum Trophy equivalent, or that it's adding a Platinum Trophy equivalent n...

Cubic Curation.Japanese developer BeXide revealed that its Voxel-based puzzler, Namco Legendary Mountains, will be released on iOS and Android today, following on from its PC and Nintendo Switch relea...

The times when a pair of pants prove newsworthy are tragically rare, and when they are it's usually not a good thing. Thankfully, a community discovery in World of Warcraft: Forever has remedied that....

Tim Cain reflects on the famous piece of Fallout iconography.The post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout has a lot of famous iconography, but I'd argue none more so than Vault Boy.Debuting in the original Fallou...

After announcing the end of Destiny 2 development and laying off almost the game's entire team, Bungie surprised fans earlier this week with news that it's working on "unvaulting" Destiny 2 campaigns,...

Get in the Pit.When the Game Boy Color hit the scene back in 1998, one of Nintendo's first duties was crafting new, full-colour editions of some of the platform's trademark titles. Tetris, The Legend...

Comes with three Evercade carts.Blaze has announced a special Capcom Super Pocket bundle which is exclusive to GameStop in the US.The pack includes the Super Pocket console – which comes pre-loaded wi...

Update: Blaze confirms the previous leak.A reported retail leak suggests that Evercade's December releases will include compilations of two classic series: The Last Ninja and James Pond. The listing w...

Gill passed away this past weekend from cancer, aged 51.Former Software Creations and Cloud Imperium developer David Bone Gill has passed away from cancer, aged 51, his friends and family have announc...

Things were neither better nor simpler for me in 1999, but it was easier to play Star Trek: The Next Generation - Birth of the Federation.

Woodo describes itself as a "cozy diorama puzzle game", in which you have to match a succession of items on the side of your screen to their counterparts in a 3D space. Just drag and drop, o...

One of the bigger additions to Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy in the upcoming finale, Revelation, is the FITS system. This Function-Integrated Tactical Suitwear system allows players t...

Discord delayed the rollout of its controversial age verification system back in February after very loud backlash against the company's plans. Those age checks are now back, but this time, co-founder...

Sniper Dan is a surprisingly cute game where everything is solved with a gun

I got hands-on with Final Fantasy VII Revelation at Tokyo Game Show last week, playing about 25 minutes of the game's first chapter. You can read more about my experience during that preview here, inc...

UPDATE 25/09/26: Halo Studios' esports lead has confirmed December's Halo Fest lives on, despite layoffs sweeping through the rest of the developer. Further updates about the live event might take a l...

Panic and pivot, rinse and repeat

Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC Publisher: Square Enix Developer: Square Enix Release:...

Xbox's massive and still ongoing reorganisation has pushed Obsidian Entertainment under Bethesda's umbrella. Despite the quite drastic corporate shakeup, Bethesda's president is promising folks the ic...

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• Bethesda President Says Obsidian Will Retain ‘Creative Identity’ Despite Becoming Part Of Bethesda

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  "The Obsidian leadership team will continue to lead Obsidian"

The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise turned 35 years old this past summer, and to mark the occasion, iam8bit is hosting a special 35 Years of Speed: The Sonic Art Exhibit across Seattle and Los Angeles th...

As if this season wasn't packed enough with games to play, the acclaimed 'Nemesis system' Lord of the Rings games Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War finally come to Switch 2 later this month. Read mo...

'It's not normal behaviour — not even cosplayers go around biting each other'

Blizzard has hinted at yet another core mechanic in Diablo 5 seemingly inspired by Diablo 2. Notably, the in-development action-RPG will tackle level-scaling differently from the way it's done in Diab...

Former Halo leaders Bonnie Ross and Kiki Wolfkill have added their voices to the chorus of people wishing laid-off Halo Studios employees well after Microsoft's drastic downsizing of the studio yester...

Shift UP CEO Hyung-Tae Kim has spoken about the troubles faced during Stellar Blade's development, including doubts from investors about the game's ability to break even, and rapidly depleting funds t...

Yesterday's Xbox cuts saw organisational restructuring that moved Age of Empires studio World's Edge under Activision's control. The initial announcement did not specify whether the Age of Empire stud...

Star Wars Zero Company, the XCOM-like turn-based tactics game from Bit Reactor, appears to have been a success, selling more than 1m copies, according to estimates from industry analyst Alinea Analyti...

The story director for Gears of War: E-Day has been laid off as part of yesterday's Xbox cuts, barely two weeks before the game he's worked on for more than four years is released. Read more

There's a bit somewhere in the middle of the rubbish Doom movie, where the perspective suddenly switches to first-person. Look, it seems to say, it's just like you playing the video game! But what Zac...

State of Decay studio Undead Labs has shared good and bad news following Xbox's second round of job cuts this year. Read more

Getting into tabletop RPGs is a daunting, intimidating affair; veteran GM Cat Bussell tells you how to get past the gatekeeping, and make the medium your own.

Roblox is messy!

Earlier this year, Xbox performed a massive wave of layoffs, eliminating 1,600 roles and sharing that more cuts would come soon. Today, those cuts have come: Xbox has announced it is laying off 268 ro...

If you're an enjoyer of video game maps, you might like this: celebrated artist and cartographer Francesca Baerald - who's created in-game (and out) maps for Dragon Age, Warcraft, Octopath Traveler, D...

Kinema Citrus' reimagining of The Little Mermaid is your typical queer anime

I own Rayman Legends on six platforms. The game, a 2D platformer that launched back in 2013, initially released onto the PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii U and PS Vita. A year later, it came to Xbox One and PS4...

Pokémon card value is at an all-time high

Following reports that further job cuts were imminent at Xbox, Microsoft has confirmed more sweeping changes as its major restructuring continues. As a result, some Xbox studios will combine, others a...

Xbox cut 268 additional jobs, and brought Obsidian under Bethesda alongside other changes

Ninja Theory - developer of the Hellblade series of games, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, DmC: Devil May Cry, and Heavenly Sword - is entering consultation in preperation for the studio's closure as p...

Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) won't develop the next mainline Halo game because it's being what sounds like drastically reduced in size. Microsoft has instead given development duty to Activi...

Sony appears to be testing a new PlayStation rewards programme. A number of posts on social media and Reddit have recently appeared showing that purchasing certain games from the PlayStation Store now...

UPDATE 4PM BST: Game Developer has reportedly seen an email Blizzard sent to employees that indicates it - or at least the World of Warcraft department - isn't affected by "today's announcements". An...

We now have even more confirmation a new Injustice game is in development. Following last week's playtest leak, information has emerged that sheds more light on the upcoming DC fighting game. Read mor...

World of Warcraft: Forever's beta is here, offering us our first look at WoW's reimagined vanilla or classic experience, and already it's proving extremely popular. But there are points of contention,...

Xbox is reportedly preparing to lay off hundreds more people this week as the company plans to consolidate several of its studios. Read more

Mr. Records puts you into the role of George, an old dreamer who is able to become one with the music that he listens too. After retirement, he has decided to open... The post Own a shop and find rhyt...

It’s been a few months since Bungie ceased active development of Destiny 2, bringing the game’s nine-year lifecycle to an abrupt end and angering many players in the process. Bungie has heard and resp...

Ahead of the bottomless GTA 6 mods we'll surely get whenever the crime epic finally comes to PC, Rockstar Games has imposed new restrictions on the modding community and, boy, they are tight. Read mor...

Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC Publisher: Lyrical Games, One More Level Developer: One More Level Rel...

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire might join their handheld third-generation siblings on a journey to the Nintendo Switch - at least, that's what fans think after an official channel posted what looks...

Reviewed on: PlayStation 5...

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• Silent Hill: Townfall review

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  As I watch the credits roll on Silent Hill: Townfall, it's hard to believe this is the same series that had, until just a few years ago, been neglected into near-irrelevance. Like 2025's excellent Sil...

Bungie's been having a tough time these past few years, but the studio's new leadership is making big promises. Starting with Destiny 2 - the devs will start to let some of the game's older campaigns...

Speaking to Eurogamer, The Blood of Dawnwalker game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has discussed several game improvements coming in a "big patch" currently scheduled for early October - including a br...

Grand Theft Auto fans are known for a love of speculation and information sleuthing at this point, and this certainly hasn't changed since Rockstar released the extended gameplay preview for Grand The...

Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima has spoken about a number of topics concerning Sony's sudden shocking decision to back away from publishing his tactical espionage project, Physint....