November 12, 2025

Short, smart, potentially a gamble: with Mafia: The Old Country, Take-Two grapples with the past and future of video games

by on August 15, 2025 0

Setting and rhythm remain Mafia: The Old Country’s greatest strengths. Hangar 13’s designers and engineers have sculpted an immersive, uncompromising portrait of Sicily on the edge of the 1900s: sun-flecked citrus orchards, hillside terraces weighed down with vines, and soot-choked quarries packed with bonded labor…Read More

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Sublime puzzler Dorfromantik brings its bucolic charms to PlayStation and Xbox, and it’s as irresistible as ever

by on August 15, 2025 0

I’ll happily confess: this brief article would have arrived much earlier if I hadn’t foolishly booted up Dorfromantik for what I told myself was a quick mental reset. Evidently, I should’ve seen it coming. This creation from Toukana Interactive ranks among my most-loved—and I’m willing to claim finest—strategy-oriented puzzlers of the past half-decade…Read More

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Vampire Survivors: The Board Game is heading to Kickstarter

by on August 15, 2025 0

Nobody can resist Vampire Survivors, the dirt-cheap, utterly addictive bullet-storm experience crafted by Poncle. Since bursting onto the scene in late 2021, the title has grown through countless tweaks and bonus chapters, and now it’s stripping off its digital skin to stride into physical reality via a tabletop edition…Explore the Details

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Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Collector’s Soundtrack Gets Steep Discount

by on August 15, 2025 0

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Amazon is offering a steep discount on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s Collector’s Edition Soundtrack. Fans can get the nine-disc, 344-track box set for $114. That’s still expensive for a collection of CDs in

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Seven New Games Have Joined Xbox Retro Classics In August So Far

by on August 14, 2025 0

They’re not slowing down with this! it was announced back in July that Antstream Arcade’s Xbox Retro Classics service on Xbox Game Pass would be adding another 100+ games in 2025 and 2026, and we’ve seen around 25 additions in the past few months alone. Last month, we highlighted seven games that had been added

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Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (August 14-17)

by on August 14, 2025 0

Included with Xbox Game Pass Welcome to another round of Xbox Free Play Days! Starting today, three games are playable for free over the weekend as part of Microsoft’s FPD program – including open world adventure game Star Overdrive. Here’s your full Free Play Days selection this week: Star Overdrive Survival: Fountain of Youth –

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GTA 6 has scared off publishers all year, but Rockstar has been doing this for at least 18: In 2007, Saints Row 2 devs held a meeting to panic over the GTA 4 release date

by on August 14, 2025 0

Digital-preservation specialist Andrew Borman keeps turning up buried treasure inside The Strong National Museum’s newly acquired Volition papers, yet every fresh scrap still startles him. Case in point: in 2007 the now-closed Saints Row studio was apparently shadowing Grand Theft Auto creator Rockstar with unusual intensity. “I didn’t anticipate running across an October 2007 conference-room

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Neil Newbon says the dateable clothes dryer he plays in Date Everything sounded too much like Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3, so he had to base his performance off a fictional sex symbol from an ’80s British sitcom

by on August 14, 2025 0

(Image credit: Team 17) Neil Newbon can’t quite un-sound like Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3, his own vocals being inseparable from the character, so when he faced the prospect of voicing a sentient tumble-dryer in Date Everything he hunted for inspiration in Rik Mayall’s swaggering Lord Flashheart from the classic ’80s Britcom Blackadder. What an

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 savant proves parry haters right by beating the RPG on expert with an “all hit” run allowing zero parries or dodges

by on August 14, 2025 0

(Picture courtesy: Sandfall Interactive) Loathe parrying? Celebrate! Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 absolutely does not need to be tackled like a Sekiro-style gauntlet on any setting, brutal included. A mind-blowing “perfectly-hit” completion has now demonstrated that it’s doable on expert difficulty—yes, even that notorious Simon encounter—without ever rolling or deflecting. (Alright, you must roll one single

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Tiny Bookshop is making me want to run away to the seaside, and judging by its popularity, everybody else is coming too

by on August 14, 2025 0

If this season’s unstoppable tide of snug simulators has revealed anything, it’s that my existence would feel immeasurably better if I abandoned my responsibilities tomorrow to practise militant carrot cultivation somewhere way off-grid amid rolling scenery. Still, despite every last bit of these ultra-pro-beetroot (and inexplicably faintly-thirsty) campaigns…Read More

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Mobile-only Resident Evil Survival Unit gets new cinematic trailer with music by Japanese rock band Queen Bee

by on August 14, 2025 0

Although the final calibre of the forthcoming mobile-exclusive Resident Evil: Survival Unit is still an open question, the debut trailer definitely nails the aesthetic. Crafted by Quebico—the same team responsible for the fully 3D-CG feature Resident Evil: Death Island—this brand-new cinematic glimpse reveals that gamers will assemble squads drawn from across the entire Resident Evil

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R-Type Delta: HD Boosted Gets A Western Launch Date On Switch

by on August 14, 2025 0

Spoiler: the Western release lines up exactly with Japan! authored by Ollie Reynolds Yesterday, 5:45pm Clear River Games has confirmed that R-Type Delta: HD Boosted will touch down on the Switch in the West on 20th November 2025—the very same day it lands in Japan. Produced by City Connection Co. Ltd, the title is receiving

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Annapurna Is Bringing This Cute Co-op LEGO Game To Switch In September

by on August 14, 2025 0

Turns out September is prime season for LEGO titles words by Alana Hagues Yesterday, 6:30pm Annapurna Interactive has revealed that LEGO Voyagers — Light Box Studios’ two-player co-operative romp (the same outfit behind LEGO Builder’s Journey) — is docking on Switch 15th September 2025 (cheers, IGN). First shown off at Summer Game Fest Opening Night

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Fast & Furious: Arcade Port Cruises Onto Switch This October

by on August 14, 2025 0

Created by the crew that brought you Cruis’n Blast Lovers of coin-op circuit racers have a fresh spectacle to anticipate before the year ends, as GameMill Entertainment confirms Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition will land on Switch—and several other systems—on 24th October, 2025. Those sensing a Cruis’n Blast flavor aren’t mistaken; studio Raw Thrills handled

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