Games

Mass Effect 5 is 'still in pre-production'
3 February 2025

Mass Effect 5 is ‘still in pre-production’, director confirms
‘Mass Effect 5’ is “still in pre-production”. Now that BioWare has finished work on ‘Dragon Age: The Veilguard’, many employees have moved over to the upcoming sci-fi RPG, though director Michael ...

Elden Ring: Nightreign developer FromSoftware is 'not chasing a trend' with the RPG.
3 February 2025

Elden Ring: Nightreign dev FromSoftware not ‘chasing a trend’ with roguelike RPG
FromSoftware is not “chasing a trend’ with ‘Elden Ring: Nightreign’. The studio is focused on “condensing the experience down” on the upcoming co-op title, and so will lean on essential RPG/roguelike ...

Forza Horizon 5 is finally heading to the PS5 this spring
31 January 2025

Forza Horizon 5 is coming to PS5
Xbox exclusive 'Forza Horizon 5' is coming to PlayStation 5. Microsoft has confirmed the 2021 arcade racing game - which was released for the Xbox Series X/S - is heading ...

Finn Wolfhard fancies himself as Kratos in a 'God of War' movie
31 January 2025

Finn Wolfhard wants to play Kratos in God of War
Finn Wolfhard wants to star in a 'God of War' movie. The 'Stranger Things' star - who is best known for playing Mike Wheeler in the hit sci-fi horror and Richie ...

The Dune: Awakening team were under strict 'constraints' not to leak movie spoilers
31 January 2025

Dune: Awakening team were under 'a bunch of constraints' not to leak movie spoilers
'Dune: Awakening' creative director Joel Bylos has revealed the team was under "a bunch of constraints" from Hollywood to avoid giving away movie spoilers. The upcoming MMO - which is ...

Amazon has cut jobs from several departments
31 January 2025

Amazon cuts several jobs following return-to-office mandate
Amazon has cut jobs from several departments. The tech giant has got rid of a "small number of roles" within the company and while the company acknowledged that such decisions are ...

The sale of Apple iPhones has dropped
31 January 2025

Apple iPhone sales drop amid AI feature roll out
Apple's iPhone sales declined at the end of 2024 since its artificial intelligence feature rolled out The U.S. tech firm's CEO Tim Cook said its new AI feature - which is ...

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has written to Google to abandon plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its Maps app, following an order from U.S. President Donald Trump
31 January 2025

Mexico's President writes to Google to call for Gulf of Mexico rename plan to be scrapped
Mexico's President has penned a letter to Google to abandon its plan to rename the Gulf of Mexico on its Maps application. Claudia Sheinbaum has called for the American tech titan ...

Elliot Page's production company is working on a TV adaptation of the video game 'Beyond: Two Souls'
30 January 2025

Elliot Page's production company developing TV adaptation of video game Beyond: Two Souls
Elliot Page's production company is turning 'Beyond: Two Souls' into a TV series. The 37-year-old actor played Jodie Holmes in the 2013 action-adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and published by ...

Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins has given his honest verdict on the future of hero shooter franchise 'Overwatch'
30 January 2025

Twitch streamer Ninja declares Overwatch 'dead and gone'
Twitch streamer Ninja has declared 'Overwatch' is "dead and gone". The 33-year-old gamer - whose real name is Richard Tyler Blevins - believes Blizzard's hero shooter 'Overwatch 2' will struggle as ...

PlayStation Plus is moving away from PS4 titles
30 January 2025

PlayStation Plus moving away from PS4 titles as PS5 takes over
PlayStation Plus is moving away from offering PS4 games as part of its Monthly Games and Game Catalog as PS5 games are proving more popular. Although some games for Sony's eighth ...

'Dying Light' fans can expect plenty of new content from the hit zombie franchise
29 January 2025

Techland announces 'multiple unannounced projects' to mark 10th anniversary of The Dying Light
Techland has teased "multiple unannounced projects" to mark the 10th anniversary of 'Dying Light'. Fans of the hit zombie video game series - which launched in 2015 with 'Dying Light 1' ...

Steven Ogg wants his character Trevor to be killed off in 'Grand Theft Auto 6'
29 January 2025

Grand Theft Auto V star Steven Ogg wants his character killed off in GTA VI
'Grand Theft Auto V' actor Steven Ogg wants his character to "die" in 'GTA VI'. The actor is best known for playing volatile criminal and bank robber Trevor Philips, one of ...

Roman Reigns is the 'WWE 2K25' cover star
29 January 2025

Roman Reigns is the WWE 2K25 cover star
Roman Reigns has been unveiled as the cover star for 'WWE 2K25'. Publisher 2K has revealed The Tribal Chief is leading the standard version of the hit Visual Concepts wrestling game ...

Nintendo has sent out invites to gamers
28 January 2025

Gamers invited to test-drive Nintendo Switch 2
Gamers have been invited to test-drive the Nintendo Switch 2. The much-anticipated console has yet to be given an official release date, but a number of gamers have been invited to ...

Phil Spencer has revealed his focus
28 January 2025

Phil Spencer: Hardware innovation is key to Xbox success
Phil Spencer sees hardware innovation as the key to Xbox's long-term success. The CEO of Microsoft Gaming has played an important role in establishing the console as one of the industry ...

PC gaming is on the rise
28 January 2025

More developers are focusing on PC games, survey finds
Eighty percent of developers are focusing their efforts on PC games. That is according to GDC's new 2025 State of the Game Industry report, which surveyed 3,000 game developers and found ...

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi 'respects the modding community' - but insists players shouldn’t use mods that 'detract from the intended game experience'.
27 January 2025

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth head addresses mod controversy
‘Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’ director Naoki Hamaguchi has stressed he “respects the modding community” - but has insisted players shouldn’t use mods that “detract from the intended game experience”. The developer ...

Assassin's Creed Shadows protagonist isn't an assassin, associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois has insisted.
27 January 2025

Assassin’s Creed Shadows protagonist Yasuke won’t have classic assassin abilities
‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ protagonist will not have any classic assassin abilities. The upcoming action-adventure title - which is being developed by Ubisoft - will follow the Black samurai as he finds ...

Starfield could be coming to PlayStation 5.
27 January 2025

Starfield may come to PlayStation as Xbox moves away from exclusive games
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has suggested ‘Starfield’ may release on PlayStation 5. With Microsoft shifting away from exclusive titles and towards a multi-platform launch strategy, Spencer has not ruled out Bethesda’s ...

Assassin's Creed Shadows' Japanese setting proved to be 'very, very tricky' for developer Ubisoft.
24 January 2025

Assassin’s Creed Shadows director explains why Japanese setting was ‘very, very tricky’ for Ubisoft
‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’s Japanese setting was “very, very tricky” because Ubisoft developers “[wanted] to be respectful” and “avoid telling a culture about their own culture”. The upcoming action-adventure title takes place ...

Ninja Gaiden 4 has been unveiled.
24 January 2025

Ninja Gaiden 4 revealed at Xbox Developer Direct
‘Ninja Gaiden 4’ has been officially announced. The next entry into the beloved action-adventure franchise was revealed at yesterday’s (23.01.25) Xbox Developer Direct showcase, and is slated to hit Xbox Series ...

Doom: The Dark Ages will be a singleplayer experience only, developer id Software has said.
24 January 2025

Doom: The Dark Ages won’t have multiplayer, id Software head Marty Stratton confirms
‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ won’t have multiplayer. The upcoming first-person-shooter received a new trailer at yesterday’s (23.01.25) Xbox Developer Direct, and while players won’t be able to slay demons with their ...

Banjo-Kazooie composer Grant Kirkhope has 'zero hope' there will be a new game in the series.
23 January 2025

Banjo-Kazooie composer has ‘zero hope’ a new game will ever release
‘Banjo-Kazooie’ composer Grant Kirkhope has “zero hope” there will be a new game in the series. The 3D-platformer franchise - which debuted nearly 27 years ago with the eponymous title on ...