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It would be a reasonable assumption to make that there are only so many variations on football games you can make. Ultimately, no matter how many bells, whistles, or rocket powered cars you throw at it, it always comes down to getting a ball in a net and shouting SCOOOOOORE. Except in the case of Nutmeg!, a “nostalgic deckbuilding football manager” which looks like it features more faxing than any sort of kicking, but I mean that in an endearing way, promise. In Nutmeg, you are the gaffer (the head honcho, the manager, the coach for the non-Brits…
It’s official! Well over a year since it was first speculated, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is official, and could be yours in less than a month’s time. Packing in 16 cores and two of the company’s 64MB 3D V-Cache dies, this CPU is an absolute monster, but AMD is pitching it as one for developers and creators, not for mere gaming mortals. In fact, so low-key has AMD been with the launch of this new chip that it dropped the news completely out of the blue, including via an email comprising just 154 words, inclusive of greetings. In that…
Xbox live-streamed a Partner Preview event on Thursday, featuring new reveals on upcoming games from third-party publishers.The main attractions were Stranger than Heaven, the new IP from Sega’s Yakuza studio, a multiformat release for Hades 2, Dispatch coming to Xbox, and more.There’s also new DLC coming to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, an imminent release for Super Meat Boy 3D, plus several brand new indie games.The show concluded with a first look at ‘robot detective’ game, Artificial Detective, said to be in development at a new studio comprised of former Control and Dead Space developers.Below follows a summary of everything announced in Thursday’s…
Fortnite Rivalries are a new mechanic introduced to the battle royale this season, which flags certain opponents as your Rivals and rewards you for eliminating them within a set amount of time. Keep eliminating Rivals and the credits you earn can start stacking up, allowing you to purchase powerful weapons or handy boosts and gear in Fortnite Season 2 of Chapter 7. This also feeds into the Showdown leaderboard, both in-game and online, so we’re here to explain how that and Rivalries in Fortnite work.What are Fortnite Rivalries (Image credit: Epic Games)Fortnite Rivalries put you head to head with another…
I quite like a bit of permanency in games. Well, like might be too positive, I’m more intrigued by it and the friction it provides. It’s interesting that if you’re silly enough to kill an NPC in Dark Souls, for example, that’s it, no take backsies. So despite honestly not caring all that much for zombie games, I’m still a bit interested in Dying Light: The Beast and its new Restored Land update which introduces a mode where if you kill a zombie once, it truly is gone for good. This big, and free, update and new persistent…
A millennium since the fall of the last galactic empire, mercenaries and treasure hunters scrap over priceless relics buried in ruins on the fringes of space. This is the world of Vaunted, a new tactical RPG and the debut for indie studio Lost Lake Games. The developer is teaming up with strategy game specialists Hooded Horse to bring its creation to life, which will see a team of “dysfunctional frenemies” and their oft-questionable companions battling against alien threats, giant robots, and dangerous rivals in search of the ultimate score. Vaunted comes from Lost Lake Games, an independent studio founded by…
The studio behind the Sniper Elite series has announced a new horror sci-fi action game.Alien Deathstorm is the latest game from British studio Rebellion, also known for Zombie Army Trilogy and last year’s Atomfall.The game is set in an off-world colony which has been devastated by a storm, and the player has to survive while fighting the alien creatures they encounter.“The player has been dispatched to this remote, off-world facility as a result of a complete loss of communications,” head of design Ben Fisher told the official Xbox Wire blog. “Their job is to determine what has suddenly caused the colony…
90-year-old Yang Binglin, the oldest male streamer according to Guinness World Records, recently completed Resident Evil Requiem by scribbling copies of its maps and puzzle hints in his notebook – so, the traditional way.Binglin, who some affectionately refer to as “Game Grandpa,” streamed his entire Resident Evil Requiem playthrough on Chinese video sharing site BiliBili, where Google Translate reveals generous video titles assuring Grace that she shouldn’t be afraid, because Grandpa’s here, and also Binglin’s intentions to replay Requiem.R/immersivesim moderator Sinno shares an original translation on Twitter of Binglin’s thoughts after first finishing Capcom’s brutal horror game. (Sinno tells me…
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is getting its first proper expansion this year, titled Cost of Hope, and it looks stuffed to its icky mutant gills with classic STALKER series beats that the base game – while a powerfully engrossing survival FPS – missed out on. The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant returns as an explorable, doubtless horrible addition to the game’s open world, and the story concerns the conflict between the rival Freedom and Duty factions that’s been simmering since the original STALKER.
Despite earning an estimated $6 billion in revenue in 2025, Epic Games has laid off over 1,000 staff due to Fortnite’s apparent “downturn” in revenue. This news comes as the game industry is in turmoil, with layoffs impacting thousands of developers across numerous studios. Epic’s last round of layoffs cut 830 staff from the company in 2023. One especially unlucky developer was laid off both times around. Melissa Wafful was an early career program manager at Epic for over a year until she was laid off in September 2023, alongside 829 of her colleagues. This represented 16% of Epic’s staff…