Surprise! From today, 28th April, you can download a free demo for Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on both the Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X/S. Any progress made during the demo will carry over when the full game launches for Switch 2 and Xbox on 3rd June. As an added bonus, if you have demo save data on your device when the full game launches, you will... Read more ›
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Look, let's be honest, Square Enix is a hard company to get behind right now. Between layoffs, peculiar restructuring plans, and a penchant for chasing the hottest controversial flavour of the month, there are many reasons to be sceptical of one of Japan's biggest publishers in 2026. But, for all the dubious business moves and articles about NFTs, there exists a publisher that looks like the Square Enix we remember... Read more ›
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Six months after Valve tantalisingly unveiled its future hardware plans, one of them has successfully escaped the vortex caused by the mounting RAM crisis. Valve has announced its new Steam Controller - the successor to its long-discontinued 2015 effort - goes on sale 4th May. Read more Read more ›
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Perhaps the greatest compliment I can give Valve's new Steam Controller is that in the week or so I've been using it, I haven't really thought about it much at all. With its heavily Steam-Deck-inspired design, it improves on the original Steam Controller in almost every way - and it's certainly vastly more convincing as an everyday controller - but the things it does best are specific enough that, even... Read more ›
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If you wanted to check out The Super Mario Galaxy Movie for yourself, but have no interest in traipsing to the cinema to watch it and instead decided to hold out for its home debut, good news. A new report claims you will be able to do just that from next week. Read more Read more ›
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PowerWash Simulator 2 didn't exactly reinvent the original game's formula, but sometimes more of the same in a slightly fancier package is all you really need. Now, following this month's Adventure Time DLC, cleaners are being sent to a galaxy far, far away... Read more Read more ›
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It's been over nine years since Mass Effect: Andromeda tried to kickstart a new era of BioWare's original sci-fi RPG universe, an experiment that ended with pretty poor results. Now, we're eagerly awaiting news on the mainline follow-up revealed in late 2020 and Amazon's TV show. Read more Read more ›
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A release date for body cam FPS Better Than Dead has been announced, as well as a new gameplay trailer packed with Hong Kong cinema-style action. Read more Read more ›
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There is one death in particular in The Last of Us Part 2 that many are still struggling to come to terms with five years on from the game's release. And, it turns out that this death was not only controversial for those of us in The Last of Us' gaming community. Even many developers internally at Naughty Dog - the studio that made the game - questioned this decision.... Read more ›
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Supermassive's "party horror" games, as I like to call them, have become a guilty pleasure of mine. This series famously began with Until Dawn in 2015 and peaked with House of Ashes in 2021, if you ask me. (Although I enjoyed the schlocky Quarry in 2022 as well.) It's a series pitched like an interactive horror movie, where you try to shepherd a group of ill-fated characters through a slasher... Read more ›
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Late 2024 gave us the long-awaited news that a sequel to 2014's Alien: Isolation was finally entering development. Developer Creative Assembly and publisher Sega have been quiet since then, with most people assuming the game has been slowly going through the early phases of development before production ramps up in earnest. Yesterday, which was Alien Day 2026, things changed. Read more Read more ›
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A possible Steam controller release date has appeared online, indicating the much-anticipated hardware release from Valve may be about to hit the market. Read more Read more ›
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After three long years of rumours, reports, leaks, a couple of official teases, we finally have confirmation that Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake is real, under the guise of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. But it seems Resynced isn't the only Assassin's Creed remake title in development, at least if you believe the chatter from a couple of reliable leakers. Read more Read more ›
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The former director of Naughty Dog's cancelled The Last of Us multiplayer game has vowed he will never let something he works on "not see the light of day again". Read more Read more ›
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It looks like Star Wars: Galactic Racer will release on 6th October, 2026. Read more Read more ›
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The Bootleg Bazaar in Portofiro is a chimera of ex-Soviet bloc organisms that have nestled together in a robust show of scrappy, second-hand capitalism at its finest. It's an entity I have mostly understood from movies and television and books, and a fairly problematic Russian neighbour in college who enjoyed throwing knives at his closet door for fun (I believe he is now married and owns a paper factory). Read... Read more ›
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Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Mat remembers when games were just games and not world-shaking conquerers; Marie is impatient for her vampires to get it on; Bertie discovers depth in ridiculousless; and Dom politely calls for help. Read more Read more ›
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After publishing a company wide memo on her plans for Xbox earlier this week, freshly-minted Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has given a rare - if less than candid - interview, elaborating just a tad more on team green's future. Read more Read more ›
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A little over a month after Capcom announced its excellent Resident Evil Requiem had surpassed 6m copies sold - officially making it the fastest-selling game in the survival horror series’ 30-year history - it looks like another major milestone has been reached. Read more Read more ›
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Mario fans, throw up your caps in celebration: in an unprecedented move, Nintendo has uploaded (some of) the original soundtrack for Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 onto Spotify. This is notable for a number of reasons: most notably, it's the first time the company has opted to publish its music on a major streaming service. Secondly, the "a special selection" of tracks from the OSTs will only be available... Read more ›
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If, like me, you tossed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 aside in disgust because protagonist Gustave's hair wasn't swirly enough, it may be time to return, thanks to a new update released to celebrate the RPG's first anniversary. Read more Read more ›
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It continues to be all change at Xbox. Following the departure of Phil Spencer in February, new CEO Asha Sharma has made some major moves to re-energise the Xbox brand, frequently summoning the spirit of the console's glory days in a bid to win back the support of a flagging fanbase. And that work now continues with the launch of a redesigned Xbox logo, seemingly intentionally evoking the lurid green... Read more ›
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Asha Sharma's Xbox appears to be preparing new tiers of its Game Pass subscription service. Read more Read more ›
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Sega is planning to remind us all that it still has plenty of successful franchises under its massive umbrella, even if we haven't heard about them for many years. The publisher has revealed a programme of events to celebrate its vintage games throughout the course of 2026 via special "anniversary projects". All this will take place under the banner of the new-fangled 'Sega Universe'. Read more Read more ›
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Do you remember Shuhei 'yosp' Yoshida, former PlayStation boss and the head of PlayStation Indies from 2019 until his retirement from the company in 2025? The likeable good-natured executive has recently come out and stated that he doesn't necessarily think that day-and-date PC releases for triple-A PlayStation games is a very good idea (but, also, that he hasn't seen any solid proof that Sony is abandoning PC releases altogether despite... Read more ›
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Microsoft Gaming boss Ashsa Sharma and Xbox content boss Matt Booty have shared an open letter with the world about what they see as the future of Xbox. The topline takeaways are that "Microsoft Gaming" will now simply be known as "Xbox", thank god, that console is still at the heart of operation, thank god, but also that there's significant reshaping to be done. As the letter says: "The model... Read more ›
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You know an action game has the magic when you come out of a sequence thinking "How the hell did I survive that?" Your hands shaking with adrenaline, the controller slick with sweat. Sekiro had it. Doom Eternal had it, and Returnal had it too, with Housemarque's timeloop sci-fi thriller offering some of the most thrilling action of this generation. Read more Read more ›
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Filming of the A24-backed and Alex-Garland-directed Elden Ring movie (a series of words that still sounds preposterous to me) is now in full swing. And that means leaks, which this time include high-speed lettuce and an iconic opening moment involving one of the game's most notorious characters. Read more Read more ›
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One Pragmata player with a keen eye for website domains has taken a fake, unclaimed website from inside the game and made it their own with humorous references to Resident Evil's naughty Albert Wesker. Read more Read more ›
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