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It’s no secret that Microsoft has lost the console war, but the scale of Xbox’s collapse in Europe in particular is stark.According to fresh data reported by GI.biz, Sony’s PlayStation 5 is “comfortably” number one in Europe, with sales up an incredible 143% over October last year. The near seven-year-old ...

The Xmas season approaches, but for some of us, Halloween never ends. I've just finished (well, reached a grisly end within) the demo for Chiyo, a first-person horror game from Nimbus Games, set in Edo era Japan, in which you are a plucky young mystic sent by the Tokugawa Shogunate's ...

Blizzard Entertainment has made its action role-playing game Diablo 4 free-to-play on Steam for a week.Steam users can download and trial the game until November 28 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK. Diablo 4 launched first in June on PC via Blizzard's own Battle.net, where it remains ...

Who you gonna call?It has only been a few weeks since the 4v1 co-op title Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed slimed its way onto Switch and now developer Illfonic has brought a brand-new update our way, one that makes it even easier to team up with your pals.Yes, ver. 1.7.1 introduces crossplay ...

Worldless is a game driven by its unique approach to combat and exploration – and part of that unique nature is that it makes it impossible to die at any point – but without losing a sense of challenge throughout. Let me explain how we achieved that. The combat of ...

Underwater survival series Subnautica is set to see a new game come out during the first half of 2025. That’s according to Krafton, the company behind battle royale PUBG and owner of Subnautica after buying developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment in 2021.Subnautica is a hugely successful indie game that first emerged ...

Dyson Sphere Program is already rather overwhelming - this is, after all, a strategy sim about wrapping whole planets in conveyor belts so as to build cages around stars and harvest their juices - and now the absolute madfolk of Youthcat Studio are adding combat features. It's like watching somebody ...

Jet Force Gemini launches on Nintendo Switch via the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription service in December, Nintendo has announced.Jet Force Gemini is a 1999 third-person shooter developed by Rare for the N64. It revolves around a galactic law enforcement team who battle against the insectoid villain Mizar ...

The very same weekend we received Bluey: The Videogame, Australia’s ABC broadcasted a countdown of the top 100 Bluey episodes, as voted by the public. Tuning in for the final 20-or-so, it was the perfect opportunity to catch up with any of the very best ones I’d managed to miss ...

"Y'all are gonna freak out".Following the release of its new map last month, Among Us is now seemingly teasing not one, but multiple collaborations with many other indie games.In a brief post on social media, the official account mentions how "indie games are so cool" and that it would be ...