Category: Technology

I love the ring in Ring Fit Adventure: the way it pulses when positioned correctly for a move; hitting the sweet spot, feeling it tug like a bump in the air. I love the tremble and buzz as you pull hard for a Bow Pull, or go low for a Squat (or a Wide Squat, […]

Hello! And welcome to a special article where a bunch of us sit down to talk about our game of the year. And for 2020, that game is Hades. We hope you enjoy this conversation, and we hope you’re leaving such an unusual year with some good memories of the games you’ve played. Chris Donlan: […]

Print can do some really good things. There’s the ritual of browsing the local corner shop looking for something you fancy, the bizarrely thin paper that somehow smells bloody delicious, and front covers screaming at you to pick them up and give them a read. Walking past the magazine section at my local Asda, I […]

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance comes out 31st March 2021, developer Edmund McMillen has announced. The “sequel sized” final expansion for the hugely popular roguelike hits PC via Steam then, with consoles to follow later. The announcement was made via a new trailer, below, which is packed “with nods to the past, present and future”, […]

Magic Castle is an eye-catching roguelite made on the Net Yaroze platform by a handful of Japanese developers back in 1997. But it never came out – until now. For the uninitiated, Net Yaroze was a Sony project that made available to hobbyist coders a basic version of the PlayStation dev kit for £550. Around […]

“RTS development is funny…” Age of Empires 4 – announced over three years ago – is still in the works, and progress is being made, Microsoft has said. At XO19 in November 2019, Microsoft showed off a snippet of Age of Empires 4 in action (check out the video below), but we haven’t heard a […]

If you’ve been playing Call of Duty: Warzone recently, you’ll no doubt have encountered – or possibly even used yourself – the controversial DMR 14. The DMR 14, a weapon added to the battle royale as part of the integration of Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, is currently dominating the Warzone meta. […]