In late 2023, Hello Games announced Light No Fire, a grand fantasy follow-up to sci-fi hit No Man's Sky. The reveal promised a sprawling world—literally the size of our own Earth—to make your own in a survival adventure. It was a huge promise, perhaps too much for a studio with a history of overpromising.Since then we've got nearly nothing. No more big promises, no more trailers. No fuel for some...

Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic released last week as the latest in the long-running horror series, and quickly jumped to top of Steam's top sellers chart. It's now slid down a few places, but 11 years on from the original FNAF's 2014 release, it's clear that the series is still popular.Secret of the Mimic even briefly unseated Dune: Awakening as the top selling game on Steam, and...

The world of Oxygen Not Included is getting a little bigger, with developer Klei announcing Away Team, a side-scrolling survival crafting platformer and exploration game starring an adorable little Duplicant who gets separated from the rest of their colony.The announcement came alongside a trailer showing off some signature cute animation shorts of a lone Duplicant accidentally going to space on their own alongside gameplay of the dupe hopping around, building...

CMON started as CoolMiniOrNot.com before turning its hand to board game publishing, having an early hit with co-operative miniatures game Zombicide in 2012. A fast-paced dice-chucker, Zombicide was funded by a $781,597 Kickstarter that provided the model for CMON's subsequent releases—many of them Zombicide spin-offs, reskinning it as a western or fantasy or post-apocalyptic, or rebranding it with Marvel superheroes or, more recently, Monty Python's Flying Circus of all the...

Call of Duty and Battlefield may only occasionally dip into the Second World War these days, with CoD's most recent Nazi battering entry being 2023's Call of Duty: Vanguard, while Battlefield hasn't so much as sniffed an M1 Garand since 2018's Battlefield 5. But there are plenty of other shooters dedicated to replicating history's most destructive conflict in virtual form. One such example is Team17's well-regarded 2021 shooter Hell Let...

Aside from when it's wildly out of whack with the game world, I don't think about the height of videogame characters much. At a modest 5'7, I generally assume that most videogame protagonists are taller than me. There have been a few occasions where a character's canonical height has surprised me, though. For example, a while back I read that Thief's antihero Garrett was a strapping six footer, but a...

Last year's first-person horror Still Wakes the Deep combined three of my favourite things, namely Scottish people, oil rigs, and The Thing. It's the best game that The Chinese Room has made yet in my opinion, and my only real complaint (if you can call it that) is that I would happily have played more of it.And as it turns out, we are getting another slice of offshore Caledonian terror...

Chaotic cooperative shooter FBC: Firebreak isn't out until next week, but developer Remedy has already unveiled its longer-term plans for its multiplayer Control spinoff. Players can expect two new areas of the Federal Bureau of Control to open up in autumn and winter respectively, each bringing a host of subsidiary features.Each update will add a new "job"—Firebreak's name for its hazardous cleanup missions. The first of these is codenamed 'Outbreak'....

As part of The Witcher 3's 10th anniversary celebration, CD Projekt Red spoke to GamesRadar about the "secret sauce" that made its quests so special. Maturity was cited as the main ingredient by Paweł Sasko, a quest designer on The Witcher 3, because the majority of its developers were entering their 30s and 40s. Also, importantly, they were Polish."I would say we, as Polish people, are much more negative than...

Finish the week with a guaranteed win. We've got a clue for today's Wordle that you can either use as a springboard for your first guess, or keep to one side in case those green letters refuse to turn up on time. Prefer something a little more straightforward? Something that can save a win streak in an instant? You've got it. The June 15 (1457) answer is only a short...