Do you like classical music? Is your life set to a beautiful symphony invoving violins, pianos, and the occasional tuba? Do you yearn for the surreal event that will be tunes from the Elder Scrolls being played on a radio station that your grandparents might listen to?
]]>Hideo Kojima is infamously known for his lengthy cutscenes these days, but once upon a time he was a lot more cautious of them.
]]>The 2005 original version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted is easily one of the most popular in the series, and it turns out a remake of it isn't entirely impossible.
]]>Hideaki Itsuno, father of the Devil May Cry series as well as other Capcom bangers like Rival Schools and Dragon's Dogma, has found a new home at LightSpeed Studios. It's here that he'll be working on new "AAA action games", and they're hiring right now!
]]>Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is still a thing that's coming out soon, with Konami and David Hayter having decided to spice up the wait a bit by casually revealing the answer to a mystery that's long been a source of rampant fan speculation. Suzetta Miñet is Jodi Benson - the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
]]>The Magic the Gathering collab train is showing no signs of stopping, as Final Fantasy is the next stop, with some pretty good looking cards coming aboard.
]]>Astro Bot has more cameos than you probably realised there were PlayStation games, but there's one game that feels conspicuously absent: Final Fantasy 7.
]]>You there. Have you got a minute? Did you stay up for September 24's State of Play broadcast from Playstation - the one that took place last night UK time? Well, Xbox has now let everyone know which of the games we saw at it are currently pencielled in to also be dropping on its platform, and if you'll just stop trying to walk through me, I can give you a quick roundup of the other big news from the show too.
]]>It looks like the leaks earlier today were legit. The Soul Reaver 1 + 2 remaster is real, and it's coming out December 10.
]]>As part of Netflix's Geeked Week, the streaming giant has released a new trailer for the upcoming Devil May Cry anime, as well as an April 2025 release date.
]]>A new year, a new list of songs that you'll listen to as you experiece the highs and lows of doing a virtual football. EA Sports FC 25's soundtrack has been revealed, with both yer das, not quite yet yer das and non-yer das all currently busy offering their two cents as to whether it features enough of what they consider indie bangers.
]]>Like many children, I grew up playing whatever video games I could get my hands on, my early choices dictated largely by parental preference and what the owner of the sole computer shop in my rural hometown chose to stock. The original Sims was the first game I ever successfully lobbied to own: actively seeking it out — and my subsequent fascination upon actually getting to play it — was, with hindsight, a fairly significant early expression of my emerging personality as a 10-year-old. As you can probably imagine, therefore, four years and countless mercifully-untracked in-game hours later, I was about as hype for The Sims' first-ever sequel as a geeky 14-year-old can get. Read: extremely. And because life is nice sometimes, I was destined not to be disappointed.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>The Sephiroth boss fight in the first Kingdom Hearts is still one of the series' toughest, and it turns out his voice actor hasn't managed to beat it.
]]>Games industry veteran Hideki Kamiya has shared that he still wants to make sequels to PS2 classics Okami and Viewtiful Joe.
]]>Devil May Cry already had an anime adaptation back in 2007, but Netflix is giving it another go with Adi Shankar (Castlevania) as creator, showrunner, and executive producer. While we've been eagerly waiting for news on it for months now, fans continue to uncover new details in the last piece of footage released in late 2023.
]]>It's been a while since we've heard anything about the Metal Gear Solid movie, but the film's producer has assured everyone that it's still on the way.
]]>I was definitely one of those kids that looked at Digimon and thought "that looks like a Pokemon ripoff" and just kind of ignored it. It's not like I never saw any of the show, I did own a single VHS tape with a couple of episodes on it that I watched at least more than once, but there was definitely something missing for me. Cut to now, approaching my thirties, and my fellow-Pokemon-only partner and I thought to ourselves "shall we give Digimon a go?" Why we had that thought, I couldn't tell you, but it did feel like something that was missing in our lives and we wanted to fill that gap.
]]>The PlayStation first shipped in 1994 and very quickly made its way into the homes of gamers worldwide. It’s a console that - alongside the PlayStation 2 - many hold near and dear, for good reason. The console was home to a multitude of RPG’s, action games, and highly successful series that were finding their footing at the time, garnering Sony plenty of power that it’s since held on to and grown…for the most part.
]]>OK, so for the past few years, the Los Angeles Chargers - one of LA's NFL teams - have announced the schedule for the upcoming season in pretty entertaining fashion. This year, The Sims 2 has been chosen to host this reveal of who Justin Herbert and co will be playing against and when - creating something that both Sims fans and those of us who like American football can enjoy together.
]]>But the good news doesn't stop there for the action-RPG series. Capcom also announced that the series as a whole has soared past 100 million copies sold – a massive number, matching the behemoth Resident Evil series' numbers from 2020. It's clear that Monster Hunter is a key franchise for the publisher – and that's a good thing, since we're about to see even more Monster Hunter content launch in the year ahead.
]]>Star Wars Day is here, and May 4th brings plenty of fun things going on in games, discounts to be had, shows to stream, and plenty more.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>It's a sad time for LittleBigPlanet fans, as the third game's servers are now "offline indefinitely" meaning a large portion of the series could be lost forever.
]]>Ever since Final Fantasy 7 Remake came out, and it became clear that the project was less of a beat-for-beat remake and more of a reimagining/ pseudo-sequel, there's been one question on everyone's mind, about a particularly important moment from the original: will they dress up Red XIII in a Shinra uniform still? Sorry, what's that - the big thing everyone was wondering about was whether Aerith would die or not? Yeah, sure, I guess I was wondering that too.
]]>It seems like remakes of the first two Persona games could be on the way, though they might not be outright remakes.
]]>Big Western style open-world RPGs from beloved Japanese studios who tend to be known for other things (inhale) are like buses: there's none for ages, and then two come along at once! See also: Clinton-era disaster movies about Earth getting clobbered by an asteroid. See also: Clinton-era disaster movies about America getting clobbered by volcanoes. See also: those ones about the White House (former home of Bill Clinton) getting clobbered by some guys with guns. I dunno. You don't read this anyway.
]]>Playing video games with your family is definitely never a recipe for arguments, and Steam’s just introduced an improved way to definitely not get into such arguments. Steam Families, now available in beta, will let you do a bunch of stuff with your loved ones, including play very mid games at the same time.
]]>Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is full of easter eggs and references, but there's one in particular that its devs included despite not knowing its origin.
]]>Supermassive Games, the developer of horror hits Until Dawn and The Quarry, is reportedly planning to lay off 90 workers, with 150 having been informed that they’re at risk of redundancy.
]]>Following its inclusion in today's Nintendo Direct, we now know Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection is coming to Nintendo Switch on March 14, 2024, and will also hit both PS5 and PS4 on that same date.
]]>The Best Games Ever podcast is a game show where three regular panellists have to find the best game in a weirdly specific category such as "Best game with a named horse", or "Best game with a terrible British accent". They have to pitch their pick to our host, Jim, who then decides the winner. But there's a lot of office politics, backstabbing, and meta-gaming going on which makes this mild-mannered panel game fraught with real danger.
]]>Ok, sit down. According to the world’s most famous Tekken developer, Vin Diesel nearly got to play Tekken 6 ahead of the rest of us, but sadly, he was never able to thanks to a couple of factors related to the stage of development the game was at.
]]>Good news for those of you out there with a hunger for a new Avatar the Last Airbender game! According to a roadmap video from publisher Maximum Entertainment, the publisher is working in colaboration with Paramount to make a "competitive mulitplayer fighting game set in [the] Avatar the Last Airbender universe."
]]>Following the announcement that Hideo Kojima is returning to the world of action espionage with Physint, the game developer has shared why he decided to do so.
]]>Do you ever hear a pitch for a game that immediately perks your ears? A combination of words or ideas that makes you think "well I have to experience this as soon as possible"? That happened to me with Crow Country, the latest title from SFB Games, a developer you'll probably best know as the team behind the puzzle game Snipperclips. Where Snipperclips is quite cute looking, Crow Country still is, somewhat, but is instead a survival horror game set in an abandoned crow-themed theme park that's inspired by Final Fantasy 7 and Resident Evil. Yeah, now that's what I call a good pitch. And the best part is, you can even try it out for yourself thanks to a Steam Next Fest demo. But first, let me sell you on it even more.
]]>The Sims franchise celebrates its 24th anniversary this weekend, which is a much-needed reminder for me that as your resident Sims fanatic, I've got exactly a year to plan some fun coverage for its 25th (and that I should probably use some of that time to come to terms with the formal departure of the last vestiges of my youth, as someone who's been playing since practically the very start).
]]>Kurt Russell was apparently once offered to voice Metal Gear Solid 3's Snake, and in a new interview he explained why he wouldn't be interested in such a role.
]]>Plenty of Final Fantasy 6 fans are clamouring for a remake, but Final Fantasy 7 Remake producer Yoshinori Kitase says if it does happen, it'll take a very long time.
]]>Tekken 8 fans would love for Final Fantasy 7's Tifa to make a guest appearance, and the game's director is well aware of how much they want her in.
]]>To help get people excited for the launch of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Square Enix is releasing Advent Children Complete in US theatres for the first time next month.
]]>We have a lot of guests on the VG247 podcast because we know a lot of Games Media Personalities and most of them are too polite and/or socially inept to say "no" when we ask them to be on our podcast. In the last year we've had such Talented Greats as Mike Channel from Outside Xbox And Things and James Batchelor who has written some books.
]]>Hideo Kojima’s latest foray into doing vaguely strange things with video games, OD, might include some social horror-esque mechanics, if some recent trademarks filed by Kojima Productions end up meaning the same kind of thing fans are interpreting them as.
]]>Desperate to learn more about Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima? An upcoming documentary all about him is due out on Disney+ next year.
]]>The Sims has a new official merch store and, provided you’ve got a decent amount of disposable income to spend on things with green diamonds on them, it might be worth checking out.
]]>It's another day of PlayStation Plus Classic leaks, this time potentially confirming a classic PS1 game, and a couple of PSP titles.
]]>A recent rating for the PSP version of Disney Pixar's Up on PS5 and PS5 was recently spotted, seemingly suggesting it's coming to PlayStation's Classics Catalogue.
]]>After a long wait, Netflix will finally be giving us our first proper look at its live action take on Avatar: The Last Airbender tomorrow.
]]>I'd start placing your bets on a Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 2, as a datamine in the first volume certainly points to a follow up.
]]>Things seem to get bleaker by the day for the games industry, as now the UK based Media Molecule has also been hit by layoffs.
]]>Rockstar appears to be laying the groundwork to get more people to subscribe to GTA+ ahead of GTA 6 as it adds in a couple more games for you to play.
]]>Don’t panic, but it looks as though there’s a Marvel's Spider-Man 2 glitch that can suddenly turn the titular hero into a tiny white cube.
]]>Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is off to a fantastic start already. The PlayStation-exclusive action adventure has sold over 2.5 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale. The tremendous milestone was revealed earlier today on the official PlayStation Twitter account.
]]>The first thing I do when I gain access to the medical menu in MGS3 as part of the new Metal Gear Solid Master Collection (Vol 1) is shake the right stick to whip Naked Snake around like a ragdoll.
]]>Dead Space remake developer Motive Studio has formed another "community council" for its upcoming Iron Man game.
]]>Team 17 has responded to our request for comment with the following statement:
]]>Upon The Crew Motorfest’s reveal at this year’s (frankly bizarre) Ubisoft Forward in June, I think I had the same dismissive reaction as most people: some variation of “we have Forza Horizon at home”. I’m pleased to say I was hasty, and wrong, in this initial assessment. To be clear, The Crew Motorfest is a fine open-world racer, and in my view is actually better than Microsoft’s flagship driving game in a lot of ways, particularly in terms of its structure, but also because it at no point makes you drive through Edinburgh.
]]>According to Insomniac, no matter the mode you're playing on, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will always have ray tracing turned on.
]]>Upcoming mobile game Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis will, in a roundabout way, be bringing back the now-unplayable Final Fantasy 7 The First Soldier.
]]>The Metal Gear series might be 36 years old, but it's still doing alright for itself, as it recently hit 60 million copies sold.
]]>The beautiful and mysterious world of Baldur’s Gate 3 stretches from the rolling peaks of the mountain pass to the deepest reaches of the inscrutable Underdark. Its caves, crags and settlements are filled with hidden secrets to find, and its many quests are littered with alternate solutions and morally difficult decisions to make, not to mention different permutations that can arise from luck-based dice-rolls during conversation.
]]>Much of the opening act of Baldur's Gate 3 revolves around the Goblin Camp. There's no greater hive of scum and villainy for miles around, but it's exactly where your party needs to go if they're ever going to get out of their predicament.
]]>In Baldur's Gate 3, the head druid Halsin is an important character throughout the first act of your adventure. As a wise and powerful druid, Halsin is in tune with all sorts of natural phenomena, including - hopefully - the mind flayer parasite currently worming its way around the inside of your brain.
]]>Right at the start of your adventure in Baldur's Gate 3, exploring the Overgrown Ruins lets you get to grips with the harsh realities of the road ahead: tough dialogue rolls, difficult combat encounters and easy-to-miss hidden puzzles.
]]>Almost immediately after embarking upon your adventure in Baldur's Gate 3, you'll pick up the perfumed letter from a corpse on the beach — assuming you looted him, which you almost certainly will have done, considering you landed in this place with little more than the clothes on your back. The letter contains a message to the unfortunate late fisherman, Sy, from his lover Anna, asking him to run away with her to the city. However, this isn't just a piece of environmental storytelling.
]]>In Baldur's Gate 3, death is not the end. You have a few options for reviving fallen characters, all of which are surprisingly simple given the fact that, y’know, they’re dead.
]]>Toy company Hasbro is hoping that with Microsoft acquiring Activision, that some older Transformers games might make their way on to Xbox Game Pass.
]]>Pre-orders for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 PS5 bundle started today and customers are web-slinging across the net to get their hands on this extremely limited edition console and its separately sold accessories including a DualSense controller and PS5 covers. All feature a cool red and black symbiote takeover design inspired by the game.
]]>Video game music has been garnering more recognition in recent years, but despite that surge of interest there are still few series’ that garner as much attention or praise in the musical space as Final Fantasy - and now, fans have another example to demonstrate exactly why in the form of a new recording of orchestral arrangements from various titles in the series.
]]>A new story trailer has dropped for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and it finds Peter and Miles facing some personal issues. It also introduces Venom.
]]>The best story-based games are ageless. While gameplay can become clunky with the passing of time, an enthralling narrative is just as gripping whether it came out in 2004 or 2024.
]]>It seems like it might be impossible for Hideo Kojima to be anything but himself, as he recently expressed wanting to make a game you can play in space.
]]>If you miss the original Assassin Creed's hazy blue look, you'll probably be thrilled to hear Assassin's Creed Mirage will have a filter that captures just that.
]]>At one time, there were rumours abound that the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Mirage would lead directly to (or be packaged with) a full-blown ground-up remake of the original game. It’s easy to see how this idea gained traction – Mirage has been sold to us from the start as something of a back-to-basics reset for the series that harkens back to the original game’s city-based gameplay and is set in the same “global region”.
]]>I didn’t watch the PlayStation Showcase live for a number of boring reasons (one involves projectile vomiting, if you must know), but I watched it as if live this morning hoping a string of exciting announcements would lift my dreary bones. My bones were not lifted. In fact they spontaneously moved to form the exact pose of the shrug emoji.
]]>It's a big day for Metal Gear Solid fans. As well as the announcement of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater – coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam later this year – we've also heard through the codec that a compilation of three classic MGS titles will also come to PS5 in 'autumn/fall'.
]]>A new hotfix landing in Destiny 2 Lightfall on March 23 is going to address a major issue that's been causing players grief since the start of the latest expansion's launch: finally, Cabal Thresher damage output is going to be nerfed.
]]>Luminous Productions has released a patch for Forspoken on PC and promises more updates are coming.
]]>The Nintendo Wii was a mainstream sensation from the moment it released, and likely still sits underneath the TV in many households that had never bought a games console before and haven't since.
]]>There is a massive selection of brilliant games available on PlayStation Plus, for both those with the trusty PlayStation 4 or a brand new PlayStation 5.
]]>The PS2 is one of the best-selling consoles of all time, and with good reason. Not only was it a convenient DVD player just as the format was taking off, but its incredible library of fantastic PS2 games raised the bar in almost every way from the original PlayStation.
]]>If you’re old enough to remember when Sony announced that it was getting into the handheld video game system thing, you’ll remember how exciting it was. At that time, in 2003, Sony was at the absolute height of its gaming powers, with the PS2 an absolutely undisputed dominator of the market. The idea that Sony would now encroach on the last corner of the market still held by Nintendo was thrilling.
]]>We are roughly a month away from God of War: Ragnarok, and that means every PlayStation gamer and their grandma is either replaying the God of War saga – or they're planning to. And that might (and should) include the PSP games. Because they objectively kick ass.
]]>You know the worst thing about Wolverine in cinema? He isn’t allowed to be horrible. Like, really horrible. The spit-and-polish Jackman got in his various silver screen adaptations wipe all the gore and viscera off those lovely adamantium claws, leaving us with a refined, glistening of everyone’s favorite Canadian mutant. There’s no abhorrent violence, no running people through, no wanton beheading – just to make a point (except in Logan, which is why it’s the best film). For the most part, the Wolverine we get in Hollywood is usually very different to the one we get in the comics.
]]>Marvel is clearly preparing to go deeper into the world of games, but you shouldn't expect any connections between them.
]]>Disney Dreamlight Valley is the idyllic village that will ultimately become a home to all of your favourite Disney characters. Between tending to them and forming friendships, you’ll also be tasked with general activities such as mining, farming, and fishing.
]]>Ahead of today's Call of Duty: Next multiplayer showcase event, Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward finally unveiled one of the biggest new additions in the upcoming shooter: Gunsmith 2.0. The Gunsmith system, introduced in the 2019 Modern Warfare, was one of its defining features.
]]>If you have a spare cool mill laying around somewhere, and fancy upping your console collection, there's an eBay listing you might want to check out.
]]>Street Fighter 6 has received a brand new trailer as part of Evo 2022’s Street Fighter 5 tournament - this time revealing Juri and Kimberly as official additions to the cast. Set to launch in 2023, this trailer raises the total official character count to seven as we march closer to the eventual release of the highly anticipated 2D fighter!
]]>The iconic Game Boy was always going to be a tough act to follow, but with the Nintendo DS, Nintendo managed to make a system just as innovative and exciting.
]]>You know when something just ‘breaks’ a memory? Somebody says or does something, and it’s like a bolt of lightning to your brain, unlocking a thought that then feels like it’s been there forever, just unspoken.
]]>This week has delivered yet another episode in the endless headache-inducing drama around video game preservation, as Ubisoft updated the Steam listing for Assassin’s Creed Liberation to announce the game would soon be delisted – prompting anger from preservationists and fans across the internet.
]]>Sony has announced that PlayStation Plus Premium will not support DLC and add-on content when streaming a title.
]]>The first batch of games have been confirmed for the "all-new" PlayStation Plus, with some big headliners like Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut.
]]>It's May 4th! You know what that means – we all have to fall into the horrific trap set by the world's biggest media megacorp and embrace it as Star Wars Day, 'cos May the 4th be with you and all that. And people say Valentines Day is a corporate trick...!
]]>In an era of triple-A publishers hoarding big franchises, it’s rare to see any previously successful IP go more than a few years without a new entry or reboot. It’s even stranger to watch such a franchise sit gathering dust in a publisher’s catalogue for over a decade without being re-ignited or sold off to finance other projects. Yet, this is exactly the position that the Midnight Club series, once a staple of any racing game fan’s library, has found itself in. Forgotten about and left to rot.
]]>Handing over a brick of heroin to a visibly paranoid dealer, I finalise the sale price using the DS stylus – and can’t help picturing a disapproving Shigeru Miyamoto. As the constantly smiling creator of Mario – the huggable godfather of gaming – Miyamoto seems endearingly innocent. Now, I’m using the device that brought us Nintendogs to push Class A drugs.
]]>Since they first stepped foot in Francia, Evior's relationship with Sigfred Elgring has been a difficult one.
]]>Shortly after Sony announced plans to close the PlayStation Store serving PS3, Vita and PSP, the company has changed its mind on the proposed closure of the stores and will now keep them open.
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