“I've had a lot of experience in these gallery spaces and it always felt like this vague form of superficial hell to me,” Filippo Meozzi, director and producer of Doom: The Gallery Experience, tells me.
]]>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?
]]>You know the Nintendo Switch 2? Well, it seems whatever you've been doing to try and magic up more info on it has worked, as accessories manufacturer Genki has shown off dummy models of it at CES 2025, in addition to siggesting to believes an April launch to currently be on the cards.
]]>A good Genshin Impact Citlali build has one thing at its center: elemental mastery. Citlali needs it more than any other stat, and the good thing about that is you can get a free 4-star catalyst that buffs elemental mastery – no fiddling with the weapons banner required. Citlali’s kit includes a passive buff that raises her damage by a hefty amount of her mastery, so stack as much of it on her as you can.
]]>One of gaming's most popular metal tracks has soared past the 100 million stream mark on Spotify, cementing it as a true classic in the world of video game OSTs.
]]>You know the Nintendo Switch 2? That small thing absoltely no one's been speculating about and hungry for news on for a good while now? Well, some fans are now seemigly so desperate for any clues that might help them work out when a reveal is coming that they're resorting to tarot readings.
]]>A very, very good JRPG is back on the Nintendo Switch e-shop after a brief absence. That means you, yes you at home with a nice pocket of Christmas cash, can grab it right now and have a blast during this depressing January.
]]>Do you enjoy taking in some high culture, ruminating on the messaging of art, chatting to fellow brain-havers about the nature of humanity and its history? Do you like classic Doom? Well, good news, there's now a game called Doom: The Gallery Experience, and it lets you wander around exhibits as a wine-sipping version of everyone's favourite demon-slayer.
]]>If you can believe that much time has passed, Bayonetta is 15 years old now, and PlatinumGames has teased… something!
]]>Balatro is obviously one of the best games from 2024, and now the dev behind it has shared what they think are the top titles from last year.
]]>If you thought Stardew Valley was popular, you probably didn't realise just how popular, as the indie game hits a pretty massive sales milestone.
]]>The right Genshin Impact Mavuika build is refreshingly straightfowrard to put together, thanks to the Pyro Archon’s unique kit. Mavuika doesn’t need much to work well – just some extra attack and a bit of crit damage. What’s more important is putting her in the right team. Mavuika’s burst needs are different from every other character in Genshin Impact, so far anyway, and her nature as a Pyro sub-DPS means she works in far more team varieties than most Pyro characters since the game launched.
]]>Welcome to January, 2025, folks. As the new year begins, so too do the monthly updates from Sony about the line-up of games coming to PlayStation Plus’ various tiers. We’ve got the first one of those in 2025, with three core games that are (mostly) quite good.
]]>I first played Another Crab's Treasure on the side of the street behind the Day of the Devs event in LA earlier this year, the sun glaring on a laptop screen, quickly running out of power. Next to me sat Nick, the studio head, who watched patiently as a hungover blob attempted to navigate his team's game. He muttered "interesting" as I struggled to navigate the tutorial at first, I assume in awe at how long it took me to jump into the ocean and start the game proper. It remains the most embarrassing moment I had this year.
]]>I still think about the time, several years ago now, when I mentioned off-handedly in the comments of an article I wrote about video game adaptations of Stephen King stories that my dream game in this vein would be a Don't Nod adaptation of It. I've especially been thinking about that since the announcement of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage – a game developed and self-published by Don't Nod, due out in early 2025 – because I'll be damned if it doesn't clearly take quite a bit of inspiration from King's iconic 1986 doorstopper about an eldritch spider-clown from outer space, and the ragtag bunch of misfits destined to fight it.
]]>Epic Games has announced the next guest characters to officially arrive in Fortnite, and they both hail from Night City. Both Johnny Silverhand, and female V have joined the in-game shop.
]]>The Thing (2002) never was a very scary video game. Sure, low-detail graphics were far spookier more than 20 years ago, and there are some effective jump scares in it, but by and large, Computer Artworks' adaptation-sequel was goofy above all. Nightdive Studios' The Thing: Remastered hasn't altered that.
]]>I recently realised with some alarm that I've spent nearly 2% of 2024 playing Ace Attorney. That's not just 2% of my free time or even the time I spent awake, to be clear, but a whole percentage of the time I was alive in 2024, in-game in Ace Attorney. But honestly, what can you expect in a year when five previously almost-lost games from one of my favourite series were remastered and rereleased for modern systems, literally doubling the amount of Ace Attorney accessible to contemporary audiences within the span of only eight months?
]]>Yep, it's time to talk about video game boxes again. And the future. I know, I'm scared too. Anyway, a reasrach firm has had a go aty predicting what the next generation of console hardware will look like, and its verdict is this - one of PlayStation and Xbox will be able to achieve the kind of success it craves by avoiding landing in third place, while Nintendo'll be just fine.
]]>Essences are a major player in both games included in the MySims Cozy Bundle, and although they work a little differently in MySims versus MySims Kingdom, the basic idea is the same: they are part of the crafting materials you use for DIY and decorating projects.
]]>I'll cut to the chase: 2024 has been a great year for gaming. Just look at the various GOTY pieces that'll be going up over this week and into the beginning of 2025: each of the writing team here at VG247 has written three pieces - one about our actual GOTY, one about something that we feel has been criminally under-rated over the past 12 months, and one about something we're really looking forward to in the new year.
]]>Created in the mould of Animal Crossing and even following that franchise's Nintendo exclusivity to a degree, the MySims series is a spin-off of The Sims that swaps out death and taxes for chibi town management and villagers with specific design requirements.
]]>Warframe 1999 is here at last and players are having a blast exploring the past, zooming around on motorbikes, and thirsting over Viktor. However, it's also probably one of the most stacked updates in terms of popular voice acting talent. Warframe has always been solid in the VO department, but with Ben Starr, Alpha Takahashi, Amelia Tyler, and Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge the bar has been lifted to a whole other level.
]]>Almost a decade ago, Warframe players were using weapons like The Tipedo to send themselves flying through the air at ludicrous speeds. This turned the mobility game on its heads, allowing folks with the dexterity to do so to quickly soar through levels. Digital Extremes, rather than remove this bug, made it a feature. Now, with Warframe 1999, it seems a similar revolution in the mobility game has happened again.
]]>There's a lot to love about Disco Elysium: the writing, the art style, the philosophy, the branching narrative, the little hole in the middle of space and time, lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi... the list goes on.
]]>Digital Extremes - creators of Warframe - has just revealed that its highly anticipated Warframe 1999 update is launching tomorrow for all platforms. No specific release time has yet been specified, however.
]]>The Pokemon Company and Aardman have announced a very unexpected team-up for a "special project", you'll just be waiting quite a while for it.
]]>Monolith Soft, the developer behind the Xenoblade Chronicles series and main support studio on Zelda: Breath of the Wild is now completely owned by Nintendo.
]]>If you've been fancying taking a Pokemon nostalgia trip after getting hooked on TCG Pocket, then you'll be happy to hear Pokemon TV is back!
]]>Epic Games clearly wants Fortnite to be everything and anything, and its newest gamemode appears to be a move into the competitive FPS space.
]]>Updates for Haunted Chocolatier have been infrequent, but Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has made it clear it's still coming.
]]>On October 15, Michael "Mynki" James Brennen died after a hard-fought battle with cancer. He is best known for his work at Digital Extremes and Warframe, on which he was the first art director. Even after his departure from the company in 2017, he retained contact with the team and contributed to the games art direction and overall style. Warframe, with all its merits, has never been lacking in that department.
]]>Love - or platonic friendship - is in the air with Warframe 1999. While the next major update for Warframe has plenty of big features to get excited about, be it a motorbike, an infested boyband, or a whole new enemy faction to take on, it's the cast of new characters vibing around the run-down mall that has won the hearts of many. But how did this actually come about, and how did an award-winning romance writer end up working on the game?
]]>HunterxHunter NenxImpact, the upcoming Arc System Works and Bushiroad fighting game based on the hugely popular manga IP HunterxHunter, has been refused classification by the Australian government. This means that, unless something in the game changes to better fit the country's sensibilities, it can't be sold, advertised, or even imported into Straya.
]]>Live service games might be struggling more than ever, but if you were to look at Fortnite and its recent accomplishment, you probably couldn't tell.
]]>More than eight years after first launching, No Man's Sky finally has a very positive rating on Steam, and one Hello Games dev promises there's still much more to come.
]]>The ongoing legal battle between the Nintendo & The Pokemon Company team and Palworld developer Pocketpair may be heating up, but development of new content for Palworld isn't slowing down. Now, the company has announced a surprise collaboration with Terraria that will happen in 2025.
]]>In late 2022, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt received a pretty solid next-gen (more like current-gen now) update at no extra cost for owners of the base game on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Of course, the PC release got the biggest visual improvements, but that hasn't stopped modders (now with access to the full modding tools) from iterating even further on the game's textures, meshes, and whatnot. Now, Halk Hogan's 'The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project NextGen Edition' is taking things to the next level.
]]>We're creeping closer to Black Friday now, and with every passing day, the deals keep getting more and more impressive. If you head over to Target, you can currently pick up a Switch OLED Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Bundle for $274.99 – a $75 discount, or the standard Switch bundle for $224.99.
]]>Putting together a good Genshin Impact Chasca build is easier than you might think, thanks to the 5-star Anemo character’s straightforward kit. Chasca needs attack and crit damage, and that’s about it. However, you’ll need to think a bit more carefully about the team you build around her. Chasca’s kit works best without the usual Anemo supports, and certain elements won’t do her any favors.
]]>It feels like almost ever since Disco Elysium arrived in our lives, it's been linked to behind-the-scenes messiness which, while it's taken various forms and involved different parties, usually follows some similar themes. It's generally quite complex - as they said/this other person said video game drama often is - sometimes litigious, and occasionally really weird, if still clearly worth taking seriously.
]]>As A Minecraft Movie gets a new uncanny valley as heck trailer, its director and producer attempt to defend how it looks.
]]>GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition's launch in 2021, three years ago, was infamously rough. From badly upscaled textures, to shoddy character models, to broken animations (and plenty more), the three games that defined modern open worlds were butchered. Now, Rockstar Games has wowed everyone by pulling off a complete 180.
]]>The CEO of Grove Street Games, the studio which developed The GTA Trilogy's Definitive Edition - yes, the version that came out in a pretty shocking state - has tweeted a thinly veiled response to Rockstar's latest update to the trilogy removing some mentions of the studio from the three remastered games.
]]>Division Rivals is one of the main ways to earn rewards in FC 25's Ultimate Team mode.
]]>FUT Champs is available now in FC 25, with EA making some big changes to how the Ultimate Team mode works.
]]>Ahead of the massive Warframe 1999 update coming to Digital Extreme's very own Sci-fi action MMO Warframe, the studio has released a new Prime Access pack to the game featuring none other than Xaku Prime. That's right, everyone's favourite spectral skeleton is getting a new look and some fancy new guns starting today.
]]>UPDATE (14/11/24, 8:40 AM GMT): VG247 has recieved the following statement from a Microsoft spokesperson: "We respect our employees’ rights to express their point of view as they have done today. We will continue to listen and address their concerns at the bargaining table."
]]>The rumours are true: Xbox is following in Nintendo and Valve's footsteps, as Phil Spencer confirms that a handheld is on the way.
]]>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!
]]>Remember the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition? The ill-fated package of three classic GTA games, released in poor form and equally poor reception? Well, after like three years working quietly behind the scenes, it seems like the folks at Rockstar have put out a long-awaited update that might actually make it worth checking out.
]]>You thought you knew all of the games coming to Xbox Game Pass in the first half of November, but nope, it turns out Spyro is joining the service too!
]]>Metal Slug Tactics gets many things right, but perhaps its most impressive achievement is that it isn't bogged down nor limited by the IP it honors.
]]>Some kind of new Pokemon project called The Pokemon Works is in the, uh, works, but it's not very clear what it is.
]]>The Genshin Impact 5.2 banners carry on Natlan’s pattern of disrupting how Genshin works, with a new 5-star Anemo character who can use other elements and trigger Swirl alone. There’s also Ororon, the brooding emo man and the Traveler’s friend in the Night-Wind Clan. He’s got good reason to brood, to be fair, seeing as folks told him his soul was damaged his entire life and he wanted to die. Y’know, normal things.
]]>HoYoverse announced the Genshin Impact 5.2 release date during the RPG’s latest livestream, and the new version update has quite a few shakeups in store. For one thing, Natlan’s Archon quest is breaking with tradition and including an Interlude chapter in the middle of the numbered chapters. There’s a new 4-star whose playstyle opens new possibilities for crowd control and an Anemo 5-star with a gun that fires multi-elemental bullets. Take that, Sucrose.
]]>“We've all waited 14 years for this game,” modder Badass Baboon says of the original Red Dead Redemption, when it finally arrived on PC at the end of last month.
]]>It's N7 Day, that wonderful time of year when alien fanciers the world over come together, look at BioWare, and say 'come on then, do a thing'. Well, the good news is that this year, BioWare's done a thing with No Man's Sky developer Hello Games. As of today, Mass Effect's Normandy is back in NMS, arrving alongside some other new features.
]]>Remember when it looked like Take-Two was shutting down both Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games and Roll7 - the studio behind Rollerdrome and OlliOlli World only for Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick to then say that it "didn't shutter" those studios? Well, Take-two's now confirmed those shutterings, as well as the sale of indie publisher Private Division.
]]>Stardew Valley's been getting some big updates this week as its 1.6 update has finally arrived on consoles and mobiles, after dropping on PC back in March. As it turns out, it's brought with it a multiplayer mode for the mobile folks, that's so "hidden" there's a full official guide to help you access it.
]]>There's still no exact sign of when we can expect to watch the live-action Legend of Zelda movie, but Nintendo has at least narrowed it down somewhat.
]]>I bring good news. You know the Nintendo Switch's successor, or the Switch 2 as everyone's been calling it for years at this point? Well, Nintendo's confirmed that it'll have backwards compatibility for Switch games. That means no having to pray that Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits gets rapidly ported to the new hardware right away, so you can continue to play it in public without losing street cred.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 might soon have some company in terms of cool Larian-developed RPGs with a dedicated versions for the big two current-gen consoles - the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. That's because Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition has just gotten fresh ratings for both of those video game playing boxes.
]]>The chickens are saved! Stardew Valley players hear me now, the recent surge of fowl falling foul of a nasty bug around freshly built Meadowland Farms has been fixed at last. Thank you, Mr ConcernedApe (sole creator of Stardew Valley), for thinking of the birds in these crazy times.
]]>It's a new month which means new Xbox Game Pass additions, and there's plenty of variety in this fresh batch.
]]>In order to stop Apex Legends' Linux cheating problem, Respawn is pulling support for the Steam Deck.
]]>There will soon be one less Elder Scrolls to play in the world, as the card game Legends is no longer available to buy on Steam.
]]>If a device exists, you can almost guarantee someone has put Doom on it, and that's exactly what's happened with the Nintendo Alarmo.
]]>The most popular Pokemon games tend to be the mainline games. They follow a tried and tested formula of catching and battling Pokemon, nurturing them so they can face even tougher battles and so that you can become the best trainer there ever was. Though, when you grow tired of going from Gym Leader to Gym Leader but still want your Pokemon fix, there are fortunately plenty of Pokemon spin-off games for you to try.
]]>It seems like there's no shortage of video game adaptations on the way, as apparently Outlast is next on the list to jump to the big screen.
]]>Yes, Jumanji is getting another sequel, and Sony has locked in a release date for the threequel.
]]>The PC port of the original Red Dead Redemption finally arrived yesterday, October 29, and it looks like it's taken barely any time at all for the game to start getting the not quite lore-friendly modding treatment. Cue videos of John Marston watching anime and the GTA 6 trailer in Armadillo's old timey cinema.
]]>Something I've always appreciated about Life is Strange as a franchise is its quiet versatility. The elevator pitch would describe it as a choose-your-own-adventure series about superheroes in modern America, sure, but there's room within that brief outline to tell all sorts of different stories. Every Life is Strange game typically contains some greater or lesser degree of mystery, thriller, sci-fi, and romance; but every new entry adjusts the balance to create something subtly unlike what's come before.
]]>We're gradually learning more and more about the bunch of studios that revealed themselves to be developing not quite Disco Elysium successors earlier this month, with the creative director behind Longdue having now offered a bit more info on how it plans to approach its upcoming game.
]]>The day has finally come, Xenoblade Chronicles X fans: the underrated Wii U classic is coming to Nintendo Switch.
]]>One of the things that made Summer Eternal stand out from the not quite Disco Elysium successor studio crowd when it was announced was the unique way its developers - the majority of whom are ex-ZA/UM - had gone about setting up its structure.
]]>There isn't much of the year left to release it in any way, but Digital Extremes has finally confirmed (roughly) when you'll be able to play Warframe 1999.
]]>Michel Koch, the co-creator of Life is Strange and Don't Nod creative director, has shared his thoughts on certain fans' reactions to Double Exposure.
]]>It's been a pretty depressing year for the games industry, with more layoffs and cutbacks than anyone can remotely justify, as corporate bigwigs still take home huge compensation packages, or waltz into golden parachutes. As much as they can, developers are trying to fight back against this tide of misery, but it's a tough task, as the developers at not quite Disco Elysium sucessor studio Summer Eternal know all too well.
]]>Brace yourselves, people who start salivating and jumping up and down whenever something that's potentially about the Nintendo Switch's successor - I'm gonna say it: the Switch 2?!? - surfaces. Yooka-Replaylee, the amusingly-named remaster of Yooka-Laylee, has just been announced to be coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and unspecified "Nintendo platforms".
]]>How do you follow-up your work on Disco Elysium, without just making something that's too much like Disco Elysium to be as innovative as Disco Elysium was? It's a hell of a riddle, and also a thing that Summer Eternal, the new studio featuring ex-ZA/UM devs that came with its own manifesto, is grappling with.
]]>“Disco Elysium shaped me as much as I shaped it, and I am eternally grateful for the experience,” Argo Tuulik, the last writer of the original game to depart ZA/UM, tells me.
]]>Ubisoft has reportedly disbanded the team behind Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, having allegedly opted to prioritise helping out other projects with “better sales potential”.
]]>Spooky season is well under way following the successful launch of the Silent Hill 2 remake, but fans of survival horror have more to look forward to this month with the release of Cozy Game Pals’ Fear the Spotlight. The first of multiple projects that Blumhouse Games has plans to publish, Fear the Spotlight is a suitably creepy, teen-slasher style romp that — while not all that scary for the most part — is a strong start for the publisher’s upcoming slate of games.
]]>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.
]]>Netflix has reportedly closed its in-house triple-A game studio known as "Team Blue", with a number of high profile developers it'd hired to be part of that studio, as part of its efforts to expand into the video game sphere, having left the company.
]]>Yeah, we get it, Mary's sick. Whatever. You wanna know who's really sick? James Sunderland, baby. We can prove it too, thanks to a brilliant Bomb Rush Cyberfunk mod that places the survival horror legend from the Silent Hill 2 Remake in a town full of tricks and skating rather than pricks in waiting.
]]>I've now played (courtesy of the early access Ultimate Edition) the first two chapters of Life is Strange: Double Exposure, which sees original protagonist Max Caulfield return to the spotlight for her first full-length game in nearly a decade. The original Life is Strange celebrates its 10th anniversary in January, and while Square Enix hasn't explicitly associated Max's reappearance with this upcoming milestone, it feels like it can't be pure coincidence that they've decided to revisit her now.
]]>NBA 2K25 is already a huge thing, and it's about to get even larger, thanks to fact its second season of content is launching alongside a new paid DLC game mode thingy that'll see you try to outscore your mates while flying about on a futuristic multitiered court littered with power-ups.
]]>Life is Strange: Double Exposure launches in early access today for players who forked out for the very premium Ultimate Edition, which includes a sneak peek at Chapters 1 & 2 ahead of the game's general release on October 29th.
]]>Tron: Identity developer Bithell Games has announced its latest game, Tron: Catalyst, and it's the first game being published under Devolver Digital's Big Fan label.
]]>Helldivers 2's next big patch is now set to drop tomorrow, October 15, because Arrowhead forgot to factor weekends into its plans when it announced that 60 day plan during the summer. The good news is that the studio's made up for this minor oversight via a cheeky video teasing what's coming in the patch, including one inclusion that's seen Johan Pilestedt get in on the jokes.
]]>In case you were living underneath a rock with the insulindian phasmid, a whole bunch of new projects and studios that involve developers who worked on Disco Elysium and look like they could well appeal to people who liked Disco Elysium were announced last week. While they all look interesting, the last one that of these things that popped up like an outbusts from Harry Du Bois' psyche might be the most looks like it might be the most Disco of them all - even coming with its own manifesto.
]]>Pokemon developer Game Freak has been hit by a massive hack, leaking huge amounts of behind the scenes details, including the Switch 2's codename.
]]>New indie Metroidvanias and Soulslikes seem to pop up every few days, but few have made such a good first impression as Mandragora.
]]>The "Bros" part of Super Smash Bros. has always been a bit of a mystery, but series creator Masahiro Sakurai has shed some light on what it means.
]]>It'll likely be a while before we get to play Crystal Dynamics' upcoming Tomb Raider game, but luckily Aspyr has another round of remasters coming our way.
]]>Nearly five years since the game launched, Disco Elysium has something of a rotten legacy. One of the most acclaimed games of the modern era, the ground-breaking RPG was adored by critics and consumers alike at launch, lauded for its deep RPG systems, its exemplary writing, and for how completely and utterly well-conceived its bleak, miserable world was. I also really, really liked the music.
]]>The Phantom Menace is the one Star Wars movie that probably received the most tie-in games back in the day, and it appears that Lucasfilm Games is making sure we remember all of them. After a straightforward re-release of Episode I: The Phantom Menace earlier this year, it's been announced that Aspyr is remastering Jedi Power Battles.
]]>If I had to choose a single word to describe Mario & Luigi: Brothership after an hour or so seeing a few different areas of the near-final game, that word is up there in the headline: it’s delightful. If I had to choose a second, well… let’s go for refreshing.
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