HomeNewsFootball Manager 2025 Football Manager 2025 has been delayed until March 2025, to avoid “compromising our usual standards"The series is moving to a new engine The series is moving to a new engine Image credit:Sports Interactive Image credit:Sports Interactive I was a few days late with the news when I wrotelast weekthatFootball Manager 2025had confirmed its release date for this November. Now I know that I shouldn’t have bothered: Sports Interactive have now delayed FM2025 until March 2025....

HomeNewsDisco Elysium Former Disco Elysium devs are working on a spiritual successor at new studio Longdue, though Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov aren’t involvedLong due indeed Long due indeed Image credit:ZA/UM Image credit:ZA/UM A representative of Longdue told us that “the studio isn’t ready to talk about specific names at the moment beyond the people mentioned in the press release, but they are looking forward to sharing more about the game and the studio in the future”....

Cthulhull breach! Image credit:No More Robots Image credit:No More Robots After a hard day’s editing articles about threeDisco Elysiumspiritual successors - eachmorepoliticallyoutspokenthan the last, in a kind of Sophisticated Pooh collage of escalating Marxism - I like to kick back with a nice chill game about Lovecraftian space monsters. Start your run playing ‘Lucid Proxima’ and command a fleet of ships through battle across the universe. Successful missions reward you with new artifacts to upgrade your ships, D....

HomeNewsKeep Driving Image credit:YCJY Games Image credit:YCJY Games “Post Voidis a masterpiece of compulsive motion and hypnotic, irresistible sounds,“wrote Sinof YCJY Games’s “orgiastic” shooter. “It does something to my brain that I’ve never experienced before.” The developer’s just-announcedKeep Drivingseems a lot less inclined to scramble your grey matter, though it’s partial to the old rose-tinted goggles. It’s a droll, backward-glancing andslightlyominous 2D managementRPGin which you drive to a music festival on the other side of the country....

HomeHardwareFeaturesMetaphor: ReFantazio Metaphor: ReFantazio is bad for graphics nerds but good for the Steam DeckWhere we’re going, we don’t need anti-aliasing Where we’re going, we don’t need anti-aliasing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academybrings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. Few games demonstrate the disconnect between graphics and aesthetic likeMetaphor: ReFantazio....

HomeNews Steam will now warn customers at checkout that they’re only buying a digital license to a gameDue to coming California legislation Due to coming California legislation Image credit:Ubisoft Image credit:Ubisoft Steam now shows customers a message to let them know that they’re buying a license when making a purchase through the storefront, rather than any outright ownership. The change has been implemented internationally in response to new California legislation due to take effect next year....

HomeNews Sure, why not - third group of former Disco Elysium devs announce “revolutionary new RPG studio"With a worker’s co-operative structure that includes a “voice of the gamers” With a worker’s co-operative structure that includes a “voice of the gamers” Summer Eternal don’t have a name for their first RPG yet. They’re currently looking “to gather authors, writers, designers who previously worked together on Disco Elysium, as well as new talent, all of us who have yearned to work together on something completely fresh and original, and create a liberating space for us and other veteran RPG developers to finally, after many years, collectively start innovating again in this game space”....

HomeNewsTomb Raider IV-VI Remastered Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered will arrive in February 2025, perhaps make Angel Of Darkness playable at lastRIP in peace Core Design RIP in peace Core Design Image credit:Core Design/Aspyr Image credit:Core Design/Aspyr Tomb Raider 1-3 got theremaster treatmentearlier this year, and surprise surprise, nowTomb Raider IV-VI Remasteredis on the way. That’ll include Angel Of Darkness, of course, the entry of the sexology that could most obviously benefit from some TLC....

HomeNewsXXX Nightshift Yet another studio formed of Disco Elysium alumni has announced a cerebral sci-fi RPG, just to confuse youXXX gonna give it to you XXX gonna give it to you Image credit:Dark Math Games Image credit:Dark Math Games XXX Nightshift - Official Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube XXX Nightshift - Official Announcement Trailer Ah, sultry whispering. Yes, this basically seems like an ASMR rework of the waking scene in Disco Elysium, in which detective Harry DuBois wakes up slowly to the quarreling sounds of his limbic system and a sense of deep worthlessness....

HomeNews Goat Simulator Remastered just looks like how I remember Goat Simulator lookingIbex your pardon Ibex your pardon Image credit:Coffee Stain Publishing Image credit:Coffee Stain Publishing Coffee Stain Publishing have fully revealedGoat Simulator Remastered, a spruced-up take on 2014’sopen world, ragdolling livestock sandbox with all of the original’s DLC included. I played a bit of this atGamescomin August, and while the trailer below is proof positive that the remaster does indeed look newer and shinier, in the moment I couldn’t shake the idea from my memory banks that this was just howGoat Simalwayslooked....

HomeNews Players are now less “accepting” that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after “underestimating” the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2’s performance woesHence, delaying Prison Architect 2 to ensure it doesn’t meet the same fate Hence, delaying Prison Architect 2 to ensure it doesn’t meet the same fate Image credit:Paradox Interactive Image credit:Paradox Interactive Paradox Interactivedelayedjail management simulatorPrison Architect 2indefinitely this August, commenting at the time that the game had notable performance issues, and that its system-led design was proving tricky to tinker with....

HomeNewsRed Dead Redemption Shout out to Red Dead Redemption’s PC requirements for allowing me to finally meet the recommended specs for somethingThat was my grandpappy’s RTX 2070 That was my grandpappy’s RTX 2070 Image credit:Rockstar Image credit:Rockstar Minimum: Recommended: The game itselfarrives on Steam on the 29thof October, clearly angling for that Halloween real estate with its excellent expansion Undead Nightmare, which comes as part of the bundle. I don’t have a fun compilation video of bugs to share with you like Edwin did, although I do have the second best thing: I learned on a website full of cowboy slang that “acknowledge the corn” means to “admit the truth, to confess a lie, or acknowledge an obvious personal shortcoming....

HomeNewsSilent Hill 2 Remake Silent Hill 2 almost spoiled the game’s biggest twist for Italians before the day one patch came to the rescueChe palle! Che palle! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Konami Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Konami “Ahah esatto siamo riusciti a far patchare un gioco perché spoilera tutto nei primi dieci minuti. Ci manca solo una bella montatura politica stile rule of rose,” wrote one Reddit user, which I believe is Italian for “please remakeRule Of Rosenext....