HomeNewsEA Sports PGA Tour EA show first teaser trailer for EA Sports PGA Tour, just as 2K’s PGA Tour 2K23 comes outEA’s swing will now come next year EA’s swing will now come next year EA have released the teaser trailer for their first golf game since 2015,EA Sports PGA Tour. It will reportedly feature all four major golfing championships, as well as several of the world’s most famous courses. You can find the thirty seconds of footage of grass and sandpits below....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… Sharkey’s 3D Pool?Where’s Jacques Derrida been hiding all these years? Where’s Jacques Derrida been hiding all these years? Oh my word, I’d forgotten about Sharkey’s 3D Pool. What a grand old game. Apparently it was quite technically impressive for its time, as one of the very first 3D pool or snooker games. I wouldn’t have known anything about that as an eight-year-old playing games after school. Much like I knew absolutely nothing about how to play pool well....

HomeNewsResident Evil Village Lady Dimitrescu is losing some height in Resident Evil Village’s Mercenaries DLCHoney, I shrunk the giant vampire goddess Honey, I shrunk the giant vampire goddess Image credit:Capcom Image credit:Capcom Capcom are making literal big bad Lady Dimitrescu a wee bit shorter forResident Evil Village’s The Mercenaries Additional Orders DLC, out later this month. Game director Kento Kinoshita toldPolygonthat although playable Lady D is still taller than any other character in Mercenaries, she’s been shortened to “a little under nine feet tall” from hercanon heightof around nine feet six inches....

HomeNews Meta Quest Pro finally unveiled, but it’ll cost you £1500They say it’s for business, but it’ll run games, too They say it’s for business, but it’ll run games, too Meta have announced their much-teased new VR headset, the Meta Quest Pro. It promises a swankier virtual reality experience over the Meta Quest 2, with higher resolution displays, a lighter headset, and new Quest Touch Pro controllers included. It’s also launching imminently, on October 25th, with pre-orders open now....

HomeNews Need For Speed Unbound’s cartoon driving effects can be turned on and offIf you’re not into that kind of thing If you’re not into that kind of thing Not keen on the snazzy driving effects in recently announced racerNeed For Speed Unbound? That’s okay, because devs Criterion Games have confirmed that you don’t have to play the game with great big puffs of colourful smoke dredging up from your car’s wheels, or cartoon wings popping out when you drive up a ramp and get some air....

HomeFeaturesRomancelvania Romancelvania: a side-scrolling date-em-up perfect for fans of Hades, Boyfriend Dungeon, and Monster PromA highly recommended Steam Next Fest demo for all my fellow monster-dating weirdos A highly recommended Steam Next Fest demo for all my fellow monster-dating weirdos I picked up theRomancelvaniademo at Steam Next Fest on Alice Bee’s recommendation, and she was quite correct when she described it as “extremely relevant to [my] interests”. So relevant, in fact, that I’m starting to wonder if this wasn’t an attempt at psychological sabotage disguised as a friendly gesture....

HomeHardwareDeals The Logitech G915 Lightspeed Wireless TKL gaming keyboard is £95 / $80 off in Amazon’s Prime Early Access SaleA compact version of our favourite wireless mechanical keyboard A compact version of our favourite wireless mechanical keyboard We’ve never ran a full review of the Logitech G915 Lightspeed Wireless TKL keyboard – my bad – but all you really need to know is that it’s theG915 Lightspeed Wireless, one of thebest gaming keyboardsever, without the number pad....

HomeHardwareDeals Today’s Prime Early Access Sale makes the best-value Steam Deck microSD card even cheaperOver £100 / $100 off the 1TB SanDisk Ultra Over £100 / $100 off the 1TB SanDisk Ultra Update:It looks like the UK’s 512GB deal and the US’s 1TB deal are no longer available. Boo, but also, the 400GB model is now on sale, so I’ve replaced the former with this mid-sized card in the lists below....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… Action Man: Raid On Island X?A real action game A real action game If I remember correctly, Action Man: Raid On Island X dropped out of a cereal box. This was back when cereal had that Happy Meal generosity, and you’d look forward to that thump as a gift caked in dust landed in your bowl. You won’t find any game demos in those wheat crunchie crumbs anymore....

HomeFeaturesWild Hearts New Monster Hunter-like Wild Hearts is channelling Fortnite to stand outAnd it’s looking very promising And it’s looking very promising Wild Heartsis Koei Tecmo and EA Original’s effort to muscle in onMonster Hunter’s monopoly on video games where your primary goal is to make nice pants from gigantic fire geckos. I was lucky enough to go hands-on with an early build of the Wild Hearts’s opening hours to see how it stacks up against its age-old competitor, and whether it has any chance of melting down Monster Hunter’s trophy cabinet and forging itself a golden crown....

HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: skateboard tricks and flying kicksAdmiring more upcoming indie games Admiring more upcoming indie games OohThe Milk Lake(coming to Steam) does actually look like this: worked on finer movement control and driving faster attacks than in the mocap data#screenshotsaturday#gamedev#indiedev#unity3d#madewithunitypic.twitter.com/Ri0d8HNJ6T— The Milk Lake (@TheMilkLake)October 8, 2022 worked on finer movement control and driving faster attacks than in the mocap data#screenshotsaturday#gamedev#indiedev#unity3d#madewithunitypic.twitter.com/Ri0d8HNJ6T I’m always keen to see what Oleomingus are up to:...

HomeNews Steam Deck’s custom boot videos are getting very creative indeedThink of them as the Deck’s strapline Think of them as the Deck’s strapline Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Owners of Valve’s handheld PCSteam Deckhave been fiddling about with creating and sharing their own ten-second animations for the machine’s new custom boot video feature, implemented in a client update last week. Some pay homage to Valve and Steam, while others nod towards games in general, or even classic telly and film....

HomeNewsChoo-Choo Charles Terror train Choo-Choo Charles steams towards PC in DecemberHe really wants to punch your ticket He really wants to punch your ticket Here comes the pain train, next stop: you. Locomotive-themed survival horrorChoo-Choo Charlesbrings its twisted take on Thomas The Tank Engine to PC on December 9th. A new trailer for the game shows some more of the mysterious island that freakish spider-legged Charles calls home, and the helpful people you can meet there....