Bad news, would-be Xbox Series X/S buyers: Microsoft just bumped up its console prices, with select peripherals and first party games also affected

Microsoft has announced a rise in price for the Xbox Series X|S worldwide. This, the company stated in a statement to IGN, is due to the increase in import costs due to “market conditions and the rising cost of development.” In addition, first party …

Helldivers 2 director Pilestedt pops up mid-sabbatical to reveal that dropping onto planets is more terrifying than any of us realised, because of a missing animation

It’s not often Helldivers 2’s director pops up on Reddit to dispense a bit of interesting insight at the moment, since he’s still on sabbatical from developer Arrowhead. However, Johan Pilestedt’s just made a brief cameo on Reddit to reveal the reason…

Codemasters is “pausing development” on future rally games with its big re-acquisition of the WRC licence only having produced one game, which really sucks

That sound you can hear is me sighing into the steering wheel of my virtual Lancia Delta. Codemasters has announced that it’s “pausing development plans on future rally titles” now it’s finished adding stuff to EA Sports WRC, with the official WRC lic…

Borderlands 4 shows off a more “grounded” Borderlands, with a real focus on all that couch co-op goodness that made us fall in love with the series to begin with

We’ve got an absolute boat-load of new Borderlands 4 info courtesy of a Sony State of Play livestream that people flocked to watch last night. In it, we got plenty of gameplay to gaze over, including a peek at all manner of new and returning features….

Oblivion Remastered’s trailer teases first-person horse riding that isn’t in the final game, but good news: there’s already a mod for it

You might not have noticed if your preference has been to bounce across Cyrodiil to help grind up your acrobatics skill, but when you’re riding a horse in Oblivion Remastered, you’re limited to the third-person camera. Read more

Arc Raiders does so much to remind me of classic PUBG, and I can’t possibly think of a more flattering compliment

A few of my early encounters in classic PUBG are forever etched into my memory. There’s a folder of recordings I still keep that’s full of my most exciting, terrifying and confusing moments across years of its evolution. Read more