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Balatro picks up the top prize at the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards. Balatro was the big winner at the 25th annual GDC Awards. The roguelike deck builder developed by LocalThunk secured four ...

République: Anniversary Edition and Chocobo GP are among this week’s new Nintendo Switch eShop releases. Despite the ongoing success of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, there’s always space for another mascot ...

Forspoken and the return of Dead Space lead this week’s lineup of new video game releases for the PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. Despite a fair degree of hype, Forspoken remains something of ...

Following the cancellation of GDC 2020, organisers have lined-up a week of talks and sessions to be live-streamed on Twitch, starting today. This year’s GDC was set to host hundreds of panels, talks, ...

Dredge and MLB The Show 23 top this week’s list of new video game releases for the PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. Dredge is a new single-player fishing RPG with an undercurrent of cosmic ...

Humanity and Lego 2K Drive lead this week’s lineup of new video game releases for the PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox. Humanity is a new abstract puzzle game from Enhance, the studio founded by ...

Elden Ring takes home Game of the Year at the 23rd annual GDC Awards. The 2023 Game Developers Choice Awards saw some of last year’s biggest games recognised for their achievements in front of an ...

From Bad North to Captain Toad, from Townscaper to Tunic – why do video games make the best dioramas? It might surprise our American readers, but we don’t really make dioramas at school in the UK. We ...

Clap Hanz’s special brand of golf makes its long overdue Nintendo debut with Easy Come, Easy Golf on Nintendo Switch. Has it been worth the wait? First up, a disclaimer: Yes, I am aware that Easy Come ...

If you’re struggling with latency, or just interested in how things work, you might want to know where the Fortnite servers are located. In the dim, distant past, you needed to know server names or IP ...