The Lord of the Rings: Gollum has been a disaster thus far, becoming the worst reviewed game of the year on both Opencritic and Metacritic. I have it sitting in my Steam library and do intend on reviewing it myself, but after browsing through the various opinions of other people, I may choose to keep my sanity intact, thank you very much ..read more

After 600 days without a Showcase, expectations were high for Sony to show us what the next year or two is going to look like for Playstation. They've been fairly quiet thus far, leaving us very little to look forward to after Marvel's Spider-Man 2. Of course, hype is dangerous because it leads to dissapointment, and yet I don't think it was unfair to be hyped for the Showcase. Many of Sony's biggest studios haven't released anything for a few years, so the timing was absolutely ripe for Sony to spend an hour show off exclusive after exclusive. But that isn't what happened. Join me as I recap ..read more

Much like the titular character himself, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum's life has been long and tortured. Originally announced back in 2019 by, it has been delayed several times from its initially planned 2021 release. Early trailers didn't exactly illicit an excited response from gamers which might explain why it has released today to deafening silence. Seriously, did anyone remember this was coming out? I didn't ..read more

Microsoft has helpfully highlight how many games shown at the Playstation Showcase will be coming to Xbox ..read more

Days before the Playstation Showcase, SIE CEO Jim Ryan proclaimed in a Sony business call that they were planning  “some fairly interesting and quite aggressive plans” in regards to streaming and cloud-based gaming. Well, the first step of that seems to be Project Q, a handheld streaming device ..read more

Sony might own Bungie, but that doesn't seem to be stopping Bungie from announcing its latest project for Playstation, Xbox and PC. In a rather surprising reveal during the Playstation Showcase, the legendary studio that brought us Halo and Destiny is returning to its oldest series, Marathon. This will be their first new project in a decade, so the hype is real ..read more

After multiple reports that Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater would be getting remade, Konami has officially announced the existence of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. The brief trailer we got didn't show much in terms of actual gameplay, instead focusing on a stylistic display of various predators getting taken down by bigger, badder predators, ending in the biggest and baddest predator of them all: Snake ..read more

Sony has been fairly quiet for a while now, and their last big Showcase was a couple of years ago. So, today's Playstation Showcase event is their chance to knock our socks off with heaps of cool announcements, reveals and looks at everything they have coming over the next year or two. Because it's fun to speculate and dream about what might show up, I've tossed together a very quick list of 10 predictions for the show, some far more likely than others. I can't wait to see if I get anything right, so lets just jump into it ..read more

The existence of a Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater remake was first reported on by VGC back in 2021 and the news instantly got people talking. Since then various little rumours and whispers have circulated, but they've ramped up considerably over the past few months. Now, Windows Central's Jez Corden says he's managed to "hard-confirm" that it's real and coming soon ..read more

The UK physical sale chart for the last week has been revealed, and Zelda is sitting comfortably the top, along with another two Zelda titles in the top 20 ..read more