The wait for a third Homeworld game has finally come to an end. The pioneering 3D space RTS was a brilliant sun flare of excellence at the turn of the millennium, but faded into an almost mythological status amidst acquisitions, IP purchases and more. After a two decades wait, Homeworld 3 is ready for launch. Homeworld remains one of the outright coolest strategy games I can think of, though that admittedly comes from a relatively juvenile male perspective on space and military actions, real and imagined – this game series lives in the same pantheon as the 2000s Battlestar Galactica’s most ac ..read more

Wouldn’t it be lovely if gaming devices could handle being played outdoors a bit better? Sure, screens are getting brighter and better all the time, but as soon as those glossy glass screens catch a whiff of reflected sky or sunlight, the image gets so washed out that there’s almost no point trying. Also power sockets don’t grow on trees. Still, at least it’s better than having to get close to a window and angle your original Game Boy Advance just right in the fading light while trying to beat Ecks vs. Sever or something. I’ve spent this week mainly playing Homeworld 3 – tilting my blinds to s ..read more

Can Disney Speedstorm be considered a rival to Nintendo’s near-unstoppable Mario Kart 8? While the kart-racing subgenre has seen a good few new entries since the moustachioed motorist and his entourage sped their way to glory on the Wii U almost a decade ago, few have come close to a podium finish, let alone besting what many consider the finest kart racing game of all time. With Disney Speedstorm having just celebrated its first anniversary, I decided to give it another go. Not since Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled have I put as much time into one of these games, especially one that is so un ..read more

Ever since Microsoft started on their spending spree of acquisitions in 2018, gamers have feared the worst. Would Microsoft simply out-spend Sony to secure market dominance? Would PlayStation gamers be deprived of innumerable great games? Were they building Game Pass into a video gaming Death Star? It turns out we should have feared the opposite. Death Stars do have a tendency to blow up, after all… The past six months – pretty much ever since Microsoft closed the staggeringly huge acquisition of Activision Blizzard King – has seen almost every aspect of Xbox as a platform thrown into doubt. F ..read more

Like a lot of people, I played the incredible cat-driven adventure game Stray back in 2022, and also like a lot of people, I came away wishing that the whole game was just a simply, atmospheric cat simulator like the opening hours had been. I loved scratching trees and hopping across balconies, but as soon as the game introduced coloured keys and nuanced NPCs I lost interest. Little Kitty, Big City is a game that’s laser focused on delivering that wandering cat power fantasy I had been dreaming of. There’s the tiniest bit of narrative framing for why you’re playing as a lost little kitty in a ..read more

In one of the most double-think statements ever made outside of George Orwell’s 1984, Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty has told employees that “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” just one day after closing down the game studio that was responsible for the prestigious award-winning game, Hi-Fi Rush. The statement was made during a town hall meeting for employees with Booty discussing the future goals for Xbox Game Studios, with those internal remarks then shared with The Verge. It’s not currently clear how many computers were immediately doused in jets of coffee and ..read more

With STALKER 2 long-awaited release scheduled for later this year, there’s been an unsurprising spike in interest surrounding the original trilogy which debuted on PC almost two decades ago. Capitalising on this curiosity, Ukrainian publisher GSC recently launched STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy, bringing the three games to Xbox and PlayStation for the first time. The trilogy marks an opportune gateway into the STALKER series, but it comes with one major caveat. Despite the visual and quality of life improvements, these games have not really been rebuilt or redesigned with a console audie ..read more

Sonic Rumble has been revealed by SEGA, and going by the trailer it is inspired by Fall Guys. The game will allow up to 32 players to compete against each other in different challenges, some of which are shown in the footage. Sonic Rumble is going to be a mobile title only though, coming to both Android and Apple mobile devices. A Sonic Rumble closed beta test will be taking place between May 24th and May 26th, but this limited to those in the United States only, and during specific times which are listed below.I 1st play session:May 24, 2024 (Fri) 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PDT) 2nd play session:M ..read more

Master Detective Archives: Rain Code+ is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, launching on 18th July. With a ‘+’ at the end of the game name, this is an enhanced version of the game that first launched on Nintendo Switch last June, giving it around one year of timed exclusivity. Announced by the team on Twitter, and per the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu, Master Detective Archives: Rain Code+ will have 4K resolution support and a gallery mode, as well as bundling in the DLC that was a part of the Season Pass for the Switch version. More details will be revealed tomorrow. Coming fro ..read more

The alien-filled hospital management sim Galacticare will launch on 23rd May, developer Brightrock Games and publisher CULT Games have announced. Interstellar healthcare will be coming out across PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam, Epic and GOG. Galacticare will take the enduring Theme Hospital style of irreverent hospital management and shoot it into outer space, where you’ll have to build a sci-fi hospital that can take care of all manner of unusual alien illnesses. There will be 49 distinct conditions for you to treat, all with weird side effects, affecting seven different alien races ..read more