Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week, Kelsey remembers why Resident Evil 5 isn't an all-timer; Connor self-inflicts a strange challenge on himself in Guild Wars 2; Marie finds herself digging out her Game Boy Advance again; Ed makes a good point about horror games; Victoria accidentally completes Shadow of the Tomb Raider again; Dom sees lemons; Chris doesn't impress his wife with Sean Bean; and Bertie makes a confession.
Hytale, the seemingly doomed sandbox RPG has a release date at last, after the project was reacquired by one of its original co-founders. It will be launching into Early Access on the 13th January, 2026.
If Santa Ragione is to go out of business soon - as it seems likely to, barring a sales miracle for its upcoming, banned-on-Steam horror game, Horses - it will be a tragedy for video games. It's never had a true breakout hit, but by pure output alone the studio is a game development marvel.
Arc Raiders has certainly stolen the hearts of minds of gamers this season, remaining incredibly popular weeks after its explosive launch. In fact, Arc Raiders is proving to have such a steadfast place in the zeitgeist that it made an appearance in this week's South Park episode.
These days, developer Bloober Team is perhaps best known for its wonderful work on last year's stupendous Silent Hill 2 remake, but the studio's horror oeuvre goes much farther back. And it's bringing its first big hit - and its ship-bound sequel - to Switch 2 very soon. Layers of Fear: The Final Masterpiece Edition comes to Nintendo's platform on 19th December.
Assassin's Creed: Shadows won't be receiving a second expansion to follow Claws of Awaji, unlike previous games in the series. Instead, Ubisoft is working on "chunkier updates", similar in size to the Attack on Titan crossover released earlier this week.
The Let it Die sequel - Let it Die: Inferno - which is coming out next week (4th December), seems to have been built using a considerable amount of generative AI.
Later today, Helldivers 2 fan film For Liberty will premiere for the whole of Super Earth to watch. Created by volunteers at YouTube channel Plot Coalition, the film will reach almost an hour in length, longer than any other Helldivers fan project made to date.
A trademark for something known as Control: Resonant has been registered in Europe, leading many to speculate developer Remedy has something up its sleeve for The Game Awards next month.
There's a very strong argument for the PlayStation 2 being the greatest games console of all time. I'm not going to get into all that now, as I don't really have the energy to tackle questions like "but what about Mario and Zelda?" or "did Sony pay you to say this? Smells of secret sponsored content". What I am going to reminisce about is that golden PS2 era, when the world felt bigger, the pace of change was startling, and the sense of discovery was closer to finding a message in a bottle than it was to watching the latest TikTok from an influencer. When Sony released the PlayStation 2 25 years ago the way we navigated our way through the console's library of games felt like going on an adventure.
If you've been patiently waiting for Assassin's Creed Shadows on Switch 2, your time has nearly come: it slinks onto the console next Tuesday, 2nd December. And ahead of its arrival, Ubisoft has shared a bit of a deep-dive detailing some of the technical jiggery pokery it used to make it work on Nintendo's platform, alongside some of its exclusive features.
The Game Awards are nearly here, your annual fix for celebrating the best this year had to offer and checking out cool reveals. However, while the show is sure to be packed with all sorts of exciting new trailers to gaze upon, The Witcher 4 will not be among them.
Final Fantasy 14 fans have accused Square Enix of accessibility negligence with its forthcoming Fan Fest event in California. After the "accessibility shitshow" of the previous event in the US, fans fear the production company of next year's event is ill-equipped to deal with accessibility needs and are vowing not to attend.
Making developers disclose whether or not generative AI has been used during the making of a game, and how, "makes no sense", according to Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney.
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