After 12 years of relative silence, Valve is working on a piece of software! No, you're not dreaming, there's a new Half-Life game on the way and it's coming out next year.

It feels like it’s been an absolute epoch since we’ve seen a good single-player Star Wars game. The Force Unleashed 2 was the last ambitious fully focused narrative experience, and that arrived in 2010. Despite the drought, it seems like our prayers are finally being answered with Star Wars...

Stop the presses! Rockstar’s immaculate cowboy odyssey Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally coming to PC. On November 5th, you’ll be able to download it and play as Arthur Morgan, exploring a peerless open world full of activities, wildlife, and vicious outlaws ready to blast your brains out over...

Players enjoying Monster Hunter: World on PC will no doubt be waiting in absolute agony for the release of Iceborne, the tundra-themed critically-acclaimed expansion that brought greater depth, extra content and most importantly, more monsters to the base game on consoles earlier this year when it...

Ah, the humble Gameboy. As well as revolutionising portable gaming, Nintendo’s wonder device provided us with such classics as Pokemon Yellow and Tetris and is so sturdy it’s known to have survived a Gulf War barracks bombings. Gameboy Beginnings The original Gameboy persists in the...

As we’ve grown older and distanced ourselves from the ambitious costumes and desire to chap on a stranger’s door for out of date chocolate, Halloween has become more of a close-quarters affair. Low-key fancy dress house parties and last-minute bin bag cutout costumes have become all the rage....

A name synonymous with the franchise itself, Captain John Price is a man that needs no introduction if you’ve played a Modern Warfare game. A dangerously calculated military man with an endearing sense of humor, he brings welcome comic relief and some genuinely powerful moments to the series,...

WWE games are about as reliable as EA’s roster of sports franchises. They arrive every year with all the inevitability of the setting sun, with similar gameplay mechanics, graphics and incremental systemic improvements. This years instalment marks WWE 2K20, and it’s fast approaching its launch...

Playing video games is all well and good, but what about making them? It’s a lot trickier than you may think. Those mastered discs sitting on store shelves full of remarkable open-worlds, careful animations and well-written characters don’t just appear out of thin air: it takes a team of...

Most of the modern public have played a video game, so it’s no surprise really that many musicians have got their mitts on a controller or two. From The Who’s 'Pinball Wizard' to Lana Del Rey’s less subtle 'Video Games', we’ve come a long way when it comes to carefully homaging our beloved...

One of the most exciting games to be revealed in the past few years was Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds. Announced during The Game Awards in 2018, it looked to be a deeply unique take on the open-world format. Obsidian, unchained from a particular franchise and allowed to run free with their wild...

When Studio MDHR’s Cuphead was revealed, it felt like a gorgeous jigsaw puzzle was simply falling into place. With an unforgettable art style and old-school gameplay to please a wide demographic of gamers, it seemed like a sure fire hit, and as such, it launched to widespread critical acclaim,...