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Ubisoft today announced revamped rereleases of four vintage games from the colony-building strat-o-sim series Anno, due in June. The Anno History Collection will bring new versions of Anno 1602, Anno 1503, Anno 1701, and Anno 1404 will newfangled fanciness including 4K resolutions and multiplayer matchmaking, all while preserving save compatibility. Ubisoft explain that the new

Past Perfect is a retrospective column in which we look back into gaming history to see whether old favourites are still worth playing today. It was with raised eyebrows that I met the news of 2K’s plans to re-release all three Mafia games. With the second and third already out, but neither game worth playing

Screenshot Saturday Sundays! It’s awful windy out, so let’s gather around the kitchen table and see what screenshots, gifs, and clips have been offered up by the game development community over the last few days. This week: there’s something in the sands, a quiet winter break, wobbly junkyard airships and murderous vocabulary. All hands on

Pack your brolly away, it’s clear skies for a few months yet. Risk Of Rain 2 developers Hopoo game released a revised forecast for their swarming early access roguelite this week, pushing the game’s 1.0 release back to August this year. After all that time in early access, the devs reckon they’d picked up a

In recognition of National Military Appreciation Month, the Call of Duty Endowment is releasing several ways that players can support veterans. The major point of interest for Call of Duty players is the Fearless Pack, which has been designed with the assistance of Medal of Honor recipient CPT Florent “Flo” Groberg. The pack comes with 10 in-game

In a recent corporate strategy meeting, Sony quantified the processing power of the PlayStation 5, and in particular, how vital the system’s solid state hard drive (SSD) is to the system’s gaming experience. Sony Corporation president and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida said via his presentation, “In order to further enhance the sense of immersion in games, we

Hot off the heels of Neo Geo’s 30th anniversary, SNK is opening up its library to Twitch Prime members. Today, the two companies announced over 20 games would be available throughout the summer, spread across three drops. This type of venture is the first of its kind between Twitch and another video game company,  but hopefully

Technically it should be happy birthday to The Witcher 3, but it’s always better to put a face to an event, don’t you think? Yes, this week we all celebrated the fifth anniversary of CD Projekt’s most favoured baby (until later this year, at least). Join Alice Bee, VidBud Matthew and Nate as they discuss

From big stage concerts and shows to special movie reveals and tie-ins, Fortnite isn’t just a big game – it’s rapidly becoming the experimental virtual world where big reveals are being made. Today, starting at 8 PM ET, the Party Royale is in full swing as the latest trailer for Christopher Nolan’s film Tenet hits

Shiny Shoe and Good Shepherd Entertainment’s Monster Train arrives on Steam today. If you’re a fan of Slay the Spire, this game plays its cards very close to that title, which you should definitely give a look to (it was my game of the year in 2019!). However, amidst many very familiar deckbuilding and card-flinging mechanics, there are

Oh, Icarus Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Readers may know by now that I am a fan of first-person games where you walk around a lovely environment and get creeped out. Close To The Sun is not only one of those,

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 from 2018 Multiple sources are reporting that this year’s Call of Duty title from developer Treyarch is Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The talk surfaced recently when Okami posted a mock-up of the title leak on twitter, followed by Eurogamer citing its own multiple sources corroborating the news. Earlier this year,

Now if only they fixed Ken’s hair… Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. With Street Fighter games, if you’re not a professional esports person, it’s generally best to wait a few versions before jumping in. Ultra Street Fighter IV was hands down the best

Paralives, the in-development life-simulation game that draws heavy inspiration from The Sims, has revealed its first character. In addition to giving prospective players a glimpse at “Maggie,” developer Alex Massé and his team also give a quick rundown of some of the character customization options available. As shown in the video above, players can customize height,

Yer local RPG-watcher’s here to report some more RPG goings-on. This time it’s a new look at the character creator and combat in upcoming Solasta: Crown Of The Magister. I don’t know how the rest of the hairstyles hold up, but those beards are seriously luscious. Outside the character sheet, Solasta also shows off another look

The spirit of friendship is forever in Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath, which brings back these alternate finishing moves. The game’s latest trailer shows of a selection of some very inventive ways to conclude a fight. For more on the game, check out Brian’s full preview as well as a trailer showing off RoboCop, Sheeva, and

It is time, once again, to take a wee trip into outer space. From Friday, May 22nd ’til June 1st, interstellar sandbox and crowdfunding purgatory Star Citizen is doing another free fly week – letting you get behind the controls of Star Citizen’s roster of big expensive computer spaceships as part of the in-universe Invictus

Jet Lancer‘s coming in later than planned, but who can stay mad when your flight looks like this? Sitting at the crossroads between Luftrausers, Daemon X Machina and Top Gun, Vladimir Fedyushkin and Nicolai Danielsen’s slick dogfighting anime about turning mountain-sized mecha into scrapheaps with fighter jets hit the skies earlier this week on Steam

In preparation for the release of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 remaster collection, Activision has released a curated Spotify playlist of memorable cuts from the game’s soundtracks. The remaster’s full soundtrack list hasn’t been confirmed, but it will not contain all of the songs from the original titles. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and

During a Q&A with investors, Shuntaro Furakawa, Nintendo representative director and president, warned that some games the company plans to release this fiscal year – including those not-yet-announced – could be affected by the COVID-19 global pandemic “if the impact is prolonged or worsens further” due to developers’ work-at-home environments. “… Many employees of Nintendo

The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X is a gaming CPU that blew us away when Katharine tested it the other week. Despite only having four cores to its name, it’s a surprisingly powerful processor and its price is a very reasonable RRP of £115 / $120. That’s the good news. The bad news is that everybody

Remember Ion Fury? We reviewed it on PC a while back, you should go read that review here. It’s out today on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch. If retro old-school shooty-insanity is your thing, it might be something to check out! Take a look at the release trailer below.

Originally ill-fated and now much-upgraded sort of MMO Fallout 76 is having its moment in the sun at last. It’s still not the best Fallout game on the block, but it’s not someplace you’d be utterly embarrassed to invite your mates. To that end, Bethesda are running a free-to-play weekend starting this Thursday. Now that

Sony and developer Sucker Punch are holding a State of Play presentation this Thursday, May 14 at 1:00 PM Pacific for the PlayStation 4 title Ghost of Tsushima in advance of its July 17 release date. According to Sony, the presentation is approximately 18 minutes long and features “an extended look at new gameplay footage, including exploration, combat

If you go around cramming your pockets full of monsters, accidents will happen. Just look at Cassette Beasts, a newly-announced Pokémon-ish battler where critters can temporarily fuse together into powerful new forms. Presumably they’re gummed together with lint, a Werther’s Original, and one of the old pound coins shops no longer accept. Come see some

Civilization VI is getting a lot of new stuff over the next year, including new civilizations, new leaders, units, and ways to play. New options are packaged as both free updates and premium updates, and the Civilization team expounds upon some details in a special video update today. It’s great to see games like Civilization VI

Romero Games celebrated Mother’s Day yesterday with an ode to one seriously badass mother in their upcoming tactical gangster game Empire Of Sin. John Romero’s actual great grandmother Elvira Duarte was apparently a brothel owner who they’re making an homage to as one of the game’s crime bosses. Despite being of advanced age, she’s got a

Screenshot Saturday Sundays! Every week, developers and hobbyist take their van down to the village green to flog screenshots, gifs and short videos of their latest works for a discerning crowd. As usual, I’m here with my personal top picks from the bunch. This week: Unethical nature photography, the internet of things, beach volleyball and

ZINC, the rough-hewn chamber with the shack in its centre, has already cost the Comment Commanders Robert Duvall (Colonel Croesus) and John Nettles (Corporal Wood). Will it also claim the life of Charles Bronson (Sergeant Nemchik)? (Colonel Croesus is an open-to-all game of Combat Mission: Fortress Italy in which Allied forces are orchestrated by commenters

The Mandalorian, Disney Plus’ critically acclaimed Star Wars space-western series by Jon Favreau, continues to bolster its season 2 cast. In March, it was reported that actress Rosario Dawson would be taking on the role of Anakin Skywalker’s apprentice from Star Wars: The Clone Wars for the second season The Mandalorian. Now The Hollywood Reporter has a scoop that not only