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The SAG-AFTRA video game voice actors’ strike is officially over
After a year of negotiations, the SAG-AFTRA video game voice actors’ strike has officially come to an end, with members of the guild approving the 2025 Interactive Media Agreement. The strike — which had been ongoing since July 2024 — was halted last month when SAG-AFTRA union members and the game companies represented by the…
Marvel Rivals’ new battle pass and accessories are its best yet
I’ve logged an unholy number of hours into NetEase’s hero-based shooter, Marvel Rivals, and to its credit, this time sink has largely been fueled by the strength of the gameplay. I’ve bought a couple of skins and unlocked a few things here and there, but for the most part, cosmetics for the characters I play…
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn might just be the game Expanse fans have always dreamed of
It’s been clear since James Holden first stepped foot on the Rocinante: The Expanse would make for an incredible game. While the popular sci-fi series has previously been imagined as a game (a Telltale narrative, a tabletop RPG), developer Owlcat Games’ forthcoming The Expanse: Osiris Reborn seems like it’ll take it to a whole new…
“We have three years to show what we can do.” UKIE’s Nick Poole on the new UK Video Game Council
The 14-member line-up of the new UK Video Game Council was announced today, but the foundations were laid around seven months ago, says Nick Poole OBE, head of the trade association UKIE. Read more
Donkey Kong Bananza started as a Switch 1 game, but bringing it to Switch 2 enabled “very large scale” destruction Nintendo couldn’t pull off before
Donkey Kong Bananza, the next big Switch 2 exclusive, actually started development on the original Switch console. Speaking to IGN about the banana-fuelled platformer, Super Mario Odyssey director and Bananza producer Kenta Motokura revealed that “this game originally began its development cycle on Nintendo Switch 1 and at the time, we were still using voxel…
“Star Wars: Battlefront 2 jumped from 135th on the monthly best-selling titles chart in April to 12th in May,” analyst says, illustrating the community’s efforts: “It ranked 5th across the PC aggregated storefront tracking”
Star Wars Battlefront 2‘s recent resurgence in popularity saw the game jump 123 spots in the US best-selling games chart in May. Over May 2025 (perhaps prompted by Star Wars day) calls for EA to finally make Star Wars Battlefront 3 intensified to the point where even Andor actors were joining in alongside a former…
New Sims 4 update prepares the game for fairies but breaks things for another occult, leaving all my vampires starving as every Sim is wrongly marked as “pregnant”
Fairies are coming to The Sims 4 tomorrow with new expansion pack Enchanted by Nature, and as usual, EA has prepared with a pre-release patch – a patch that hasn’t exactly gone to plan. While the game boasts plenty of new features now, including some stunning glass roofs and plants to decorate with, there’s also…
Here are your PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games for July
July is here in a waft of warmth (your meteorological mileage may vary), meaning a fresh batch of games has arrived for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers. And it’s a pretty exciting month, with CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077 making its service debut, alongside the likes of Planet Zoo and Life is Strange studio Don’t…
“SILKSONG IS IMMORTAL AND SO ARE WE”: Desperate for answers, Hollow Knight Silksong fans are ritualistically banning mods in savage sacrifice to their fickle god Team Cherry
For centuries, people have sought to divine meaning from the universe’s apparent nonsense, examining tea dregs, sheep liver, or squeezing blood from deep cuts as warm sacrifices to their cold, mercurial gods. Today – a time of algorithms and frozen food – these methods might seem extreme, even barbaric, but a few dreamers understand the…
