It's easy to find gaming-themed throw pillows or other tchotchkes on Etsy or elsewhere on the internet, but an official collaboration is a rare sight. Needless to say, I was intrigued when IKEA invited me to see their collaboration with Xbox at Gamescom. The set, called the "YXSTABY" collection, consists of nine pieces. Some, like [...]

The 1.0 launch of Path of Exile 2 will bring the end of its campaign, and until now I'd just assumed that was in the form of Acts Five and Six, much as developer Grinding Gear Games had originally suggested. Now, I'm not sure what to think. We caught up with the action RPG's Game [...]

China has continued to establish itself as an important name in game development, boasting heavy hitters such as Hoyoverse's gacha suite, Game Science's Black Myth: Wukong and the upcoming Zhong Kui, and Marvel Rivals from NetEase. But alongside some of the biggest upcoming PC games from the region, like Phantom Blade Zero and Ananta, there [...]

Path of Exile 2 is now finally, definitively on the road to 1.0. The ARPG's full launch, and corresponding transition to a free Steam game, has been set for December 11, marking almost exactly two years since early access first began. It's a longer gap than developer Grinding Gear Games had initially anticipated, and while [...]

Silent Hill: Townfall is Konami's latest experiment in branching the horror game series out to new locations. After Silent Hill f took us to '60s rural Japan, Townfall zips across the globe to its more modern 1996 setting: the Scottish village of St. Amelia. This time, it's the Glasgow-based Screen Burn who are taking charge, [...]

It must be so tricky, taking on a project beloved by so many, but that's exactly what Jean-Félix Monin and the team over at Ubisoft are doing with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Remake. A cornerstone of turn-based tactics and PC gaming in general, the series still has a following and, therefore, an expectation [...]

PM Studios has a lot of fingers in a lot of pies, from huge projects like Avatar Legends to smaller endeavors like Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo. We sat down with the company CEO, Michael Yum, at Gamescom to find out just what it's like to work with established IPs v indies, and how he [...]

"The reason we have the animated trailers and everything, it comes from me sitting down one evening and being like, I want to make Valheim: The Anime." Robin Eyre, Valheim's Creative Lead, talks us through just why he went all-in on slick cinematics, what he hopes for the future, and how things didn't quite turn [...]

The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past is a final outing for Geralt of Rivia as the helmsman of CD Projekt Red's grandiose fantasy RPGs. But more than that, it's a tale of friendship and "bromance" between The Witcher and his closest friend, who until now has never had quite enough of a chance to [...]

The food analogies are strong with the Total War: Warhammer 40k devs this year. We sat down for a chat with Joy Dey, Lead Designer, and Dave Petry, Battle Products Owner, to talk about the scale of 40k, how you build a good Warhammer sauce, and if we're going to see Necrons any time soon. [...]

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse still feels like a dream, and yet it's very real - a brand-new Castlevania game built by Dead Cells studio Evil Empire, in partnership with Konami. It's hard to pick a more perfect developer to bring the legendary series back, and the result is looking absolutely stunning. At Gamescom 2026, we sat [...]

Alien Isolation, like most of the films in the legendary series, is claustrophobic. That's the point; you're trapped somewhere with something otherworldly and terrifying - there is nowhere to go, nowhere to run. Hiding is often the best bet. With Alien Isolation 2 adding outdoor, open areas into the mix, we wondered how that affects [...]

There are a fair few themes floating around in the first Plague Tale and its sequel Requiem, perhaps none of which have stuck with us as much as the hordes of rats that were occasionally at our beck and call. A very real symbol of plague, and visually, a stunning bit of kit. Strange then, [...]

Path of Exile 2 version 1.0 will add a lot, including the finale of its main campaign, but one inclusion sparked wider attention among the ARPG's community than any other: Swords. The lack of one of the world's most common melee weapons has become a running joke among the community, and Game Director Jonathan Rogers [...]

Persona 4 Revival has the difficult challenge of updating some of the series' more notorious characters. I have a deep love of the original P4, which will always hold a special place in my heart as one of the great JRPGs, but I'm hopeful that Persona Studio can find ways to execute on its more [...]