Halo's rumoured Unreal Engine 5 switch makes sense – but it's still a tragedy
There’s a new trend in video game development. Game studios, even large ones, are binning their own bespoke engines and moving to Unreal Engine instea
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What we've been playing
25th of February, 2021Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing ove
Riot "disappointed" by employee conversation with League of Legends fan project
Over the past few days there’s been a fair bit of drama in the League of Legends community: a fan project called Chronoshift, which was making a legac
DF Direct Weekly talks Cyberpunk 2077 1.5, Horizon Forbidden West and Dying Light 2 VRR
The latest DF Direct Weekly has landed – and it’s a first. Owing to various commitments to deep-dive projects, only John Linneman and myself were avai
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D review: cache money
The $449/£429 Ryzen 7 5800X3D is something a bit different from AMD, a processor that exists to demonstrate the power of the firm’s 3D V-Cache design
What we've been playing
4th of February, 2021Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over
The underappreciated Life is Strange 2 is headed to Switch
Life is Strange 2 will launch for Nintendo Switch on 2nd February, publisher Square Enix has announced. The narrative adventure series’ second game or
Doom Eternal review – the same orgiastic thrills with a creeping weight of story
An even faster and bloodier but slightly wayward follow-up to a thunderous shooter reboot.”Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie,” the origi
The Last of Us breaks another viewership record with episode four
The most recent episode of The Last of Us broke another viewership record for the series on its debut. As reported by Variety, 7.5 million viewers in
Looking forward: the snug pleasure of small worlds
Hello! We’re going to start the year off with a handful of pieces looking forward to 2022. Sometimes we’ll be looking at trends we’ve spotted or theme