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I haven’t spoken much about the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection, despite the fact that it’s MGS and I’m a huge fan. I’ve been cautiously awaiting impressions to know what to make of it. I don’t want another GTA set. On the face of it, it’s an amazing set. MGS is available on Xbox for the first time, and with trophies and achievements. It includes Integral, VR Missions and multiple languages to choose from. For the first time, western fans…

Since the Activision merger was announced in January last year, it’s been all we’ve talked about. No gaming news has quite lived up to this giant behemoth, edging ever more closely to the finish line. And it probably never will again. But it is indeed now done. What impact is it going to have on the industry? Will Microsoft keep buying? And where does this leave PlayStation? Suffice it to say this deal is going to feel like a lot…

Hogwarts Legacy has been out for awhile now but I just got the chance to play it for the first time late last week. So what do I think of the game? Here are my impressions so far of Hogwarts Legacy for the Xbox Series S. Yes, I’m a Harry Potter fan. I read the books as an Adult and liked them. I saw all the movies. I even liked the first Fantastic Beasts movie (though not the other two).…

It’s a headline that I didn’t think would take me the best part of two years to write… but the Microsoft Activision merger looks likely to close this week. Honestly, I’ve spent so long writing about this thing. It’s almost like the actual impact of it no longer clicks. It’s all been about the detail and the largeness, but not the actual long-term impact. So, for instance, within the week Crash and Spyro will be Xbox mascots along with Banjo…

You hear that, gamers? Capcom boss Haruhiro Tsujimoto reckons you’re paying too little for your video games – and maybe he’s kind of right. It’s hard to argue his point too much. In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis we’ve seen increasing prices, increasingly aggressive monetisation, experimentation with AI and NFTs and a whole host of other ways to nickel and dime people who, by and large, just want to play a cool game. But we have to admit that…

Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai launches today for PS4/PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox Series! Check out the launch trailer for the game below. Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai is out now for the PS4/PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox Series. The game is based on a popular manga/anime of the same name (which is also based on Dragon Quest). The game looks action packed and as a fan of Dragon Quest and its monsters, I’m…

The Microsoft/Activision deal has been given a preliminary approval by the UK’s CMA and that means it will be closing within a fortnight. The biggest deal in tech history is coming to a close. This has been by no means a foregone conclusion. The deal made a lot of legal sense, but some regulators seemed desperate to shut it down. We went from being fairly positive it would close, to some industry analysts giving it a less than 20 percent…

Game engines aren’t supposed to cause major problems for their users. Usually when they do, it’s accidental. This week Unity bucked that trend. And while there is no shortage of column space around this very issue, it’s worth another look. It could very easily impact on the way we all play our games old and new. So as a quick recap: Unity decided to change their deal with developers. They would charge a set fee of $0.20 for every download…

Lightwood Games always creates wonderful word puzzle games. Their newest game, Word Web by POWGI, releases this week for consoles. Word Web by POWGI releases this week for consoles. The game will be coming out today for PS4/PS5, tomorrow for Xbox, and Thursday for Nintendo Switch. I love Lightwood Games word puzzle games. They always create something unique and fun to play. These games will test your word skills and really make you think. The newest one looks like it’ll…

It seems for a while everybody had settled on the idea that Game Pass wasn’t some kind of weird space/time hack. It works, it’s profitable and it’s popular. Then Starfield came along and broke everybody’s minds all over again. Is six million players enough for Microsoft to be happy with Starfield’s release? Have enough people paid for the game through Steam to subsidise the obvious losses made from a subscription service? Should we be concerned that only one million people…