Playdead’s menacing platformer Limbo is free on the Epic Games Store

I’ll never unsee the death animations This week’s Epic Games Store freebie isLimbo, a game many of us have played by now on one platform or another. If you want to see what Playdead was up to before the sublimeInside, here’s your chance. The gloomy side-scrolling adventure stars a young boy searching for his sister in a sinister world full of traps, spiders, and other gruesome threats. Above all,Limbonails a sense of low-key dread....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 182 words · Nicholas Sexton

Preview: Deus Ex: Human Revolution played three ways

Last week Eidos had me out to their Montreal studios to get a better look at their upcoming title,Deus Ex: Human Revolution. One of the most impressive aspects of the game is how open-ended it is. For example, there’s no set way to clear an objective or get through a map. It’s up to the player to find any one of the multiple solutions, which leads to another scenario that is open in the same way, leading up to any one of the multiple endings....

August 3, 2025 · 6 min · 1263 words · Virginia Lewis

Promoted blog: GoldenEye 15th anniversary retrospective

[Dtoid Community Blogger Xander Markham takes an in-depth look back at one of the pinnacles of modern gaming. Want to see your own words appear on the front page?Go write something!–Mr Andy Dixon] If you want to feel old, consider that today marksGoldenEye 007‘s fifteenth birthday. The seminal shooter of its time, few games have entrenched themselves so firmly in the memories of a generation. Just imagine what teenagers of the late ’90s might have achieved had it not been for Slappers Only in Complex, or Proximity Mines in Aztec....

August 3, 2025 · 10 min · 2085 words · Andrew Williams

PS VR2 shows off its rounded headset design and vent in first look

Ponder the orb Sony has revealed a first look at the design of its PlayStation VR2 headset. It’s sleek, and also quite orb-like. That’s on purpose. In aPlayStation Blog post, Sony’s senior VP of Platform Experience Hideaki Nishino says the PS VR2 headset is designed to have asimilar shape to its controllers. The PS VR2 Sense controller has an orb-like shape, and the rounded edges are similar to what Sony’s done with the DualSense and Pulse headset....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 292 words · Wendy Branch

Review in Progress: The Elder Scrolls Online (Early-Access)

Our first 24 hours in Tamriel [We’ll be reviewingThe Elder Scrolls Onlineover an extended period of time. For more details, check out our newReviews in Progress program.] In many ways ZeniMax is fighting an uphill battle withElder Scrolls Online. In an era increasingly filled with free-to-play MMOs, subscription-based games are a tougher sell. Then you have the fact that Bethesda isn’t involved in any capacity, and that this is ZeniMax’s first ever MMO....

August 3, 2025 · 5 min · 1044 words · Alexander Figueroa

Saddle up for Red Dead Redemption 2’s first gameplay video right here

Desperado, rough rider, no, you don’t want nada Well, it’s been a long wait, pardner, but Rockstar Games have finally revealed gameplay footage for the sequel to one of the greatest adventure games of all time,Red Dead Redemption 2. Once again, players will head out into the lawless lands of pioneer America. Meeting men and women on both sides of the law, some over a drink, others over a gunbarrel. A whole new environment is waiting to be explored, filled with hidden treasures, ferocious wildlife, and down on their luck bandits just waiting to put a bullet in your back....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 143 words · Alexandra Mcclure

See what World of Final Fantasy is all about

Coming to PS4 and Vita in October Oh hey it’s that littleFinal Fantasyproject that wasshown at the Sony press conference last year at E3. Yep,World of Final Fantasy— remember the one? Well Famitsu has 10 minutes of new footage to show us, complete with exploration and battle sections. It looks super cute, and players can not only ride on monsters, but monsters can ride onthemas hats. My God. Cuteness aside it seems like a functional little JRPG....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Miranda Trevino

Senran Kagura characters making a splash in Kandagawa Jet Girls

JET! Wooo-Woo-ooh-oh, Woo-ooh-ooh! Marvelous! has released a trailer spotlighting two moreSenran Kagurateams, arriving in cheesecake racerKandagawa Jet Girlsas new DLC characters. The four new “Jetters” join theirSKpals Ikaruga, Yomi, Ryobi and Ryona,who were added to the roster last month.First up are Crimson Squad buddies Hikage and Homura, whose natural tree-hopping, roof-running, shuriken-throwing ninja skills will no doubt help them make the natural transition from shinobi to jet-ski racer. It also appears that the pair have brought swords to this sporting event....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 195 words · Randy Barber

Someone pieced together The Last Guardian’s world

I can’t get enough of this stuff Trico is the clear highlight ofThe Last Guardian(especially when he’s being agood boy), but I’m also enthralled by its world, too. It’s densely detailed and flows believably, just begging you to poke your head around every corner and investigate for secrets and insights. It’s also surprisingly vertical the further in you get. That fact is made clear with this fan-assembled image of the map....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · Troy Macdonald

Sorcery Trading Value List – Roblox

Trading is an essential part of RPG experiences on Roblox, andSorceryis no exception. Ever-present are also lowballers who will attempt to get your expensive items dirt cheap. To counter that, here is our complete and up-to-datetrading value list forSorceryRoblox. Table of contents Sorcery Roblox Item Trade Value List Trade values ofall itemsinSorceryare in the table below. Values are expressed inCursed Tickets, as that’s the most traded item inSorcerywith a very stable price....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 220 words · Mr. Robert Cortez

SOS turns battle royales into performance art

Method acting I am not the funny friend. I’m not a performer, either. In any social situation, I’m good for either two half-decent jokes or one drunken cover of “She Hates Me” if I can get my hands on a karaoke mic. Suffice to say that whatever muse inspired history’s greatest poets decided not to visit me. But here I am, a few seconds away from making my introduction on a reality television show....

August 3, 2025 · 7 min · 1405 words · Christy Estrada

Steam Workshop’s one-year anniversary has arrived!

How will you celebrate? With a TF2 hat or new Portal 2 level, perhaps? In one year’s time, what started off as an easier way for players to access new user-created content forTeam Fortress 2has grown to encompass more than just sweet hats and guns, with a touch ofJ.C. LeyendeckerorNorman Rockwellvisual style thrown to them. Dust your finest Ghastly Gibus, Steam Workshop is one year old! Since last year,Steam Workshophas added over 16 games from various publishers to it’s modding community, with many others hoping to join in on the fun....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 170 words · Linda Cantrell

Suda 51 interested in revisited Killer 7, Michigan

Eccentric game designer and Lucha Libra aficionado Suda Goichi has been chatting about the past, stating that he’d be interested in revisiting some of his old classics likeMichigan: Report From HellandKiller 7. Please,please, don’t let us stop you, Suda! “… I think that it would be very interesting to create something likeMichiganagain in the future — it could be really good,” says Suda. “I still talk to Sakurai-san, who is the president of Spike Games which was the publisher ofMichigan....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 195 words · Danielle Hooper