Gamers who require a little more of that historic retro experience will be able to emulate older systems all through the comfort of Steam

According to the same fans who presumably want to know why Game Freak can’t just do their job properly and create custom animations for each Pokémon and the attacks they can use which would result in literally thousands of unique animations, the models for this generation’s pocket monsters are lifted straight from the previous 3DS games. Not so!

Borderlands 3 is coming in September, and – as with many of you – it’s easily one of the games I’m most looking forward to. Tomorrow, Gearbox is hosting a “Celebration of Togetherness,” online – with no information on just what that celebration might entail. There’s no word on a Twitch Stream, or anything resembling a physical event, just a generalised internet invitation to the “event.”

You ever take your Guardian for granted in Destiny? There are times when I accidentally stand beneath a Fallen Walker tank drop point or I get a prostate examination with a Hive sword, where I forget just how powerful the defenders of humanity really are within that universe. God-slayers and king-breakers, wielders of the Light and the wall against the …

There are still those who are willing to get up at the crack of dusk and boot up their console to find him for you. People who’ll risk digital life and limb to let you know if Xur is selling a treasure or rubbish. I just so happen to be one of those people. Maybe you’re stuck at work and can only log in later tonight. In that case: Where is Xur?

I think we all remember that catastrophic “Video Game Tie-In” era. You know, when developers and publishers figured out that they’d be able to make a load of cash by taking an already existing franchise or property and warping it into a video game. As was most often the case, most of these games were very much the opposite of …

Last month, Ubisoft released the Story Creator mode for its already sprawling RPG Epic, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. The mode allows creators to make and share their own stories. And they have! People have created quests with their own dialogue and own rewards. Those rewards include XP – so of course people have been using the mode to effectively cheat the system, making simple quests that dole out XP like a health clinic dishes out condoms.

CA is looking for a “lead hero designer” for a “groundbreaking FPS” which sounds pretty much exactly how you’d expect them to market a new hero shooter.