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Head’s up! You – yes you – have only a few hours left to jump on a turn-based RPG sale featuring loads of super good games for you to grab on the cheap. This includes Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, which is getting a wild discount of 40% days before its next major DLC update. You can find this sale on Steam, where else? There are so, so many good games for sale here. Age of...

Have you ever seen ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch? It’s a messed up little curio of a piece, painted across three panels and representing the breadth of humanity’s foibles, from the Garden of Eden to a frigid hellscape of our own making. Created in the early 1500s, the work was controversial; it depicted potentially blasphemous ideas about humanity, and projected a bleak sense of doom – not the pious optimism...

I don’t think there’s an IP out there as experienced in celebrating itself as Dragon Ball. We’ve seen game after game look back fondly at the Frieza Saga, the Cell Saga… We’ve seen recreation after recreation, retelling after retelling. I will admit that it got tiring after a while, and I was worried at first that Sparking! Zero would amount to the same. I was, it seems, quite wrong. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is less...

There’s now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber – check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don’t worry if that’s not for you, the main show will always be free. Add-on content for video games is often worthless, but it can sometimes go very, very right: just look at the DLC...

Did you get off on outsmarting enemies, tiptoeing around the xenomorph, and praying that your save file isn’t going to get permenantly screwed by a misjudged visit to a terminal in the original Alien: Isolation? Yes? Well then, you’re going to be thrilled to find out that a sequel is real, and in production at Sega. Many of us have been asking for a follow-up to 2014’s survival horror masterclass, Alien: Isolation, pretty much since...

Launching an online game is hard, this much is true. Though it may have been a while since we’ve last witnessed one of those all-time launch disasters, Diablo 4 seemingly wanted to remind everyone that we’ve been having it too good recently. Somehow, the launch of the game’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, went down significantly worse than the main game’s. Players spent hours unable to play, as they waited for updates from Blizzard. To...

The time is almost upon you, OG Red Dead Redemption fans, as the classic open world cowboy game is coming to PC this October. Fans have long been clamouring for a PC port of Rockstar’s 2010 modern classic Red Dead Redemption, and while there’s been plenty of rumours and speculation over the game coming to the platform, nothing has ever materialised. But that changes today, as Rockstar announced that the Western game is...

I feel like I need to begin this review by clarifying what exactly 2024’s Until Dawn is and what you should — and shouldn’t — expect from it. We all know it’s a re-release of the now-classic 2015 branching-narrative horror-adventure game developed by Supermassive as an exclusive for the PS4, sure. But is it a remake or a remaster? PlayStation Publishing has been surprisingly resistant to labelling it as either, and it’s a confusion that...

Everyone pretty much already knew that Payday 3 had a really terrible launch, and in a recent interview developer Starbreeze has admitted as such, even as it makes some hopeful promises. Right out the gate, Payday 3 was a struggle to run – matchmaking issues were constant, and only a month after it launched, its predecessor Payday 2 had 10x more players on Steam, not exactly what you want from a sequel as...

The “Bros” part of Super Smash Bros. has always been a bit of a mystery, but series creator Masahiro Sakurai has shed some light on what it means. For the most part, the name Super Smash Bros. title makes a lot of sense – super, because, well, Super Mario, Super Nintendo Entertainment system, Nintendo just used it a lot. Smash, because they’re hitting each other. But then you get to Bros. Yeah, sure,...