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In a vanishingly rare moment of consensus among a modern gaming community, I think most of us can agree that The Sims 4 is ending 2024 on a high note. The release of the Life & Death expansion pack on Halloween was met with the sort of nigh-on universal acclaim that the franchise hasn’t enjoyed in real-time since the golden age of the mid-2000s. It turns out that what we were really all missing was...

Earlier today, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead deployed the opening bit of the game’s first ever crossover. It’s some gear inspired by dormant PlayStation shooter Killzone, but the prices players are being asked to pay for this stuff have prompted some backlash. Basically, as we reported in our story this morning about the deployment of this Helldivers X Killzone collab, the amount of super credits being charged individually for the new assault rifle and armour set...

I don’t know about you, but I find that so many games that try to be funny fall short. It’s a hard thing to do! Different people are amused by vastly different stuff, so a developer looking to inject humour into their game is treading on inherently trecherous ground. Racoon Logic has somehow managed not only to traverse such dangers, they’ve slid over them, arms flailing. Revenge of the Savage Planet is an exceptionally funny...

The 2XKO team is off on holiday, but they’ve left a nice little roadmap of sorts for those keen to learn more about the game before they departed for office for sweet treats and boozy nights out. In short, there’ll be an update on what’s to come in February, and a chance for players to see this for themselves in March. This alligns with what we already know, that the next play test will be...

After a good few weeks of ‘will they, won’t they’ chatter surrounding Elden Ring and Bloodborne developer FromSoftware’s parent company Kadokawa Corporation and a potential acquisition by Sony, the pair have announced a thing. It’s a “strategic capital and business alliance” that’s aimed at boosting collaborative ties, with Sony becoming the largest shareholder in Kadokawa. A report from Reuters in late November was the first time we heard about this. Both sides then confirmed the...