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This week's dual-pronged Nintendo Direct shows were stuffed with huge games. Kirby and the World Beyond! Metroid Ravenous! The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time! But the Japanese version of today's show quietly snuck in at least one game the rest of us didn't get: a sequel to Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii's 1983 adventure game. Read more

The five-year wait for Valheim 1.0 doesn't seem to have hurt the survival game behemoth's popularity all that much. After leaving early access, the crafty viking sim is enjoying a huge resurgence in Steam player numbers. Read more

Around 1,900 unionised workers at Blizzard Entertainment have voted to ratify their first contract with the World of Warcraft publisher after years of negotiations. The union contract means Blizzard now has to bargain with staff over the use of generative-AI in game development, and workers also have better protection against any potential layoffs. Read more

Sounds the alarms! A reveal trailer for a brand-new Kirby game has been revealed in today's Nintendo Direct. Called Kirby and the World Beyond, the game is headed to the Nintendo Switch 2 in Spring, 2027. Read more

Cast your mind back to December 2024, and you might remember a fun little tease for Overcooked studio Ghost Town Games' intriguing - and adorably spooky - co-op adventure Stage Fright. Closing in on two years later, the studio is back with some first proper gameplay ahead of its arrival next year. Read more

During today's Nintendo Direct, the publisher and platform holder announced the next 2D Metroid game, called Metroid Ravenous. Read more

A new horror game from Bloober Team, best known for the Silent Hill 2 Remake and Cronos: The New Dawn, has been revealed at the Nintendo Direct. It's called Onyx: The Dark Grip, and it's coming next year. Read more

Monster Hunter Wilds is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2, it has just been revealed during the Nintendo Direct. Read more

Meccha Chameleon, the indie hide-and-seek game that launched on Steam a couple of months ago, is already one of the year's biggest hits, taking the PC market by storm. Now, as revealed in today's Nintendo Direct, the indie smash hit is coming to Nintnedo Switch 2 - and it arrives today. Read more

Opinion seems to be favourable about Witcher-like dark fantasy role-playing game The Blood of Dawnwalker - barring a few technical problems, that is. Quibbles with performance issues, controller issues, and bugs (and perhaps the lack of a New Game+ mode) are holding the game back. To this end, developer Rebel Wolves has whisked out a quick hotfix, addressing some of the issues at hand. Read more

After much teasing and speculation, No Man's Sky's 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here and, yup, it's a big 'un, bringing a "complete overhaul of space". Which mean, among other things, alliances, orbital bases, the ability to purchase and live in your own space station, and you can finally fly to the sun. Read more

It's day-two of Nintendo's Direct September showcases, and today the focus is Switch games arriving this winter. Today's show begins at 3pm UK time and we'll be covering the big announcements here, live, as they happen. Read more

Elden Ring is in the conversation again thanks to its Tarnished Edition release on Switch 2. To coincide with the launch of the long-awaited port, FromSoftware released a DLC pack for other platforms including the extras from this Switch 2 Tarnished Edition. Read more

A massive information leak appears to have pushed full achievement lists for upcoming and unannounced PC games, including Persona 6 and Kingdom Hearts 4, onto the internet. Read more

If you're familiar with the lineage of Rebel Wolves, the studio behind the recently-released The Blood of Dawnwalker, it may not surprise you to learn that a lot of the game's players are also fans of a certain other medieval fantasy RPG. Read more

With the gameplay reveal of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake happening earlier today, thousands of people from around of the world have taken their first look at the latest entry in the beloved Nintendo series. The most immediate reaction from the masses? A combination of confusion and delight at the new look. Read more

It's been argued that Battlefield 6's Redsec battle royale off-shoot is a response to Call of Duty's popular Warzone mode, and today's news is another indication of that. Read more

Gameplay has been released for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake at long last during today's Zelda 40th anniversary Nintendo Direct. It'll be releasing on the Nintendo Switch 2 on the 5th November. Read more

Can you believe it? Link (the green one) is 40 this year, yet his boundless enthusiasm for adventure still hasn't waned. My boundless enthusiasm, meanwhile, waned decades back, so it's clearly something in the Hyrule air. ANYWAY, to celebrate the Zelda series' 40th anniversary, Nintendo has released a special Direct showcase (the first of two planned for this week), featuring a "variety of The Legend of Zelda-related information". Read more

Today, during a Nintendo Direct dedicated to the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda series, Columbia Pictures and Nintendo released the first-ever trailer for the upcoming live-action The Legend of Zelda movie, starring Bo Bragason as the titular Princess Zelda and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link. Read more