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A simply drawn, white-skilled and big black-eyed character with a fluttering cape. It's Hollow Knight.

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What we've been playing - the fabled Hollow Knight, the much-anticipated Bloodlines 2, and more

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Aug. 23, 2025 Robert Purchese

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Tom Holland's Drake hanging from a plane

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Hunters

Gotcha.

Aug. 21, 2025 Robert Purchese

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Artwork showing an Alsatian-faced humanoid flying a spaceship plane in their cockpit, and grinning. Other planes can be seen in th ebackground flying above the waters and pillar-like mountains of a strange planet.

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Star Fox man's new game Wild Blue looks delightfully, deliriously like Star Fox

The 90s really are back.

Aug. 21, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A fiery piece of art. A muscular warrior with a huge battleaxe stands in front of burning building and points at the camera as if to issue a challenge.

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No Path of Exile 2 1.0 release this year, as DDOS attacks blamed for server issues and huge new update revealed

"We're getting DDOSed continuously."

Aug. 20, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A close-up screenshot of scarred young man with ponytailed hair and a furry collar, who holds their scarred fist up to the camera. They look but pleasant and determined.

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The vampirey Witcher-alike The Blood of Dawnwalker is fast becoming one of my most anticipated RPGs

Blade in the dark.

Aug. 20, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A rough-looking older lady sits at a table in an arcade, smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer. She wears a shell suit jacket and has deep scars scored across her face as if in a pattern. A lurid green dollar sign blares from the brick wall behind her.

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This sucks: you'll have to pay for two clans in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

Coffin up more money.

Aug. 19, 2025 Robert Purchese

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Artwork showing a vampire lady grimacing and holding her hands out beside her, in a mist of blood, as if conjuring it around her. A pale moon shines in the distance.

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More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play

Biting.

Aug. 19, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A pretty feminine character wearing a high-buttoned black frilly blouse, with a purple coat over the shoulders, and long, centre-parted hair and pale skin, looks at the camera. She's sitting in a dirty and dark store room, it looks like.

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News-in-brief | After all these years, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 gets an actual proper release date

Hi stakes stuff.

Aug. 19, 2025 Robert Purchese

A photo of Opening Night Live founder Geoff Keighley on stage at Gamescom with the acronym ONL in large letters behind him.

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Liveblog | Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 livestream and blog

New Black Myth game! Lords of the Fallen 2! Sekiro anime!

Aug. 19, 2025 Robert Purchese

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers trailer screenshot showing close up of female warrior in extravagant armour holding a staff

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What we've been playing - we've made a change but don't panic

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Aug. 16, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A close-up screenshot of a white-haired and pale-faced elven player character in Baldur's Gate 3. They were ornate plate armour with horned shoulders, and they have dark make-up on their eyes and lips. A swirly purple pattern emerges like smoke from one of their eyes. It's a striking image.

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As D&D owner Wizards says "of course we want to do a successor" to Baldur's Gate 3, we wonder who will make it and what kind of game it will be

Roll up, roll up.

Aug. 15, 2025 Robert Purchese

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In image full of a lot of kawaii cute-style cats - bongo cats - wearing silly hats.

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Bongo Cat cracks bot problem as inspired multiplayer mode arrives, and creator takes new idea to Gamescom

Paw patrol.

Aug. 15, 2025 Robert Purchese

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Three gruff-looking people at a neon-lit bar turn to face the camera. One is an older lady, one is a burly barman with their arms crossed, and one is a chunky leather jacket-wearing, broad-faced thug of a guy, with a beer in their hand. It's Jackie Welles from Cyberpunk 2077.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Gangsters

Don.

Aug. 14, 2025 Robert Purchese

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The 90s internet in a screenshot: a rectangular box showing a globe and a computer with a telephone nearby it, and a line of dots connecting them both. The words "dialling process" are the title of the box. This is what you used to see while connecting to the internet. Ah memories, memories.

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Modem warfare | As AOL bins dial-up for good, it's impossible to fully state the impact it had on gaming and the internet - but we've tried

EEEEEEEEEeeeeoooooNNCCCKKKKnnnnDIDONGDIDONGkkschhhhhhh.

Aug. 14, 2025 Robert Purchese

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An orange-hued image of a soldier before an explosion, with fighter planes flying overhead in the sky. And in the middle of it all is a Windows error message saying SecureBoot is not enabled. It's the quintessential PC gaming experience.

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BIOS shock: getting past Battlefield 6's anti-cheat error was the faffiest thing a PC game has ever required of me

Secure boo.

Aug. 13, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A tiny human character jumps with their arms held up in the air, as if in celebration, while behind them, the steering wheel of a huge car and a huge muscular toy man - in reality a tiny toy man but we're seeing this from the perspective of a shrunken person - can be seen. It's Grounded 2.

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Grounded 2 reminded me: sometimes, no world matches our own as a setting for a game

Naturally.

Aug. 11, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A vibrant piece of artwork showing a classic muscle car, a person with their back turned, and some "on air" boxes and microphones. It's a black image with a bright splatter of red on it, almost as if it were blood. It's artwork for a game called Heading Out.

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What we've been playing - deathly road trips, short hikes, and co-op vacancies

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Aug. 9, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A classic Warcraft image. A green angry orc with two huge fanged teeth protruding from their bottom jaw, faces off inches away from the armoured head of an angry bearded human. It's the endless war. Who will win?

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Teams

Grouped.

Aug. 7, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A person sits on the back of a huge soldier ant, with a sun setting in the distance and a huge picnic box on a huge picnic table behind them. Or rather, these things aren't huge, it's just that the person on the back of the ant is shrunken to the size on an insect.

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Grounded 2 early access review

Digging deeper.

Aug. 6, 2025 Robert Purchese

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The sun rising in Grounded 2. We look up to it in first-person perspective as it breaks through a see of tree-sized grass blades. A pointed spear and torch are held in the character's hands.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Sunrises and sunsets

It's just dawned on us.

July 30, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A teenage girl rides on the back of go-kart-sized ant. They're illuminated by the red glow of a base behind them.

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Now Playing | Grounded 2 wobbles while walking a line between frustration and brilliance

Upping the anty.

July 29, 2025 Robert Purchese

39 comments

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"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal

"We're setting the record straight."

July 28, 2025 Robert Purchese

100 comments

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Spiders

This one's got legs.

July 24, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A screenshot from Grounded 2, showing a dark skinned and shrunken teenager riding an ant - as seen from over their shoulder and behind - facing off against a blueish-black scorpion in front of them. The scorpion is the size of a truck.

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Grounded could grow into a trilogy - and there are already ideas that could fill a potential Grounded 3

"We do have more that we hope people want to see and play."

July 23, 2025 Robert Purchese

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A group of shrunken teenagers battles a, to them, car-sized cockroach. Rather you than me. Rather you than me.

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Will Grounded 2 come to PlayStation and Switch 2? "Grounded was on all those platforms," teases Obsidian executive producer

And how long will the game be in early access for?

July 23, 2025 Robert Purchese

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