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Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 developer and publisher Saber and Focus has acknowledged fans' "cold" response to recent changes, stressing to players they were "not looking to transform Space Marine 2 into a full live service game".

Capcom is "investigating" an issue that's impeding progress for some players in Monster Hunter Wilds.

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie slips back into the warm bath that is Diablo 4, Tom P realises why everyone praises Balatro, and Tom O goes back to Halo.

Have you ever had to admit to your boss that your gun got stolen because you were distracted writing poetry with your former childhood friends at the local discotheque? Sounds like a really bad day at work, right? It was actually an incredible scene I got to play in the Disco Elysium-inspired LARP, 97 Poets of Revachol, last September.

PlayStation's recently cancelled Twisted Metal game was reportedly a battle royale.

Once Human's cross-platform test for PC and mobile is now live.

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles 2 is scheduled to be released in North America and Europe on 5th August, 2025.

The Rompopolo. Sounds like a bouncy, round little chicken creature or something, doesn't it? It's a wonderful word to roll off the tongue - assonance abounds in every syllable, and the cute, repeated plosive of 'poh poh' at the end almost has a children's cartoon character-flavour to it, like Pokémon's seal starter Popplio, for example, or Studio Ghibli's Totoro.

Warframe has been getting increasingly, delightfully weird over the last couple of years, leading up to last year's time-travelling, NPC-romancing blast back to 1999. And things are about to get even wilder when developer Digital Extremes invites players to start kicking boy band butt in its new Techrot Encore update, arriving on 19th March.

Minecraft's live-action movie adaptation is almost upon us, and with its 4th April release date looming, Warner Bros. has shared a "final" trailer - giving us a quick glimpse of Jack Black's Nether region, as well as Jennifer Coolidge in a still-mysterious role.

IGN Live will return this June for a second year, with plans for an even bigger physical event in Los Angeles during the summer's annual game announcement season.

More than 110 developers, many of them veterans of the Metro series, have come together as a new studio, Reburn. Its debut project, La Quimera, is a first-person sci-fi shooter set in Latin America, and it's being co-written by Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn.

Monster Hunter Wilds is doing alright for itself, having smashed the 1m concurrent players barrier on Steam. And if you're one of the many players who've doubtless nipped back into the character editor because you've somehow made a hunter that looks like potato with a moustache, you might appreciate knowing you can actually modify your character once for free before Capcom makes you cough up some cash.

Limited Run has dropped a new video teaser showing off its upcoming release of Gex Trilogy.

Monster Hunter Wilds makes for a confusing PC release, with staggeringly poor performance on lower-end graphics cards - to the extent that we don't recommend the game at all on these systems - and relatively meagre visual rewards given the performance requirements. That's a harsh assessment, but it's unfortunately a justified one based on the profound performance problems here that must be addressed.

A new Witcher novel is due out later this year, from original author Andrzej Sapkowski, which will follow a teen Geralt.

PUBG: Blindspot, the first proper PUBG spin-off, is a bit of an oddity. Despite the Steam page for its Next Fest demo saying the game was "inspired by PUBG: Battlegrounds", and has a dinky little PUBG sticker above its logo to prove it's part of the wider PUBG universe, it's pretty clear from the second you choose a character and jump into a 5v5 Demolition match that another game has been a much bigger inspiration here: namely, Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege.

Diablo 4's eighth season will release a "couple of weeks" later than scheduled after Blizzard decided to serve "the game, not the plan".

Merry Monster Hunter Wilds day to all those who celebrate. Capcom's dino-basher has been going from strength to strength since Worlds became a breakout hit back in 2018, and Wilds doubles down on that open world monster-mashing experience with style. It's a great time to start playing Monster Hunter if you're new to the series, and we've got a whole Monster Hunter Wilds walkthrough to help you every step of the way through the main campaign.

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has published an open letter detailing the company's plans for 2025, including new ways of collaborating, mobile improvements, and more monetisation.

UPDATE 12pm UK: Monster Hunter Wilds has broken through the one million concurrent players milestone on Steam.

Nintendo Switch Online's retro game collection is losing its first game - in Japan at least.

MercurySteam, the developer behind Metroid Dread, has announced its next game: Blades of Fire.

For reasons totally unrelated to the release of Monster Hunter Wilds, Palworld developer Pocketpair has given its team a "special holiday" today, 28th February.

Monster Hunter Wilds looks set to be a smash hit for Capcom, with the game hitting nearly a million concurrent players on Steam overnight, but the response to the game so far from those played is not all positive, according to Steam user reviews.

The Elden Ring Nightreign network test proved a surprise success, giving a handful of lucky players an early taster of this multiplayer spin-off on PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X/S ahead of the 30th May release. Nightreign's central hook is a compelling, too: a blend of Souls combat and Fortnite-inspired PvE multiplayer with plenty of strategic depth, though the game marks the return of some familiar technical limitations from Elden Ring - including performance issues in both quality and frame-rate modes. Also a surprise is the lack of any PS5 Pro patch update to take advantage of the mid-gen refresh.

Bikes. Pelt them down a hill faster than the speed of sound, brake late, then skid the back wheel round to take a corner and narrowly avoid a poodle out doing its morning ablutions. Weave in and out of the wheelie bins round the back of the garages because you thought it looked cool on Ski Sunday. This is what I hoped for in Wheel World, Messhof's new open-world bike riding adventure/racing game that also happens to be about a ghost bike (Ghost Bike being its original, and probably better, name). The Steam Next Fest demo delivers on bike-feel (that's a term people use, OK!) but I'm left wondering how the supernatural flavour will shine through.

Gibson has partnered with CRKD to create two "exclusive" Guitar Hero / Rock Band controllers, which will also work with Fortnite's much more recent musical mode.

EA has released the source code for classic strategy games in the Command & Conquer series along with Steam Workshop support, opening the game to modders.

Split Fiction developer Hazelight has shared the PC specs for its upcoming co-op caper. You can check out the minimum and recommended PC Specs for Split Fiction below.