Pull on your gloves and ready your hose: PowerWash Simulator 2 approaches, and so far it’s looking ultra-polished (in a gloriously unhygienic kind of way.) I had an absolute ball of a time revisiting Muckingham to correct the townsfolk’s filthy ways.
In the niche of “oddly satisfying” games, its predecessor PowerWash Simulator (and its oodles of DLC) already blasts away competitors. So what does the sequel offer, besides just “more dirty stuff”? To find out, I went hands-on with a single-player PC build of PowerWash Simulator 2, checking out five levels showcasing hot new technology like abseiling and floor washers.
PowerWash Simulator 2 starts off with the expansion of your business to a fully fledged office building. Your first job...
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Baldur's Gate 3 actor and performance director Aliona Baranova has questioned why TV and movie adaptations often overlook in-game talent when casting for the big screen.
At a panel at the Tampa Bay Comic Convention moderated by Collider's Maggie Lovitt, Baranova said: "I feel like it’s a shame that the video game audience is being overlooked when it comes to screen projects. We see from you guys how dedicated you are… and I feel like that’s been neglected at the moment by filmmakers [and] studios."
It's a pertinent challenge, not least because rather than simply reading a script into a mic, game performers often provide so much more than just their voices when it comes to bringing games to life, with some even providing the mo-cap and...
Mafia: The Old Country will be PS5 Pro Enhanced at launch.
We already knew that Mafia: The Old Country would boast both quality and performance modes on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, and now developer Hangar 13 has confirmed the game will also be ready for PS5 Pro when it releases later this week, on August 8, 2025.
This includes support for variable refresh rate, 120Hz displays, and higher dynamic resolution in both quality and performance modes.
The announcement follows last week's reveal of the PC and console specifications, with Hangar 13's statement simply saying: "We're excited to confirm that Mafia: The Old Country will be PlayStation 5 Pro Enhanced at launch."
On PS5 and Xbox Series X, Mafia: The Old Country will have...
HoYoverse is discontinuing support for Genshin Impact on PS4.
In a statement, the publisher thanked PS4 players for their "continued support and love," but claimed that, "due to limitations related to hardware performance and platform application size," it would be discontinuing support and updates for the RPG on Sony's last-gen system.
The "removal and discontinuation plan" for Genshin Impact will unfold in three phases: firstly, the PS4 version of the game will be removed from the PlayStation store on September 10 (although you'll still be able to re-download it if it's already in your library). Secondly, in-game purchases will be delisted on February 25, 2026, and finally, support will end completely in August 2026.
Thankfully...
You and I know the drill, fellow bargain hunter. One moment you're browsing aimlessly, the next you're knee-deep in a checkout cart stacked with discounted greatness. Today’s lineup of deals isn’t just wallet-friendly, it’s stacked with titles that have gripped me hard over the years and refused to let go. From plumber adventures to intergalactic chaos, my sales list will bring you the goods.
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In retro news, I’m using handlebar-on-handlebar sparks to light a 24-candle cake baked for Road Rash: Jailbreak, which brought a signature blend of street racing and roadside biffo to PS One. Unlike earlier entries, Jailbreak leaned into a more structured narrative and buddy-rider system, adding a hint of chaos-coordination...
Humble Bundle has announced its Humble Choice lineup for August. For just $14.99, you’ll get access to a solid selection of games, including one of my personal favorites, Persona 5 Royal. For reference, P5R’s lowest recorded price on Steam is $23.99, making just that game alone a crazy steal. Even better, you get seven more games (and the feeling of giving back) out of it.
Humble Choice August 2025 Game Lineup
Each month, Humble Choice curates a selection of games for members to redeem. These games are sent as Steam codes, which you can keep forever, making Humble Choice one of our favorite gaming subscriptions. Here's what Humble Choice members are getting in August:
Persona 5 Royal
Banishers: Ghost of New Eden
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There's a moment right before the start of a 1v1 RTS match that’s like nothing else I've felt in games, and Stormgate delivers it. I see that countdown timer start to tick, I can feel my own heartbeat, and I take a deep breath. Then I'm looking at a colorful command center and a gaggle of workers, and it's just me and some random stranger fighting it out for glory or ruin. The twists and turns Stormgate has taken during Early Access to get to where it is now haven't all been in the right direction, but it is moving the basecraft formula forward on a design level in some subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
Stormgate has come a long way in the year since its Early Access launch, and while it has now shed the Early Access label, it is not...
Riot Games and parent company Tencent have come under fire after fans noticed they allegedly published a shocking AI-generated trailer for League of Legends: Wild Rift.
Reddit user Winter_underdog was one of the first to share the footage, calling attention to what is said to be a two-minute trailer for the League of Legends spinoff’s third anniversary. Riot allegedly published the footage on Chinese social media website Weibo before removing it following uproar from players. There’s at least no trace of an AI trailer for League of Legends: Wild Rift on Weibo at the moment, but that hasn’t stopped fans from republishing it elsewhere.
The video above features elements that one may find in some of the most blatant AI-generated content...
Starting today, Amazon is offering a high-capacity, high-output power bank at a pretty amazing price. The Iniu 25,000mAh 100W power bank is down to just $27.25 after you clip the 49% off coupon on the product page. Combined with the instant discount, that's a total of 55% in savings. This power bank is ideal for long flights or trips where you might not have an available outlet for extended periods of time. It's powerful enough to charge just about every phone or gaming handheld PC - including the newer Asus ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go S - at its fastest rate.
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The Iniu power bank weighs about 16 ounces, which is typical of most power banks with a similar battery...
Never mind the zombies, Mr X, or Lady D. Resident Evil has a new ultimate adversary — Duolingo's dreaded Owl.
For unknown reasons, Japan's official Resident Evil social media account has begun posting pictures of the Duolingo Owl terrorising Leon S. Kennedy in a warped version of Resident Evil 2 (thanks, Automaton).
Here, the Duolingo Owl — or a buff, supersized version of it — can be seen replacing the menacing Mr X in images that have more than a whiff of AI about them. "Our new biological weapon," the official Resident Evil account states, tagging in the official Duolingo Japan account. "Go. Spread language learning to the world."
Picking up on the brandter, Duolingo Japan then replied with an image of the young Leon S. Kennedy...
Jude Bellingham and Jamal Musiala may well have inherited the dreaded Madden curse as this year’s EA FC coverstars, having both made their way to operating theaters in recent weeks, but they can at least rest up by playing each other on FC 26. EA Sports FC 26 will be released on September 26th, 2025, or a week early on September 19th if you purchase early access. But what’s new this time around?
Well, fundamental tweaks have been made to gameplay, as well as the inevitable suite of new activities to get stuck into in Ultimate Team, Career Mode, and Clubs. So, without further ado, here are 74 changes that actually make a difference in EA FC 26.
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1. Live events are a big new inclusion for Ultimate Team. These include the...
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers will take center stage in Fortnite's next season, a new trailer with live-action throwback vibes has revealed.
Shock 'N Awesome, the game's next major season, launches this week on August 7 and sees the Fortnite battle royale Island overtaken by bugs. (These crawled out of a tentacle left over by a giant kraken-like creature defeated by Superman in last weekend's live event, but you don't really need to know that.)
Today's trailer shows various Fortnite heroes being overwhelmed by the intrepid insects in dramatic fashion, until the Power Rangers turn up and save the day. Or, until a really big bug arrives, and then the Dino Megazord turns up to really save the day.
A description for the trailer...
Phasmophobia developer Kinetic has finally lifted the veil on its next small map — and it's a diner.
Nell's Diner is described as a run-down, retro restaurant complete with a "classic diner counter, comfy booths, and a kitchen preparing some less-than-savoury encounters." Apparently, every meal at Nell’s "is an (un)happy meal."
While we don't have a release as yet — yep, I'm sad about it, too — Phasmo's 14th map has been confirmed as a "small" venue "with its size akin to the game’s houses. This'll be excellent news for smaller teams who struggle to get much done on big maps like Brownstone High School or the Sunny Meadows Mental Institution.
That's not all, of course; the long-awaited rework of Grafton Farmhouse is also set to...
Microsoft has announced Wave 1 of the Xbox Game Pass August 2025 lineup, which includes Assassin's Creed Mirage, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Citizen Sleeper 2, and more.
As revealed in a post on Xbox Wire, out today, August 5, is Rain World (Cloud, Console, and PC) across Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard. It's a cute-looking indie adventure where you play as a nomadic slugcat, which looks less terrifying than you'd think.
Tomorrow, August 6, brings a quartet of games to Game Pass Standard subscribers, including dice-based RPG Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, wintry downhill racer Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders, MechWarrior 5: Clans and Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap — all for Xbox Series X/S.
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As Silent Hill f fans pore over the slew of previews that went live recently (you can read ours right here), two questions are consistently popping up on social media and fan communities: is the latest mainline Silent Hill really a 'Soulslike' game? And if it is, what does the term 'Soulslike' even mean anyway?
As we described in IGN's Silent Hill f hands-on preview, combat itself has a similar feel to Silent Hill 2 Remake’s close-range combat. You can dodge enemy attacks with the DualSense’s circle button and activate a light and heavy attack with R1 and R2, respectively. Your limited reach and lengthy attack motions give a realistic, weighty feel to combat. Heavy attacks, especially, feel slow and need to be timed well, "contributing...
If you’ve played FC 25 online, then chances are you will have encountered input delay, that fraction of a second between pressing the button and a pass or shot on screen being performed, which can often be the difference between a win and a loss.
Just like any twitch FPS or frame-perfect fighting game, EA’s football simulation relies on the actions being performed by its characters feeling as responsive as possible in order for the playing field to feel fair. The developer knows this, and so has put an extensive amount of research into solving this often-vocalised concern among the Ultimate Team community ahead of FC 26’s launch.
“We really needed to understand the root of the problem”, senior producer Sam Rivera told IGN. “We worked...
Tim Sweeney, boss of Epic Games, has denied claims published by The Wall Street Journal of frustration within the company regarding its working relationship with Disney.
Yesterday, a WSJ report offered fresh detail on Fortnite's mysterious upcoming Disney mode, developed following the latter's $1.5bn investment in Epic Games. The offering won't launch until "fall 2026 at the earliest," the report stated, with some Epic executives complaining about "the slow pace of the decision-making at Disney, with signoffs needed from so many different divisions."
It's this claim that Sweeney has now refuted, via a post on social media that brands the suggestion as "BS."
"The anonymous quote is BS," Sweeney wrote. "The speed of Disney and Epic...
Kingdom builders are often notorious for taking an immense amount of time to play, requiring not only sharp strategic thinking but also meticulous resource management and a keen understanding of logistics. In short, they tend to be demanding experiences. However, that doesn’t always have to be the case. 9 Kings takes the familiar mechanics of a traditional kingdom builder and streamlines them dramatically, offering a more approachable entry point while still rewarding players who think carefully about creating effective synergies.
Every game begins with just nine squares to develop and a set of buildings you can place on each one. After every battle, you’re allowed to pick a new card to add to your deck, sometimes expanding your...
Battlefield 6 producer Jeremy Chubb says fan-favorite Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was a "huge inspiration" for developing the shooter's upcoming instalment.
In an interview with PC Gamer, Chubb identified Bad Company 2 as "excellence in [Battlefield's] legacy," and admitted prior instalment, Battlefield 2042, "was kind of missing" some of the destructive elements that the series is famous for.
"When you look for excellence in our legacy, [Bad Company 2] is where you find it," Chubb said. "That game particularly delivered on a level of fidelity and a sort of intimate destructive experience. Blasting out a single wall, bringing down a partial building, or entire buildings. It was comprehensive, and it felt like the identity of that game...
We've already heard a lot about how Silent Hill f hopes to set itself apart from its predecessors, particularly by honing in on its Japanese roots. But it's also hoping to stand out to avoid "clone" comparisons to Silent Hill 2, and appeal to younger players by racheting up the combat.
Silent Hill series producer Motoi Okamoto and Silent Hill f director Al Yang have been making the rounds just recently, and an interview has popped up at Game*Spark. Okamoto discussed that whilst his aims for the remake of Silent Hill 2 were to respect the source material, for f, he's interested in "more entertaining and thrilling action."
"Inserting more entertaining and thrilling action into Silent Hill f was an idea I had ever since the early phases...
Microsoft will sell a special edition Xbox controller to mark the 40th anniversary of legendary development studio Rare, just weeks after the company announced significant layoffs and the cancellation of the studio's long-awaited next project Everwild.
Also available today to mark the occasion is a Sea of Thieves Ruby Hat, which you'll need to redeem via the Microsoft Rewards app.
The offerings come at an uncertain time for the studio, which now looks to be doubling down on Sea of Thieves, its live-service pirate game launched back in 2018. Gregg Mayles, the veteran Rare designer and director, reportedly departed the studio following the end of Everwild, as did producer Louise O'Connor.
Founded in 1985, British development studio...
Quality assurance workers at Raven Software, one of the developers of Call of Duty, have officially ratified their first union contract with Microsoft three years after they first unionized.
In a press release, the union shared several highlights of the new contract, including a guaranteed 10% wage increase over two years plus additional raises through merit and promotions, significant restrictions on mandatory overtime, layoff protections, expanded disability accommodations, and more.
“After more than three years of organizing and bargaining, seeing it finally pay off feels incredible,” said bargaining committee member and QA tester Erin Hall in a statement. “From day one, we made it a priority to include every voice in the room...
Baldur’s Gate 3 is two years old, and to celebrate Larian boss Swen Vincke has briefly discussed how its enormous success paved the way for the studio to work on its hotly anticipated next game. But don’t hold your breath for a reveal: Vincke called on fans to be patient as Larian "need a bit of time to make it all work."
Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3 was a breakout hit in 2023, dominating online conversation and setting sales records. Its wild success was a game-changer for Larian, and it has continued to perform strongly in the two years since launch, with mods helping to fuel seemingly never-ending interest in the RPG, especially on Steam.
Vincke told IGN in September 2024 that the success of Baldur’s Gate 3...
One pro fighting game player's reaction to losing at Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves was so dramatic that it's going viral on social media and already showing signs of becoming a meme.
If you’ve been looking at game-related sections of social media today, chances are you have stumbled across a picture or clip of Japanese player Kazuyuki 'Kojikog' Koji, mouth open in a scream and clutching his head, while fellow player Goichi "GO1" Kishida looks on with a mixture of concern and bemusement. A couple of stills were even shared by EVO2025’s official X account.
The player in question is KojiKOG, an esports pro from Japan who mainly specializes in fighting games like Street Fighter, the King of Fighters and Guilty Gear. This weekend, he...
Koei Tecmo is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Dynasty Warriors series with a number of announcements. Chief among them is confirmation of a “large-scale” DLC coming to Dynasty Warriors: Origins, and a mystery remaster of a “classic series title.”
That’s all we have for now. Koei Tecmo said further updates regarding upcoming games and special anniversary events will be gradually announced on the new website.
Dynasty Warriors is a tactical action series of games that spans over 20 years and has shipped over 21 million units worldwide. Traditionally, players take on the role of officers from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms while battling through hordes of soldiers in 1 vs. 1,000 gameplay.
The latest game is the aforementioned...
Bandai Namco has revealed a first look at the upcoming Tekken 8 DLC character Armor King, and announced a brand new character.
At the Evo fighting game tournament, fans got an in-depth look at Armor King, the next DLC character coming to the game, in an all-new gameplay trailer, below.
Armor King hits Tekken 8 on October 16, with 72-hour early access for Season 2 Character & Stage Pass and Season 2 Character Pass holders beginning 13 October.
The trailer also revealed the final DLC character for Season 2, introducing new fighter Miary Zo. Hailing from Madagascar, Miary Zo joins the roster in Winter 2025 as the first original DLC character for Tekken 8. The Winter DLC also includes a new stage set in Miary Zo’s home country.
Here’s...
Arguably one of the most requested and highly anticipated remakes of all time, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a balanced reimagining of 2004’s seminal stealth adventure epic that looks set to bring one of developer Hideo Kojima’s finest moments kicking and screaming into the present day. Put simply, if you’re a fan of the Metal Gear Solid series or the stealth genre more broadly, then Konami absolutely has your back with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.
Be sure to keep this guide in your favourites and bookmarks as we cover everything you need to know about Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, including the release date, pre-order bonuses, special editions, gameplay details, latest trailer, PC specifications and more...
Shift Up has updated both the PlayStation 5 and the PC versions of Stellar Blade, addressing numerous bugs and glitches.
There's not really much here to keep you playing if you've already completed it — there's no additional story content or costumes, for example — but the update does address a number of bugs and issues, including problems with the Photo Mode, dialogue, keyboard inputs, and missing hair and weapons.
Here's what's new:
Stellar Blade Update 1.3.0 Patch Notes
Improved Photo Mode so that when selecting a logo, the logo control indicator is now displayed.
Fixed an issue where players were unable to exit the shop after purchasing the 'Polarized Sunglasses' from Clyde’s shop.
Fixed an issue where Eve’s hair would not...
I’ve played more games than I’ve had hot dinners, and let me tell you, some titles just hit different when they’re dirt cheap. There’s a fine line between backlog and hoarding, but this week’s sale lineup makes a compelling case for ignoring both. Whether you’re keen to pilot a mech, solve murders with a finger point, or just make a town of peasants mildly unhappy, there’s something here worth carting.
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In retro news, I’m lighting an 8-candle cake baked for Persona 5 using a fiery All-Out Attack. Back in 2017, this stylish slice of turn-based rebellion turned every battle into a graphic design masterclass, and every dungeon crawl into a psychological jailbreak. It wasn’t just an RPG. It was a velvet-lined call to...
At the Evo 2025 fighting game tournament, Guilty Gear Strive developer Arc System Works revealed a first look at Lucy from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and confirmed an August 21 release date for the DLC guest character.
Lucy is the final playable character from Strive’s Season Pass 4, and is lifted from the hugely popular Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Netflix anime that followed the release of CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077. And anyone who’s played the game will instantly recognize the hacking mechanic we see in the gameplay trailer, below.
Time pauses as Lucy selects from a number of Quickhacks, such as Algorithm Malfunction, Optics Inhibition, and Energy Siphon, using Cyberdeck Ram in the same limited fashion you do in Cyberpunk 2077.
We then...