
007 First Light Plays Like Uncharted, Not Hitman
After three hours of hands-on previews, critics confirm IO Interactive's Bond game is a linear stealth-action experience closer to Uncharted than Hitman's open sandboxes.
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After three hours of hands-on previews, critics confirm IO Interactive's Bond game is a linear stealth-action experience closer to Uncharted than Hitman's open sandboxes.

Two Brothers Pictures, the production company behind Fleabag and The Missing, will write and develop an Atomfall TV series alongside Rebellion.

April came and went with no Star Fox announcement, and one conspiracy theory suggests Nintendo fed false information to smoke out its leakers.

Microsoft's gaming revenue dropped 7% in Q3, and new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is staking her reputation on reversing the slide. But the company's own CFO warns things will get worse before they get better.

Director Naoki Hamaguchi says the final chapter of the FF7 Remake trilogy is about pushing the RPG experience further, not simply tying up loose ends.

Sony has confirmed its new PlayStation DRM requires a single online check after purchase, not the recurring 30-day check-in that sent players into a spiral. But the CBOMB issue is still hanging.

IO Interactive's upcoming Bond game has a rule: you can't pull a gun unless someone pulls one on you first. It's a bold design choice that defines everything about how 007 First Light plays.

Subnautica 2 hits early access on May 14, but the question of who's actually publishing it is being answered in the most corporate-evasive way possible.

Zach Cregger has never watched a Resident Evil movie. His reboot, starring Austin Abrams as an original character, takes place on the periphery of Resident Evil 2 and borrows camera tricks from Resident Evil Requiem.

Sony has finally broken its silence on the PS5 and PS4 DRM controversy, confirming that the 30-day timer is a one-time license check tied to refund abuse prevention, not a recurring online requirement.

An unannounced Tales of Eternia Remastered has appeared on the PEGI rating board for Nintendo Switch, continuing Bandai Namco's steady march through the franchise's back catalogue.

The CEO of Monument Valley studio Ustwo Games, who also chairs the board of UK trade body Ukie, says full-time employment is becoming unsustainable and contractors are the future.

Rebel Wolves confirmed The Blood of Dawnwalker releases September 3, backed by a story trailer and a third gameplay overview that leans hard into its Witcher 3 DNA.

Strauss Zelnick used a conference appearance to squash two of the biggest anxieties around GTA 6: that it'll slip again, and that it'll cost $100.

Let your health drop too low in Blood of Dawnwalker and Coen will lose control, consuming whoever he's talking to. Most NPCs, including quest givers, can die this way.

Strauss Zelnick says Take-Two's teams are "always thinking about" legacy IP like L.A. Noire, and a quiet studio acquisition might explain why.

Rebel Wolves' vampire RPG lists an RTX 5090 as the requirement for native 4K at 60fps, putting the GPU cost alone north of $2,500. The rest of the spec sheet is more reasonable, but that top tier is eye-watering.

PlayStation Plus May 2026 pairs Wuchang: Fallen Feathers with Nine Sols, giving subscribers two very different flavours of punishment alongside EA Sports FC 26.

Two seasons in, HoYoverse is finally letting Zenless Zone Zero players take their own protagonist into battle. The Phaethon Pyrois Agent pairs Belle or Wise with an Etheric Other born from the Season 2 story.

OtherSide Entertainment's stealth game Thick as Thieves arrives on Steam May 20 for $4.99, featuring 16 missions across two replayable maps in a solo and co-op campaign.

FuturLab's upcoming Star Wars DLC for PowerWash Simulator 2 casts you as a canon cleaning droid during the original trilogy, and it's arriving this summer.

Capcom's developers are all but telling players to finish the campaign this week, strongly hinting the free mini-game drops shortly after Golden Week ends on May 6.

Games Done Quick is finally heading to Europe. The speedrunning marathon will run a three-day event at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne this August.

Strauss Zelnick said "yes" when asked about L.A. Noire's future, then immediately walked it back to "you never know." Fifteen years after the original, fans still have nothing concrete.