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Direct drive wheels , which transmit the forces experienced by your car in sim racing games to your hands without the use of intermediaries like cogs or belts, are experiencing something of a golden age. Pretty much every major manufacturer has now made the jump to producing these high-end wheel bases, offering a significant step up in dynamism and realism at increasingly mainstream prices. That …

I realise I'm probably in the minority here, but I don't love Bluepoint's approach to remakes. Sure, they're pretty, they're technically accomplished, and mechanically faithful to the originals, but the studio's artistic liberties too often rankle. I admit I'm a purist and grumpy old man in the making who hates change, but I still think remakes should, fundamentally, play within the boundaries of…

The price of RAM, the quick access source of memory in a computer, is currently soaring. Prices have more than doubled in two months and show no sign of slowing down. They've risen so sharply, in fact, that some shops have stopped printing price labels so they can alter the prices daily, as though they were market traders selling freshly caught fish. Read more

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, Kelsey remembers why Resident Evil 5 isn't an all-timer; Connor self-inflicts a strange challenge on himself in Guild Wars 2 ; Marie finds herself digging out her Game Boy Advance again; Ed makes a good point about horror games; Victoria accidentally completes Shadow of…

Hollow Knight: Silksong developer Team Cherry has commented on the use of mods following heated debates over the game's imposing challenge. Read more

Team Cherry has confirmed it's still working on new content for Hollow Knight: Silksong , but won't say when it's coming out. Read more

Hytale, the seemingly doomed sandbox RPG has a release date at last, after the project was reacquired by one of its original co-founders. It will be launching into Early Access on the 13th January, 2026. Read more

If Santa Ragione is to go out of business soon - as it seems likely to, barring a sales miracle for its upcoming, banned-on-Steam horror game, Horses - it will be a tragedy for video games. It's never had a true breakout hit, but by pure output alone the studio is a game development marvel. Read more

N64 shoot-em-up Viewpoint 2064 was never released, but 25 years later a final version of the game is now playable thanks to game preservation efforts. Read more

Resident Evil Survival Unit - the mobile strategy game based on Capcom's Resi series - has passed 2m downloads in just 10 days. Read more

Arc Raiders has certainly stolen the hearts of minds of gamers this season, remaining incredibly popular weeks after its explosive launch. In fact, Arc Raiders is proving to have such a steadfast place in the zeitgeist that it made an appearance in this week's South Park episode. Read more

These days, developer Bloober Team is perhaps best known for its wonderful work on last year's stupendous Silent Hill 2 remake, but the studio's horror oeuvre goes much farther back. And it's bringing its first big hit - and its ship-bound sequel - to Switch 2 very soon. Layers of Fear : The Final Masterpiece Edition comes to Nintendo's platform on 19th December. Read more

Assassin's Creed: Shadows won't be receiving a second expansion to follow Claws of Awaji, unlike previous games in the series. Instead, Ubisoft is working on "chunkier updates", similar in size to the Attack on Titan crossover released earlier this week. Read more