Video Games – OtakO

Hollow Knight: Silksong dev thinks Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will win Game of the Year: "It's exceptional and broadly palatable"

Netflix's Assassin's Creed show will be set in ancient Rome

MindsEye dev tries to resuscitate its flailing action game with a new "free starter pack"

There's apparently a new Dead Rising game in development, and it may be a direct sequel to the original Frank West game

PXN's debut direct drive sim racing gear reviewed: do the VD10 base, W CS R2 and W DS R2 wheels shake up the racing peripheral market?

I've returned to last year's brilliant Silent Hill 2 now it's finally on Xbox Series X/S, and it's exactly what a remake should be

"It's a perfect storm of unpreparedness, panic, and greed" – RAM prices are soaring, so what does it mean for gaming?

What we've been playing – "dying in horror games is always a reminder you're playing a game"

Modding Hollow Knight: Silksong is "totally fine" say Team Cherry, but studio is "largely" happy with difficulty balance

Yes, Team Cherry is working on more Hollow Knight: Silksong, but is remaining coy on the details

Hytale will finally be launching early next year, after years of development woes

"Players should be able to choose the experiences that speak to them" – Steam rival GOG weighs in amid Horses ban controversy

However you frame it, Valve's ham-fisted ban of an indie darling is another blow for free expression in video games, and this will always be a tragedy

Beating EVERY N64 Game – Jeopardy! (224/394)

Want to know how Assassin's Creed Shadows works on Switch 2? Ubisoft details console-specific features and more

Don't expect a trailer for The Witcher 4 at The Game Awards this year, as development continues in earnest

"Neither safe nor accessible" – Final Fantasy 14 fans raise big concerns about next US Fan Fest event, claiming Square Enix risks failing disabled players again

"AI will be involved in nearly all future production," says Epic Games boss, so having Steam games disclose whether they were built with AI makes "no sense"

"The responsibility lies fully with us as the publisher" – Paradox takes the blame for poor Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 sales

Arc Raiders patch removes busted quick weapon swap exploit, so you can no longer "double pump" strangers

How these indie devs turned teenage anxiety into a video game

CONSUME ME: The slice of life video game about teenage anxiety

Cyberpunk 2077 has sold a lot more copies than you think – and faster than The Witcher 3

Here are our PS Plus monthly games for December

Valve responds with "additional context" following Horses Steam ban controversy

Sega finally admits low sales of games may have been impacted by players waiting for "definitive editions", like Persona 5 Royal or SMT 5: Vengeance

Tomb Raider's Lara Croft is the best-selling video game heroine, Guinness World Records proclaims

"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" – one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban

Saturnalia studio's "deeply unsettling" horror Horses has a release date but there's a significant hitch if you were hoping to play it on Steam

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment free update adds more weapons and enemies to the chaos

Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio creator wants to create "JRPG 3.0", so what does that mean for Persona 6?

The cat's out of the bag – Gigantamax Meowth arrives with Pokémon Go's next season

I can't believe you can currently buy a PS5 for only £20 more than an Xbox Series S – and you get more storage

Former Rockstar Games staff were fired for sharing internal company messages on an employee and union-only Discord server, new report suggests

The upcoming Pokémon Pokopia may have a deeper link to classic games, fans believe – here's what we know

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Charlie Cox "thrilled" by Game Awards nomination, but says Gustave's mocap actor deserves the credit

Steam Machine's price will be "more in line" with current PC market, Valve says

I'm tired of pretending that Perfect Dark Zero isn't at least 50% really, really good

Xbox really committed to Japanese game development in the 360 era, and we didn't know how good we had it

FBC: Firebreak's Rogue Protocol update is delayed to January as it "still needs a bit more time"

Microsoft could be forced into raising the price of Xbox consoles again given global RAM shortage, leaker claims

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 European sales are 63% down on Battlefield 6, and 50% down on Black Ops 6

Looking back at the worst game ever released on the Xbox Live Arcade

Ubisoft announces AI "experiment" Teammates – a playable research project that's "more than just talk"

Beating EVERY N64 Game – Top Gear Rally 2 (223/394)

Any future Hollow Knight games after Silksong would "exist alongside" the others as standalone entries, says Team Cherry

Tools of the trade: this rollable OLED screen Lenovo laptop is making Black Friday deals a breeze

PUBG's new extraction shooter looks to take on Arc Raiders and Escape from Tarkov, as closed alpha test arrives on Steam next month

Liam Hemsworth "holds up pretty well" in The Witcher season four, says Geralt video game actor Doug Cockle

Renowned indie studio Inkle announces something quite different: a found-footage World War 2 code-breaking mystery

007 First Light's Bond will have an Aston Martin so exclusive, there are only 999 real world models