Letizia Calvi

28/10/2025

Heavy breathing intensifies as Battlefield 6 players find flyable scout helicopters in Portal

The Little Bird flies again.

22/10/2025

Former Battlefield 6 campaign boss calls out EA for leaving him and other developers out of the credits after closing his studio in 2024

Marcus Lehto founded Ridgeline Games in 2021 to develop the narrative campaign for the next Battlefield, but the studio was shuttered before the game arrived.

08/10/2025

2XKO Early Access Review

Riot's 2v2 tag fighter continues to impress.

29/09/2025

ROG Xbox Ally X Buying Guide

The Xbox-branded Asus ROG Ally releases October 16 with two different editions priced at $600/$1,000.

22/09/2025

Silent Hill f Review

Silent Hill f presents a fresh new setting to explore and a fascinatingly dark story to unravel, but its melee-focussed combat takes a big swing that doesn’t quite land.

17/09/2025

5 Metroidvania Games To Play If You’ve Been Defeated By Hollow Knight: Silksong

If you want all the platform action without the brutal difficulty, here are five excellent alternatives

10/09/2025

Only nine franchises make up the top 20 all-time best-selling PlayStation chart in the US - can you guess how many are Call of Duty games?

In honour of PlayStation's 30th birthday yesterday in the US, data company Circana has dug out figures showing the top 20 best-selling PlayStation video games ever (date-range Jan 1995 to July 2025). Don't get too excited.

Call of Duty dominates it, occupying nine of the top 20 spots, though Rockstar's games lead the list, with Grand Theft Auto 5 top, Red Dead Redemption 2 fourth, GTA San Andreas fifth and GTA Vice City ninth.

The surprise performer for me is Insomniac's relatively recent Marvel's Spider-Man series, with the debut 2018 game in sixth and the PlayStation 5-launch-adjacent Miles Morales expandalone in 12th.

Elsewhere you'll spot Minecraft, The Last of Us, God of War, Skyrim, and Rainbow Six Siege.

05/09/2025

Silksong is so popular, even people in the Piracy subreddit are encouraging others to just buy it: "If we can afford to support them, we should"

No one escapes Skongmania.

22/01/2025

Award-winning RPG ‘Disco Elysium’ is making its way to Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox One

ZA/UM Studio's Disco Elysium is making its way to the Nintendo Switch sometime this year, along with console ports for the PS4 and Xbox One.

22/12/2024

Microsoft-Activision deal moves closer as judge denies FTC injunction request

A federal judge in San Francisco has denied the Federal Trade Commission’s motion for a preliminary injunction to stop Microsoft from completing its acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard.

The deal isn’t completely in the clear, though. The FTC can now file its appeal of the decision to federal appellate court, and the two companies must find a way forward to resolve opposition from the Competition and Markets Authority in the United Kingdom.

“This Court’s responsibility in this case is narrow. It is to decide if, notwithstanding these current circumstances, the merger should be halted—perhaps even terminated—pending resolution of the FTC administrative action,” Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley wrote in her decision, published on Tuesday. “For the reasons explained, the Court finds the FTC has not shown a likelihood it will prevail on its claim this particular vertical merger in this specific industry may substantially lessen competition. To the contrary, the record evidence points to more consumer access to Call of Duty and other Activision content. The motion for a preliminary injunction is therefore DENIED.”

Activision Blizzard shares reached a session high of $88.03 per share after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued the decision. Microsoft had agreed to buy the game publisher for $95 per share.