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News Split Fiction Looks Set for Hollywood as Bidding War Begins for Movie Adaptation
So Fares so good
Split Fiction, the just-released new game from co-op specialist developer Hazelight Studios, is already in talks for a movie adaptation. That's according to a new report from Variety, citing sources at GDC in San Francisco. Apparently, media company Story Kitchen — which specialises in game-to-film/TV adaptations — is working...
News Split Fiction Duo Beat Gruelling Hidden Level, Get to See Hazelight's Next Game Early
Feel free to tell us all about it
Split Fiction, the latest cooperative masterpiece from Hazelight, has been selling like hotcakes and keeping friends and couples either together or at each other's throats for a couple of weeks now. One particularly dynamic duo has stumbled into and subsequently cleared the gruelling "Laser Hell" level. As a reward,...
News Plants vs. Zombies Is Seemingly Making a Comeback on PS5 in Reloaded Project
What is Plants vs. Zombies Reloaded?
Spotted by Gematsu (below), Brazil's age classification board appears to have revealed the existence of a new Plants vs. Zombies title. The listing suggests it'll be called Plants vs. Zombies Reloaded, and onlookers are largely agreed that this is likely to be a remaster of the original strategy game. The...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Split Fiction?
It Takes Two/10
Split Fiction, the latest co-op escapade from Hazelight, has been out for a couple of weeks now, and so we want to know what you think of it. Cast aside your potentially ruined relationships and take a moment to consider the game's overall quality! This one was met with plenty of incredibly positive reviews — most of which seemed...
News Star Wars Goes Tactical for New PS5 Game Reveal from Former XCOM Staff
On 19th April at Star Wars Celebration
EA will reveal the next Star Wars game, a turn-based tactics experience from Respawn Entertainment and Bit Reactor, at Star Wars Celebration next month. The announcement will take place on 19th April 2025, as confirmed by the new panel schedule. The description explains: "Join Bit Reactor, along with Respawn...
News PS5 Co-Op Hit Split Fiction Surpasses 2 Million Copies in Its First Week
Hazelight's fastest-selling game ever
Hazelight has confirmed that its latest co-op dedicated PS5 title Split Fiction sold more than one million units inside the first 48 hours of availability. This makes it the studio's fastest-selling game to date, with A Way Out taking two weeks to achieve the feat and It Takes Two one month. The Swedish...
Exclusive It Takes Two's Infamous Elephant Scene Explained by Josef Fares
An elephant never forgets
Spoiler Warning! This feature openly discusses moments within It Takes Two that are best experienced first-hand. If you haven't already, go play the game, it's great. What's the deal with the elephant scene in It Takes Two? If you're reading this, you probably just played through the co-op adventure's notorious sequence...
News Next PS5 Battlefield Gameplay Floods Internet, Remains Online
We're ready to be hurt again
It seems that playtesting for the as-yet-unnamed next game in the venerable Battlefield franchise is currently underway; EA has been rather quiet, instead, we've deduced this by the constant stream of leaked gameplay footage that started flooding our feeds over the weekend. Oddly enough, the publisher/developer doesn't...
News Respawn Entertainment Cancels Mysterious FPS Game
"Incubation Team" is seemingly no more
With the rate at which AAA developers are canceling video game projects, we might all need to content ourselves with our backlogs in future. Respawn Entertainment, a subsidiary of EA and the developers of Titanfall and Apex Legends, has canceled its unannounced "multiplayer first-person shooter experience"...
Poll Are You Playing Split Fiction?
Split the bill
Those incredibly talented devs over at Hazelight are back with their new co-op extravaganza. Split Fiction has just arrived on PS5, and there's plenty of reason to believe that this is the studio's best work yet. Reviews for this one have been hugely positive, with the game building on everything that It Takes Two got right. We're...
Review Split Fiction (PS5) - A Truly Outstanding, Peerlessly Creative Co-Op Adventure
You couldn't write it
Split Fiction, like Hazelight Studios' previous titles, is only playable in local or online co-op. To match this collaborative direction, the Push Square review is a back-and-forth between the pair who played through the game, as has become tradition. This time, assistant editor Stephen Tailby had a helping hand from video...
News Split Fiction: Friend Edition Is the Silliest Game Promo We've Seen in Ages
Silliest and best?
Split Fiction, the new co-op adventure from Josef Fares' Hazelight Studios, launches this week on PS5, and it can only be played in a two-person setup. Fortunately, it comes with the Friends Pass feature, which means you only need to buy the game once and can then invite someone to play it with you online, regardless of platform...
News You Can Get a Head Start on Next Week's Big PS Plus Game
Create your Dragon Age character today
Dragon Age: The Veilguard marks one of the biggest PS Plus Essential drops for some time, based both on its general quality and how it was only released for PS5 a handful of months ago. It's an update important enough that you may be willing to drop what you're currently playing to experience it now, but you...
News Co-Op Game Split Fiction's Friend's Pass Will Work Across Consoles
It doesn't matter which system you own
As with the excellent It Takes Two, you’ll only need to own one copy of Split Fiction to play co-op online with your friends. But developer Hazelight is going one step further this time, allowing you to team up with your buddies regardless of which console you own. It works like this: you buy the game and...
News It Takes Two Film Flailing, Even Josef Fares Is in the Dark
"Hollywood, there's so much bulls***"
Remember when, around three years ago, it seemed like every game under the sun was getting a film or TV adaptation? One such film was based on Hazelight's extremely successful co-op outing; It Takes Two. But since its Amazon-funded, The Rock-led existence was revealed, we've heard nothing. According to outspoken...
News Co-Op Adventure Split Fiction Continues to Look Superb In Latest PS5 Trailer
Releases very soon
Split Fiction, the next game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight, is looking fantastic. We didn't need to see another trailer, but we got one, and we're no less excited. Focusing on the game's story, the trailer is centred around the two protagonists, young writers Mio and Zoe, who are trapped within the worlds they've both...
News The Sims 4's Massive New PS4 Expansion Actually Sounds Awesome
Build your own business
While there’s lots of enthusiasm around classic The Sims experiences right now, The Sims 4 continues to grow and grow. While we’ve been critical of the game’s rusty performance on the PS4 – oh, how we wished a native PS5 port would emerge – the new Business & Hobbies expansion sounds like a ton of fun. As its...
News Original Dragon Age Writer Responds to EA's Live Service Obsession with Common Sense
"Follow Larian's lead"
Earlier this week, EA CEO Andrew Wilson set the internet ablaze with comments suggesting that Dragon Age: The Veilguard would have performed better if it had live service elements. Plenty of people have fired back against such a notion, but few have done so with the clarity of lead Dragon Age: Origins writer David Gaider...
News Apex Legends Resets the Meta with Its Latest Season
Levelling the playing field
Apex Legends is mixing up the meta with its 24th season, Takeover. As we usher our way into Year 6 of the popular battle royale, Respawn Entertainment is aiming to improve what it already has rather than offering up new dollops of content. And that all starts with a meta reset, as every single weapon is buffed with the...
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard Failed Because It Wasn't Live Service, EA CEO Seems to Suggest
Players want "shared worlds" and "deeper engagement"
According to Andrew Wilson, the CEO at EA, one of the reasons why Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn't meet its internal sales expectations could be because it didn't ship as a live service product. Speaking during the firm's recent quarterly earnings call, Wilson said the RPG "did not resonate" with...
News New Battlefield Game Should Launch Before April 2026
EA shares a release window
EA has revealed the next Battlefield game it's planning to test with the public in Battlefield Labs will release before April 2026. The news comes from the publisher's third-quarter earnings results, where it stated the new title has an "expected fiscal year 2026 release". This is a time period starting in April 2025 and...
News Need for Speed Series Isn't Dead, But Dev Now Fully Focused on Battlefield
Will return in "new and interesting" ways
The arcade racing series Need for Speed will live to fight another day, but you shouldn't expect a new entry to arrive any time soon. As part of today's Battlefield Labs announcement, it was confirmed that franchise developer Criterion is one of four teams within EA that are coming together to form...
News Reassigned BioWare Staff Might Not Get to Go Back to Developer
Now they're permanent moves, says Jason Schreier
The employees from BioWare that EA temporarily moved to other internal teams might not actually be given the chance to go back, a new report claims. Jason Schreier of
News Battlefield Labs Revealed, a New Test for Next Battlefield Game
Sign up to take part in tests
A new testing environment for the future of the Battlefield franchise has leaked ahead of a public announcement. EA is set to reveal the feature, which is called Battlefield Labs, in a community update within the next hour, but the client has leaked ahead of time via an in-game Battlefield 4 splash page. Reddit user...
News Battlefield Fans Stand at Attention as EA Teases Community Testing Program
Fool me once, shame on me...
Battlefield 2042 came out in 2021, and to say the community received it poorly would be quite an understatement. We'll admit to bouncing back then, never to return, but it seems EA has clawed back some goodwill in the intervening years: the developer has told fans t
News Classic The Sims Launches on PC, But No Sign of the PS2 Versions
Console hopes crushed for now
The earlier games in EA's The Sims series have been rather difficult to buy and play in modern times, but that seems like it'll soon change. According to Kotaku and a teaser from EA itself, new ports of The Sims 1 and 2 are soon to be released on PC, finally allowing fans to easily dive into these classic titles as the...
News BioWare Downsizing as It Focuses on Next Mass Effect, Some Staff Moved to Other EA Teams
Studio is in between "full development cycles"
BioWare has announced it's downsizing and moving "many" staff members over to other teams inside EA as it looks to streamline its workload following the shift in focus to the next Mass Effect instalment. Since the developer is no longer working on two RPGs simultaneously after the release of Dragon Age:...
News Split Fiction Looks Absolutely Phenomenal in New Co-Op PS5 Gameplay Trailer
Update: It's also gone gold well ahead of launch
One of the most exciting games coming in the next couple of months is Split Fiction, the next action adventure from the team behind It Takes Two and A Way Out. Publisher EA has just released a new trailer, and it looks just as imaginative and fun as those previous outings. Playing as young writers...
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard Support Could Be Over Already as Patch 5 Drops on PS5
No mention of PS5 Pro fixes
Patch 5 for Dragon Age: The Veilguard is available to download now on PS5, weighing in at around 500MB. But it's actually BioWare's patch-accompanying comments that are the big talking point here, as it suggests that support for the action RPG is already coming to an end. Those who have been playing The Veilguard since...
News EA Stock Price Plummets After Dragon Age: The Veilguard, FC 25 Disappointments
Vast hoards of speculative treasure, gone
Following the formal news that, in light of the underperformance of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and FC 25 (amongst other things), publisher EA would be forced to lower its expected financial forecast, the real blood-letting happened later on the
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard, FC 25 Underperform, Force EA to Lower Financial Forecast
Dragon Age sells roughly 1.5 million
EA has lowered its financial forecast for the rest of this fiscal year, ending March 2025. The publisher points primarily to the underperformance of FC 25 — formerly known as FIFA — alongside sales of Dragon Age: The Veilguard failing to meet expectations. As outlined in the company's latest report, FC 25...
News EA in Hot Water Over Alleged Use of Conflict Imagery in Battlefield Art
Seemingly innocuous asset again under scrutiny
Meaningful information is gleaned from official video game artwork less often than you might think, which is to say virtually never, so EA and DICE making headlines, again, for the same piece of promotional imagery released for the as-yet-officially-unannounced next Battlefield feels significant. With...
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard Director Is Leaving BioWare
Having served an 18-year career at EA
Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director Corinne Busche is leaving BioWare after an 18-year career at EA, with two of them in the position on the RPG project, Eurogamer reports. It is understood the developer hasn't been affected by any layoffs elsewhere; this is simply Busche moving on in the coming weeks...
News Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's Lingering PS5 Pro Issues Reportedly Fixed
Galactic credit where it’s due
Reported around the time of the hardware's launch back in November, those lingering PS5 Pro image quality issues in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor have allegedly been fixed. Developer Respawn Entertainment has pushed out a patch specifically aimed at outstanding technical problems, such as flickering in the volumetric fog,...
News EA Shot Down Creators' Dead Space 4 Pitch in 2024
Sequel to established franchise considered too risky
Dead Space is undoubtedly one of the best horror franchises in gaming, with an excellent remake of the original reminding us of that fact in 2023. In a highly telling reveal, however, original creators Christopher Stone, Bret Robbins, and Glen Schofield (recently of Striking
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Character Creator Now Free on PS5, Patch 4 Adds Hawke's Armour
Face time
4th December marks Dragon Age Day on the BioWare calendar, and so the developer's dishing out some surprise presents. To start with, it's launched a standalone version of the character creator from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. You can download it for free on PS5, and spend a ridiculous amount of time crafting your ideal hero. You can then...
News Analyst Says Dragon Age: The Veilguard Had a Good, But Not a Great Launch
#6 in the U.S. for November, but there's more to the story
A clearer picture of how Dragon Age: The Veilguard is performing is starting to emerge, although maddeningly, we still don't have the hard and fast numbers. Released 31st October, we are approaching the month's final figures, and the always insightful Mat Piscatela of Circana has provided...
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard Patch 3 Out Now, BioWare Promises Another Update 'Soon'
Keep your Veilguard up
BioWare has released a new update for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, bringing a handful of improvements to the overall experience, while also squashing a bunch of bugs. Highlights include photo mode filters, and a selection of user interface-based enhancements. Meanwhile, the bug fixes address all kinds of things, like wonky...
Rumour EA Going All-In on Battlefield 6 in Bold Attempt to Revitalise Franchise
The real battle begins
EA is pumping an unprecedented amount of resources into Battlefield 6, claims a new report from Insider Gaming. Essentially, the publisher is looking to right the wrongs of the franchise's most recent stumbles. Most importantly, it's keen to avoid another Battlefield 2042 situation, where the shooter was completely undercooked...
News The Largely Forgotten Need for Speed Unbound Is Still Getting Big Updates on PS5
Lockdown mode coming soon
We feel a bit sorry for Need for Speed Unbound; it launched back in December 2022 with almost no fanfare at all, despite being arguably the best game in the series in years. Still, while it's flown way under the radar, it's quietly been receiving great post-launch support all this time, with the next big update coming very...
News PS5 Pro Image Quality Issues Reported for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Looks "dramatically worse" than base PS5 performance mode
You can add Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to the mounting pile of games that somehow perform worse on PS5 Pro than on Sony's baseline hardware. The engineers at Digital Foundry put the game's alleged PS5 Pro-enhanced patch through its paces and came away unimpressed. While RT reflections
News You'll Never See This Potential TV Mass Effect Commander Shepard Pick Coming
"Takin' over Earth and still kickin' in Uranus"
With Fast & Furious 9 writer Daniel Casey signed on to pen Amazon's upcoming Mass Effect TV adaptation, things could really go in any direction. One future we never would have predicted, however, was the potential inclusion of one John Anthony Felix Cena, presumably as Commander Shepard, who you...
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard Sales Keep Pace with Dragon's Dogma 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth in UK
"It's not earth shattering, but it isn't terrible"
Dragon Age: The Veilguard appears to mark the critical return of developer BioWare, but its commercial impact remains harder to parse almost two weeks after launch. At least in the UK (the seventh-largest individual market for games globally), The Veilguard reportedly performed comparably to...
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reveals Players' Most Popular Class, Race, and Faction
Data Age
BioWare's always been quick to share player statistics for its games. In particular, the developer used to spark heated debates amongst fans whenever it revealed data for Mass Effect. And while we doubt that these early points of interest for Dragon Age: The Veilguard will prove very surprising, they still provide some welcome insight into...
News Movement from Amazon's Mass Effect TV Series, Fast & Furious 9 Writer Signed
M9: The Shepard Saga
If the long-awaited launch of Dragon Age: The Veilguard wasn't enough to satiate your BioWare cravings, we've finally had an update on that Mass Effect TV series first reported in 2021. An adaptation is officially being developed at Amazon MGM Studios by Fast & Furious 9 writer Daniel Casey. Word comes to us through an...
News Dragon Age: The Veilguard's First PS5 Update Out Now, Adds Mass Effect Armour, Fixes Bugs
Behind the Veil
The first post-launch update for Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be dropping at some point this week, developer BioWare has confirmed. The full patch notes won't be released until the update is actually available, but it sounds like some decent adjustments are incoming. The studio gives a brief overview of what to expect, writing:...
News Metacritic Responds to Ongoing Dragon Age: The Veilguard Review Bombing Campaign
User scores: what are they good for?
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has been out in the wild for a few days, but the furore surrounding BioWare's latest continues unabated. Review aggregate site Metacritic has spoken out in response to the wave of low-effort, negative user reviews, which are at odds with both the game's critical reception and user...
News Don't Expect Much Mass Effect News This N7 Day
It's a "quieter" year from BioWare
BioWare is set to celebrate its Mass Effect series later this week on N7 Day (7th November), but compared to previous years, what the developer has planned for Thursday is on a smaller scale. Due to last week's launch of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, this N7 Day will be "quieter" than usual. The studio posted to...
News Dragon Age PS5 Remaster Collection Is Unlikely, But 'Never Say Never'
Game engine issues get in the way
The Mass Effect Legendary Legendary Edition is right up there with Valve's The Orange Box as one of the best deals in gaming, and if BioWare were to ever give its Dragon Age RPG series the same treatment, it would join them. There have been some calls for such a remastered collection of Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon...
News BioWare Rules Out Any Dragon Age: The Veilguard DLC
Now focused on Mass Effect
BioWare has revealed it won't be releasing any post-launch DLC or expansions for its new PS5 release Dragon Age: The Veilguard, as the developer has now shifted all its attention to the next Mass Effect game. During a deep dive interview with Rolling Stone, creative director John Epler confirmed the shift in focus. "With...
