The Bullet Hell

Sony's best first-party studio hasn't published a new game for almost a decade, and that's a problem.

N++ is an absolutely stellar game. I even like the unconventional name and appreciate developer Metanet Software's continued embrace of the N name first used for its original Flash creation more than two decades ago. But it's also a name that comes with some issues, perhaps best demonstrated by the game's name on Steam being followed by "(NPLUSPLUS)." So what do you do when you're making a multiplayer follow-up and need to come up with a name? "It's always been hard for us to name these things," Metanet's Raigan Burns said when asked about the name of the newly announced N+ Infinity Times Two.

The most surprising thing about Hell Let Loose: Vietnam is how much DNA it shares with Big Walk. They both frequently involve traversing large expanses of terrain. They both have excellent maps. Most of all, they're both fundamentally games about communication. Each utilises modern voice chat to its fullest extent, requiring players to clearly express and articulate themselves to succeed. Read more

The Hawk review: Will Ferrell has given us so many funny characters; this Netflix series does not feature one of them.

Another deluge of layoffs in a year full of them.