Update: That was the world of video games today on 29th August. A full transcript of everything that occurred today is available below if you wish to digest it all at your leisure.
It’s Friday at last and we’re back with another day of games news, games features and games talks. We’ll gather it all here in one handy blog. Games!
We’ve started the day with a bumper Football Manager interview from Chris Tapsell about what went wrong with last year’s edition and what will hopefully go right with this year’s edition. There’s also been heartwarming news overnight about experienced PC and PlayStation Helldivers 2 players helping new Xbox players get into the game. What borders, I say, what barriers?
Games!
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Key points
- 15:15 pm 08/29/2025 PC modders optimise Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, and add playable Kojima
- 14:23 pm 08/29/2025 "I've learned to trust my instincts more thanks to playing Karlach" – Samantha Béart reflects on Baldur's Gate 3, stoicism, and… Gordon Ramsay?
- 13:51 pm 08/29/2025 Steam users in the UK must now verify their age for mature games
- 13:46 pm 08/29/2025 Silksong's release date scared off lots of smaller games
- 13:32 pm 08/29/2025 AI use was a worrying trend at Gamescom
- 10:55 am 08/29/2025 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle DLC will adjust difficulty levels depending on your progress in the base game
- 10:44 am 08/29/2025 Lost Soul Aside developer acknowledges issues despite major day one patch
- 10:09 am 08/29/2025 Bloober Team has plans for more horror on Switch 2
- 09:35 am 08/29/2025 Over three quarters of Cyberpunk 2077's Nintendo Switch 2 sales were physical
- 09:08 am 08/29/2025 Honkai Nexus Anima revealed by developers of Genshin Impact
- 08:55 am 08/29/2025 Blizzard's Diablo team votes to unionise
- 08:48 am 08/29/2025 A candid look at why last year's Football Manager was canned
- 08:26 am 08/29/2025 Tea or coffee?
- 08:26 am 08/29/2025 Destiny: Rising launches on mobile today
08:26 am UTC
Destiny: Rising launches on mobile today
Destiny: Rising, a spin-off to Bungie’s series, is available on mobile from today.
It’s been developed and published by NetEase and offers a brand new story in an alternate Destiny timeline. It launches on both iOS and Android and is free to start, with in-app purchases.
Judging by this cinematic trailer, it has a more comedic, sarcastic tone than Bungie’s game. But how does it play? For that, check out the developer preview below.
Will you be trying Destiny: Rising this weekend?
Ed Nightingale 08:26 am UTC
Tea or coffee?
Here’s a question for your Friday morning: what’s your morning routine? Do you always do the same thing? Do you drink coffee or tea or something else? What’s your waking-up process?
I’m a coffee person in the morning, but try to not to inhale a cup until an hour after waking up. Apparently it’s better for you that way. In the afternoon, I switch to tea. If I drink too much coffee I stare at things and they wobble in my head.
Robert Purchese 08:32 am UTC
Big-Smoke says: Tea and coffe? Nah mate vape and a monster.
monster!
Robert Purchese 08:48 am UTC
A candid look at why last year's Football Manager was canned
Image credit: Sports Interactive Some things are as predictable as rain in the UK, and one of those is the annualised release of a new Football Manager game. But last year there wasn’t one. Last year (well, technically this year after a delay) Sports Interactive and Sega made the unprecedented deicsion to cancel Football Manager 25.
Why? That’s what Chris travelled to Sports Interactive to find out, and he published his findings – his candid interview with studio boss Miles Jacobson – this morning. It’s a fantastic read, a look behind the curtain. An open an honest account of a big-swing game evolution that wasn’t ready to release.
But it’s not an easy thing to cancel an annualised game. One does not simply withhold it. There’s your publisher’s annual earnings to think about, there are Premier League and football league licenses to think about. There are your players to think about. There’s a lot.