Panos Panay, chief product officer at Microsoft, is leaving after almost 20 years. Executive vice president Rajesh Jha told employees on Monday in an internal memo. “After nearly 20 years at the company, Panos Panay has decided to leave Microsoft. Panos has had an incredible impact on our products and culture and the broader devices…
I’m no risk-taker (or so I like to tell myself), and yet I have spent the past few days making extremely poor decisions with dice. Fortunately my errors in judgment haven’t bankrupted me, but they sure have led a long procession of adorable cartoon critter-folk to their cosmic doom. Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, the debut game…
Wish upon a Star(field). In an attempt to ensure that Microsoft’s Xbox is easily differentiated from the Switch, the company once attempted to make a shift in terminology when it comes to what constitutes a “console” — because that couldn’t possibly lead to confusion, right? In a 2019 email from Xbox’s head of marketing, Aaron…
I’m excited to announce that Xbox has joined forces with BWT Alpine F1 team, with Xbox becoming the team’s Official Console Partner and PC Game Pass becoming an Official Partner. This multi-year deal expands Xbox into a brand-new Sports category – the exciting world of Formula 1. BWT Alpine F1 Team joins a tremendous portfolio…
Virtual insanity? What can be said about the Virtual Boy which hasn’t been said a million times already? Arguably Nintendo’s most high-profile commercial failure in the realm of video game hardware, this headache-inducing device is often blamed for the premature departure of the legendary Gunpei Yokoi from the company he helped build; rumour has it…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game of almost unparalleled freedom, and we all know what that really means: the freedom to murder any NPC you can get your hands on. Usually, the danger of any RPG murder spree is that you might kill someone who’s vital to a later main quest event, and end up…
Specs comparable to PS4 and Xbox One. Oh boy… The ‘Switch 2’ hype train is picking up some speed now, huh? According to The Verge, Nintendo has reportedly already briefed Activision-Blizzard on its next console and had in fact done so back in December last year. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
NEED TO KNOW What is it? An open world sim-cade racer also featuring bikes, boats, and planes. Release date September 14, 2023 Expect to pay £60 / $70 Developer Ubisoft Ivory Tower Publisher Ubisoft Reviewed on i7 9700K, RTX 2080 TI, 16GB RAM Steam Deck N/A Link Official site I’ve become obsessed with the Grand Races in Ubisoft Ivory Tower’s Crew threequel. 28…
Samsung just announced its monstrous Odyssey Neo G9, which is 57 inches of dual 4K gaming glory that probably won’t fit on your desk. More importantly, it’s the first dual UHD monitor with DisplayPort 2.1. If you’re feeling a bit of deja vu, it’s probably because a while back, I had some time with Samsung’s…
Got 99 problems, but F-Zero ain’t one. What do you get when you take the first entry in one of Nintendo’s most overlooked franchises and cram it with battle royale mechanics after nearly 20 years of dormancy? You might expect a shambling Frankenstein’s monster of a game held together by nostalgia-baiting stagnancy. Instead, F-Zero 99…