HDMI! LAN ports! Optical audio! The original Xbox was a groundbreaking system in so many ways. It arguably popularised the idea of building a home console from PC components (a trend which continues to this day) and it laid down the foundations for modern online gaming via its Xbox Live service. It’s also the machine…
Starfield has now been in the wild for a month and, yep, turns out it’s a Bethesda game. I don’t know why anyone’s surprised really, and surely that’s what we were all secretly hoping for: where’s the joy in a vast, polished galaxy where everything works as intended? Far better to have a cosmos where…
The MLB Postseason is underway, and MLB The Show 23 is bringing you special content to play as the heroes of the Fall Classic. Also, at the end of October, sink your fangs into spooktacular Halloween-themed content. Play Video Postseason Series Programs Beginning on Friday, October 13, play Wild Card Moments in the first Postseason…
To become a “gaming giant”. Disney executives are reportedly encouraging CEO Bob Iger to consider expanding Disney from a “gaming license” to a “gaming giant”. In a report published by Bloomberg (via VGC), it seems that all is not happy at the House of Mouse, with reports of discontent following comments made before the SAG-Aftra…
To celebrate the launch of Forza Motorsport, the Xbox Series S console has gone where it’s never gone before- under the hood of a car! Xbox, Forza Motorsport, and New Bright have joined garages to create a one-of-a-kind, radio-controlled car with a Carbon Black Xbox Series S 1TB console inside of it! The unique design…
Just as I was about to sit down and have dinner, another news story just broke which I just had to mention, and it’s a new level 2 demo for the Commodore Amiga game ‘Electroman’: An Alpha version of a game port that was originally released by Messrs, Janusz Pelc and Maciej Miąsik for the…
Developed by former Atari staffer, Jeff Milhorn. The unreleased Atari 8-bit game Psyclotron has been made available for download almost 40 years after it was abandoned. Developed by Jeff Milhorn, Psyclotron is heavily inspired by Robotron: 2084 and is unique in that it offers a simultaneous two-player mode – something that wasn’t all that common…
As I fend off endless assaults from the mysterious Sea Peoples’, neighbouring factions happily cross into my borders to raid me for resources, and my rivals in the Royal Court seek to tarnish my name. I realise at this point, with my head in hands, that I have much to learn in Total War:…
Before the Lobotomy. Bringing cult classics to a more modern, updated platform can be a risky proposition. What, if anything, do you change, and what do you keep the same? When the game you happen to be porting originated on the DS, a certain degree of change is inevitable given the shift from a two-screen…
Category: Games How Zoo Tycoon Became a Fully-Licensed Xbox Board Game Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published October 11, 2023 “It sounds crazy but, even as a 10 year-old boy, I started to design my first zoo board game.” Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game might be a new project – both for designers Marc Dür…