2023

Following a huge leak of confidential Microsoft documents which revealed apparent plans for a new Xbox controller and Xbox Series X refresh, it looks clear that Microsoft itself is responsible for the accidental info dump. The FTC is currently battling Microsoft in court over its intention to acquire Activision Blizzard, and as with any legal…

Ubisoft’s upcoming Assassin’s Creed Mirage is on the way, and the throwback AC game isn’t just cheaper than most other recent big releases (it’ll be $50), but apparently requires a heck of a lot less beef in your machine to get running. Frankly, thank god. Steam’s hardware survey for the last month says that near…

After it launched, Baldur’s Gate 3 hit a phenomenal 800,000 concurrent Steam players and received PC Gamer’s highest review score in 16 years, but during its years in early access, it wasn’t widely expected to be the next big thing. Take as an example this May 2022 document accidentally leaked by Microsoft as part of…

CD Projekt Red had nowhere to go but up with Cyberpunk 2077’s police. At launch, the NCPD was the laughing stock of videogame law enforcement—officers would utterly fail to give chase if V hopped into a car, hilariously spawn behind perpetrators as soon as a crime was committed, and open fire for simple trespassing (hm,…

The FTC and Microsoft are presently in court over the FTC’s desire to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and as seems to happen every time a big gaming company goes to court, there’s been an accidental leak of confidential documents.  One of the documents is a 2020 email from Xbox chief Phil Spencer (via…

According to documents accidentally leaked by Microsoft during its trial with the FTC (spotted by The Verge), we got to peek at Xbox’s plans for the future, including a refreshed, disc-less version of the Xbox Series X and, more notable from the PC gaming perspective, a fancy new controller.  Codenamed Sebile, the new two-toned Xbox…

Starfield may have over 1,000 planets and moons but it has precisely zero local maps, a choice that starts out confusing and becomes a frequent annoyance. Trying to find your way around the sprawling city of New Atlantis or the winding walkways of Cydonia would be infinitely easier if you could pull up a map…

I don’t know if I’ll ever play through a Bethesda game properly, because I can’t take more than a dozen steps into one of their open worlds without opening up the dev console to spawn a bunch of perishable food items or turn off gravity or otherwise distract myself from whatever quest I’m supposed to…