Category: ID@Xbox January 22, 2025 Our Resolution Is to Play More Indie Games: Indie Selects for January Raymond Estrada, Deron MannID@Xbox Personal Trainers New year, new you. New you, new games to play. In November, we announced that we will celebrate the one-year anniversary of this program with a 2024 Anniversary Collection. Each year, we’ll…
Yes, the RTX 50-series is almost upon us. The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 will be available to purchase around the globe on January 30, 2025. On that date, the Founders Edition and MSRP-priced cards will be available for purchase, followed by all the other cards on January 31. No doubt a portion of you…
I dream of a cable-free gaming PC—no more tangles, zip-ties, velcro, or fiddly connectors. Alas, a life without cable management is a long way away. In the meantime, we do now have the means to at least hide some of those cables out of sight (and out of mind), and that’s exactly what I’ve gone…
Crafting memories. Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land sees the Atelier series reaching new heights with a huge open-world style map and a deep focus on exploration. And in today’s new trailer, Koei Tecmo has detailed many of the game’s new and returning features. Focusing on the new to start with,…
Second-time leader of the free world Donald J. Trump is reportedly open to the idea of Elon Musk or Oracle head honcho Larry Ellison, among others, buying TikTok. But there’s a catch. In return for oiling the wheels of the deal, Trump thinks the US government should get half of TikTok. Bloomberg reports that President…
I’m not going to suggest you watch all seven hours of the livestream of the Excel World Championship Finals but, if you start watching, you’ll be treated to an exceptional creation: The Excel World Championship theme song. A kind of soft rock ballad that is AI-created but seems to be sung by an actual human,…
When Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was Steam Deck verified, I confess that I was immediately suspicious. Steam is now full of demanding games that are technically verified, despite the fact that the Deck simply can’t handle them without significant performance issues. We’re talking blurry messes that dip below 20 fps even…
The mid-to-late ‘70s saw the dawn of handheld electronic games and the beginning of my collecting something other than comic books. Console systems like the Fairchild Channel F and Atari 2600 launched in 1976 and 1977 respectively, but their high prices – $250 for an Atari plus $30-$45 per game – were prohibitive for many…
Before we get into offering our perspectives about Ted Price’s long-planned and extremely well-deserved retirement, we want to sincerely thank everyone who has checked in with Insomniac about the state of our employees and Burbank studio during the terrible Los Angeles-area fires. The fires have devastated the communities around us. We continue to focus on…
Flexing that backward compatibility. Prior to the official reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2, one of the late-game leaks revealed that the Joy-Con controllers would now house an optical sensor on the side, leading many to theorise that the console would support mouse functionality. Fast forward to the debut trailer, and yes, it seems that…