Game Pass means different things to different people: a rich repository of indie games, a place to play Microsoft’s AAA games on Day One, and a covert way to mainline Call of Duty into our bloodstreams. One moment you’re whip-cracking fascists in the new Indiana Jones, the next you’re rolling back the years with the…
Probably. Possibly. We’re all here, playing the waiting game as Nintendo assembles its April Direct and reveals more juicy details about Switch 2. Well, we hope; it feels like we’ve been in the realms of rumour and speculation for a good half-decade and after the first trailer we’ve got our fingers crossed for a real…
New entry launches this month. A new entry in the Civilization franchise is due to drop later this month on 11th February 2025, but as of yet, we’re unable to provide our full thoughts on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII on Switch. Thankfully, a bunch of reviews have gone live at the time of writing, and…
Category: Announcements February 3, 2025 Honoring Black History: A Global Celebration of Culture and Creativity in Gaming Team Xbox Summary Celebrating Global Black Culture: Xbox honors the diverse and rich expressions of Black culture from around the world, highlighting the influence of Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino, African, and African American traditions in gaming. Discover Games Shaped by…
Summary A true survival horror experience. Immersive terrifying world to explore. Investigate what really happened and how to survive Exclusively brought to you by Xbox Wire, Blood Hunting arrives to Xbox for Pre-Order on January 31, 2025. Enjoy this first-person horror survival experience while finding clues to solve puzzles that help explain the true story…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a very good videogame about washing yourself in troughs over and over, and it’s almost ready to hit the big red ‘Release’ button on PC. On Tuesday, February 4, KCD2 will finally go live almost exactly seven years after its predecessor, giving lord and peasant alike the chance to romp…
Rollback netcode, but at a hardware level? What if your controller could sense your next move? That’s hardly science fiction—after all, rollback netcode is used in many leading fighting games to do just that—but a patent has been spotted by Tom’s Guide and Game Rant which hints that Nintendo could look to include it in…
CES 2025 saw the announcement of some exciting new Zen 5 CPUs from AMD, not least two X3D additions that we’ve been anticipating for some time. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D look like they might be some seriously powerful CPUs, and now the latest scuttlebutt suggests they might be coming at the end of…
The next Battlefield doesn’t have an official name, date, or even a proper trailer yet, but EA wants folks to play it and start giving feedback. The series’ new playtesting initiative is called Battlefield Labs, and its first participants will play a pre-alpha version of the next Battlefield in the coming weeks and months—signups are…
If you’re a fan of 4X strategy games, you’ll probably have already read through our review of Civilization 7 and perhaps my performance analysis of the game, too. As any strategy enthusiast will know, such games are almost never about the graphics and instead focus on complex AI algorithms, which test your abilities as a…