Microsoft’s new AI-powered game generation platform Muse is akin to the impact that CGI had on the film industry. So, says CEO Satya Nadella in a wide ranging interview covering everything from AI and quantum computing, to the future of economic growth, while slightly ignoring the fact that Microsoft’s AI-generated games are only running at…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for February 24 to 28 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published February 21, 2025 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, the Xbox App on Windows PC, and…
President Trump may have only come into office mere months ago, but it already has a buzzword—and that word is tariff. While it’s unclear if all of Trump’s threats to heavily tax imports from various countries into the US will materialise, his administration has already announced a trade policy that includes a 10% tariff on…
In 1984 Rob Berk put together a questionnaire that ran in Steve Young’s publication called Silverball Quarterly. The questionnaire basically said, “We are considering doing a national pinball convention. Are you interested? Would you come?” The resounding answer was “Yes, it would be a good idea.” Pinball Expo is the brain child of Rob Berk…
Otherwise known as Super Buster Bros. in North America. A new fanmade Mega Drive port of the SNES shooter Super Pang is currently in development, with its developer @RCampeador recently sharing an update on the project’s progress on Twitter / X. Super Pang, in case you’ve never heard of it, is the second game in…
Though the RTX 50 series line has just launched, plenty of gamers are still choosing 40 series cards, partially because the former is so hard to get a hold of. With increasing power demands for those still rather beefy cards, one company has put out a neat adapter with built-in fans, temperature and power consumption…
A new trailer is now available. Earlier this month, Tainted Pact, the developer of horror games like Suffer the Night, Terror at Oakheart, and Massacre At The Mirage, released the trailer for their next Steam game, Flesh Made Fear. The game, according to its developer, is intended to serve as a “homage to the PSX-era…
I’ve only spent a brief few hours with Obsidian’s RPG/fish-person-friend simulator Avowed so far, but I’m enjoying my time with it. What I haven’t been enjoying is the occasional frame rate dip, along with a general twitchiness our Nick highlighted in his performance analysis. However, it turns out there’s actually a simple tweak that enables…
Prologue: Go Wayback! is probably one of the hardest survival games I’ve played in a while, but don’t let the supposed difficulty put you off giving the survival roguelike a go. Because if the playtests revealed anything, it’s that anything’s possible when you have a pocket full of blackberries and access to a heat source….
Fallout 76 has become another feather in Bethesda’s cap, assisted by the fact that it’s the game best-positioned to take advantage of the popularity of Amazon’s fantastic Fallout TV show, and thanks to the cavalcade of transformative free updates. But it wasn’t always like this. At launch, the reception was rough. An online-only Fallout game…