March 2025

Lovecraftian horror detective game The Sinking City’s grand redemption arc continues, with a shiny new remaster coming free to all existing owners

1 week ago06 mins

Back in 2023, I had a blast with developer Frogwares’ remake of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. Its blend of detective work and Lovecraftian horror felt like the studio fully in its element. I enjoy its straight Sherlock Holmes games, but increasingly they have this undercurrent of dark strangeness—particularly noticeable in most recent entry Chapter One—as…

Doom: The Dark Ages’ melee-heavy, parry-focused gameplay was nothing like I expected, and now I’m more eager to play the full thing than ever

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Leave a videogame series in a covered, humid environment for long enough and it will, according to some inextricable and mysterious law of nature, become Dark Souls. So, please put your hands together for Doom: The Dark Ages, which swaps out previous games’ emphasis on guns (firearms) for an emphasis on guns (biceps), finally giving…

DOOM: The Dark Ages – Going Hands-on with Story, Sandboxes, Mechs, and Dragons

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Category: Games March 31, 2025 DOOM: The Dark Ages – Going Hands-on with Story, Sandboxes, Mechs, and Dragons Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief As the third part of what you might call a trilogy, I went into my first hands-on for DOOM: The Dark Ages with some expectations. While they have their differences, DOOM (2016)…

Monster Hunter Wilds will finally let players transmog their ugly Artian weapons, and there’s been some much-needed acknowledgement of PC performance problems

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Monster Hunter Wilds has been out for over four weeks now, but that doesn’t mean Capcom’s finished cooking. We already have a roadmap for future updates, like this week’s Title Update 1—introducing Mizutsune, a gathering hub, and arena quests—as well as more updates into May before a second major patch in the summer. But wait,…

Here’s Why The TurboGrafx-16 Is So Much Bigger Than The PC Engine

1 week ago02 mins

“They believed that if it’s small it should cost less, not more”. The PC Engine was a huge success in Japan, keeping Sega’s Mega Drive / Genesis in third place and even challenging the might of Nintendo for a few years. However, it’s a system that struggled to achieve the same impact overseas, with its…

AOC announces its own 600 Hz monitor offering though the thought of such a high refresh rate just makes my eyes water

1 week ago05 mins

Now, I’m not going to sit here and pretend I’m a Counter-Strike 2 sicko—honestly, I’d rather cross cards in Library of Ruina than aim down sights. Still, I have a feeling that even the FPS fiends would agree a 600 Hz refresh rate sounds perhaps a touch excessive. At a press event in sunny Lisbon,…

Donkey Kong – A famous 80’s game has just got a rather awesome Arcade to ZX Spectrum AY conversion [UPDATE]

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In the early 80’s Nintendo released one of the most famous games of all time, and that game was ‘ Donkey Kong ‘. A game in which you played as Mario that had to avoid obstacles across a number of platforms, with sometimes a hammer in hand to save a damsel in distress from a…

Feature: “It’s Nothing Like A Port” – Story Of Seasons Head Talks Remaking A Lesser-Known Favourite

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Totally Bazaar. Marvelous announced the next title in the beloved Story of Seasons series during last week’s Nintendo Direct, and we’re sticking with the remakes! But this time, we’re diverging from the undisputed classics and going a bit off-piste. Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar launches on Switch on 27th August 2025, and it’s a remake…

In the market for a split keyboard? Why not chop a regular one in half and then attach it back together with a nightmare of wires, said no-one ever

1 week ago05 mins

Split keyboards are not for everyone. But if you fancy the hands-spread typing experience and don’t feel like paying $200+ for something like the Kinesis Freestyle Edge, Japanese YouTube channel Nomoluk Report has shown a quick and easy method for cutting a regular one in half. Okay, I lied. Nothing about this looks quick and…

Kingdom Hearts Composer Yoko Shimomura To Be Honoured At This Year’s BAFTA Games Awards

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Yoko Shimomura will be presented with a BAFTA Fellowship award. Yoko Shimomura — the legendary composer behind the soundtracks to games like Kingdom Hearts and Street Fighter II — is set to be honoured with a BAFTA Fellowship later this year. The award will recognize “her incredible body of work” from her almost four-decade-long career…

Analyst Firm Spooked By Trump Tariffs, Lowers Switch 2 Sales Forecast

South of Midnight – Available Today!

Nintendo Is Delaying Switch 2 Pre-Orders In Canada

‘Redstone genius’ Mumbo Jumbo was originally meant to make ‘a bunch of crazy booby traps’ for A Minecraft Movie, but they were all cut from the film

Team Ninja says ‘we sincerely apologize’ for Rise of the Ronin’s PC version being a mess, promises imminent fixes

ROG Ally X, Legion Go, and now the Nintendo Switch 2 are missing one important thing: Why don’t more handhelds have OLED screens?

Analyst Firm Spooked By Trump Tariffs, Lowers Switch 2 Sales Forecast

South of Midnight – Available Today!

Nintendo Is Delaying Switch 2 Pre-Orders In Canada

‘Redstone genius’ Mumbo Jumbo was originally meant to make ‘a bunch of crazy booby traps’ for A Minecraft Movie, but they were all cut from the film

Team Ninja says ‘we sincerely apologize’ for Rise of the Ronin’s PC version being a mess, promises imminent fixes

ROG Ally X, Legion Go, and now the Nintendo Switch 2 are missing one important thing: Why don’t more handhelds have OLED screens?

Lovecraftian horror detective game The Sinking City’s grand redemption arc continues, with a shiny new remaster coming free to all existing owners

Doom: The Dark Ages’ melee-heavy, parry-focused gameplay was nothing like I expected, and now I’m more eager to play the full thing than ever

DOOM: The Dark Ages – Going Hands-on with Story, Sandboxes, Mechs, and Dragons

Monster Hunter Wilds will finally let players transmog their ugly Artian weapons, and there’s been some much-needed acknowledgement of PC performance problems

Here’s Why The TurboGrafx-16 Is So Much Bigger Than The PC Engine

AOC announces its own 600 Hz monitor offering though the thought of such a high refresh rate just makes my eyes water

Donkey Kong – A famous 80’s game has just got a rather awesome Arcade to ZX Spectrum AY conversion [UPDATE]

Feature: “It’s Nothing Like A Port” – Story Of Seasons Head Talks Remaking A Lesser-Known Favourite

In the market for a split keyboard? Why not chop a regular one in half and then attach it back together with a nightmare of wires, said no-one ever

Kingdom Hearts Composer Yoko Shimomura To Be Honoured At This Year’s BAFTA Games Awards