I’ve written so much hagiography for Morrowind on this website that I’m even starting to annoy myself. You’d think that means I’m not going to spend yet another article gushing about Morrowind. You’d be wrong. You should play Morrowind: it’s the best Elder Scrolls game and, quite frankly, one of the best games of all…
A couple of weeks ago, a mooted high-end variant of Intel’s Battlemage gaming graphics architecture was spotted in a shipping manifest. That was labelled for “R&D” purposes, but still had me hoping Intel was cooking something up that might compete with Nvidia’s RTX 5070 on performance but radically undercut it on price. This latest spot…
Don’t you just love how buying one of the best graphics cards is impossible right now? The latest cards are either out of stock or just priced up to a ludicrous degree, and the last-gen GPUs are in such tight supply their prices are far from a comfort, either. And just when we all thought…
“I’m hoping WavePhoenix gives a second life to WaveBirds”. Nintendo’s WaveBird wireless controller for the GameCube is considered to be one of the best pads ever made, but as time goes on, finding a controller with its all-important receiver is getting harder and harder—within a reasonable budget, at least. James Smith (AKA loopj) has created…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is currently doing a rather well-deserved victory lap after one million sales and stellar Steam numbers—which is heartening to see from an ambitious AA studio. I went in not expecting too much myself, and came out delighted (and a little dazed) after 60 hours of JRPG goodness, hankering for more. My…
Category: Next Week on Xbox May 2, 2025 Next Week on Xbox: New Games for May 5 to 9 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC, and Game Pass! Get more details…
“Ten years ago, Microsoft had a bold idea. Instead of signing in using clumsy and insecure passwords, what if you could simply smile?” Never mind that certain limitations of Microsoft’s cloud services (I’m looking at you, file sharing and collaboration) might make you weep rather than beam, because gurning logins are apparently Microsoft’s aim for…
In case you’re somehow running out of characters to learn and events to tick off, the Marvel Rivals Season 2.5 mid-season update adds even more to play around with. This update includes the rest of the content revealed in the announcement for the second season, but also a few additional surprises. The first half of…
But “release plans for our collections and hardware will continue unabated”. Donald Trump’s recent trade tariffs have caused all kinds of headaches for retro gamers recently, and we’re sorry to report that there’s more chaos on the way. Evercade maker Blaze has said that there will be “temporary changes to Evercade availability in the US,…
The thing that makes FromSoft games great isn’t the tightly honed boss fights, the layered lore, or the quiet tragedy of their antagonists. It’s the ability to write ‘Don’t give up skeleton’ and ‘Try finger but hole’ across every inch of the game and subject players around the world to it. Every game should have…