When the original Death Stranding comes up in conversation, you can count on someone citing its tedious writing, pace-destroying exposition dumps, and reckless use of unexplained proper nouns as the biggest hurdle to enjoying it. Fair enough, but I submit that nothing sucked more in Death Stranding 1 than the menus. Kojima’s first apocalyptic hiking…
Just over a week ago, after devoting half my Sunday to delivering packages across the continent of Australia in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, I went to bed with a dull ache behind my temples. I wrote it off as a likely symptom of the usual suspects: maybe I hadn’t drunk enough water, or…
Discord is pretty much the communications platform for gamers these days. Text, voice, video, shared screens, specialized servers: Discord does it all. A side effect of that ubiquity, according to a report released earlier this month by Check Point Research (via TechRadar), is that Discord server invites are now an attack vector that online scumbags…
Two years ago, Palworld answered the question, “What if Pokémon had base building and multiplayer?” Never Grave: The Witch and the Curse, Pocketpair’s next game, developed by a new internal team, is giving the same treatment to Hollow Knight. Announced in 2023, Never Grave was first planned to release in early access later that year….
Category: ID@Xbox June 24, 2025 Brilliance of the Pioneers of the Stealth Genre Recaptured by an Indie Game Mateusz Filipek, Head of Marketing, Hyperstrange Summary A brief History of the Stealth genre. Recapture the brilliance and atmosphere of the genre from an indie developer. Aesthetics and the importance of art in stealth action. Hideo Kojima’s…
Ah, hello again little Visitor. It’s been a while, but we’re so pleased to see you here in the Spiral, ready to discover more about one of the picturesque amusements you’ll be touring in Little Nightmares III, coming to your PS5 and PS4 on October 10, 2025. When you enter the world of Little Nightmares,…
Category: ID@Xbox June 24, 2025 Five Essential Tips for Escaping Together in How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine Solene Rinn, Game Designer, Breakfirst Games Hi everyone, We’re the team behind How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine, a cooperative escape game built around asymmetric gameplay, strong communication, and shared problem-solving. Inspired by titles like We Were Here and…
Category: Games June 24, 2025 Welcome to Carnevale – Little Nightmares III Gets to the Meat of the Matter Coralie FenielloProducer, Little Nightmares III Well hello there, little one. Welcome back to the world of Little Nightmares. If you haven’t been here before, please allow us to introduce you. Little Nightmares is a charming horror…
Dune: Awakening is doing a well-deserved victory lap at the moment. Following its launch on June 10, the survival MMO has already reached the impressive milestone of 1,000,000 players, according to the publisher. That makes Dune: Awakening Funcom’s fastest-selling game, even beating out its 2018 survival sandbox, Conan Exiles. The million player tally isn’t the…
Valve has announced an upcoming Team Fortress 2 update as only Valve can. A new blog post begins: “Thirteen years ago, we launched Mann vs. Machine, a chilling cautionary tale where an artificial consciousness tried to take all our jobs. You didn’t know it back then, but that was actually a literary device called ‘speculative’…