Category: Games June 11, 2025 We Played Resident Evil Requiem – In First and Third Person Modes Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Let me open with this – Resident Evil Requiem will allow you to play in first and third person. For most games, this would be a neat feature; but for a new, mainline…
“ChatGPT got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level”. We’ve been told repeatedly by boorish tech companies that AI is soon going to overtake humanity when it comes to intelligence, but it would seem that playing chess is not a strong suit of these billion-dollar “Large Language Models”. As reported by Extreme Tech, Citrix Engineer Robert…
It doesn’t seem like too long ago that myself and my managing editor Jacob Ridley (yes, two Jacobs—annoying, I know) were arguing over whether there’s still a distinction between gaming and enthusiast keyboards. I argued there was still a meaningful distinction, but if anything were to really solidify why I was wrong, it would be…
Intel, CPUs, and the concept of “badness” aren’t necessarily things you’d want to shout about, what with numerous well-documented issues afflicting Intel’s recent processors. But a new Oregon-based startup called AheadComputing is leaning hard on the Intel provenance of its founders while claiming that it is creating, “the biggest, baddest CPU in the world.” And…
What is with great games and yo-yos lately? First Animal Well makes one an essential tool in the best metroidvania of 2024. Then Penny’s Big Breakaway uses them in the best platformer we all failed to buy in 2024. And now, at last, we have a game that takes childhood’s crappiest toy and lets us…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a tech journalist in possession of any amount of experience can always enjoy the simple pleasure of ‘thing that looks like other thing.’ It is also known that said hardware hounds will want to crack that bad boy open if given half the chance. Thankfully, Gamers Nexus are…
Disney Dreamlight Valley is rolling out its Mysteries of Skull Rock update on Wednesday, June 18, which will also bring the anticipated release of Peter Pan. At long last, we’ll also get some answers about one of the game’s most intriguing landmarks, Skull Rock,. We don’t know the ins and outs of what to expect…
Benten-Maru wrote the music to legendary theme song. We’re sad to report that the composer of “Edge of Soul” — the iconic opening theme song to the Namco 1990s PlayStation fighting game Soul Blade — passed away last year. Masahiro Ohki (credited under his stage name Benten-Maru) reportedly passed away on October 6th 2024, after…
Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will release on PS5 June 26, with the inevitable PC version yet to be dated. It looks pretty wild and the trailers certainly suggest we’ll be getting a lot more Metal Gear flavouring than the original, even if I could do without promo events where Hideo Kojima…
Many of you probably remember the 1980’s Isometric games of Batman and Head Over Heels by Ocean Software: two great games for systems such as the Amstrad, ZX Spectrum, and the more recent MSX2 remake. So here’s a great news update for fans of these games. As we have recently been told by Saberman, that…