Every Virtual Boy game ranked by you. Today marks the Virtual Boy’s 30th birthday, so we thought now was the right time to tidy up this list and republish it to honour what may well be Nintendo’s weirdest console ever. Plus, now, it’s ranked by you lovely lot. Enjoy! Nintendo is an odd company in…
The Abiotic Factor 1.0 update is almost here, finally bringing the Half-Life-inspired survival crafting adventure to its first version complete milestone. As far as early access games go, it’s been a brief and fairly consistent journey—the rare, smooth roadmap rollout since Abiotic Factor’s early release in May 2024. Over the last year, developer Deep Field…
Some people want to watch the world burn. Others, however, will take the simplest of instructions and deliberately subvert them in the most creative manner possible in order to cause maximum irritation—and I love those people. Case in point, IT manager Mike Coats, who has submitted his entry for Hackaday’s One Hertz Challenge, the Metronalmost….
180,000 players involved. A brand new survey of 180,000 players aged 15-69 years old in Japan has been conducted by GEM Partners, and there are some interesting stats on gender and age splits across multiple Nintendo franchises. Posted by Nikkei (via Nintendo Patents Watch and MyNintendoNews), the huge survey reveals that, compared to other game…
Category: Games July 21, 2025 Wildgate: A Reach Rookie’s Guide to All the Spaceships Craig TingCommunity Manager, Wildgate Tomorrow, July 22, will see the release of Wildgate, our team-based shooter featuring both spaceship and FPS battles (with a side of space crimes)! In Wildgate, you’ll team up in crews of four in your own spaceship…
I’ve never really been the biggest case guy. With upkeep around PCs (both upgrades and general cleaning), I’ve always found myself in favour of something tidy and easy to hide away, rather than something to show off. That’s until I had the realisation it’s not quite an either-or situation back in May. Now, months later,…
Netgear’s current crop of Nighthawk Wi-Fi routers—and there are a lot of them—all have the kind of looks that, were they gaming PCs, might hide ridiculous amounts of rendering power behind their otherwise anonymous black exteriors. And in a way they do, if you replace the word ‘rendering’ with ‘networking’. No wait, come back. Networking…
Stop Killing Games (which just under a month ago was all doom and gloom) has soared past its prior goals—not only garnering enough attention to have Ubisoft’s CEO sweating during a shareholder meeting, but now soaring past 1.4 million signatories on the European Citizens’ Initiative. “Stop Killing Games” is a movement started by YouTuber of…
Performance increases of up to 62.5%! When we reviewed the excellent Hitman: World of Assassination for Switch 2 just a little while back, we came away as impressed as ever with IO Interactive’s incredible world-building and gameplay. However, we were also a little bit disappointed with the game’s performance at launch. For a title we…
Category: Games Predecessor: The Unique Project Honoring (and Improving on) a Cancelled Game Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published July 21, 2025 Predecessor is that rare story where the history of its development might be as interesting as the game itself. In 2018, Epic Games made the decision to cancel its third-person action-MOBA, Paragon. In…