There are those games I fondly remember from my school days, and then there are those games I remember being a problem from my school days. Castle Crashers, first released on the Xbox 360 in August 2008, was nearly one of the latter. It took over my college apartment for at least a month, with…
AI is supposed to be helpful, honest, and most importantly, harmless, but we’ve seen plenty of evidence that its behavior can become horribly inaccurate, flat-out deceptive, and even downright evil. (Yes, that last link is the MechaHitler thing.) If you think I’m being hyperbolic by using the word “evil,” I’m not: a new paper on…
And it’s out now. If you thought the day’s surprises were over, think again, as Bethesda, id Software, and retro specialists Nightdive Studios have announced Heretic + Hexen, the “definitive re-release” of two classic spell shooters. Oh, and it’s also out right now (thanks, Gematsu!). For just $14.99 (it’s not up on the EU eShop…
I’ve played an excessive amount of survival crafting games this year, and while I knew I could be a bit of a pain in the ass to play these things with, it was never more clear than when I was juggling Dune: Awakening, Abiotic Factor, and Valheim, and tutting at my friends’ creations in constant…
Category: Games The Biggest id Software News from QuakeCon 2025 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published August 7, 2025 Related Stories for “The Biggest id Software News from QuakeCon 2025” Category: Games Heretic + Hexen Gets a Surprise Re-Release Today: How Nightdive Studios Delivered Another Definitive Version of a Classic Category: ID@Xbox Step Through the…
A month after Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees, cancelled multiple game projects, and closed The Initiative, Avalanche Studios says work on its 1970s-themed smuggling sim Contraband—which was being developed in partnership with Xbox—has been halted. “Over the past several years, Avalanche Studios Group and Xbox Game Studios Publishing have collaborated on Contraband,” Avalanche wrote. “Active…
1994’s Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders and its 1995 sequel, Hexen: Beyond Heretic forged new frontiers in first-person shooter games. Experience these pivotal games today with Heretic + Hexen, a collaboration between id Software and Nightdive Studios bringing an enhanced re-release of Raven Software’s legendary games to a new generation of players. Play Video…
Category: Games August 7, 2025 Heretic + Hexen Gets a Surprise Re-Release Today: How Nightdive Studios Delivered Another Definitive Version of a Classic Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary Heretic + Hexen returns as a surprise, enhanced multi-platform re-release at QuakeCon 2025 – and it’s out today. We talk with the creative team at Nightdive…
Category: ID@Xbox August 7, 2025 Step Through the Door: Oxide Room 208 Brings Back Visceral Body-Horror to Xbox Jorge Hidalgo, Chief Marketing Officer at WildSphere Oxide Room 208 is a psychological horror game that plunge you into a nightmarish world where eight individuals are imprisoned in a decaying lab-motel hybrid, victims of a twisted experiment…
Listen. I understand the irony of using this headline given the state of this page for anyone on a mobile browser without an ad blocker. That’s the world we have. It wasn’t always like this. It can be hard to remember, but it was once possible to know peace. There were ads, sure. The pop-up…