Category: Games Battlefield 6 Brings the Noise – Play the Open Beta for Free This Weekend Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published August 15, 2025 There’s something about the noise of a Battlefield game. The soft, terrifying crack of a sniper rifle you can’t see. The rumble of a tank as it rounds a corner….
I’m pleased, nay, delighted to inform you that the first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games have begun in Beijing, and the first day’s highlight reel is a thing to behold. While some of the robots appear to have put on an impressive performance in traditional sporting events like the 100 metre sprint, it’s not been entirely…
I’ve been quietly curious about Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. I’m a soulslike enjoyer, but I bounced off the game’s intro like it was made of rubber—still, I figured maybe with a few patches the game could be polished into something I’d like to play. Let’s just open up the Steam reviews and good lord what is…
World of Warcraft‘s latest patch is in full swing now. The race to world-first Manaforge Omega is underway, Season 3 of the Delver’s Journey has begun, and you have to do 19 quests about bees. Sorry. In case you’re unfamiliar, this new questline is part of the Ecological Succession activity—K’aresh was blown up in a…
Sometimes it feels like the entire Borderlands marketing strategy for the last 16 years has just been a guy pointing at a big sign that says “THE NUMBERS ARE BIGGER”. So it is that in the run up to Borderlands 4, we must receive and digest the claim that it contains 30 billion guns, for…
Category: Next Week on Xbox August 15, 2025 Next Week on Xbox: New Games for August 18 to 22 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, Xbox on PC, and Game Pass! Get more…
“I was surprised at how it felt almost exactly like playing back then”. Aqua Jet is available now as part of Hamster’s Arcade Archive range, bringing Namco’s 1996 jet ski coin-op to the home for the very first time. Arcade buff @yggdrasill_SIM / AEX-RYU has revealed that he was involved with play testing the Arcade…
MicroSD cards feel a bit behind the times, don’t they? While I’ll always be impressed by just how much storage can be squeezed into such a tiny footprint, they’re rather slow, ponderous affairs to use in practice, particularly in regards to gaming devices. Enter Biwin, a giant in the space of memory and storage that…
Smooth sailing on Switch 2. Pokémon Legends: Arceus isn’t a perfect game by any means, but that didn’t stop it from syphoning all of my free time when it launched back in 2022. This was the first time in a while where I truly felt the desire to “catch ’em all”. While Arceus still borrowed…
Are you the sort of person who really, really likes to know what your PC is doing at all times? Good, we can be friends. Ordinarily, I rely on a host of third-party apps to see exactly what my machine is up to while gaming—but according to Valve, the latest beta update to its in-game…