How to improve Football Manager. It’s a question both Sports Interactive and players like me have asked on an (almost) yearly basis for the last 20 years. So the answers should, by rights, be forthcoming and straightforward. It’s a series that eats up vast, greedy swathes of your time, and in the hundreds of hours…
Category: Games October 30, 2025 Free Play Days – Call of Duty Black Ops 6 (MP & Zombies), Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Dead by Daylight, CATAN, and More Kyle OceanMarketing Manager, Xbox Before we leave October, here’s a mammoth selection of titles for you try with Free Play Days! Call of Duty: Black Ops 6…
As you’d imagine in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, wires and batteries are valuable crafting materials in Arc Raiders. Not only that, but they’re also required for the Trash into Treasure quest for Shani, the second quest you can collect alongside Clearer Skies. You’ll need six wires and one battery, which sounds like more than it actually…
No free poster, though. Nintendo Today! is on a bit of a roll… today, isn’t it? Now, without warning, the Big N has shared the front cover of the very first issue of Nintendo Power on the app. Well… this is very cool and unexpected, and comes with basically no fanfare or reason. Not that…
Scientists in Germany claim to have come up with the smallest light-emitting pixels yet devised by humankind (via SciTechDaily). Physicists at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg have developed a new OLED panel technology with pixels measuring just 300 nm across. That’s a full order of magnitude smaller than the most diminutive existing light-emitting pixels, but the researchers claim…
The Big X lives on! Remember when Microsoft announced the Xbox? Before the console became a solid reality, the company displayed the famous X-shaped prototype, a huge block of machined aluminium with a glowing green orb in the middle. This was never intended to be the final design, but it made such an impact at…
As we’ve discovered time and time again, someone’s hatred for the classic videogame yellow paint rarely ever outweighs their need for it. The sunny signposting has become a universal language for guiding players through levels, but it’s also a regular point of contention in what some consider lazy game design. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director…
“You are what you eat,” the old saying goes, and it’s an adage that the Kroot are a lot more committed to than most. Among the crowd of iconic Warhammer 40,000 armies—your space marines, orks, tyranids, and more—these bird-like aliens are often overlooked. But I think they’re secretly the coolest faction in the game. They’ve…
Refused as it lacks an ‘Inventive step’. Nintendo has been dealt a bit of a legal blow in Japan as the Patent Office has rejected an application relevant to the company’s ongoing case against Pocketpair’s Palworld. This patent is related to monster catching à la Pokémon, but it’s not quite the same one filed in…
Category: Announcements October 30, 2025 Xbox October Update: ROG Xbox Ally Available Now, Handheld Compatibility Program, and More Dean Shimabukuro, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Xbox Services Marketing Contents Here’s What’s New: ROG Xbox Ally handhelds now available and Handheld Compatibility Program PC Gaming Updates: Faster download speeds on the Xbox PC app so you jump…