Poker face. Remember how much time you have sunk into Vampire Survivors? How about all the hours you’ve put into Balatro? What if they were… in the same game? Yep, you guessed it, Vampire Survivors is crossing over with Balatro in the new ‘Ante Chamber’ free expansion. This one arrives on most platforms today, but…
Yep, this looks awesome. Developer Fumi Games and publisher PlaySide Studios have announced that the vintage noir FPS title Mouse: P.I. for Hire will be launching on the Switch 2 on 19th March 2026. Utilising the talents of voice actor Troy Baker in the starring role, Mouse showcases stunningly authentic rubber hose animation as you…
Amazon’s AI-powered layoff of 14,000 employees will see “significant” cuts made to its game division, according to a new Bloomberg report, which will result in a reduction in development efforts on big-budget games, including MMOs like New World. The Bloomberg report cites a memo sent to Amazon Games employees by Steve Boom, Amazon’s vice president…
In 1997, two young hobbyists released two pieces of software that more or less prompted a new wave of interest in “retro” games—which were, at that point, really just a few years old. The first punch was Nesticle, a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that quite suddenly made it free and easy to play Nintendo’s ’80s…
Category: ID@Xbox October 28, 2025 Mouse: P.I. for Hire Is Much More Than It Appears Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Combining classic 1930s “rubber-hose” animation, retro gunplay, modern mechanics and exploration, and a deeply bizarre setting, Mouse: P.I. For Hire is shaping up to be a truly unusual treat – but there’s more to this…
I’ve got my C64 Ultimate Ordered but I’m debating whether I need to get this Amiga A1200. So many cool computers from the past are coming back… but what I really want is an Apple ][c replica. I’d love to see it but I’m not holding out much hope. Apple will never do it, and…
Simon says spells. If you’re an adventure game fan of a certain age, you’ll have a place in your heart for Simon the Sorcerer. Part of the first major wave of point-and-click adventures back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Simon offered a goofy British counterpart to Monkey Island’s swashbuckling comedy. The series now…
Category: Games October 28, 2025 33 Immortals Gets a Massive New Update Today Alison Auzias, Community Manager, Thunder Lotus Summary The huge new Pride and Temperance Update is available today for multiplayer action-roguelike 33 Immortals. The update adds 2 new weapons, new challenge systems, objectives and rewards. It also raises the progression cap, reworks existing…
Paws for thought. The Switch eShop is home to its fair share of cosy cat games, but in how many of them is the cat a cute little postie? Do we hear ‘gap in the market’? Catto’s Post Office is coming to fill that exact niche. This one arrived on Steam back in August, and…
Category: Games October 28, 2025 ID@Xbox Showcase – October 2025: Everything Announced and Revealed Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Today, we joined forces with IGN once again to bring you the latest ID@Xbox Showcase, a news-packed show with world premieres, release date announcements, and new gameplay from just some of the incredible independent developers working on Xbox…