What X Timing. Well, we didn’t have to wait long for that! The acclaimed brick-breaking roguelite mashup BALL x PIT will be getting a Switch 2 version on 28th October 2025. For those of you who couldn’t wait and grabbed it on the Switch 1 — like, uh, a lot of us here at NL…
Category: Games October 24, 2025 Obsidian’s Favorite Character Builds for The Outer Worlds 2 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary Obsidian’s QA team shares some of their favorite character builds to help inspire your own role-playing adventure for The Outer Worlds 2. The Outer Worlds 2 features robust customization options that go beyond Skills and…
I grew up watching films from the aptly named Disney Renaissance—I’m talking The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, and Mulan—and then got to enjoy some bangers like Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, and Atlantis as I got older, so this style of 2D animation is a pretty formative part of my childhood. So I was ready…
Among the many other wins and stumbles of the recent Borderlands 4 patch is a revelation that actually has me shocked. You know that one shield, the one that was super horny? Well, turns out it wasn’t meant to be that way. Alright, context: In Borderlands 4, The Cindershelly is one of those gag items…
I kinda like ‘ugly’ hardware. The first time I saw the Edifier G2000 Pro, that was exactly what I thought. It’s an angular set of speakers, with see through panels on the side to blast RGB light into your eyeballs. It feels very 2000s to me, in a way I haven’t experienced with any of…
Reports earlier this week suggested that the Trump administration was planning to deploy a wave of federal agents on the streets of San Francisco as part of a large-scale immigration-enforcement plan. The news was met with widespread condemnation and plans to protest from the local community. Trump has since posted on his social media platform,…
God, no wonder my little podgy bloke in RV There Yet? smokes so much. I’d be caning a pack a day too if I had to direct a rickety old motor home over canyons, barely bridged together by planks of wood, while being chased down by a blood-thirsty bear. That’s basically the gist of what…
Category: Games October 24, 2025 Gearing Up for Icarus: Dean Hall Reveals his Survival Tips and More Hannelore De Roover, Senior Marketing Manager at Grip Studios “It taps into the same psychology as real survival training: the need to test yourself, to see if you can do better with what you’ve learned,” says Dean Hall,…
Clippy did nothing wrong. I know, you’re all thinking my nostalgia has gone too far, “it looks like you’re trying to write a letter” is circling through your brain, and you’re just glad that sentient paperclip is gone for good. Well hold those thoughts, because Clippy is back. In the most depressing way possible. Microsoft…
Borderlands 4 dropped a pretty hefty patch today, and before I tell you how Gearbox has screwed the pooch, I do want to be fair and at least highlight the positives while I roll my sleeves up: Sort filters for your inventory now persist instead of auto-setting to “by manufacturer”; Your discovered locations persist when…