Starbreeze recently handed Payday 2 off to a new studio, Sidetrack Games, so it can focus its efforts on salvaging the mess that is Payday 3. Whether Payday 3 can be saved is a wide open question, but as a new trailer for an entirely different game makes painfully clear, it sure doesn’t look good…
Just three days after Greg Street confirmed that Fantastic Pixel Castle is closing due to the loss of NetEase funding, yet another NetEase-backed studio says it’s suffered the same fate. Bad Brain Game Studios, founded in 2023 and headed up by former Ubisoft Toronto lead producer Sean Crooks, announced today that it will close its…
What a strange time to be alive: Netflix and production company A24 are reportedly turning messy co-op cooking romp Overcooked into a reality competition, and I’m not going to immediately assume it will be terrible. Videogame adaptations don’t suck now, you may have noticed, and while I’m sure there are still plenty of TV execs…
Category: ID@Xbox November 6, 2025 An Inside Scoop of the Boxes: Lost Fragments Development Process Emil Spasov, Game Designer, Big Loop Studios Summary Come behind the scenes with Big Loop Studios. Focus on intricate mechanical puzzles and beautiful design. Developed over 30 months with major late-stage improvements. What if every puzzle you solved revealed another…
Fantasy management sim Tavern Keeper has only been out on Steam for three days but it goes back a ways—quite a long ways. Developer Greenheart Games, maker of 2013’s Game Dev Tycoon, has been working on its pub sim for more than a decade. Looks like all that hard work has finally paid off: Tavern…
An avalanche of quality. The Switch 2 has gotten off to a bit of a weird start. Although there’s no denying that the console has been a massive commercial success since its launch on 5th June 2025 — officially selling over 10 million units — there’s a niggling, underlying sense of dissatisfaction amongst some fans…
Best of the quest. Famitsu has popped up with another fresh look at the physical gaming charts from Japan, and a newcomer has completely wiped the floor with the competition. That newbie is, of course, Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake, which has managed to snap up all three spots on the podium this…
And you can upgrade from Switch 1, too. At last, Sega has confirmed that Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition launches on 4th December 2025 for $69.99, right in time for the holidays (via Gematsu). Note that a physical release, where the game is fully on the cart, will be following in early…
Category: Games November 6, 2025 More of Obsidian’s Favorite Character Builds for The Outer Worlds 2 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary We’re back with even more of Obsidian’s QA team’s favorite character builds for The Outer Worlds 2, helping to inspire your own adventures in Arcadia. Pick up The Outer Worlds 2 Premium Edition to gain…
Switch 2 version remains undercover. We last caught wind of Hitman: Absolution back in July, when developer Feral Interactive announced that it was bringing its latest remake to Switch at some point in 2025, with a Switch 2 edition to follow. Things have remained quiet on the Switch 2 front, but today, we’ve had news…