The big renaissance for life sims that I was expecting this year hasn’t happened, thanks in part to a sudden delay for Paralives that was announced a couple weeks back. To ease the sting of delaying just a few weeks ahead of its intended launch, the Paralives team did show off 45 minutes of new,…
We first noticed that the Arc Raiders servers were down this morning at around 10:30 am Pacific time, but that’s not the end of it. Downdetector has seen a spike in reports from users who are having trouble accessing Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, Rocket League, Dead by Daylight, PSN, Xbox Live, Elden Ring, Battle.net,…
Uh oh, Arc Raiders servers are down again. Reports of outages with the extraction shooter began around 10AM PST and seem to be persisting over an hour later. I just tried to log in and hit a “queue” for the first time since launch day, suggesting a lot people are trying to login at the…
It’s a momentous time for World of Warcraft. The next expansion, Midnight, will shift how the game is played for everyone with sweeping changes to the most popular combat mods and the long-awaited introduction of player housing. This new era for the MMO will begin when Midnight launches on March 2. Blizzard dropped the release…
A Lara catching up to do. Our good friends over at Digital Foundry have delivered their tech review of Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, which shadow dropped onto Switch 1 and 2 last week, and it’s something of a mixed bag. Starting on a positive note, the Switch 2 version of the game sets out to…
The need for seed. When you think of platformers, you likely think of Super Mario Bros. When you think of JRPGs, you likely think of Final Fantasy. When you think of FPS, you likely think of Call of Duty. Some games are just synonymous with their respective genres. And when it comes to tower defence…
Category: Games November 26, 2025 Housing in World of Warcraft Is Giving Players a Huge Creative Suite to Make Azeroth Their Own Danielle Partis, Xbox Wire Editor When it comes to hotly anticipated World of Warcraft updates, few have sizzled for longer than Player Housing – a feature that will bring liveable homes and dynamic…
The reign of Galaxy Princess Zorana was unhappy and unproductive. Fortunately, it was also short—ended in its infancy when Her Imperial Highness took a javelin straight through the skull in some kind of space-football game organised by the Pope. The people of her interplanetary demesne were presumably quite relieved, once they’d recovered from the initial…
Remember when Cyberpunk 2077 launched in late 2020, and it was basically the worst videogame ever? That’s obviously a gross overstatement made for comedic effect, but it was really bad—which is why the subsequent turnaround on it is so damn remarkable. We’ve said at least a couple times in the past that Cyberpunk’s redemption arc…
Can I make a confession? I love those clips of ‘AI-generated games’ people post on social media. Not because they’re good (they’re very bad), or because I love dumping water into the gaping maw of a data centre (I like it a moderate amount). I love them because it’s pure ‘the emperor has no clothes’…