MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) Last week: Finally played FEAR (2005) and adored its amazing slomo, slick guns, and incredible sound work. They should stop making Call of Duty every single year. I realize that’s a reheated take from like, 2014, but when is the last time you heard it said out loud?…
‘The holidays suck ass and we’ll be lucky to get out of them with our health and sanity intact, but at least we can shove some crappy fast food into our slack pieholes before the existential darkness claims us’: That’s the premise of a new McDonald’s holiday ad that, as reported by the BBC, was…
Helldivers 2 is a deep, engrossing co-op shooter with no shortage of things to do, but I wouldn’t say no to additional modes that shake up its mission-based structure. According to Arrowhead founder Johan Pilestedt, such a mode is actively in the works for Helldivers 2. “Hey! We have a prototype of a rogue-lite mode—it…
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The US edition of PC Gamer magazine liked The Temple of Elemental Evil enough to award it a respectable 79% in 2003, but we still had more than a few monster-sized bones to pick with Troika’s D&D RPG: NPC companions silently loading themselves up with so much worthless loot they become encumbered by it; atrocious…
As of December 10th, Montezuma’s Revenge – The 40th Anniversary Edition is now available for download on the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, as well as the Microsoft Store. The porting of Montezuma’s Revenge to these platforms follows up on the game’s Steam release back in…
In July, Romero Games, the game studio founded by industry legends Brenda and John Romero, announced in the midst of Microsoft’s mass layoffs of over 9,000 employees that it had lost funding for its in-development shooter project. While the developer said days later that it was “doing everything in our power to ensure” it stayed…
In July, Romero Games, the game studio founded by industry legends Brenda and John Romero, announced in the midst of Microsoft’s mass layoffs of over 9,000 employees that it had lost funding for its in-development shooter project. While the developer said days later that it was “doing everything in our power to ensure” it stayed…
Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games fired more than 30 employees in October for reasons that still aren’t entirely clear. Rockstar says the employees were leaking confidential information in a public forum, but the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain called it “plain and simple union busting.” It was a big enough deal that…
Category: ID@Xbox December 10, 2025 Build a Bright Future in Frostpunk 2: Fractured Utopias Alex Boiret – Lead Narrative Designer, 11 bit Studios Build a Bright Future* in Frostpunk 2’s Fractured Utopias!(*definitions of ‘Bright Future’ may vary – ask your local faction representative). Since the launch of Frostpunk 2, attention has mostly been on the…