Category: Games March 31, 2025 DOOM: The Dark Ages – Going Hands-on with Story, Sandboxes, Mechs, and Dragons Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief As the third part of what you might call a trilogy, I went into my first hands-on for DOOM: The Dark Ages with some expectations. While they have their differences, DOOM (2016)…
Monster Hunter Wilds has been out for over four weeks now, but that doesn’t mean Capcom’s finished cooking. We already have a roadmap for future updates, like this week’s Title Update 1—introducing Mizutsune, a gathering hub, and arena quests—as well as more updates into May before a second major patch in the summer. But wait,…
“They believed that if it’s small it should cost less, not more”. The PC Engine was a huge success in Japan, keeping Sega’s Mega Drive / Genesis in third place and even challenging the might of Nintendo for a few years. However, it’s a system that struggled to achieve the same impact overseas, with its…
Now, I’m not going to sit here and pretend I’m a Counter-Strike 2 sicko—honestly, I’d rather cross cards in Library of Ruina than aim down sights. Still, I have a feeling that even the FPS fiends would agree a 600 Hz refresh rate sounds perhaps a touch excessive. At a press event in sunny Lisbon,…
In the early 80’s Nintendo released one of the most famous games of all time, and that game was ‘ Donkey Kong ‘. A game in which you played as Mario that had to avoid obstacles across a number of platforms, with sometimes a hammer in hand to save a damsel in distress from a…
Totally Bazaar. Marvelous announced the next title in the beloved Story of Seasons series during last week’s Nintendo Direct, and we’re sticking with the remakes! But this time, we’re diverging from the undisputed classics and going a bit off-piste. Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar launches on Switch on 27th August 2025, and it’s a remake…
Split keyboards are not for everyone. But if you fancy the hands-spread typing experience and don’t feel like paying $200+ for something like the Kinesis Freestyle Edge, Japanese YouTube channel Nomoluk Report has shown a quick and easy method for cutting a regular one in half. Okay, I lied. Nothing about this looks quick and…
Yoko Shimomura will be presented with a BAFTA Fellowship award. Yoko Shimomura — the legendary composer behind the soundtracks to games like Kingdom Hearts and Street Fighter II — is set to be honoured with a BAFTA Fellowship later this year. The award will recognize “her incredible body of work” from her almost four-decade-long career…
While Microsoft’s Windows OS dominates the PC gaming market, the rampant success of the Steam Deck is doing sterling work at turning gamers towards Linux. The open-source operating system has been given a kernel update that contains at least one change that’s potentially great news for PC gamers—enough to forgive the fact that Torvalds himself…
Cyan announced the difficult news on social media. The legendary development studio Cyan Worlds — the creators of Myst and Riven — announced last Friday on the social media that it had been forced to lay off twelve talented staff members — roughly half its team (h/t: PC Gamer). This decision came about due to…