Early 2025 contender for longest game title. Famitsu has published the latest boxed charts for Japan, and as expected, Monster Hunter Wilds retains its position at the top of the pile. In fact, the only newcomer this week is Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Familia Myth – Fullland…
The Assassin’s Creed Shadows Twitch Drops event gives you the opportunity to earn exclusive in-game gear for free. All you need to do is watch a participating streamer for a few hours while they check out the game. It’s a win-win: Ubisoft gets huge numbers over on Twitch, and we get new toys to take…
Rise and shine, people. Rise and… shine. Not that I wish to imply that you have been sleeping on the fact that Half-Life 2 (HL2) can run on 1,000x less VRAM than today’s GPUs. Provided, that is, you’re completely fine staring into the void every time you pass a chair. What am I talking about?…
Old School RuneScape has always had a tightrope to walk—honor the past it exists to keep alive without completely stagnating while modern RuneScape, or RuneScape 3, does whatever it wants—which makes today a historic occasion for the long-running MMO. While past additions have been abstemious, largely in line with the school of design and scope…
Helldivers 2’s runaway popularity last year was, in part, due to just how focused it felt—while other games might bombard you from orbit with a silo of microtransactions, features, menus, and stats, Helldivers 2 basically said, “Hey, do you like shooting bugs? You wanna scrap some robots? Here’s a bunch of guns to do just…
Even the rowdiest of samurai knows when and where to not make a mess, it seems. Accompanying its launch today, Ubisoft have rolled out a small initial patch for the hotly debated sneaky sandbox Assassin’s Creed Shadows. While some of the changes are obvious and important fixes (such as players no longer getting stuck inside…
One of the most recent bugs to appear in Marvel Rivals is a small issue involving Peni Parker and her Arachno-Mines, fortunately, the devs spotted the issue and began working on a fix straight away. Peni Parker has the ability to deploy small spider mines that can skitter towards enemy players to explode at their…
We chatted briefly with Matt Boson, director of the upcoming enhanced port. When WayForward and Limited Run Games announced that they were planning to resurrect the GBA classic Sigma Star Saga earlier this year for GBA, PC, and modern consoles, it attracted a lot of excitement online — especially among those who had previously played…
Nook, line and sinker. Remember two, maybe three years ago when COVID-19 hit and Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out? Hah, what a fun and relatively recent time that was! It feels like only yesterd- wait, five years? New Horizons came out five years ago?? Oh my… Yep, on 20th March 2020, Nintendo finally unleashed…
Category: ID@Xbox March 20, 2025 How Promise Mascot Agency is Being Built with Accessibility in Mind Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor There are numerous features developers must consider implementing when developing their games. These could be large, overarching ones – ‘How big should the game world be?’ ‘Will it need to support multiplayer?’ – or…