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’…
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s War Sails expansion landed on the base game’s unassuming shores earlier today, adding fully simulated naval battles to Taleworld’s medieval RPG. Yet even if you’re not interested in crewing a longship with a raiding party to terrorise the coastlines, there’s plenty of reason to consider diving back into Mount &…
Short and sweet. Remember Nintendo’s short film, Close to You? The adorable baby animation with which the company kept us on tenterhooks for three days straight as it drip-fed us information about its context? Well, it looks like it’ll be cropping up again, this time in an upcoming Pikmin Bloom event. As of tomorrow (27th…
Category: Games November 26, 2025 Indie Selects for November 2025 (and More Cool Things!) By Raymond Estrada, Steven Allen, Deron Mann, Jun Shen Chia, Jessica Ronnell, Oscar Polanco – ID@Xbox Sweater Weather Crew Every Wednesday, dive into the Indie Select Hub — your gateway to a fresh, curated indie collection plus four themed spotlights that…
“Mega Man X Viral Nightmare” is a new project from Cat Yard Games. When people rank their favourite Mega Man X games, the PS1 title Mega Man X6 usually winds up appearing towards the bottom of the list. Released in 2001 (or 2002 if you live in Europe), the sixth entry in the Mega Man…
The Asus ROG Xbox Ally is one of our favourite handheld gaming PCs, and it would easily sit in the top spot if it weren’t for a couple of things: price, and the existence of SteamOS handhelds. On the latter front, though, Microsoft seems to be doing what it can to improve the new handheld-oriented…