Category: Responsible Gaming January 15, 2025 Introducing More Ways for Players to Repair their Xbox Consoles, Reduce Waste and Save Energy Trista PattersonDirector of Gaming Sustainability, Xbox At Xbox, we’re continuing to improve how we design, build, distribute, and use our products to reduce our environmental impact and help us reach Microsoft’s goal of being…
It’s crazy that this game has been out for over a decade and more people haven’t played it. Check out our retro review for yourself and see if you can get your hands on it. Hal Laboratory, the minds behind such iconic games the likes of “Kirby’s Dream Land, “The Adventures of Lolo” and even…
Fixing what Nintendon’t. Recently whilst twiddling our thumbs waiting for Switch 2 to be announced, we got thinking about the state of the current Switch’s eShop. It’s long been bemoaned for being painfully slow and containing a ‘large shedful’ of shovelware titles. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Almost four months after AMD first announced the details of its budget-orientated B850/840 chipset, the first motherboards to sport them have finally arrived. The first one to pass through our magnifying glass of inspection is the Asus ROG Strix B850-F Gaming WiFi—an ATX-sized model that probably best represents the higher end of the B850 range….
As of last year, The Sims 4 team committed itself to going back and working on big lists of outstanding issues with the game (which it has been making good on) but an equally big bug in the system is EA’s communication to players—or the lack thereof. I don’t really think that much is going…
Is it Big Gator Game now? Playtonic Friends and MegaWobble have announced a surprise expansion to one of the cutest hidden gems of 2022, Lil Gator Game. In The Dark promises to be a “huge” expansion, introducing new characters and doubling the size of the base game. The original was a breezy affair, but we’re…
True 3D movement in 16-bit games? It almost happened… If you’re old enough to remember the crazy video game accessories we were exposed to in the early ’90s, then you might just recall a curious controller by the name of the Triax Turbo Touch 360. This groundbreaking controller didn’t use a traditional D-pad – which…
During an interview earlier this week, developer Grinding Gear Games revealed that around 66 Path of Exile 1 and 2 accounts were hacked after an act of social engineering exploited an old Steam profile—one that was both linked to an admin account and, crucially, forgotten about and unsecured. The full extent of the damage has…
We’re back! My name is Blake Stone, Lead Designer at VitruviusVR, the development team behind Mervils & Shadow Legend VR on the original PS VR. We are very excited to launch our newest title Arken Age, a single-player VR adventure set in a terraformed sci-fi fantasy world. In the game you engage in full physics-based…
Fortune’s Run launched into Steam early access in September 2023, and quickly became a favourite on the PCG team. The game is like an immersive sim on fast-forward, with lightning fast melee combat, deep stealth mechanics, and immaculate dystopian vibes. Unfortunately, as good as it is, development is now “imploding.” The game was a two…