A company that’s been around as long as Microsoft will inevitably have a history of presentations that have gone so far off the rails they’ve ended up somewhere in the next county. You’ve got Steve Ballmer shouting “DEVELOPERS!!!” while sweating through his shirt, Don Mattrick sinking the Xbox One before it had even set sail,…
You can learn a lot about the world’s professions by checking out the Steam reviews for games with the word “simulator” in their titles. For instance, in the reviews for Lawn Mower Simulator, you will find the owner of a lawn maintenance company asking, “Why are we cutting grass at 2.5 inches??? Are we $20…
When I come back to work after a nice long vacation, I open my email client with the sort of dread usually reserved for month-old leftovers at the back of the fridge. Not so for Battlefield 6 lead producer David Sirland, who recently returned from some PTO and immediately asked the entire Battlefield community an…
Consider this a two-for-one PSA for Battlefield 6 players on PC who don’t want to share their battlefields with the console squad: It’s possible to disable crossplay on PC, and you might get banned from the Steam forums for talking about it. The whole thing first came to our attention by way of this Reddit…
Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted rolled out in October, and I thought it was pretty good: Really just a higher-resolution (and more expensive) version of the original PvZ phenomenon, sure, but fine overall, and of particular benefit for people who want to play the game on a Steam Deck. Serious fans were unhappy, though, for a…
Category: ID@Xbox November 5, 2025 Face the Eternal Night — Everdark: Undead Apocalypse Awakens on Xbox Series X|S Miguel Ojanguren – Everdark Labs Project Manager From Comic Panels to Console Screens Before it was a game, “Everdark” existed as a dark, gritty graphic novel — a world of eternal night where humanity’s last survivors hunted…
For a permanently PvP-enabled zone, the Topside in Arc Raiders is surprisingly peaceful. Since launch, players—especially those in the solo queue—have been opting for nonaggression with respectable reliability, with our Morgan Park reporting that his first 20 hours of Arc Raiding consisted of more makeshift truces than wasteland murders. Yet there are still, inevitably, those…
2025 was a very big year for Obsidian, which released not just one but two major RPGs, Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2, plus the backyard survival adventure Grounded 2 in early access. An awful lot of fans are eager for something else, though, and it’s no secret what that is: Alpha Protocol 2. And,…
It seems like every other day Discord is bugging me to watch a movie trailer or play a game for 15 minutes to buy profile decorations in its shop. I can put cat ears on my icon for $4.99 or dress it up like Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen. And according to some API digging by…
The zookeeping sim Planet Zoo launched six years ago today, and it was pretty good: “Another strong (yet stressful) management sim from Frontier Developments,” PC Gamer’s number one menagerie manager Chris Livingston declared in a 75% review. The studio released a six-year anniversary video to celebrate the birthday, which is usually the sort of thing…