Despite my goth demeanour, I am, what they call in the ‘biz, a big old scaredy-cat. But even I have to admit I’m eyeing up this spooky Halloween Humble Bundle that’s chock-full of banger indie horror games. The biggest one by far on offer in the Indie Fears Bundle is Mouthwashing, a game which Ted…
Games have moved from wooden boards and plastic pieces to screens and servers, but the way people play still draws from long-standing patterns. Many of today’s top digital titles follow ideas from card tables, arcades, tabletop setups, or even coin-operated machines. The change in format has sharpened it into something that feels both fresh and…
Category: Next Week on Xbox October 31, 2025 Next Week on Xbox: New Games for November 3 to 7 Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC, and Game Pass! Get more…
“Mainstream conversations remain dominated by the same perspectives and biases”. I’ve said it in the past, but modern-day video game history has a serious problem – it’s too focused on what happened in North America and doesn’t offer a balanced view on the global story of gaming. Given the numerous authors and content creators from…
Shovel Knight arrives in both NecroDancer games soon. It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that at some point in an indie game’s lifecycle, it will be graced by a Shovel Knight crossover. That even applies if your indie game is a decade old, it seems. Brace Yourself Games has announced that 2015’s Crypt of the…
The Xbox brand, from its name to its design language, has always felt to me like it was made up of a mix of early 2000s spikey hair and what people found cool in the 90s. Nothing quite exemplifies this more than the great big silver Xbox prototype shown off just before the release of…
US president Donald Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping met in South Korea yesterday to discuss a variety of topics, with the main order of business being the ongoing trade and tariff escalations between their respective nations. After a 90-minute discussion, the two have agreed to postpone certain export controls as part of a one-year…
Get over here (and fix it). Digital Eclipse doesn’t do things by halves. It’s already proven this with the likes of Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration and Tetris Forever, and yet I’m still blown away by what the studio has accomplished with Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection. For years, fans have been begging for a compilation…
Blue Gate might be the most beautiful map in Arc Raiders, but it’s also massive, mountainous, and utterly terrifying, what with all the robots patrolling the place. In an effort to make the area safer, Apollo gives you the A First Foothold quest, which involves repairing and activating various things around the map. The problem…
Have you ever been sitting there, watching an anime, and gone: Man, I wish I could get drawn into chaotic adventures just like Momo Ayase and Ken Takakura to help me work through my personal baggage, motivating me to become a better person? What am I saying, of course you’ve done that. We’ve all been…