With Payday 3 still struggling badly, Starbreeze has made the surprising and somewhat confusing announcement that it has launched a brand-new subscription service for its predecessor Payday 2—which, for the record, is still going gangbusters. Payday 2 has been operating for 12 years now, and in that time it’s racked up an awful lot of…
Time never stops. Rejoice, Gods and Goddesses! Hades II launches on Switch and Switch 2 tomorrow, 25th September 2025. Gosh, can time slow down a little bit? There are so many games coming out at the moment. You’ll see reviews have gone live at a number of sites today and might be thinking “wait, where…
Back in August 2023, Rockstar Games acquired the team and tech behind FiveM, a Grand Theft Auto Online mod it had previously tried to shut down. FiveM enables the use of custom cars, maps, and weapons among other content, but crucially also allows for a much bigger player count in online games. Together, these capabilities…
Just in time for Halloween. Superdeluxe Games, a joint venture between Limited Run Games and 8-4, has established itself as one of the world’s leading distributors of lush physical editions – as you’ll know if you’ve checked out our previous feature on the company’s offerings. We’ve also covered the superb Castlevania Anniversary Collection released by…
Category: ID@Xbox September 24, 2025 Indie Selects for September 2025: Genre-Bending Greats Raymond Estrada, Steven Allen, Oscar Polanco, Jessica Ronnell, Deron MannID@Xbox Leaf Blowers Every Wednesday, dive into the Indie Select Hub—your gateway to a fresh, curated indie collection plus four themed spotlights that rotate weekly! You can always find this collection hub in the…
Featuring ActRaiser, Eye of the Beholder, Breath of Fire, & Chrono Trigger. Over the last decade or so, Bitmap Books has established itself as one of the leading publishers of video game books. In the past, the UK-based publisher has released books on a range of retro topics, covering everything from Japanese role-playing games to…
So, Google and Qualcomm are bigging up what’s basically a desktop version of the former’s Android OS for smartphones (via 9to5Google). The idea, apparently, is to fuse “mobile and PC” into a single device. And given Qualcomm is part of this particular conversation, that device would presumably be running an Arm chip rather than a…
AI data centers are some of the largest consumers of electrical energy in the world of computing, and with gigawatt-sized projects currently in development, there is increased demand for sustainable means to power them. It just so happens that there’s one solution that’s entirely off-grid, with apparently zero emissions, and even generates the water required…
Silent Hill f finally releases to the masses tomorrow, but before everyone’s even got their hands on NeoBard’s new take on the Silent Hill series, one modder has managed to completely remove all the fog from the game. Simply named No Fog, this mod, created by Fellow_Demo, strips all the fog from Ebisugaoka, but players…
Helldivers 2 is in the “it’s so over!” part of the chart again, unfortunately. Despite its latest patch being a ton of fun, the entire engine is also buckling and groaning under the weight of extreme technical debt. Crashes, bugs, terrible performance, and an ever-balooning file size are all starting to get the game a…