City-Building in Your Hands: Adapting Frostpunk 2’s Depth to a Gamepad

Category: ID@Xbox September 18, 2025 City-Building in Your Hands: Adapting Frostpunk 2’s Depth to a Gamepad Igor Skibiński, Production Coordinator, 11 Bit Studios Summary Out now and available day one with Xbox Game Pass. Fully reworked control scheme and interface tailored for gamepads. Complex strategy gameplay translated into an intuitive console experience. With many intuitive…

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Now that I’m done mourning BioWare, these are the RPG developers I’m expecting to carry the torch for the next decade

BioWare fans can never agree on which era of the studio was its peak—classic Baldur’s Gate 2, the original Mass Effect, or (correctly) Dragon Age: Origins—but there’s no debating that it was the frontrunner in a golden era for RPGs that influenced at least a decade of other games. If that sounds like the beginning…

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How to start a Dying Light: The Beast co-op lobby

Just like the zombie-slaying parkour marathons before it, Dying Light: The Beast offers multiplayer co-op for up to four players. Regardless of the party size, you’re all protagonist Kyle Crane—don’t question it—and share campaign progression, too. Now all the Kyles benefit from their hard work, no matter who’s hosting. It’s an appreciated upgrade for those…

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Dying Light: The Beast review

NEED TO KNOW What is it? An open world first-person parkour horror (parkorror?) gameExpect to pay: $59.99/£49.99Developer: TechlandPublisher: TechlandReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMMultiplayer? Co-opLink: Official site I won’t lie: punching a man’s head clean off his shoulders with a single swing of my fist is pretty darn satisfying. It’s not…

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OcUK Gaming Mach 5R review

With prebuilt machines, or any machine really, you have to make some compromises. This could be going for a slightly more value-friendly GPU to fit your budget, or skipping out on that all-white build because you don’t want to pay so much for colour-appropriate components. The Ryzen 5 7600X3D chip in the OcUK Mach 5R…

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Microsoft’s Paint now lets you save projects as layered files in the latest Insider build, as part of its continued efforts to make the default image editor great again

Keep it under your hat, but Microsoft’s Paint app has been experiencing a quiet resurgence over the past few years. Oft neglected as a potential image editing tool, MS has been beavering away in the background, adding features like background removal and object selection to relatively little fanfare. Still, updates are updates, and many of…

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Retro-Styled Isometric Puzzler ‘Lumo 2’ Dimension-Shifts Its Way Onto Switch This October

Retro isometric puzzle sweetness incoming! We really enjoyed Lumo when it launched on Switch back in 2017, awarding the isometric action-puzzler an 8/10 and saying that it “provides a modern isometric platformer, offering (as you’d expect) improved audio-visual presentation over the classics of the genre, whilst still providing the same kind of entertainment.” Numskull has…

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