Fortnite’s fastest mode, Blitz Royale, has been reskinned as an Iron Man mode for the weekend, with a new map and themed items for every player. The circular Stark Island has three locations based on Fortnite’s Chapter 2 Iron Man collaboration—Stark Industries, Stark Cabin, and Stark Academy—and it has fully replaced the regular Blitz Royale…
Category: ID@Xbox September 12, 2025 Why Lo-Fi Visuals Have Found Their Place in Modern Horror Gaming Barış Tarımcıoğlu/Producer, Playstige I’ve been working with Unreal Engine since 1999, and if someone had told me back then that in 2025, I’d be deliberately crafting lo-fi visuals for a horror game, I would have laughed. Back in those…
Resetting your skill tree has always been a chore in Borderlands, as it’s long prided itself on build diversity, though not all builds are equal. This is even more apparent in Borderlands 4, with each character having three massive skill trees and associated action skills. It’s a lot, and if you make a mistake, you’ll…
I suppose in an ideal world, games would launch and then never need updates at all, but I won’t pretend I’m not just a little happy to live in a world where the original Stalker games are getting patches again. To rectify a few more issues with the remasters of Shadow of Chornobyl, Clear Sky,…
No twist of fate. During the big hour-long Nintendo Direct, Capcom’s Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection got a release date for Switch 2! And it’s landing on the console on 13th March 2026. The game was revealed back in July’s Partner Showcase and has received a huge glow-up from its lovely-looking predecessors. But this…
In case you didn’t know, because you’ve been living on Pluto these past few days, Borderlands 4 has launched. It’s not exactly been smooth sailing for 2K Games and Gearbox Software, the publishers and developers, as the game’s overall performance is rougher than the Drake Passage. To help matters (or make things worse, depending on…
Europe’s fastest supercomputer is now operational, and boy howdy does it have an impressive specs sheet. The JUPITER project (which stands for Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research, apparently) had its official ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this week at the Forschungszentrum Jülich campus in Germany, attended by the great and the good of…
It’s a good thing we have a lot of videogames coming down the pipe to keep us busy for the next few months (at least), because the big Balatro 1.1 update we’ve been waiting for since last year, that was supposed to come out this year, is going to take until next year to arrive….
Category: Games September 12, 2025 Why is Final Fantasy Remake Intergrade Such A Big Deal? Duncan Heaney, Senior Manager, Editorial Content, Square Enix Summary The critically acclaimed RPG is coming January 22, 2026 to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox PC via the Microsoft Store. Experience the story that changed gaming forever in a bold new…
“Without you, I was just like any other cliff. A dead end. No way forward”. Remember Icelandic indie studio Aeriform? Yesterday, we reported that the team was creating an Alien-inspired horror point-and-click adventure for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, but it turns out that’s not the only thing it has in development at the…