I have to fight the boss now? But I was picking flowers! Of course, it’s not in any way whatsoever radical to have your players follow along a tightly-scripted path in a video game. It’s nothing new, it’s nothing that hasn’t been a constant (in platformers especially) since…well…forever. So why is it, some five or…
Category: Games September 11, 2025 Free Play Days – The Escapists: The Walking Dead, Bad North, Rogue Waters and Empyreal Kyle Ocean, Marketing Manager, Xbox Stay in this weekend and explore some fun games with Free Play Days! The Escapists: The Walking Dead and Empyreal are available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Standard…
CD Projekt Red has two loves: having the best or worst videogame launches of all time, and then patching those games until the Sun fuses its last atom of hydrogen. Nothing can stop those guys from tinkering with their old games. No, really. I think it may be an issue. But while I send someone…
If you’d told me a few years ago that I’d be reviewing a laptop with 192 GB of RAM and an RTX 5090, I’d think you were pitching an episode of Black Mirror. Yet here sits the Acer Predator Helios 18 AI—a machine that bulldozes right through the line between desktop and laptop. If you’re…
Alongside Elden Ring Nightreign’s Dark of Night endless mode, the latest patch has also brought a slew of fixes and updates, including a much-needed change to the holy damage icon (finally!) and a change to how badly the Night’s Tide damage will hit players. The patch notes read: “Increased the Night’s Tide damage after defeating…
Alongside Elden Ring Nightreign’s Dark of Night endless mode, the latest patch has also brought a slew of fixes and updates, including a much-needed change to the holy damage icon (finally!) and a change to how badly the Night’s Tide damage will hit players. The patch notes read: “Increased the Night’s Tide damage after defeating…
OpenAI has signed a contract with Oracle to purchase $300 billion worth of computing power over the next five years, according to sources at The Wall Street Journal. News of the deal caused Oracle’s share price to surge by as much as 43% on Wednesday, increasing CEO Larry Ellison’s wealth by an estimated $100 billion—and…
Six months on, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows has long since faded into the general live-service background susurrus that underlies all of videogames. It has its players, its haters, its curious onlookers—but the fires of capital-d Discourse have been burnt out for a while. Which is quite nice, honestly, but it doesn’t mean Ubisoft doesn’t have…
Philadelphia, PA – September 11, 2025 – Independent games publisher Retroware and developer Zenovia Interactive have announced a new release date for their upcoming cyberpunk run-and-gun title, Neon Inferno. Originally slated for October 2, the game will now launch on November 20, 2025. Though development is nearly complete, the delay stems from a combination of factors, including the differing certification processes across…
Category: PC Gaming September 11, 2025 How Endless Legend 2 Raises the Tide on Turn-Based Strategy Games Joe Robinson, Director of Communications, Hooded Horse Summary Endless Legend 2 (Game Preview) is a turn-based strategy game coming to Xbox on PC, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Ultimate on September 22, 2025. The long-awaited sequel to…