Category: gamescom August 21, 2025 Onimusha: Way of the Sword Is a Modern, Graceful Action Classic-in-Waiting Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief It’s such a simple decision – in Onimusha: Way of the Sword, pressing the block button lets you deflect or parry attacks from any direction. Your character, Musashi Miyamoto, will seamlessly pull his katana…
Facing Everdark Gladius in Elden Ring Nightreign might actually be quite satisfying for many players after the nightmare that was Everdark Libra. That’s because the new version of the fire doggo is wonderfully straightforward, a little similar to Everdark Caligo, so it’s less about random gimmicks and more just a full-on brawl. Gladius 2.0 hits…
Head in the Clouds. The catchily-titled Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade was one of our favourite announcements out of the Switch 2 reveal Direct back in April. A lot of us missed the original remake when it arrived on beefier consoles back in 2020, and even those who did manage to get around to it…
Online gambling? No thanks. Formed in 1932 to produce pinball and slot machines, Bally Manufacturing is arguably one of the most famous names in the arena of North American location-based entertainment. In the ’60s, the company would dominate the slot machine industry, accounting for an incredible 90 per cent of the worldwide market by the…
Okay, so I recently wrote about how I’m kind of over the Fortnitification of everything, but Infinity Nikki collaborating with Stardew Valley is one videogame crossover I can abide by. The two cosy games are colliding in an update set to land on September 1. It’s not 100% what Stardewy things will be making an…
Category: gamescom August 21, 2025 Super Meat Boy 3D Adds Multiple New Dimensions to a Classic Platformer Danielle Partis I am the proud of owner of an achievement for the Xbox 360 release of Super Meat Boy where the aim is to complete an entire chapter without dying. It’s something that I bring up whenever…
The Storm’s A-Brewin’ quest is the first friendship quest you’ll get once you’ve unlocked Sadness in Disney Dreamlight Valley. When you talk to Sadness to start the quest, she will explain that rain clouds have been popping up in different places around the valley and she feels responsible, which is bringing down her mood. Sadness…
Look, we’ve all made mistakes. One New Year’s Eve, I accidentally drunk-texted a relative instead of an ex, and let me tell you, I’m still living that one down. AMD doesn’t appear to be immune to the odd ‘whoopsie daisy’ either, as it appears it’s accidentally released the source code for FSR 4 on GitHub…
Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: playing way too much of the Battlefield 6 open beta. This week I’ve been: slogging my way through the Road to Battlefield event in Battlefield 2042, remembering why it’s my least favourite game in the series. For all that Battlefield 6 has done right,…
Category: gamescom August 21, 2025 There Are No Ghosts at the Grand Is Exactly as Unusual as You’d Hoped Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief The first-ever public demo of There Are No Ghosts at the Grand takes me just under half an hour to finish. And yet, in that short time, this game morphs from…