Building a fire in a survival game is an important early-game milestone: it lets you stay warm and toasty even when the temperature drops, and you can start cooking basic meals instead of just stuffing berries into your face. At night you can see a few feet around your fire without having to hold a…
The culture of 2000s internet forum feuds has fully saturated the tech billionaire world, and the especially tantrum-prone Elon Musk is at it again this week. The xAI CEO’s latest tirade targets Apple, which he claims is suppressing his Grok chatbot on the iOS App Store, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who he’s been feuding…
There was, I am sure, a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth when Take-Two delayed Grand Theft Auto 6 from its planned release this year to May 26, 2026—if you’re on console, anyway. Expectations are very high, after all, and new GTA games don’t come around very often. But just how certain are…
Members of the French videogame union STJV at Arkane Lyon, currently developing Marvel’s Blade, have published an open letter calling on Microsoft to end its relationship with the Israeli military and conduct “a transparent, independent and public audit of Microsoft technologies, contracts, services and investments to make sure they are not used to violate the…
Aside from a few moments of conspicuously instantaneous death, I had a great time with the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend. The guns largely felt lovely, I got a 16-killstreak as a tank gunner, and I watched someone drive a jeep covered in C4 into an enemy anti-air gun. That all hits. My main complaint…
Krafton has filed a response to the lawsuit brought against it by the former heads of Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds, accusing them of almost immediately abandoning their responsibilities following Krafton’s acquisition of the studio despite repeated efforts to keep them onboard. The publisher is requesting an outright dismissal of the lawsuit filed against it and…
Our pick of impeccable pixels. Updated this list with the wonderful Until Then and Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound! Of all the art styles in video games, none has a stronger chokehold on developers and players alike than the humble pixel. Whether it’s a fantastically detailed modern take on what is possible in pixels, or something made…
Category: ID@Xbox August 12, 2025 Ra Ra Boom Gives you Baddies Worth Punching Chris Bergman, CEO, Gylee Games Ra Ra Boom is finally in your hands. I’m excited for you to check out all the hard work and love the team at Gylee Games has put into Ra Ra Boom, which is now available on…
Going right back to my first preview of FBC: Firebreak, my question has always been the same: who is this for? Its chaotic, systems-driven co-op action does have impressive qualities and lots of imagination to it, but I never understood where it could possibly fit in the crowded and competitive multiplayer space. Unfortunately since then…
Fae Farm, the cozy co-op farming sim released in 2023 by Phoenix Labs, is going offline. A message posted to the game’s Steam page says the game will remain playable offline in singleplayer mode, but “will no longer be playable online and will not receive any future updates.” It also appears that developer Phoenix Labs,…