I’ve never really been the biggest case guy. With upkeep around PCs (both upgrades and general cleaning), I’ve always found myself in favour of something tidy and easy to hide away, rather than something to show off. That’s until I had the realisation it’s not quite an either-or situation back in May. Now, months later,…
Netgear’s current crop of Nighthawk Wi-Fi routers—and there are a lot of them—all have the kind of looks that, were they gaming PCs, might hide ridiculous amounts of rendering power behind their otherwise anonymous black exteriors. And in a way they do, if you replace the word ‘rendering’ with ‘networking’. No wait, come back. Networking…
Stop Killing Games (which just under a month ago was all doom and gloom) has soared past its prior goals—not only garnering enough attention to have Ubisoft’s CEO sweating during a shareholder meeting, but now soaring past 1.4 million signatories on the European Citizens’ Initiative. “Stop Killing Games” is a movement started by YouTuber of…
Performance increases of up to 62.5%! When we reviewed the excellent Hitman: World of Assassination for Switch 2 just a little while back, we came away as impressed as ever with IO Interactive’s incredible world-building and gameplay. However, we were also a little bit disappointed with the game’s performance at launch. For a title we…
Category: Games Predecessor: The Unique Project Honoring (and Improving on) a Cancelled Game Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published July 21, 2025 Predecessor is that rare story where the history of its development might be as interesting as the game itself. In 2018, Epic Games made the decision to cancel its third-person action-MOBA, Paragon. In…
Allow me to introduce you to the concept of “vibe coding”, in which developers utilise AI tools to generate code rather than writing it manually themselves. While that might sound like a good idea on paper, it seems getting an AI to do your development for you doesn’t always pay off. Jason Lemkin, an enterprise…
“We basically wanted it to be more complex than SimCity”. Released in 1991 across Amiga and Atari ST, Utopia: The Creation Of A Nation was one of the more novel attempts to do something new with the successful formula set out by the popular city builder SimCity, Not only did it change the setting to…
Category: Xbox Insider July 21, 2025 Now Available for Xbox Insiders: Your Cross-Device Play History and Easier Access to Your Cloud-Playable Console Games on PC Lily Wang, Product Manager, Xbox Experiences At Xbox, we want you to play the games you want, with the people you want, anywhere you want. Building on our recent aggregated…
So many Bits to Summit, and not enough time. BitSummit has once again come and gone, and unlike last year where it was a bit difficult to find indie developers committing to a Nintendo Switch release well before the Switch 2 was announced, we found a renewed enthusiasm for Nintendo as we pursued the two…
I can’t remember ever liking the sound of the phrase “active attacks”, least of all when it’s concerning software used by governments. Something about it just rings stomach-droppingly scary, but that might just be me. So, kindly share some mild terror with me as I pass on the message that was generously passed on to…