For most of its life, Xbox was simple to comprehend. It was a console brand centered on a physical device, a controlled ecosystem, and a familiar promise to the player: buy the box, enter the platform, and stay inside the experience Microsoft designed for you. That model helped to define the modern console era, but…
The Mystical Key and Polar Opposites quests come immediately after each other in Crimson Desert. You will have just won an arm wrestling match in Hernand tavern and helped some random villagers clean their chimney. Now, though, you have to take a mysterious key and use it to unlock a room in Hernand Castle. After…
The 1980s were a Golden Age for cartoonish super villains. Consider the brutish evil of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the greed of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Yet both pale in comparison to Bill Laimbeer as portrayed by himself on the Detroit Pistons. Consider: Bill Laimbeer was on…
MLB! Rushing Beat! Bang Bang Bandits! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America arrived yesterday, and it’s brought new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch (2) eShop –…
Category: Next Week on Xbox March 20, 2026 Next Week on Xbox: New Games for March 23 to 27 Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC, and Game Pass! Get more…
“Thousands of people can’t be wrong for wanting this”. Back when Capcom’s side-scrolling brawlers were all the rage, the Japanese veteran produced the sublime Aliens vs. Predator for its CP System II arcade board. Considered something of a genre classic, the game was sadly never ported to any home system, and, at the time of…
About time, right? Nightdive Studios has confirmed that a new update for System Shock on Switch 1 and 2 is now available for download, bringing huge improvements to the game’s performance. Patch 2.1 has been applied across all available platforms to nuke any nasty bugs, but it’s Nintendo’s consoles that receive the most TLC. Performance…
“Available for the first time in 37 years”. The dust has only just settled on the 2026 edition of the Game Developers Conference, but The Video Game History Foundation is giving us the chance to blissfully drift back in time to the third such instalment of the (Computer) Games Developer Conference, recorded on audio tape…
Tempered weirdness. If you’ve been in the market for an Analogue 3D, then chances are you’ve already seen 8BitDo’s accompanying 64 Bluetooth Controller. Although originally only available in black or white, 8BitDo now has a variant that pays homage to the original N64 grey colour scheme, so now seems the perfect time to check it…
These days, it’s rare to come across a game that feels bad to play. We’ve reached a point where you can hop into a new game in any established genre and largely be off on your merry way. But then I played Crimson Desert, which sees you fumbling across the keyboard trying to remember the…