Orcs and trolls galore. In today’s world of expiring rights deals and IP constantly changing hands, it’s an unfortunate reality that many licensed games are doomed to forever languish in the gaming world of yesteryear. That’s what makes moments like the return of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game or the remastered SpongeBob SquarePants:…
Summary Dumpster Gang is a co-op sandbox game for 1-4 players launching for XBOX PC in December 2026. Play as mischievous raccoons and cause a ruckus as you try to escape a relentless exterminator. Dumpster Gang will be available Day One as part of XBOX PC Game Pass. Trash pandas. Garbage goblins. Raccoons. These cute…
“That’s an easy way to know you made the right decision”. Remember Donald Trump’s tariffs? They caused all kinds of aggro for manufacturers and consumers, only for the US Supreme Court to rule that they weren’t a legal use of the ‘International Emergency Economic Powers Act’, allowing impacted companies to apply for refunds. Some of…
When I hear ‘Nvidia,’ I still think ‘gaming’. But after scrubbing through the company’s latest earnings call, I’m not sure Nvidia is thinking much about gaming these days at all. In fact I had to go back through the records an entire year to find a time when it made one mention of it in…
Vinyl-ly. It’s such a wonderful feeling when you watch a trailer for an upcoming game and just immediately think “oh yeah, this is gonna be good”. Well, say hello to Mr. Records. Developed by Glee-Cheese and published by Wired Productions, this is a quirky tale in which you play as George, who ventures into his…
Too much of a good thing, believe it or not, can be bad, even when that thing is Silent Hill. Especially when faced with the prospect of a new game every year, though franchise producer Motoi Okamoto has tried to reassure us that it’s totally a good thing. “Our aim is to, hopefully, have an…
This week at gamescom, we finally revealed Gravhounds, the first game from our seven-person independent studio, Octopus Panic – it’s set to launch into Game Preview on XBOX Series X|S and XBOX on PC on November 2, 2026, and will be available day one with XBOX Game Pass. We’re a small team, but between us…
“I was in no way consulted or involved with this collection”. James Pond is one of those characters whom people have a lot of affection for but who only seems to make it into the news in the most negative of ways. Back in 2025, Gameware announced it was creating an AI-filled ‘sequel’ called James…
Nvidia’s latest earnings call is in and, as you can probably guess, the GPU maker turned AI hardware creator is raking in cash hand over fist. But alas, a projected 70% revenue increase for the 2028 fiscal year is apparently conservative, as the blasted memory crisis is getting in the way. You know, that memory…
You’ve got to give Crimson Desert kudos—it’s been getting hit with free update after free update, including, most recently, an overhaul to the game’s story. But that’ll be slowing down in coming months, as Pearl Abyss gears up to release the game’s first major paid piece of DLC content. “While there still will be updates,”…