Category: XBOX Games Showcase June 8, 2026 Halo: Campaign Evolved – Creating New Cosmetics for Master Chief That Honor the Halo Legacy Danielle Partis, XBOX Wire Editor Halo: Campaign Evolved takes us back to where it all began – those first pivotal memories of becoming Master Chief and taking on the Covenant for the first…
Cheap but mighty scaling for your analogue systems. Lots of people still love to game on original hardware, and with good reason – if you’re looking for the most authentic experience, returning to authentic consoles is arguably the best way to do it. You get to use the OG controllers and accessories, and it allows…
For reasons I can’t quite explain—except to admit that San Andreas was very good—the entire Earth has become one big millenarian cult awaiting the arrival of Grand Theft Auto 6, which will purge us of our sins and deliver us to apocatastasis. It will also make four hundred quintillion dollars. No wonder, then, that its…
Tracking down Caine in Gothic Remake took me longer than I’d like to admit. This missing mole is apparently somewhere in the Swamp Camp, but if you’re ever been to that sprawling mess of ramshackle huts and walkways, you’ll understand the issue. If you recall that Caine is Cor Kalom’s apprentice, then speaking to him…
Back in 2020, Senua studio Ninja Theory announced a new game, Project Mara, that aimed to “recreate the horrors of the mind” with a “real-world and grounded representation of mental terror.” A year later we got a look at the game’s absurdly photorealistic apartment, but beyond that it pretty much fell off the radar until…
Riding into the sunset. Sabotage Studio has today announced that 2023’s wonderful RPG, Sea of Stars, is getting its final update, with a Switch 2 version launching to mark the occasion. The Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition — to give the update its official name — is all about bidding farewell to the project that…
Summer Game Fest Play Days featured a ton of new titles this year, with developers and publishers giving lots of chances to see, and play, a variety of games coming to PS5. I visited SGF Play Days this year to see these upcoming titles in action, and go hands-on with many of them. Here’s everything…
Category: Games June 8, 2026 Dive Into the Depths in Grounded 2’s Into the Abyss Update Shyla Schofield, Senior Communications Manager, Obsidian Entertainment Summary Grounded 2‘s Into the Abyss update launches August 11, opening the pond and one of the biggest new areas in Brookhollow Park. Explore above and below the water’s surface with new…
We knew when we gave the original Half-Life a 97% way back in 1998 that it was something special that gamers would be playing years from then. But I don’t think we ever thought someone would play it on a Nokia phone at 30 FPS, with mouse and keyboard support. Oh, technology can be a…
I’ve played a few theme park sims in my day, which means I’ve accidentally—and occasionally on purpose—killed some of my guests. Maybe it was a faulty roller coaster, or maybe it was a roller coaster I’d deliberately removed a few lengths of track from just to see what would happen. Sorry (or not sorry) valued…