2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Xbox—but in a shaky set of years for gaming at Microsoft, this one has been among the shakiest. Old CEOs are out, new leadership is in, and we’ve all been left wondering how Xbox might try to steady its prolonged tailspin. This summer’s Xbox Games Showcase is our first…
Following yet another post-update drubbing from the Helldivers 2 community, Arrowhead has announced it is making sweeping changes to numerous parts of its sci-fi shooter. Of these, one of the studio’s more interesting plans is overhauling the sense of progression in its live-service experience, both for individual players and the wider galactic war. Arrowhead sketched…
CD Projekt Red currently has more irons in the fire than Geralt of Rivia’s favourite blacksmith. There’s The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2, which on their own are enough to keep the studio busy for the next decade. But there’s also the mysterious Project Hadar, which we know very little about despite it being in…
We’re a few days into the nonstop livestreams of Summer Game Fest 2026, and still have a couple of shows left to close out the weekend. The Xbox Games Showcase takes today’s first slot, then a Gears of War: E-Day Direct follows up immediately after with a closer look at the Marcus Fenix origin story….
Welcome to Block’n’Bubble II, a direct continuation of the classic action gameplay developed by natthrafn. Originally programmed by the author and published in Germany back in 1989 via Markt & Technik Special #30, this updated iteration breathes fresh life into the retro title with enhanced features and an expanded universe. New features and upgrades include…
I’m a Fire Flower, twisted Fire Flower. Sometimes, when I wind the window down in my car, I think about Mario Kart World. I’m sitting alone in the driver’s seat, radio playing some mid-2000s indie or alt-rock, a breeze blowing through my hair. It might be a quiet morning, the traffic light but the sun…
While I generally dislike describing games as being lazily designed, since they are tremendously hard to make, laziness does seem to be a running theme with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. Its single-player campaign felt decidedly slapped together when it launched in October last year, while the post-launch support for its unambitious multiplayer has…
Utopia! Vectrex Mini! Sega handheld rumours! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com Utopia! Vectrex Mini! Sega handheld rumours! Welcome to Retro Recap, a…
It’s been a long, dry year since Satisfactory last received a major update. Version 1.1 of Coffee Stain’s hugely popular factory sim launched almost exactly twelve months ago, bringing proper controller support, an improved photo mode, better resource transportation, and more. Yet outside of a few hotfixes, that’s been it for fans of building enormously…
Ray Tracing. Walk this Ray, it’s time for another edition of Box Art Brawl. Last week, we matched up three covers for the GameCube’s excellent WarioWare, Inc: Mega Party Game$!, and you lot were clearly on the same page as us, crowning the North American design the best of the bunch with 76% of the…