2026

Microsoft’s likely got another wave of layoffs and studio closures coming, it’s my displeasure to say—with multiple studios on the chopping block. It’s another pip in a pattern of scattershot project cancellations and studio closures, in the same vein as the company shutting down Project Blackbird despite Phil Spencer loving it, or closing Tango Gameworks…

As big-budget, blockbuster PC games have become increasingly more packed with cutting-edge graphics over the years, their minimum hardware requirements have naturally scaled upwards too. But there’s one forthcoming game that has taken that quite a lot further than you’d expect, with the memory specs likely to cause more than a few raised eyebrows. It’s…

Oblivion Remastered is coming to the Switch 2 on August 11, as Bethesda announced with a trailer featuring a live-action Adoring Fan that conveniently shows as little gameplay as they can get away with. I would love it if, after all the work that’s presumably gone into getting it to run on the Switch 2,…

Creative Assembly’s recent What’s Next livestream dropped a few bombshells about the upcoming 9.0 update and the Lords of the End Times DLC. It’s good news for anyone who loves vampires and Chaos, and for anyone who has ever found themselves underwhelmed by the conclusion to an Immortal Empires campaign. First things first, it was…