The developers of Highguard will be the first to tell you the reveal of their debut FPS could have gone down better. The trailer shown at the end of The Game Awards in December failed to distinguish Highguard from any other free-to-play hero shooter, and prompted a wave of cynical social media posts declaring it…
Category: Games January 26, 2026 Highguard Is Out Today – and We’ve Played a Lot of It Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor Summary Highguard is a free-to-play 3v3 first-person raid shooter, available today on Xbox Series X|S. It is the independently published debut of Wildlight Entertainment, a new studio comprising veterans from Apex Legends, Titanfall,…
The immersive sim is, of course, the best type of game. There’s just no beating it. Being able to stack boxes or throw a refrigerator at a guy? That’s what it’s all about, right there. And yet, despite the fact imsims are god’s own genre, no one ever makes them. Why? Oh, because they’re hard…
Fast, feisty, fabulous. That’s how I described the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H in my review, and I stand by it. It’s got an Arc B390 iGPU that crushes all the others we’ve tested for gaming performance, and that’s a remarkable technical achievement given the size of the graphics tile relative to the rest of…
Early-bird price expires today. Over the coming years, we’re likely to see a bunch of alternatives to the Switch 2’s Joy-Con, but NYXI’s new Hyperion 3 looks like it might be a solid early contender. Available for pre-order now via the NYXI website, you can currently take advantage of a 30% ‘early-bird’ discount, bringing the…
Flying drones is now a favorite pastime, while DualShock controllers have become standard equipment for gamers everywhere. Gliding through digital skies, chasing missions, and battling foes are possible with sharp visuals and near-instant response. The technology offers a clean, fast, and easy experience. It’s modern gaming at its best. This excitement around flying isn’t new,…
Hello PlayStation Blog community, my name is Kenny Sun and I’m the lead developer of the Ball x Pit, and I’m here to share with you development on the game’s concept, inspiration as well as what players can expect in the first content update that releases today for FREE for all owners of the game!…
Prismatic. After a last-minute delay towards the end of 2025, OPUS: Prism Peak — the spiritual successor to Opus: Echo of Starsong (a game we absolutely adore) — finally has a brand new release date for Switch 1 and Switch 2. Coming out on 26th March 2026, Opus: Prism Peak is a narrative puzzler where…
In June 2025, after two years of virtual silence, we got our first up-to-date look at InXile Entertainment’s upcoming steampunk RPG Clockwork Revolution. And then, well, it was back to silence. That may be because Clockwork Revolution is the studio’s “most ambitious title, probably by a factor of 10,” InXile head Brian Fargo said in…
I checked out the Logitech G PowerPlay 2 charging mouse pad last year and I was not impressed. That’s primarily because it was too expensive for what it offers, especially compared to the first version. So consider me downright stupefied that Logitech seems to have raised its price, at least in the US. When I…