Amidst the constant flood of negative and depressing stories about the gaming industry, it’s nice to get a glimmer of good news now and then. Today that news comes via the court of Judge John Hodgman, who has ruled that it is perfectly legal to play Slay the Spire 2 in bed—even if the person…
Doom, one of the most influential videogames of all time, was famously distributed via the shareware model: The game’s first chapter was completely free, and if you liked it, you sent id Software some money and they mailed you the remaining two episodes. What would sometimes happen in those pre-online days, though, is that less-than-scrupulous…
When I was a writer for The Wirecutter more than a decade ago, we were obsessed with finding and recommending the singular best version of any specific product, because it felt like there was so much crap to wade through online. Today I wistfully long for the Amazon of 2013, before it came to be…
Summary Coming to XBOX with play anywhere on August 31, 2026. Releasing with new puzzles and new mechanics. Updates exclusive to XBOX for the first 2 weeks. Exciting news for puzzle fans and XBOX players! I’m thrilled to announce that Puzzledorf, my chill and colourful puzzle game, will release on XBOX August 31. If you’re…
Ghost Recon WildlandsNovember 13 will mark the 25th anniversary of Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, but Ubisoft is getting the celebration ball rolling a little early with a major update to Ghost Recon Wildlands featuring major visual and gameplay enhancements, and an all-new mission “set in a darker, more oppressive Bolivia.” Bolivia, you may recall,…
Stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen. Cold Iron Studios and Daybreak Game Company have confirmed that Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 will launch on the Switch 2 this coming Autumn. This follows the game’s launch on other platforms later this month on 25th August 2026. This follows on from the 2021 original, which saw you…
In 1996, id Software smashed through to another dimension – in one sense of the word, pioneering first-person shooters in the third dimension with the release of Quake, and in another, hurtling players feet-first into Quake’s otherworldly realm – a place beyond our reality where kinetic combat and a moody eldritch setting took FPS players…
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What a calamity. The upcoming movie adaptation The Legend of Zelda is less than a year away from its release on 30th April 2027, but – officially, at least – we still know very little about the project. According to a post from Kyle Buchanan from The New York Times (thanks, Nintendo Everything), however, we…