Scramble the interceptors! Gather your squad! Start the deployment theme! The incredible, exceptional, possibly unbeatable XCOM 2 is 10 years old. To celebrate, publisher 2K is letting XCOM greenhorns play it free on Steam this weekend. And if you like what you see, Firaxis’ turn-based tactics sequel is also on a 95% discount for the…
It can be tough getting on with your neighbours. Sometimes you want to say things to them, like “Don’t let your adult children play bassy music until 2AM”, or “Don’t leave your dog alone at home all day so he spends the whole. Time. Barking.” But for the sake of a peaceful life, you don’t….
“I view Fang almost like a fan myself. I think I might be his biggest fan.”. Arguably, no one is a bigger fan of the Sonic character Fang the Sniper than its creator, Shinichi “Touma” Higashi. Despite leaving Sega in 2001 and embarking on a successful career as a toy designer (where he’s continued to…
Stephen Cakebread’s Geometry Wars originally started as a Project Gotham Racing Easter egg, but from then on turned into a fully fledged eye candy neon top-down multi-directional shooter, with appearances on the DS all the way up to Steam. Well it’s time for the Amiga to enjoy this game, as NovaCoder has released ‘G-WARS’. A Geometry…
Humble is back with yet another bundle, and this one’s a doozy, the kind that makes me wish I could erase my memory so I could experience the joy of playing these games for the first time again. Sci-fi Shooters 2.0 loads a second clip of FPS action into its discount rifle, featuring some of…
Can you master this tough-as-nails NES classic? Last week’s Ridge Racer PS1 Community Challenge proved to be a bit more complicated to set up than initially anticipated, but we did get some great submissions by the end. That includes this frankly amazing time (2’59″070) from regular commenter Bulk Slash on the NTSC version on an…
Short of someone actually inventing a magical time-manipulating dagger, we now know that the long-awaited remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time will never see the light of day. Developer and publisher Ubisoft revealed it killed the project, alleged to have been nearly complete, in the latter half of January, as part of…
Directly to you. Just when we thought our wishlists couldn’t get any longer, Nintendo had to go and drop another Direct. Let’s see who’s working through their backlog to make way for the oncoming deluge of releases in another edition of What Are You Playing. The Direct was the big news for this week, bringing…
No, not that one. Pokémon is celebrating 30 years this year, and as part of this, trainers around the globe can expect all sorts of exciting (and surprising) announcements. Ahead of the annual event Pokémon Day, taking place later this month on 27th February 2026, Stern Pinball has announced it will be stepping into the…
Here’s what the critics had to say. It’s an action-packed week on the Nintendo front, and on top of the Partner Direct, we also shared a bunch of previews earlier this week. If you haven’t already seen our preview for Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park we’re not…