I’m of two minds about Crimson Desert‘s patches—on one hand, Pearl Abyss has been shaving off some of the friction that made its bizarre, madcap action game interesting. On the other, there were a lot of really irritating quirks that needed to be sanded down, and it’s downright impressive how dedicated the studio’s been to…
For more than 16 years, Nvidia’s annual GTC event has been packed full with talks and presentations about all the things you can do with a GPU beyond rendering 3D graphics. This year’s conference was no different, of course, but hidden amongst all the talk was an insight into how Nvidia goes about designing its…
With Overwatch‘s turn to a year-long story arc, what would have been Season 21 is now Season 2: Summit. While the context has changed, what you can expect from the new season is very similar to previous updates and builds on the new direction set by Season 1: Conquest. There’s a lot to look forward…
A more adventured had forgone the“first”Atari in 2600 video is honored game history.to have It is the first adventure-type game on a console, and it is also considered the first action-adventure game (inspired by the text-only adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure). It introduced several new concepts to console gaming, such as enemies that continued to…
Category: Announcements April 13, 2026 Tune in on Thursday for Xbox First Look: Metro 2039 Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor This Thursday, April 16, we’ll be debuting Xbox First Look: Metro 2039 with 4A Games & Deep Silver – a digital-only broadcast offering a world-premiere look at the next title in the beloved post-apocalyptic first-person shooter series. This will be the fourth mainline entry from 4A Games in the series based on the iconic novels…
“They couldn’t make it too obvious they were supporting Xbox”. Ed Fries played a big role in securing the long-term stability of the Xbox brand, and served as vice president of game publishing during the first Xbox era. He’s the ideal person, then, to talk about Microsoft’s efforts to court Japanese developers in the very…
A fool and his money… Do you remember Alejandro Martín? How could you forget him, right? He was the driving force behind the SuperSega project, one of the most depressingly fascinating FPGA ventures of recent times. Read the full article on timeextension.com A fool and his money… Do you remember Alejandro Martín? How could you…
McClouded vision. After the $1 billion+ box office success of the first movie, we all knew that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie was going to put up big numbers. Well, those crystal balls didn’t let us down, because after just a few weeks in cinemas, the sequel is already the highest-grossing release of 2026. The…
Fragmentary Order is an upcoming “hardcore sci-fi FPS” project helmed by Rant Gaming and publisher Cor3 with some involvement from Escape From Tarkov boss Nikita Buyanov. Buyanov has, however, confirmed that Fragmentary Order “is not related to BSG or Tarkov”, being more of a separate project. Regardless, it seems to share much of the same…
Treasure tracker. Blimey, that rolled around fast! It’s once again time for our Games We Missed round-up, our community callout where we ask for Switch game recommendations for games we weren’t able to review. Back in October we rounded up 32 gems, as recommended by you lovely people, in the first edition of this twice-yearly…