Last week, in the wake of a rash of developer hardware thefts at this year’s Gamescom, the event’s organizers provoked a wave of outcry by publishing a statement that many perceived as callously placing the blame on exhibitors who hadn’t adequately insured their equipment. Today, Gamescom released an additional statement on X, admitting that its…
Making a live service game these days feels like trying to shoot an arrow at a flea while blindfolded. Striking gold with a hot new shooter or other team-based multiplayer game with a quirky twist seems like an exercise in futility, but that isn’t stopping developers and publishers from trying to be the next big…
Zelda news, anyone? After a busy Gamescom, we assumed it’d only be a matter of time before Nintendo popped up with another showcase, and today, it’s done just that! Twice, in fact. That’s right, Nintendo has just announced not one, but two Directs for net week. We’ll start off with a special The Legend of…
Welcome to Next Week on XBOX! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to XBOX Series X|S, XBOX One, XBOX on PC, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in! NHL® 27 XBOX…
But how can the Flower Division bloom again? Author Oji Hiroi has said that he has written the story for a new Sakura Wars sequel, and is more than willing to produce the RPG series’ sixth mainline, should such a project become viable. The 72-year-old series creator made the comments at the “Sega Universe Playground”…
As I help free a talking frog the size of a small car – who also happens to be an engineer – from imprisonment, I find myself thinking, “Exodus is a lot… weirder than I expected.” Simply the genre of this game had me excited – this is a true throwback to choice-based action-RPGs of…
As I’m making my way through the beginning of two-player co-op adventure Age Twisters alongside the founders of developer Piccolo Studios, I’m told the goal was to create a game that evokes the same feelings as watching a Pixar movie with your child. Now I am admittedly sprogless, but it wasn’t difficult to latch onto…
Today, we’re sharing a new partnership with TCL that will bring the XBOX app to select TCL Smart TVs in the coming months. We want to be where the world plays. That means giving players more choice in how and where they play, making the XBOX experiences easier to access. Bringing the XBOX app to…
If you happen to pick up a copy of NBA 2K27, in your eagerness to try out the first official implementation of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI image tech, you won’t find it labelled as such in the settings menu. Instead, it appears as a simple on/off toggle under the label “DLSS Neural Rendering.” And while…
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is the latest victim of the dreaded AAA videogame disease: Padded Runtime Via Unsatisfying Upgrade Materials. It could be a lot worse: thankfully there’s no level gating in Onimusha that requires you to accrue an arbitrary set of stats before you can tackle a particular quest. It’s not an RPG,…