You and amiiboth. If there was one name I wasn’t expecting to see crop up in the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal Direct, it was Kirby Air Riders amiibo. Smash Ultimate and its DLC fighters had propped up the amiibo release schedule for the best part of five years, and its conclusion lined up so neatly…
Category: ID@Xbox January 15, 2026 Ultimate General: Civil War is coming to Xbox on March 4 Anton Vinogradov, Founder, Samustai Summary Launching on Xbox consoles and XPA. A playable demo will be released February 9, 2026. Intuitive control scheme designed specifically for controllers. I am incredibly excited to announce that Ultimate General: Civil War is officially coming…
Bethesda RPGs are so big and take such a long time to develop that there’s naturally a lot left on the cutting room floor, leaving them to be discovered by modders and given a second life. One such dropped idea was Skyrim’s fully dynamic civil war, co-lead designer and former Elder Scrolls loremaster Kurt Kuhlmann…
The chilled-out extraction shooter Arc Raiders was one of 2025’s surprise hits, and for my money is a game that works because it gets so many small things right. The length of runs is perfect, there’s the perfect amount of distractions to regularly pull you away from the best-laid plans, and the exhilaration of making…
Category: Games January 15, 2026 EA Play: Usher in the New Year with Rewards for Battlefield 6 and More Juliet Niczewicz, Senior Director, Corporate Communications, EA Usher in the new year with new member rewards for Battlefield 6, Madden NFL 26, Apex Legends, and more! January Member Rewards A new year comes with endless possibility…
Category: Games January 15, 2026 EA Play: Usher in the New Year with Rewards for Battlefield 6 and More Juliet Niczewicz, Senior Director, Corporate Communications, EA Usher in the new year with new member rewards for Battlefield 6, Madden NFL 26, Apex Legends, and more! January Member Rewards A new year comes with endless possibility…
Masters of Albion is coming in April, and after that designer Peter Molyneux says he’s done: It will be his last game ever. Whether that holds up over the long term remains to be seen, but his promised retirement from the industry has also triggered the end of one of the best and longest-running videogame…
The budget gaming laptop sector is booming, as the CPU and GPU gains of the last few years are trickling down nicely and you can get a very fast frame rate at 1080p for a lot less than you’d pay for something like an Alienware 18 Area-51. You’re not getting quite the same level of…
The budget gaming laptop sector is booming, as the CPU and GPU gains of the last few years are trickling down nicely and you can get a very fast frame rate at 1080p for a lot less than you’d pay for something like an Alienware 18 Area-51. You’re not getting quite the same level of…
Kurt Kuhlmann, the longtime Elder Scrolls “loremaster”, hasn’t revealed why he left Bethesda in 2023 after more than 20 years—until now. His departure didn’t make headlines but it rumbled those who know the series best. Michael Kirkbride, who worked alongside Kuhlmann on Morrowind and Oblivion, wrote at the time that “Kurt was the best writer…