Silksong’s nearly here—a trailer has finally announced the fated day, courtesy of Team Cherry, and now it’s time for us to pack up all our silkposts, our fake screenshots, our memes, our hallucinated analog horror monsters. Get back in the box, Nosk. As I tucked away my own portmanteaus, I wondered how the eternal vigil-keeper,…
Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: putting off playing Battlefield 2042 just to earn cool cosmetics in Battlefield 6. This week I’ve been: planning builds for every single skill tree in Borderlands 4, hoping it would help me pick a character, but actually leaving me more conflicted. I’ve played a…
“In this dying age, only pockets of humanity remain. There was no apocalyptic event to speak of; only the cruel march of time and the inexplicable infertility of the world,” reads the blurb. “Accursed creatures stalk the barren lands between settlements, which are themselves terrible places; squalid, medieval and mostly ruled by tyrants.” An accurate…
Art Attack. Last month, Nintendo brought Mario Paint to the SNES Nintendo Switch Online Library, finally unlocking the Mouse Mode experience we had all been dreaming of. It was a neat addition, no doubt, but there was something missing in diving back in on our shiny new Switch 2s, something that could only be achieved…
As of 2023, Sledgehammer Games has worked on not one but two versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, but I would have been much more interested to play the studio’s original pitch to Activision: a third-person CoD in a “scary version of Vietnam”. I’d heard about Sledgehammer’s cancelled project before, but co-founder Glen…
Back in my day, we had to crank the gear on the side of the monitor for 30 seconds to get just 10 screen refreshes. Okay, not really, but more seriously, back in my day high refresh rates were a pipe dream. When I were a wee lad, I was content with my 60 Hz…
An Ironclad purchase. The Evercade family of systems has seen some amazing collections over the past few years, but few have been quite as eagerly-awaited as the Neo Geo Arcade 1 cartridge. Much of this will be down to the fact that, once upon a time, SNK’s home console was considered to be one of…
Category: Games August 28, 2025 Xbox August Update: Cross-Device Play History, Controller Updates, and More Dean Shimabukuro, Product Marketing Manager, Xbox Services Marketing As part of our continuing effort at Xbox to deliver more meaningful and fun gaming moments, however you play, we’re bringing some exciting improvements across devices in this month’s update. Soon, you…
The last time graphics technology really knocked my socks off was the advent of DLSS, Nvidia’s supersampling tech that lets you boost performance by rendering games at lower resolutions and upscaling them in real time. DLSS, and to a lesser extent AMD’s FSR, still feel like a magic trick, but it’s not without sacrifice: Despite…
If you were hoping that Battlefield 6 would ease up on its Secure Boot requirement ahead of launch, I’d stop holding that breath. Battlefield Studios has reaffirmed its requirement for the BIOS-level setting, which some fans complained was incompatible with their system or required jumping through too many hoops just to try the game. “I’ll…