If you’re looking for something to do in about three weeks’ time, HoYoVerse is now taking signups for a round of closed beta testing for its next game, Petit Planet, that’s set to begin on April 21. Petit Planet puts players in charge of an entire world, contained within the vast Starsea, where they can…
Brian Raffel, who co-founded Raven Software in 1990 with his brother Steve, is retiring from game development after 36 years. Brian has been Vice President of Raven since its inception, and Studio Head since 1997. In 2024, he began sharing this position with Dave Pellas, who joined Raven in 2011. Raffel has also served as…
Category: Next Week on Xbox April 3, 2026 Next Week on Xbox: New Games for April 6 to 10 Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor 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…
Beating our educations had taken upon moving from New York (Catholic schooling, Nuns who also acted as Wardens, Mandatory Mass every Friday Morning) to California (“Deliverance” music, lots of “twins”, English? “Wash” pronounced as “Warsh”). The first thing he brought home was the Atari Video Pinball C380, which really didn’t do much to expand our…
If you buy some Mario games. US retailer Best Buy has a Super Mario Bros. game card case offer live that’s tied into the plumber’s 40th anniversary year, and we’re actually a little jealous of our pals across the pond. As highlighted by the redoubtable Wario 64, you’ll need to buy any two Mario games…
(For Japan, obviously). Sega has a history when it comes to sponsoring football teams, with Jef United and Arsenal being two notable examples, and the Japanese company is leveraging that history via a new collaboration with sports brand Fila. As reported by Essential Japan, there are eleven different styles available in this new range. Read…
A real meat grinder. In many ways, the gaming landscape was radically different in 2010, and one difference was a relative lack of indie releases. Nowadays, it’s not uncommon for games like Balatro or Hollow Knight: Silksong to have equal sales, attention, and excitement behind them as major AAA releases, and it can be easy…
Now that’s what I call fang-tastic news! The legendary Konami composer Miki Higashino has revealed that she will soon be returning to MSX development, lending her musical talents to the MSX2 Castlevania-inspired project Nightstalker. Nightstalker, in case you didn’t happen to catch our coverage of the game last year, is a homebrew project, currently being…
Recon is my favourite Shell to play as in Marathon, so I was surprised to learn that she is considered one of the weaker characters in Bungie’s extraction shooter. This is true both for the PC Gamer team and, apparently, Bungie themselves. Yesterday, game director Joe Ziegler revealed that Marathon’s intelligence-focussed Shell would be getting…
Unofficially, of course. We have some great news to share with Jak & Daxter fans. Earlier this week, the team behind the OpenGoal (the open-source decompilation and porting project focused on the Jak & Daxter trilogy) released a beta of its native PC port of Jak 3, meaning that all three games are now at…