PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens wrote last month that Crusader King 3’s then-upcoming DLC Coronation would provide “even more opportunities to be murdered spectacularly by your vassal.” He was close, as it turns out, but a bit off the mark: It is in fact Paradox Interactive that’s being spectacularly murdered by Crusader Kings 3 players, for…
Good news for day one vault hunters on PC: Borderlands 4 will get the global release date treatment. That means no watching friends from the future play a game still locked away in your library until midnight local time—when Borderlands 4 launches on Friday, September 12, for New Zealand, it will be live for players…
“Phunky Physics” is a terrible name for a game bundle, and if I told you that Humble Bundle was offering just such a thing without elaborating, you’d be forgiven for closing this tab immediately. But if I told you that you can score the excellent Hardspace: Shipbreaker, along with What the Golf?, Totally Accurate Battle…
Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah just released the second two-hour video in his tell-all Anthem trilogy, in which he’s chronicling his recollections about the production of the infamous BioWare live action shooter that’s due to go offline for good when its lifetime of development turmoil ends in January. Darrah’s first video covered Anthem’s earliest years…
Netflix and 2K first announced an adaptation of Bioshock way back in 2022, but now the movie’s producer has spilled the tiniest amount of tea about what’s going on with it. The good news? We’re going back to Rapture. It always seemed likely that the movie would take the first game as its starting point,…
Like a dog gnawing on a particularly tasty bone, the US government is once again trying to link violent videogames to violence in the real world. In a press conference following the release of the Make Our Children Healthy Again report conducted by the Make America Healthy Again commission—MAHA, of course—US secretary of health and…
We speak with Kazutoyo Maehiro and Hiroshi Minagawa. Boy, Square-Enix really wants us to party on our Switches like it’s… 1997. Because over the last few years, they’ve made three separate titles in a newly minted, old-school RPG franchise Octopath Traveler, and then there’s the upcoming Switch 2 release of Final Fantasy VII Remake, the…
Everyone’s talking about Hollow Knight Silksong, and that’s understandable. It’s one of the most obsessively anticipated sequels in recent memory, and it’s a really fun metroidvania. It’s also a brilliant excuse to re-open the reliably polarising difficulty in games debate. I can’t remember there ever being this much buzz for an exploration platformer before, but…
There have been a bunch of Call of Duty games since the series began in 2003. A whole bunch. A whopping 49 of ’em, in fact, according to Wikipedia, and over the past 22 years I’ve played my share. Gotta be honest though: the Call of Duty games have become a blur to me. Just…
Category: Games High On Life 2: Why Squanch Added a Whole New Hub-Based Design Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published September 10, 2025 High On Life 2 is doing the things you’d expect this sequel to do – it’s bigger, more packed with jokes, even more experimental than the first game, and now has a…