I was pleasantly surprised by the Xbox Showcase overall this year. Seeing Marcus in normal clothes was rather funny, but Gears of War E-Day looks as gnarly as ever. Clockwork Revolution is a very promising time-bending steampunk RPG, and a hit of Bioshock nostalgia. I’m already sold on Vivarium, the most charming Ghibli-esque life sim…
It’s about time! Nintendo has announced that a long-awaited (and much-rumoured) Nintendo Direct is coming our way tomorrow, 9th June. As revealed on the Nintendo Today! app, the showcase is set to get underway from 3pm BST / 7am PT / 10am ET, offering up 50 minutes of news and announcements about games coming to…
Hideo Kojima got to live out his well-documented dream of visiting space recently, but don’t get too excited, it was only via an appearance in an AI-generated Prada ad. It was tremendously bleak and no one liked it. Including, I suppose, Hideo Kojima himself? In a recent chat with The Washington Post, Kojima said that—ignore…
A royal mess? The recent Xbox showcase contained not one, but two trailers for the Persona franchise. We already knew about Persona 4 Revival, but the new glimpse showcased some proper gameplay for the first time along with confirmation that it will launch on 18th February 2027. Meanwhile, the much-rumoured (and leaked) Persona 6 was…
Now that the Summer Game Fest weekend is over and the buffering video’s caught up to the audio feed at last, we can look back over the festival of trailers and announcements and say, hey, what about that one thing we were expecting to hear about (or in some cases—cough, Destiny 3, cough—are just trying…
Category: XBOX Games Showcase June 8, 2026 Magicians: The Devil’s Deal Blends First-Person Gameplay with Stage Magic Deception Ed OrmanDirector, Uppercut Games Ladies and gentlemen; boys and girls! Magicians: The Devil’s Deal is something we’ve kept hidden up our sleeve for a long time, so it was a real honor to finally reveal it as…
Fight and flight. Reading the description for Kabuto Park, I imagined it would be like Animal Crossing’s Bug-Off. But this quick, cosy beetle-collecting game from French developer Doot Tiny Games presents a concept that’s closer to another Nintendo series: Pokémon. The story is pretty light. Your character, Hana, visits the eponymous park for a month…
Don’t be a Basic Bat. LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight has gone down especially well with fans, but it’s interesting to see how the developers have factored so many cool Easter Eggs into the game. As spotted by Panic’s Cabel Sasser, one such secret requires a little bit of extra legwork in order…
The same thing happens every summer—the jaded, cynical monster inside me mopes around and pretends he’s not going to get excited about SGF (and before it, E3) announcements. There are too many of them, and I’ve been around too long to become a victim of hype. And every summer, the hype starts bubbling away anyway,…
The Wolf Among Us 2 has been in the oven for a while. Either seven years—if you trace its start back to its announcement in 2019—or 12, if you go by the cliffhanger ending of The Wolf Among Us 1’s final episode, which released in 2014. Fans have been hanging on the telephone for news…