Fallout, so the large box that PC games used to come in when life was good tells me, is a post-nuclear roleplaying game. It’s also, it turns out, a post-nuclear tabletop roleplaying game, a fact I think I’ve never really consciously registered until now. But it’s fixed in my mind now, because Humble is selling…
Category: Games Art of the Joke: How High On Life 2 Turns ‘Funny’ Into ‘Fun to Play’ Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published February 13, 2026 Summary Narrative Director Alec Robbins shares with us about the science behind the funny in High On Life 2. Learn how the team balanced humor with fun gameplay, so…
I choose YOU. 27th February marks the anniversary of Pokémon Red and Green in Japan, but this year’s event is an extra special one: the Pokémon series is turning 30 years old. Yes, that little RPG about catching cute and not-so-cute monsters and doing battle with your pals has been going for three entire decades….
10 Chambers, the developer of GTFO and the upcoming Den of Wolves, has confirmed a “large number” of layoffs at the studio as a result of restructuring, including several of its co-founders. The layoffs initially came to light on LinkedIn (via Game Developer), where multiple employees reported being let go by the studio. Around the…
How excited are you for Grand Theft Auto 6? Pretty excited? Oh yeah, well, prove it—move to Norway and have a child. What, you don’t want to? I knew you were chicken. I knew you didn’t have what it takes. In case you’re wondering whether I have gone fully mad, the answer is ‘only slightly’….
Last week I was at Logitech’s headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, ostensibly to take a look at the G Pro X2 Superstrike but also to get a peek behind the curtain and see how Logitech designs and tests its gaming mice. We actually got a peek behind this curtain over a decade ago, but things have…
Category: Games February 13, 2026 1V1 NOW by Xbox Game Pass: The 1st Official 1v1 Competition in Rainbow Six Siege! Maxime Ferry, EU Esports Product Manager at Ubisoft & Igor Nestorovic, Esports Communication Specialist For 6 years, Rainbow Six Siege has been part of the Xbox Game Pass family of products. Rainbow Six Siege is…
The full game inks onto Switch 2 in April. Well, Konami certainly had a heck of a State of Play yesterday, didn’t it? We got some big hitting names making their grand return, but also one or two new IPs, one of which we already knew about — Darwin’s Paradox! Co-developed with French studio ZDT…
Category: Games February 13, 2026 How David Lynch, Alien, and Slumber Parties Inspired the Creation of Reanimal Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor Summary Producer Andreas Johnsson and Narrative Director David Mervick share how they built their new horror game Reanimal around co-op to support being scared together. They also cite some of their formative horror…
It’s a big boy. Well, what a lovely surprise! Our local Royal Mail representative knocked on the door today and delivered a curious-looking box, and it turns out that it’s none other than the Virtual Boy accessory for Nintendo Switch Online! Yes, it seems like a whole bunch of people – in the UK, at…