Category: Developer_Direct January 22, 2026 Forza Horizon 6: More Details on The Country, The Culture and The Cars of Playground Games’ Japan Danielle Partis, Xbox Wire Editor Summary At today’s Developer_Direct, we got an extended look at Forza Horizon 6, brought to life in the stunning landscapes of Japan. We spoke to Design Director Torben Ellert about building the landscape, the cultural…
Final Fantasy VII Remake! Escape from Ever After! Dynasty Warriors: Origins! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week….
Windows 8 debuted in 2012, introducing desktop users to the blocky Metro design language that had previously worked a treat on Windows Phones and Zunes. However, sans a touch screen, the blocky UI looks cluttered and even feels a smidge claustrophobic on a traditional PC monitor. A lukewarm consumer reception led Windows 8 to drop…
Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender and his excellent dog, who was quiet throughout the interview. (Image credit: Hooded Horse) Even if you’ve only got a passing interest in strategy and management games, you’ve almost certainly encountered Hooded Horse before—it’s the publisher behind Manor Lords, Against the Storm, Endless Legend 2 and 9 Kings, to name…
Palworld’s 1.0 release is coming up soon. Well that could be wishful thinking: it’ll be available to play sometime this year. But after two years in early access there’s nothing but excitement for this next step. And to celebrate the lead up to 1.0 and the two-year anniversary Pocketpair has released some concept art of…
Relatively low-end GPUs with outsized coolers have always been a bit silly. But now it seems they’re making it easier to scam gamers. A Redditor claims to have bought an Asus RTX 5080 from an Amazon Prime listing, only to find an Asus RTX 5060 Ti in the box. Yuck. Part of the problem, very…
Let’s-a go, Bro. If this month’s Pokémon and Ocarina of Time sets didn’t break the bank for you, LEGO and Nintendo have today teased another entry in the ‘Adult’ Mario Kart line, and it looks like the brother in green is taking centre stage. The tease in question was shared to Nintendo of America and…
The Pathologic series has a reputation for being mechanically challenging, narratively dense, and positively grim. As you’d expect from games about surviving in a plague-ridden turn-of-the-century Russian steppe town, inspired by the most dour of classical Russian theatre. What I did not expect from Pathologic 3 is how often I would be laughing out loud,…
I like survival games because they let me live out my fantasy of leaving the computer behind forever and building a log cabin out in the woods all by my lonesome. No internet, no noisy eaters, just peace. Because isolation is so core to my dream, I rarely partake in MMOs, but Pax Dei’s free…
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is, you may have heard, the 40th best videogame you can play right now. Ask certain incredibly cool members of the PC Gamer team and they might even tell you it’s actually higher than that. But it’s also not a super difficult game—it’s fairly easy to assemble a party that…