Category: Games Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse – How KONAMI and Evil Empire Reimagined Castlevania’s Return John Harry De LaraXbox Wire France Editor Published July 24, 2026 It seems bizarre to say it, but there hasn’t been a brand-new Castlevania game for more than a decade and – for the series’ long-awaited return – KONAMI made a…
Sonic XG lives! If you ever needed evidence of the Sonic fan community’s persistence, then you needn’t look much further than Sonic XG. Initially starting development in the early 2000s, the fan game (originally created by Euan Gallacher and Joseph Waters) has gone through many personnel changes and iterations over the last two decades —…
The best gaming mouse on the market right now is the Razer Viper V4 Pro. It’s the best because it’s light, very well-built, performant, and has great battery life. This last quality—its battery life—is largely thanks to Razer’s new FrameSync tech, which is kind of like G-Sync but for a mouse sensor rather than a…
This will be the company’s fourth official store in Asia. Sega has announced it is opening a second Sega Store in Japan (h/t: Genki). Sega Store Osaka will be Sega’s fourth official store in Asia; in May last year, the company unveiled the world’s first flagship store in the Bailian ZX shopping mall in the…
On its early access launch yesterday, those who paid to get early access to Halo: Campaign Evolved on Steam couldn’t seem to open the game, as it simply wouldn’t stop opening up the art book instead. I mean, I enjoy a good art book as much as the next guy, but not being able to…
From leading technology company to talk of it being sold off to the highest bidder, Intel has had a bumpy ride as of late. The company just reported its Q2 2026 earnings, however, and they’re surprisingly upbeat. Revenue, margins, and earnings per share are all above expectations, and even the Foundry business doesn’t appear to…
There’s still work to be done, but a release is coming “soon”. A developer by the name of obrien654j has shown off a Sega CD FPGA core running on the Analogue Pocket. In the video, which was posted on Reddit, the developer notes that “the core has good audio timing,” but they are “still working…
I fulfilled a childhood ambition over the past week: I finally got the notoriously elusive Big Boss rating at the end of Metal Gear Solid 1, a feat I’ve simultaneously been drawn toward and terrified by ever since I first played the game on my PS1 in 1998. How did I do it? Stick-to-itiveness, gumption,…
Gotta have faith. Rhythm Heaven Groove producer and composer Mitsuo Terada (known professionally as Tsunku) has stated that he declined offers to make similar games due to his “indebtedness” to Nintendo, remaining convinced that the company would want to make a new entry. This comes via a blog post (thanks, Automaton) in which Tsunku says…
Do we really need an Asteroids movie? Apparently, yes! Following the success of movies like Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario Bros. at the box office, it seems like pretty much everyone in Hollywood at the moment is looking at video games as a potential source for film ideas. It wasn’t too long ago, for…