The MSX shooter is about to gets its console debut. If you are interested at all in the history of MSX shoot ’em ups, next week’s EGGCONSOLE title for the Nintendo Switch, Super Laydock Mission Striker, might be of some interest to you. Released in 1987, the vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from the Hydlide developer…
Camels most certainly included. Jeff Minter is a genuinely remarkable developer. Famous for his twitch gameplay and love of camels, Minter has somehow managed to carve out a niche in what has become an increasingly volatile and unpredictable industry, working with the likes of Atari and Xbox along the way but never losing sight of…
Category: Games December 5, 2025 How to Buy a Digital Game as a Gift This Holiday Joe Skrebels (Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief) and Albert Dankwa (Xbox Content Program Manager II, Social Lead) If you want to give a game to a friend or family member this holiday season, gifting a digital game is a great and…
Category: Games December 5, 2025 How to Buy a Digital Game as a Gift This Holiday Joe Skrebels (Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief) and Albert Dankwa (Xbox Content Program Manager II, Social Lead) If you want to give a game to a friend or family member this holiday season, gifting a digital game is a great and…
“AI adoption can face strong resistance in creative areas”. While rivals such as Electronic Arts and Ubisoft have jumped into the world of Generative AI development with both feet, not every company in the games industry is willing to throw caution to the wind. During a Q&A session following its recent Q2 financial results, Sega‘s…
Is that a psychic crystal embedded in your forehead, or are you just happy to see me? Now that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is finally in the wild (still feels weird to be able to type that) and given that it’s another excellent entry in this phenomenal series, you may well be feeling like now’s…
Disney Dreamlight Valley absolutely loves setting you quests that require you to wait. Whether that’s for a specific weather condition, or just sitting around waiting for crops to grow or flowers to respawn, I’ve spent hours just twiddling my thumbs, desperate to tick a quest off my to-do list. But with the new Dream Team…
He was 75 years old. The actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, best known for his role as Shang Tsung in the Mortal Kombat franchise, has passed away aged 75 due to complications from a stroke (as confirmed yesterday by the Hollywood Reporter). Originally born in Tokyo, Tagawa would live in various places across the US during his…
I’ve put myself through more hours in The Outlast Trials than I like to admit, and while I’m not Mother Gooseberry’s biggest fan and I used to have nightmares about the Skinner Man, there hasn’t been something that has really petrified me yet. A lot of the times I jumped were because I’d clumsily run…
I’ve put myself through more hours in The Outlast Trials than I like to admit, and while I’m not Mother Gooseberry’s biggest fan and I used to have nightmares about the Skinner Man, there hasn’t been something that has really petrified me yet. A lot of the times I jumped were because I’d clumsily run…