In a new video on his YouTube channel, Obsidian studio design director Josh Sawyer dug into how he thinks about difficulty when making a game. Ultimately, he sees it as less a question of setting immutable challenges for players to overcome, and more anticipating what they want out of the experience and responding to that….
Download it now. We recently heard how Kirby Air Riders would be getting its first update of 2026 and possibly last major game update. Version 1.3.0 has now officially gone live. Here are the full patch notes via Nintendo’s support page: Read the full article on nintendolife.com
It’s Wario time! Nintendo Music has already added a Fire Emblem, Mario & Luigi and Zelda soundtrack this year, and a new update today sees the arrival of the original WarioWare album. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Let’s set aside the noxious cloud of internet surrounding Highguard for a second, ignore those overwhelmingly negative Steam reviews full of folks who’ve played it for less than an hour, and pretend Highguard is just a new free-to-play FPS that came out today. Hey, Highguard is out. I played around six hours between launch day…
I may have missed out on the original Minecraft era, but I’m not making that mistake a second time as Hytale accounted for most of my gameplay hours within the last two weeks. It’s good stuff, albeit largely unfinished good stuff, but the updates are slowly trickling in, and I’m all about this new necromancy…
Category: Xbox Insider January 26, 2026 Try the New Xbox Cloud Gaming Web Experience — Now in Public Preview Patrick Siu, Principal Product Manager Starting today, we’re testing a refreshed web experience for Xbox Cloud Gaming that lays the foundation for accelerating our ability to build new experiences for players. This preview is a first look at our new web interface on your browser and lets you try the updated design and product…
“You’ve probably heard that Minneapolis could use some help right now,” MinnMax host Ben Hanson said in the most recent episode of gaming podcast The MinnMax Show. Despite inspiring the pun in MinnMax’s name, the city that many of the channel’s contributors live in is not their usual topic of discussion. That would be videogames:…
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