“I’m excited to get locked into my new role”. Dimitris Giannakis, lead developer on Limited Run’s Carbon Engine and better known by his YouTube handle of Modern Vintage Gamer, has announced that he is leaving the company to join the Atari-owned Digital Eclipse. “After 6+ years of building and shipping games with the Carbon Engine…
Have you ever been so excited for your new PC you put all the components you have together before everything already arrives? I know I have, but one PC builder has really taken this pre-build excitement to the extreme with this mini desktop PC built around the motherboard collab between Framework and AMD’s Strix Halo…
Even though Diablo 4 is much harder this season, a clever player has proven that you can get surprisingly far without using a single attack. I wouldn’t quite call it a pacifist run because it involves an entire army of wolves chewing through monsters, but it’s as close as you can get to a build…
The generative AI company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E has a new toy: Sora, a text-to-video model that can generate pretty convincing 60-second clips from prompts like “a stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street…” and “a movie trailer featuring the adventures of the 30 year old space man wearing a red wool knitted motorcycle helmet…”…
Don’t talk to strangers. Stray Children launched on the Japanese eShop on 26th December 2024. We weren’t able to review it back in October when it arrived in the West, but we’ve now managed to catch up with Onion Games’ latest… Your dad’s missing and some weird “uncle” is at the door, claiming to know…
Category: Games March 5, 2026 Following a Tail – How Mouse: P.I. For Hire Ties a Slapstick Cartoon Mystery to This Year’s Most Surprising Shooter Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary We step into the shoes of Mouse: P.I. For Hire’s premiere detective, Jack Pepper, and endeavor to crack a mysterious case. The upcoming game…
When Distance released in 2018 it felt like a big deal. It’s a grimy sci-fi arcade racer blending the nightmarish vibes of Thumper with the cheerful time-attack moreishness of Trackmania. It’s both zen-like and quietly disturbing. It’s blisteringly fast, but it has a strange tranquilizing effect. I adore it, and I don’t know why people…
Category: Announcements November 14, 2025 Building a Trusted Gaming Future: How Security Powers Fair Play Xbox Platform and Windows Security Team With the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, it’s a timely reminder of the responsibility we share to uphold the integrity of play. We put together this guide on the latest security…
I’m a trusting soul. When some poor unfortunate raps on my door after the end of the world, I don’t have it in me not to let them in. When their teeth are a suspiciously perfect white, I attribute it to a rigorous before-bed hygiene routine. Their red eyes? We’re all tired. Their hairless armpits?…
Ok, it’s happening, everybody stay calm: Resident Evil Requiem’s producer Masato Kumazawa has said that characters from past series will be making an appearance in the next Resi game, which means the possibility of Leon Kennedy showing up has just skyrocketed. “I would say that yes, there are going to be some characters from the…