“Engage in fast-paced shootouts against Saddam’s ruthless elite guards”. A new indie title by the name of Maverick’s Baghdad Extraction is coming to Kickstarter soon and has apparently been referred to by some critics as “Zelda with guns”. The NES title—which has support for the Zapper light gun—places you in the shoes of John Maverick…
Category: The Game Awards November 17, 2025 The Game Awards 2025 – Play Every Xbox Nominated Game Today Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary We’re excited to share that a half-dozen Xbox first-party titles (plus one movie) have been nominated for awards across multiple categories – voting is now open on The Game Awards official…
Paving the way for context-aware services The past few years have seen several advances in wireless technology with things like beamforming, faster 802.11ac routers, and the such. Not resting on its laurels, the Wi-Fi Alliance is keeping the good times rolling by announcing a new certification program for a technology called Wi-Fi Aware. What is…
Variety reports that Amazon is developing a Wolfenstein TV series with Patrick Somerville, who made post-apocalyptic miniseries Station Eleven and wrote some of HBO’s The Leftovers (a show with a genuinely good twist), and Kilter Films, the production company behind Amazon’s Fallout TV show. Variety says that the show’s being pitched with the one-sentence description:…
Bethesda has made a new post on their Elder Scrolls blog, and it has some bad news for those who planned to get the Switch version of Elder Scrolls Blades. They said that “we know how eager our players are to dive into Blades on the Nintendo Switch and we’ve been hard at work to…
“stay tuned for more details”. Speeding from one event to the next, Nintendo has today announced that the ‘SpringFest’ festival will be coming to Splatoon 3 in April 2024. @NintendoUK made the announcement by showing some of the Splatsville decorations that we can expect to see and noting that more information will be revealed soon….
Fallout has a lot of iconic hallmarks—ghouls, deathclaws, radioactive cesspools, and some swingin’ music. But it’s also iconic for the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System (VATS), which sees you using your Pip Boy to target and pop-pop body parts of various wasteland uglies. While it’d be hard to think of a Fallout game without VATS underlying…
Console price hikes are looming. Nintendo has released its end-of-year financial data, confirming that the Switch 2 has now sold a total of 19.86 million units. It managed to surpass the revised 19 million-unit forecast, then, but with price rises looming in the distance, the company has lowered its forecast for fiscal year 2027, citing…
Ubisoft has announced that its internal tool to help developers make colorblind-accessible videogames is available for public use “after several years of internal use and development.” Chroma lets developers replicate the experience of colorblind players in real time, as they actually play the game, by applying a filter over the screen that doesn’t degrade game…
Doom Eternal, NBA 2K25, and more to get an update. Nintendo has updated its list of Switch 1 games that will be compatible with the Switch 2 today, 27th May 2025, with a bunch of games needing a free update to run on the new console. Titles such as Doom Eternal, ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in…