Category: Games October 27, 2025 “Every Lane Needs a Purpose” – How Treyarch Crafts Multiplayer Maps for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary We talk with Design Director Matt Scronce and Senior Director of Production Yale Miller about the map design process Treyarch is employing for the upcoming Call…
Premium editions with early access periods, love ’em or hate ’em (let’s be real, you probably hate them), we can’t deny the fact that they help make the line go up for studios because, er, well. They keep doing it, so it’s clearly profitable enough to tank the negative PR. The Outer Worlds 2, despite…
I’ve never actually purchased a scratchcard with my own money—all of my experience taking a coin to that crumbly, silvery coating comes from gift cards and the odd scratchcard a family member has bought me for my birthday. Minus the gambling part of scratchcards, I actually think they’re kinda neat though. An interactive experience with…
Category: Games Obsidian: Where Fun, Fantasy and Dedication to RPGs Reign Supreme Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published October 27, 2025 Related Stories for “Obsidian: Where Fun, Fantasy and Dedication to RPGs Reign Supreme” Category: Games Beneath Draws on Primal Fears, Classic Games, and Nu-Metal for a Unique Horror FPS Category: ID@Xbox Sedap! A Culinary…
ARMSX2 gets its 1.0 release. The Android PS2 emulator ARMSX2 just received its version 1.0 release, marking an exciting new era for PlayStation 2 emulation (thanks, Android Authority). Backed by the powerful PCSX2 codebase and sporting x86-to-Arm64 translation as well as emulation, ARMSX2 looks set to change the standard of PS2 gaming on Android devices…
If there’s one thing Roblox players seem to love as of late, it’s brainrot. You’ve got the Plants vs. Zombies-inspired brainrot game, Brainrot Evolution, and one of the biggest brainrot games going, Steal A Brainrot. If that sentence has you feeling about 150 years old, just bear with me, because it’s only going to get…
Link cable. Pokémon Legends: Z-A might not have flown off the shelves quite as fast as its series predecessors around the world, but that’s not to say that its launch has been anything to scoff at. In fact, it has put up the US’ biggest physical game launch in over two years. That’s according to…
Fraser Brown, Online Editor (Image credit: Future) Last week I hopped from Bloodlines 2 to The Outer Worlds 2, mainlining RPG sequels. This week I’ve been regretting my decision. I am a man on a mission—a mission to roleplay. My craving for quality RPGs never subsides. I finish one, and then I’m off on a…
It’s no secret that Battlefield 6 will be getting a battle royale mode: Of course it will, obviously, but also EA has already explicitly said it will. What it hasn’t said is when that mode will go live, but now it has–and it’s coming tomorrow, October 28, the same day as the launch of Battlefield…
When PC hardware companies all jump onto a bandwagon, it eventually becomes almost impossible to stand out from the crowd, because everyone’s doing the same thing. Thermaltake must have realised this because its latest AIO liquid CPU cooler has taken cooler screens to a new level, but it’s also given it a whole bunch of…