Category: Games October 24, 2025 How to Build Your Perfect Party in The Lonesome Guild Simone Pellegrini, Producer, Tiny Bull Studios Summary The Lonesome Guild is an ARPG that combines narrative and real-time party combat. Mix and match heroes, skills, and support abilities to create dynamic synergies and powerful combos. Deepen bonds and personalize abilities…
Category: ID@Xbox October 24, 2025 Bloodshed’s Journey from Art Prototype to Xbox Release Jessica Rebenstorf, Business Operations and Outsourcing Manager, com8com1 Software Summary Bloodshed launches on Xbox today, just in time for Halloween. Retro-inspired Survivors-like FPS blending 90s shooter aesthetics with modern tech. Art prototype concept evolved with community feedback into the complete version. Hi,…
The Plants vs. Zombies remaster arrived earlier this week, and PC Gamer’s resident green thumb warrior Chris Livingston was quite taken by it, predicting that he’s likely to sink another hundred hours or so into it on his Steam Deck. The reception is much less warm on Steam, though, where fewer than half of the…
The World of Darkness TTRPG—the wider setting for Vampire: The Masquerade—has a concept of a ‘true name’: A magical, essential identity that captures the base nature of its bearer. What I posit to you is that the true name of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is not Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. It’s,…
Johan Andersson is preparing for a game launch. He’s done it before. The director on the imminent Europa Universalis 5 and studio lead at Paradox Tinto has been making history for more than a quarter of a century; if you’ve played one of the studio’s sprawling strategy sims, he’s almost certainly touched it. Odds are…
All the gear, and a great idea. Imagine, if you will, an alternate timeline where 3D graphics never happened. Instead, Sega’s ‘Super Scaler’ concept — popularised in games such as Hang-On, Space Harrier, Out Run and After Burner — evolves to the point where 2D sprites can not only be scaled without any degradation in…
Category: Games October 24, 2025 Outbreak: Shades of Horror Brings Co-op Survival Horror to Xbox in 2026 Julia Wolbach, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Dead Drop Studios LLC Summary Releasing on Xbox Series X|S in 2026 with smooth 60+ FPS gameplay, advanced ray tracing, and more. Tons of modes, maps, weapons, characters, and costumes. New…
8BitDo has a knack for gear I’d broadly describe as ‘neat’. From pleasant aesthetics, to solid ease of use, to the recent addition of tidy charging docks, my desk is currently covered in tech from the company. And that’s for good reason. My 8BitDo Retro R8 isn’t as competitively viable as the Logitech I swapped…
With AI taking the lion’s share of the tech industry’s attention, it can be easy to forget about quantum computing. For a long time we didn’t really know whether quantum or AI would be first to make ripples, but AI’s giant waves quickly put that question to bed. Progress with quantum has been ticking along…
Learning Without Borders Continuous education no longer lives in classrooms alone. It moves through quiet bedrooms glowing with tablets through commutes filled with audiobooks through short coffee breaks punctuated by downloaded PDFs. The idea of learning as a scheduled event has faded. In its place is an ecosystem—always on always growing. E-libraries sit at the…