How Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Reimagines the Past Into a Vibrant Future
Category: Games June 11, 2026 How Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Reimagines the Past Into a Vibrant Future Will Fulton, XBOX Wire Editor A full decade before Nathan Drake, Lara Croft was the original face of cinematic action-adventure gaming, making her debut in Tomb Raider (1996). I was 10 at the time, and remember being…
You’re fine to load up your dusty old save for Baldur’s Gate 3’s new epilogue, especially if you quicksave as much as I do
Patch 5 for Baldur’s Gate 3 is out and, as I mentioned in a feverish swarm of typing yesterday, it’s massive. Among a laundry list of other changes, there’s a big sparkly new epilogue which wraps the game’s story up in a nice bow. Some light spoilers ahead, though I’ve kept the details light. You…
Inside the Art and Animation of Super Neptunia RPG, Out June 25
Hi everyone! I’m Julien Bourgeois, co-founder and Game Director of Artisan Studios in Canada. We are a passionate group of developers who love JRPGs and have played them for many years now. We really wanted to be part of this incredible world of adventures, so we were thrilled when we got the opportunity to collaborate…
Thief 2 Remastered should be Thief 2 Gold
(Image credit: Nightdive) Nightdive’s Thief remaster is looking like the exact sort of well-judged but deceptively transformative treatment the classic deserves. It is one of my most anticipated games. But I’m already looking ahead. We know Thief Remastered is coming with a Nightdive-developed expansion campaign, The Tarnished Mirror. When the studio inevitably takes on Thief…
Cities: Skylines 2 latest region pack heads to the Netherlands, ‘the land of windmills, clogs, and stroopwafel,’ and includes new hospitals, fire stations, and hyperrealistic cemeteries
Cities: Skylines 2 just got a free content update in the form of the Netherlands Region Pack. This will provide Netherland-loving players the opportunity to build up a Dutch-inspired city with a bunch of new service buildings and an eerily realistic cemetery. “The interest and size of the Dutch Cities community is not a secret;…
Turns out AMD’s ‘Compressonator’ tool for artists and devs was named after The Governator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a man with a long and varied career, from his entrance onto the world stage as a bodybuilder nicknamed “The Austrian Oak”, to multiple Mr Olympia title wins, a massive Hollywood career, and eventually, his rise to the status of Governor of California. However, he may have just added another title to…
Vtuber grannies for rent: Agency deploys 75-and-up anime girl grandmas to ‘resolve issues of young people’
The folks at Japanese vtuber agency Otagroup are onto something. Its vtuber group of women aged 75-and-up aren’t just 3D anime girl streamers anymore: they’re vtuber grandmas for rent. Otagroup gained some traction in the vtuber space when its 86-year-old vtuber Hiroko went viral on X and YouTube. And now it’s going to offer an…
Konami’s Arcade Game Division Finally Breaks Free From The Company’s Pachinko Business
‘Bemani’ composer Yoshitaka Nishimura will serve as the new subsidiary’s president. Last week, it was announced that Konami will be establishing a new subsidiary within the company later this year, Konami Arcade Games, to focus purely on the arcade market. Currently, the creation and operation of arcade games within Konami falls under Konami Amusements (a…
There are stirrings in the VR industry that much better displays could be in the pipeline
Forthcoming Steam Frame aside, It’s been a while since we had anything actually shake up the VR space with any kind of scale. But if “insider reports” that the usually reliable VR leaker SadlyItsBradley (Brad Lynch) relays are anything to go by, we could have some greatly improved VR headsets in the pipeline thanks to…