Have you heard the good word? Sorry, good words. Two of them, to be precise: Ace Combat. I know I’m not the only recent convert to this long-running series; after the announcement of Ace Combat 8 last December, I saw a wave of chatter across social media reiterating that what the uninformed might expect to…
Never released in the US of A! “Among the finest action role-playing titles ever crafted, possibly even the finest, and a game that absolutely no RPG fan should miss.” This quote, from our 2009 review of the 1995 action-RPG, Terranigma, should give you some idea of just how highly we regard the third slice of…
“Nice of him, that compliment (in my mind anyway)”. Gregg Mayles recently announced his departure from Rare after 36 years, which means the brains behind such classics as Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie is no longer with the legendary British studio. While he’s very much focused on his future, Mayles is equally keen to…
Read the rune, Konami. Few RPGs, or video games, deal with war and hope in the face of tyranny like the Suikoden series. Konami’s prime RPG series, created by the late, great Yoshitaka Muriyama, is beloved by those who have played them – particularly the first two. They’re about the underdogs, about those who want…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for June 30 to July 4 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published June 27, 2025 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox PC, and Game Pass! Get…
The Dough Spectrum One has been one of my favourite high-refresh 4K gaming monitors since it first launched onto the market under the original Eve brand. Since then we’ve seen a second version with a glossy coating over the panel, sharpening the contrast and making its colours pop and enhancing its HDR experience. Now we’ve…
Category: gamescom August 20, 2025 Project of Lana II Grows Beyond Its Original Form – Just Like Its Heroes Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief If Planet of Lana represented the broad strokes of a painting, then its sequel is where developer Wishfully has painstakingly added the little details. In a first hands-on demo at Gamescom…
Link them up. 2022’s excellent indie RPG Chained Echoes‘ DLC, ‘Ashes of Elrant’, is coming to Switch on 7th August 2025. After being announced earlier this year, publisher Deck13 and developer Umami Tiger today shared a brand new trailer for the story-based DLC today on Steam (via Gematsu). Ashes of Elrant was originally planned for…
Before Dispatch came out, I was pretty confident that the era of the Telltale-style game was in the past; we had a bit of a golden age there, sure, what with The Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us, and the shockingly good Tales From the Borderlands. But after Telltale’s wobble and the shockingly-less-good New Tales From…
My last caller was host to a Boggart, a seven-foot-tall horror that haunts the home and watches you sleep, occasionally breaking out the odd house fire and responding violently when seen. When your house has a Boggart, the only answer is to leave and never speak its name again. It knows when you talk about…