Miyamoto Musashi, the legend goes, had his first duel at age 13, bludgeoning a grown-ass samurai to death with a stick. Over the next several decades he killed dozens more men in duels, fought in several large-scale battles, and wrote a book about swordfighting that may or may not be entirely honest about his many…
I hate this wait. Skybound Entertainment and Broken Mirror Games have announced that I Hate This Place, the adaptation of the comic series from writer Kyle Starks and artist Artyom Topilin, will launch on the Switch on 7th November 2025. The new trailer also gives us a further glimpse at the craft-based survival horror gameplay,…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is interesting, to say the least. It’s a sequel to both Black Ops 2 and Black Ops 6, while also making the former mostly non-canon, and we weren’t even expecting another direct sequel in the same vein as 2023’s Modern Warfare 3 to begin with. Nevertheless, it’s doing the…
Should you wish to emulate the achievements of the great Katy Perry, William Shatner and others by taking a trip on one of Blue Origin’s rockets beyond the Kármán line, I have excellent news—you can now pay for the experience with cryptocurrency. Shift4 Payments, a self-described “leader in integrated payments and commerce technology”, has announced…
If you recall, yesterday we mentioned that the Trump administration was considering a 10% stake in poor old, beleaguered Intel. Now it turns out that the mooted investment won’t strictly be in return for new money. Instead, Trump wants the 10% stake as part of the CHIPS Act deal inked under the previous Biden administration….
I’m all for a simple, no-nonsense set of instructions on how to participate in a videogame. Perhaps in Final Fantasy 14’s case, though, it could have popped a little clause underneath its two-step guide to its upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds collab to note that there’s, well, a healthy dose of triple-digit hours between them. How…
No Quirrels from us. Well, it has been quite the week for Hollow Knight: Silksong news, hasn’t it? We got a tiny peek at some more gameplay in Gamescom Opening Night Live, Team Cherry revealed a “special announcement” is coming on Thursday, and now we’re getting to go hands-on with the damn thing. Our more…
Category: gamescom August 20, 2025 High On Life 2: How a Skateboard, a Famous Actor, and Bible Adventures Make Up One of the Wildest Demos Ever Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary We go hands-on with the upcoming High On Life 2 at gamesco 2025. Ralph Ineson joins the cast of High On Life 2…
Chopper 1 (otherwise known as Air Cavalry Story). SNK’s 1988 vertically-scrolling arcade shoot ’em up Chopper 1 (known in Japan as Air Cavalry Story) will be released tomorrow (August 21st) across Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, as part of Hamster’s Arcade Archives series of classic arcade reissues. Launching a couple years prior…
Going hands on with Silksong for the first time is oddly nerve-wracking. After six years of anticipation, hype, and desperate occult rituals, the question is: can it possibly live up to expectations? What ends up surprising me most, then, is how much the game puts me at ease. From the first moment I take control…