Sweetening the pot Microsoft has a free offer it hopes will incentivize smartphone shoppers to jump on the Windows 10 Mobile platform. That offer is a year of Office 365 Professional, the cloud version of Microsoft’s popular productivity suite. If you purchase a Lumia 950 or Lumia 950 XL handset by June 30, 2016, you’ll…
Nintendo has shared an easy way to unlock some free goodies in Super Kirby Clash. If you enter the password “HAMMERFLIP” in-game, you’ll get a special reward in the form of 10 Gem Apples. This offer is available until January 6, 2020, so be sure to take advantage of it before it’s too late. If…
The start of 2025 brought a familiar refrain, with Cloud Imperium CEO Chris Roberts sallying forth to declare that ‘we are closer than ever to realizing a dream many have said is impossible’ with Star Citizen. Which is to say actually releasing the thing: the holy grail of version 1.0. Naturally Roberts didn’t even put…
Is 2024 the year we finally get it? You read the headline correctly — Hollow Knight: Silksong was officially revealed to the world five years ago today, on 14th February 2019. The sequel to Hollow Knight, Silksong follows your rival-turned-friend Hornet, who is captured and taken to the kingdom of Pharloom, where she must escape…
Two days after releasing another update for Stellaris, Paradox says the pace of patches is going to slow down—not because Stellaris 4.0 is in tip-top shape (it’s not), but because firing out updates so quickly is causing more headaches than its worth. Released in early May alongside the not-very-popular BioGenesis expansion, the 4.0 update was…
When I finished my first session of Nox Mortalis’ astoundingly long and open-ended demo, I was convinced it had missed the mark: Too obtuse and unforgiving. Melee combat that was spotty at best, with an overreliance on an aggravating parry mechanic. I get not having a map, but no compass in this open world game?…
From the team behind Cruis’n Blast. Arcade racing fans have another game to look forward to this year, with GameMill announcing it will be bringing Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition to the Switch and multiple other platforms on 24th October, 2025. If you’re getting Cruis’n Blast vibes from this one, that’s because developer Raw Thrills…
The struggle to find Jasmium Crystal in Dune: Awakening is one of the biggest challenges standing between you and the endgame. You’ll need Jasmium (along with Aluminum Ingots) to make Duraluminum at a Medium Ore Refinery. The ingots are used in making things like your first Spice Refinery and Cutteray Mk5. But before you can…
Out Run! Space Harrier! Virtua Fighter! Daytona USA 2! It’s fair to say that many people’s minds were blown when Yu Suzuki included fully playable arcade games in his Dreamcast magnum opus Shenmue, and while that series continues to this very day, the retro-gaming torch has passed to another Sega franchise: Yakuza (now known as…
Starbreeze Studios has reached a deal to acquire the publishing rights to Payday 3 from original publisher Plaion, a move it says will enable it to “accelerate content development” for the struggling game. Starbreeze said in today’s announcement that, with Payday 3 having launched in September 2023, “the timing is opportune” to take over responsibility…