21st Century Fox, Columbia, Tristar, Pixar, MGM, Turner, New Line, Lucasfilm, DreamWorks, Miramax, RKO—these were all, at some point, movie studios or production companies that weren’t owned by a multibillion dollar empire like Disney, Sony, NBC Universal or Amazon. After decades of mergers, acquisitions, and tech companies horning their way into the TV and movie…
Blizzard took a big swing at loot in Diablo 4’s latest season and completely whiffed it—at least in terms of keeping players driven to grind for its most powerful items. Today, it dropped a patch to try to remedy some of the problems, starting with a noticeable boost to everyone’s loot drops. The biggest criticism…
Category: ID@XBOX July 14, 2026 A Developer Chat on Turmoil’s New DLC and the Game’s Past, Present and Future René Klok, freelance video game journalist On July 14, fans of the unique simulation game Turmoil can finally dig down deeper than ever. Because that’s when the Deeper Underground DLC will arrive on XBOX Series X|S,…
Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor launched in 2001 amidst the isometric D&D resurgence powered by the success of the Baldur’s Gate games. Alas, it did not fare quite as well, because—bluntly—it wasn’t great. It faded into memory fairly quickly, recalled occasionally by die-hard fans of the genre and not many others, but never…
It’s been over a month since the summer PC Gaming Show aired. I may be biased, but I loved it. We had more world premieres than ever before, some shadowdrops, and got deep dives into the mind-bending Control Resonant, galaxy-spanning Total War: Warhammer 40,000, and tactical PvP looter Arkheron. You can catch up on the…
Its about Time. It’s safe to say that, while they’re often unfairly compared as franchises, Digimon and Pokémon have diverged in recent years. Game Freak has stuck to the same mechanical loop, taking the odd risk with its tried and true formula, while Digimon has pushed into story-driven adventures with darker themes and monster-collecting mechanics…
Just over a year after Lucasfilm, the production company bearing his name, declared creative bankruptcy with a risible display of AI-generated ‘aliens,’ George Lucas has offered his take on the tech. It’s, ah, well it’s not great. In a chat with A Rabbit’s Foot (via Kotaku), Lucas alighted on the topic of other directors’ hostility…
Mail delivery is a thankless job. No one notices all the hard effort that goes into sorting through mountains of boxes, parcels, and letters to get deliveries ready on time. Oh, but I drop a couple of dozen boxes in the sea and suddenly I’m bad at my job? Everyone’s a critic. But someone’s gotta…
The Steam Machine might have turned out to be a disappointment (mostly down to its price), but the Steam Controller remains a very useful thing. Should you be the tinkering sort, the OpenPuck project doubles down on the Steam Controller’s Swiss Army Knife-like tendencies, allowing it to emulate Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation controllers. The…
Have you noticed that things have been kind of quiet on the Ubisoft front lately? Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is doing quite well, but what else has it done for us lately? Where’s the new Far Cry? What’s going on with Ghost Recon, The Division, Prince of Persia? Where is my Splinter Cell? In…