Remember last year when leaked documents from a court case between Valve and indie dev Wolfire Games revealed that—per the calculations of its own data scientist Kristian Miller—Valve makes more money per head than Facebook, Apple, Netflix, and any other tech titan you care to name? That was remarkable, as news days go, but there…
Includes music from Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, and more. Later this year, the legendary RPG developer and publisher Square Enix will release a new piano-based arrangement album featuring music from games like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, Secret of Mana, and Kingdom Hearts. Piano Fantasies – music from Square Enix, as this new album…
During the pandemic, while most of us were stuck inside, the RocketWerkz dev team, including former DayZ creative director Brian Hicks and head honcho Dean Hall, were roaming around in Eco—an early access sandbox that Hicks describes as a “little educational game for middle-schoolers”. Hicks was there at the birth of the modern survival genre,…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox – New Games for July 7-11 Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published July 4, 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 on PC, and Game Pass! Get more…
What the 4K? Remember all of the confusion around whether the Switch 2 supports VRR? One moment, it did both docked and handheld, before Nintendo started removing wording surrounding docked VRR from websites and then apologised “for the error”. Well, The Verge (paywalled) has made an interesting discovery — the Switch 2’s dock does support…
I’ve played Marvel Rivals almost every day since launch, and while I’m far from the best, most consistent player, I’ve hovered around the Grandmaster regions in competitive, peaking at Celestial 2. At times, trying to take Rivals seriously and play competitively has been an act of self-targeted psychic damage, largely because the hero balance has…
Having begun work on it sometime after the domestication of rice, the heroic mad lads over at OpenMW—the open-source engine reimplementation for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind that lets you play it with a minimum of fuss on pretty much any modern OS—have finally released its much-anticipated 0.49 update. Okay, work actually began on it…
Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus and occasional Bond villain, has taken a break from getting trapped in his own car elevators to lead a collective of tech billionaires in founding a new crypto bank called Erebor. First thing’s first: this is not a bank for the likes of you and I. Erebor is all…
Despite being an intense team game with a ranked mode—typically a breeding ground for toxicity—I’ve had a blessedly chill time in Rematch. It might just be because I’ve been wearing out my d-pad spamming “We got this!” to keep everyone calm, but I can count the amount of actual game-ruining griefers on one hand. I…
His appointment “could lead to an interesting future”. Shigeru Miyamoto has spoken about the appointment of Nintendo’s newest outside director Kazuhiko Hachiya, director of the Japanese doll company PetWORKS. Speaking at the 85th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders Q&A, Miyamoto addressed a question on the increased number of outside directors “with diverse backgrounds”, including Illumination…