ID@Xbox Presents: Indie Selects

ID@Xbox Presents: Indie Selects

ID@Xbox has been helping bring amazing indie games to Xbox gamers for a decade now, and we’ve always strived to find new ways to highlight our favorites. We’ve sponsored our own dedicated showcases, we’ve featured rad games and creators in our E3 Briefings and Xbox Games Showcases, we have an awesome ID@Xbox community team, and…

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Microsoft rolls out tables in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, though I’d feel happier about this if I knew this was the final addition to my favorite little app

Once the forgotten child of Windows’ armoury of native applications, Notepad has enjoyed a revival in the past few years. Since 2022, it’s gained spell checking, a dark mode, tabbed windows, state preservation, and even basic formatting. With the latest update, tables have joined the feature set, which feels useful, along with AI text streaming,…

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The game that coined the term ‘visual novel’ just got its first-ever fan translation for its 30th anniversary

On Monday, a team of fan translators celebrated the birth of the visual novel with an English patch for 1996’s Japanese PC-98 game Shizuku. In the mid-90s, recently established development studio Leaf—which at that point had only made a strip mahjong game and an adult JRPG—launched a “Visual Novel Series” of three adult games, beginning…

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Share of the Week: The Last of Us Complete

Share of the Week: The Last of Us Complete

Last week, we asked you embark on Joel, Ellie, and Abby’s full journey in The Last of Us Complete using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Wulfsychic shares Joel walking away from the guitar, in focus in the foreground ​​ FranTGP shares a detailed shot of Ellie’s iconic tshirt PattyGnand shares Ellie making funny…

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