Category: Games July 8, 2026 Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Returns Us to the Golden Age of Piracy Mike Nelson, XBOX Wire Editor Summary The classic Assassin’s Creed title returns, rebuilt from the ground-up for a satisfying, swashbuckling adventure. New stealth features and a reworked version of combat are just some of the improvements made…
Destiny 2 has entered its long goodnight. Despite earlier assurances that Destiny 2 will “remain playable” for the foreseeable future, the studio now seems to be signaling that its ability to ensure the game’s ongoing health is constrained. Even if Bungie and Sony had the will to ensure Destiny 2’s sandbox stays fulfilling in its…
If you’ve ever liked the character designs of an Elder Scrolls game, chances are you’ve met with some of Christiane Meister’s work—as a senior character artist, Meister’s been with the company for 27 years (which is only four years fewer than I, the person writing this, have been alive). She’s worked on every game from…
There’s a common thread amongst former BioWare developers: They are proud of what they worked on, have a lot of love for their former studio, and they have few good things to say about publisher EA. For understandable reasons. David Gaider was with BioWare for a long time, joining the studio after the success of…
AI slop. If you’ve heard the term, there’s a good chance you are similarly exasperated with the onslaught of low-quality, AI-generated… well, slop. One team is now charging up to $10,000 per project to try and cut down AI-generated slop code and is, rather ironically, using AI to do it. As reported by Tom’s Hardware,…
As a special treat to me personally, Valve has released a new version of its Proton compatibility layer—the special sauce that lets Windows games run on Linux platforms like the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and your desktop if you’re cool. Proton 11 is out now, freshly rebased on Wine 11, and accessible to Linux users…
The Minish Night Cap. In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have pages on…
Category: Games July 8, 2026 Buckshot Roulette: The Viral Horror Phenomenon Joins XBOX Game Pass Today Mike Klubnika, Developer & Pavel Korovkin, Brand Voice Lead, CRITICAL REFLEX Summary Buckshot Roulette is out today on XBOX Series X|S, XBOX One, cloud, XBOX on PC, and included with Game Pass. Play it on both console and PC…
“The Lenovo G02 is officially dead”. Not very long ago, our friends over at Retro Dodo reported on the news that Lenovo had released an emulation handheld that was being sold pre-loaded with copyrighted ROMs, including games owned by the likes of Nintendo and Sega. The company initially argued that, as the device was intended…
I had the pleasure of playing four hours of The Blood of Dawnwalker last week—and while I can’t say it’ll knock my socks off just yet (RPGs that claim to have impactful choices just require more sitdown time to prove their worth) it has absolutely got its teeth into me, because I experienced something rare:…