Giant Squid’s upcoming title, Sword of the Sea, is a well-crafted union of all the titles the studio and Game Director Matt Nava have worked on. The aquatic wonder of Abzû, The Pathless’s sense of adventure, and Journey’s beautiful desert world. Sword of the Sea weaves those influences together so skillfully that it feels like…
Category: Games June 5, 2025 Free Play Days – Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, A Little to the Left and Hell Let Loose Kyle Ocean, Marketing Manager, Xbox June is here and with it we got plenty to try this weekend with Free Play Days! Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and Hell Let Loose are available this…
Unlike most sandbox survival games, Dune: Awakening gives you a great deal of character customisation beyond just the appearance of your poor little survivor. After deciding on their look, you’ll have an intense…discussion (read: interrogation) with the reverend mother, where you’ll need to pick your homeworld, caste, and mentor. Each of these three character customisation…
Russia has come down hard on Lesta Games (via Meduza), the domestic company that inherited local rights to World of Tanks (or Mir Tankov, as it’s known locally) after its original dev, Wargaming, exited Belarus and Russia in protest of the latter’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Wargaming, which has a studio in Kyiv, has since…
Like all good survival games, once you’ve got the “living” part under control, it’s time to move on to the finer things in life—base building—and the Dune: Awakening Twitch Drops are here to help. All you need to do is watch a participating streamer for up to two hours, and you don’t even have to…
What do your insides look like? Chances are many of you are receiving your Switch 2 consoles by now, and we’d wager that, like us, you’re being extra careful not to cause any damage to your precious new hardware. Not so with YouTube repair channel TronixFix, which has posted the first full hardware teardown of…
Well, as fixed as it can be. The word is out: the Switch 2 is capable of making Switch 1 games perform better. In fact, according to a recent test from Digital Foundry, the Switch port of Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Knight – a game that DF previously described as “the worst performing software” reviewed by…
You’d be forgiven for thinking that gaming headset audio has reached something of a standstill. After all, tear apart most models and you’ll find a pair of traditional do-it-all drivers, which are essentially two small speakers pointed directly at your lugholes. Expensive planar magnetic units (like those used in the magnificent Audeze Maxwell) are the…
Sandworms in Dune: Awakening are scary as hell. They’re huge, they’re fast, and they’re summoned anytime you cross the big, sandy gaps between rocky areas in the desert because they can sense your itty bitty footsteps. Seeing the dunes shift as they tunnel through the desert is alarming, and seeing them burst through the sand…
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection announced! Yesterday, Digital Eclipse revealed that the studio’s next retro collection/interactive documentary will be a project focused on the early years of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series, originally developed by Midway Games. Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is scheduled to launch later this year and is slated to come to several…