At the start of this year, after YouTube inexplicably decided that I was not, in fact, a proud resident of Argentina, it shunted me off my alarmingly cheap YouTube Premium package back into its regular, un-premium offering. It’s terribly disruptive, which I imagine is the point: ads before I start a video, during a video,…
Hello. We’re Out of the Blue Games. At the end of 2023, we released American Arcadia. It’s a nice little game that explores quite a few themes—some easy to spot, others less so. Although taking a risk and creating a completely different game after releasing a successful first title (Call of the Sea) is not…
Category: Games May 15, 2025 Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune – New Location, New Characters, New Dangers Chastity VicencioEditorial Communications Manager, Ubisoft Summary Star Wars Outlaws’ second story pack, A Pirate’s Fortune, is now available on Xbox Series X|S. A Pirate’s Fortune is free for Star Wars Outlaws Season Pass owners, or available as…
All aboard. THQ Nordic and Green Tile Digital’s Locomoto, the anthropomorphic cosy life sim where you become a train conductor, will be pulling into the Nintendo Switch station on 26th June 2025 for $29.99 / €29.99 / £24.99 (thanks, Gematsu!). Locomoto has been described as a blend between Animal Crossing and train simulators, but with…
You’ve got to hand it to Ubisoft: despite Star Wars Outlaws’ rocky launch, it’s stuck with it doggedly, releasing a whole series of updates that have hugely improved the game’s performance, stability, and the core play experience. Here we are, nine months on from the original release, and it’s still going, with a new major…
Driver updates—yes, I know they’re not fun, but we’ve all got to do them. At the very least, they’re somewhat less nerve-wracking than a BIOS update; I know I really should do those more often, too, but the thought of something going awry part-way through just makes me queasy. Asus at least has a driver…
Category: Announcements May 15, 2025 Xbox Celebrates Global Accessibility Awareness Day Xbox Accessibility Team Global Accessibility Awareness Day, celebrated annually on the third Thursday of May, is dedicated to recognizing and raising awareness about the importance of accessibility. With billions of people playing video games in the world, including nearly 450 million players with some…
This time last summer, AMD’s venerable Ryzen 7 7800X3D was selling for about £320 here in the UK. Fast forward one year of events that—well, let’s not even get into them, we’ll only depress ourselves—but fast forward one year, and the same chip sells for £380. And that’s just here in the UK—over in the…
They call it the one-two punch. Yesterday, GSC popped its head up to say, hey, next week it’s gonna put out those original Stalker remasters it promised last year. Today, it’s popped its head up to say if that doesn’t satisfy you then it’s also got over 700 fixes for Stalker 2. Crucially, it has…
When everything is on fire—or at least distracting you by insisting it’s on fire—it’s hard to focus on any single blaze, but Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah has added to the list of worries for US citizens using the internet. Lee wants to criminalize online pornography, and while that’s alarming enough as is, his…