Two days after releasing another update for Stellaris, Paradox says the pace of patches is going to slow down—not because Stellaris 4.0 is in tip-top shape (it’s not), but because firing out updates so quickly is causing more headaches than its worth. Released in early May alongside the not-very-popular BioGenesis expansion, the 4.0 update was…
Category: Next Week on Xbox November 21, 2025 Next Week on Xbox: New Games for November 24 to 28 Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor 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…
“That’s the best FIFA that’s ever been made and still is”. Back when we were putting together our ‘Making of’ for FIFA International Soccer, we asked several members of the FIFA team to name their favourite FIFA game, and almost unanimously, they answered with a single title: FIFA Road to World Cup 98. Originally released…
Come on and join the Kohga. It felt weird coming back to Tears of the Kingdom, one of my favourite gaming experiences evz, so soon after I had wrapped it up for the first time. Time has sped by unfathomably quickly, and I wasn’t sure whether a performance boost and an additional mobile app would…
A standout feature of RTX 50-series GPUs is their willingness to take some good old-fashioned overclocking. No-one was more surprised than us when we booted up stalwart overclocking tool MSI Afterburner and whacked the sliders up on some of our test cards; by contrast the past few generations of GPUs have had very little headroom…
Hi, everyone! Since I first joined the company as a translator in 1999, I’ve been involved with the localization of all the Persona titles and their spin-offs, including Persona 5 — which is out today! When asked to write about the localization of P5, I thought about my methodology and whether things have changed as…
Well, that didn’t take long: Amazon’s Fallout TV series won’t be streaming until April 2024, but some Fallout fans have already begun to pick it apart based on just a handful of new images from the show released yesterday. If you follow Fallout lore discussions even casually, it won’t surprise you to hear a lot…
“I’m pretty gutted that Zero never got finished”. The WipEout series was, at one point, considered to be a dazzling showcase for new Sony hardware. The original game accompanied the PS1’s release in the West and arguably did a lot of sell the console to sceptical punters, while WipEout Pure and WipEout 2048 were jaw-dropping…
Nielsen run company SuperData is reporting that the immensely popular Among Us, which is now available on the Nintendo Switch, is currently the most popular video game ever in terms of monthly players. The company reports that the game had around half a billion monthly active users in November, which is a gargantuan amount. The…
Hi, I’m Mike Booth, Chief Creative Officer at Bad Robot Games, and Game Director of 4:Loop. In my last post, I shared how our core gameplay systems come together to create an unpredictable and endlessly replayable experience. Today, I’d like to share more details on one of our co-op shooter’s high-stakes boss fights. Specifically, I’d…