Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is currently doing a rather well-deserved victory lap after one million sales and stellar Steam numbers—which is heartening to see from an ambitious AA studio. I went in not expecting too much myself, and came out delighted (and a little dazed) after 60 hours of JRPG goodness, hankering for more. My…
Category: Next Week on Xbox May 2, 2025 Next Week on Xbox: New Games for May 5 to 9 Mike Nelson, 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, Windows PC, and Game Pass! Get more details…
“Ten years ago, Microsoft had a bold idea. Instead of signing in using clumsy and insecure passwords, what if you could simply smile?” Never mind that certain limitations of Microsoft’s cloud services (I’m looking at you, file sharing and collaboration) might make you weep rather than beam, because gurning logins are apparently Microsoft’s aim for…
In case you’re somehow running out of characters to learn and events to tick off, the Marvel Rivals Season 2.5 mid-season update adds even more to play around with. This update includes the rest of the content revealed in the announcement for the second season, but also a few additional surprises. The first half of…
But “release plans for our collections and hardware will continue unabated”. Donald Trump’s recent trade tariffs have caused all kinds of headaches for retro gamers recently, and we’re sorry to report that there’s more chaos on the way. Evercade maker Blaze has said that there will be “temporary changes to Evercade availability in the US,…
The thing that makes FromSoft games great isn’t the tightly honed boss fights, the layered lore, or the quiet tragedy of their antagonists. It’s the ability to write ‘Don’t give up skeleton’ and ‘Try finger but hole’ across every inch of the game and subject players around the world to it. Every game should have…
Paizo continues to offer some absolutely bonkers value for its Pathfinder 2nd Edition—once more putting a whole heap of its books on offer for a good cause. This time around, the Asian Fantasy Bundle on Humble has raised thousands for Stop AAPI Hate, an organisation dedicated to fighting discrimination and hatred against Asian and Pacific…
Rockstar went and dropped a bomb on what was otherwise quite a sleepy Friday when it announced that—whoops, sorry—it was actually going to release GTA 6’s console version on May 26, 2026, rather than in its previously announced release window of autumn 2025. Which sure made game devs hoping to release something this year breathe…
Comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI back in 2023, alleging pirated versions of their works were used without permission to train AI language models. Meta has since argued that such usage falls under fair use doctrine (via Reuters), but US federal district judge Vince Chhabria…
“I want to explore is PS1 aesthetic as a style choice rather than a limitation”. Blimey, Ridge Racer was good, wasn’t it? Remember when Namco’s series used to mark the glorious beginning of a new PlayStation hardware generation and was the first game you’d pick up with your shiny new Sony system? Those were the…