“And they lived happily ever after”. Hiding little Easter eggs in video games isn’t a new craze, but I’ve yet to witness one which is quite as heartwarmingly wholesome as this particular secret, unearthed by @memory_fallen (also known as ‘The Master of Finding Cool Hidden Stuff in Old Games’). The title in question is NCAA…
Category: Games April 15, 2025 Coming to Game Pass: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Towerborne, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, and More Megan Spurr, Senior Community Lead, Xbox Game Pass If you’ve ever wondered what the Venn diagram of Bikini Bottom, Los Santos, mysterious archipelagos, and a few other locations looks like – the center…
Hazelight Studios is known for making one kind of game—co-op action adventures—and for doing them really well: 2021’s It Takes Two earned an 80% review score as “a brilliant co-op adventure with a wild amount of variety,” while the 2025 follow-up Split Fiction upped the ante to 87% with “an incredibly inventive, rapid-fire co-op adventure…
Category: Xbox Game Pass September 1, 2025 Play Like A Superstar in EA Sports NHL 26 with the EA Play 10-Hour Trial Juliet NiczewiczSenior Director, Corporate Communications, EA Summary The EA Sports NHL 26 10-hour EA Play early access trial is available on Xbox Series X|S. NHL Edge data powers how your favorite superstars think,…
Are you playing Mortal Kombat 1 on Steam? Have you noticed that your free drive space has been disappearing without obvious cause and at a potentially alarming pace? If so, there’s good news, or at least an explanation that will help you deal with it: It turns out that Mortal Kombat 1’s crash logs are…
Dark Souls players spent months trying to figure out if the pendant that’s in your inventory when you start the game unlocked something secret. Even though it’s literally labeled “useless,” people were convinced there had to be more to it. It turned out to be just a joke, but you can’t blame anyone for being…
The New Yorker has published an enormous feature about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his disputed trustworthiness, citing more than one person who has accused the generative AI mogul of habitual dishonesty. The 16,000 word article (available online or in The New Yorker’s latest print edition) adds new context to a number of widely-reported episodes…
Six of the best from Irem. Irem is best known today for its genre-defining R-Type series, and this collection for the Evercade includes the game that kicked off that famous lineage. R-Type is comfortably the biggest reason to invest in this pack, but it’s joined by some equally commendable picks from the Japanese developer’s history….
Last week, we asked you to start your engine and share your wildest moments from Mad Max. While you fought savage warlords across the unforgiving Wasteland, you posted your best shares using #PS4share and #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: @JimdiGriz1 caught this high-flying War Boy once Max was done with him. Speaking of Max,…
If the last decade has taught us anything, it’s that live service game development is the industry’s equivalent of high stakes gambling, where publishers ante up millions of dollars in the hopes that their game might hit the jackpot of becoming a lifestyle like Fortnite and Roblox. But as we’ve seen from countless failed launches,…