The long-awaited remaster of the remake. Way back in 1989, Nihon Falcom released Ys III: Wanderers from Ys for various PC-based platforms and eventually consoles like the Genesis and SNES. This 2D side-scroller was well-respected in the community and eventually acted as the basis for 2005’s 3D reimagining, Ys: The Oath in Felghana, though this…
My habit of bravely running face-first into wolf packs and skeleton mobs in Hytale meant I had to learn how to repair early on in the Minecraft-like. New weapons and armor often make me a little too confident, and I’ve hit a whopping zero durability more than once. Fortunately, you can easily repair busted tools…
In a new episode of Nightdive’s Deep Dive podcast, host Locke Vincent, producer Daniel Grayshon, and studio head Stephen Kick got into some of the more granular details of Thief: The Dark Project Remastered, including that they brought on an original Looking Glass artist, Daniel Thron, to help revamp Thief’s cutscenes. “We have one of…
Category: Responsible Gaming December 17, 2025 How to Engage with Your Kids’ Gaming – Practical Tips from Parenting Expert, Dr. Becky Xbox Wire Team One of the standout insights from our recent Culture of Play Report is that more than 70% of players want to share their love of gaming with the next generation. To help parents and caregivers navigate that journey, we partnered with clinical…
Hey everyone! I’ve been itching to tell you about this for the longest time, and now I finally can! We’re happy to reveal the single-player story details for Street Fighter V. There are two main components to the story experience: Character Stories and the Cinematic Story Expansion. Character Stories We knew there would be a…
Something to keep in mind. The upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 will give you the option to augment your experience with cameras, letting you chat face-to-face with your online friends using GameChat, and offering up unique gameplay mechanics with titles like Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV (we’ll never get…
Another Friday brings another Animal Crossing New Horizons-themed episode of Nintendo Minute. Kit and Krysta said in the video description that, this week, “we’re hanging out and having a nice relaxing day visiting the museum. Sometimes, we get so busy doing things around our island we forget to go and walk around the museum. It’s…
If there’s one thing I love in this world, it’s trinkets. Tchotchkes. Doodas and thingamajigs. Nothing enables this desire for collecting crud more than a good old-fashioned Bethesda game. Forks, mugs, spoons, bowls—you name it, it’s probably in my inventory. Yet now I sit here as the king of crud collection himself is telling me…
Tenna, the CRT-headed game show host antagonist of Deltarune chapter 3, first showed up in a videogame this year—but Deltarune creator Toby Fox first started working on the character all the way back in 2016. Fox recently said so in a social media post where he quoted himself of nearly a decade ago trying to…
A better Windows Phone Little by little, we’re seeing Microsoft flesh out its Windows 10 strategy. A key component of that is executing on mobile, and from what we’ve seen of Microsoft’s newly announced Lumia 950 and 950 XL devices, the company is on the right track. The Lumia 950 and 950 XL are the…