Le brick, c’est chic. Atari has announced that the 1976 brick-breaking arcade classic Breakout is making a comeback. Breakout Beyond is being developed by Runner3 team Choice Provisions and sees the classic’s vertical orientation getting flipped on its side. As you can see in the reveal trailer above, the Pong-like paddles now slide up and…
Category: Xbox Game Pass February 4, 2025 Coming Soon to Game Pass: Avowed, Madden NFL 25, and More Megan Spurr, Senior Community Lead, Xbox Game Pass Welcome back, friends! Happy to be here with more news, games, and updates. Speaking of news, we had lots of it in the 2025 Developer_Direct – with a little…
Let’s be honest, Helldivers: Super Earth is worth it. No matter what “it” is. All Helldivers share this belief, and fanatical loyalty is expected from all citizens of Super Earth. But the Helldivers need to demonstrate their allegiance. They need to look like the democratic disciples they are inside, and the only way we know…
A monster move. Ex-PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida recently took part in an interview with MinnMax in which he described the “scariest moment” for Sony during his lengthy career (thanks, Push Square). According to Yoshida, the moment in which Nintendo announced that Monster Hunter 4 would launch exclusively for the 3DS stood as the most shocking…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a game obsessed with medieval history—specifically the history of Bohemia, a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire that’s now part of modern Czechia. It’s an RPG that is fascinated by the social structures, clothing, architecture, weapons and culture of the time. Developer Warhorse has a full-time historian on the team…
Includes versions for the UK, Spain, France, Germany, and the Nordics. New European layouts are now being sold for 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboards, the company has revealed. 8BitDo’s range of Retro Mechanical Keyboards first launched back in 2023 with the NES/Famicom edition and has since come to include other variants modelled after the Commodore 64…
Have you ever seen a water-cooled copper gaming PC before? If not, you’re in for a treat as an absolute beauty named “the boiler” has just been shown off by builder and retailer Billet Labs. And it’s for a good cause as its auction proceeds will be going to charity once it is sold. In…
Sobering sales, analyst angst, obvious answer. Nintendo has lowered sales forecasts for Switch hardware sales for the second time in a row with the publication of its Q3 results for FY2024/5. With a 30.6% year-on-year drop in console sales across the Switch range, the platform holder now forecasts 11 million unit sales for the year…
Before and after upscaling. Arguably, that’s the most critical dividing line in gaming graphics hardware of the past 20 years. And it was, of course, Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling that created that inflection point on release in 2019. But now it turns out DLSS went from an idea to a new feature announced to the public…
“Ken Kutaragi found out and got really mad”. Minnmax recently did a new interview with the former Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida, in which he answered some questions about his lengthy career as one of the key individuals at the influential game company. During the interview, he shared some insights into what it was like playing…