Over the past several months, Sega has pulled back the curtain on many high-profile projects from its global studios. At Gamescom 2026, six of our titles will make their playable debut for the public: Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Persona 4 Revival, Crazy Taxi: World Tour, Stranger Than Heaven, Alien Isolation 2, and Sonic Pico Park. …
Category: Games February 13, 2026 How David Lynch, Alien, and Slumber Parties Inspired the Creation of Reanimal Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor Summary Producer Andreas Johnsson and Narrative Director David Mervick share how they built their new horror game Reanimal around co-op to support being scared together. They also cite some of their formative horror…
A new stretch goal has been added. Game Garage, the developer of the upcoming Kirby Air Ride and Sonic Adventure-inspired title Star Garden, may have smashed its Kickstarter goal of $35,000, raising over $158,000 on the crowdfunding site. But it isn’t through trying to generate further support for the project, continuing to add a number…
Dinky dock. As a means to play your Switch 2 games on the TV, Nintendo’s official dock is perfectly fine. But when it comes to portability, it’s definitely a bit lacking. Though not massive, it’s going to take up substantial space in your backpack or suitcase if you want to bring the full-fat Switch 2…
About This Episode Four decades ago, just when video games seemed to be the next big thing, the bottom dropped out. Compounding problems like market confusion, consumer confidence, and game quality to name just a few, nearly demolished a seemingly unstoppable new industry. They ultimately made a comeback, but the future looked bleak when the…
Mixin’ it up. I’ve been having an interesting run lately of games that shake things up, even if it’s just a little bit, in the controls department. Back in the good old days — or at least my nostalgia blinkers have made it seem this way to me — the idea of being bored rigid…
If you opened up the ol’ Windows Media player back in the 95, 98 or XP days, brace yourself for a mild shock: it was lying to you. And by lying, well, what I really mean is rendering video somewhere other than inside the actual window that was open on your desktop—sort of a parallel…
A new mod that enables HDR in non-HDR enabled games on RTX graphics cards has been released over on NexusMods, and users are reporting it’s better than the AutoHDR setting native to Windows. The mod is called NVTrueHDR (via Videocardz and the Guru3D forum), and it comes from user emoose. It’s not entirely built from…
Xbox Game Pass might be popular among gamers, but if you ask Arkane Studios founder Raphael Colantonio, it’s bad news for gamers and developers alike in the long run. If there was one takeaway from Microsoft’s annual Xbox Games Showcase last month, it was the central role of Xbox Game Pass in the future of…
Some of the best combinations sound pretty sketchy on paper: pineapple on pizza, Robert Pattinson as Batman, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart’s friendship. High on Life 2 is aiming for that same unlikely alchemy by turning its comedy FPS into a full-blown skateboarding game. Add it to your wishlist WIshlist High on Life 2 on…