Five years ago, Strixhaven: School of Mages showed us Magic: The Gathering’s original take on the wizard school genre, which covers everything from Discworld’s Unseen University to A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin—though obviously Harry Potter is the elephant in the room. Back then, Wizards of the Coast hadn’t gone all-in on the…
Something I love about videogames is the way that a single line of patch notes can have a disproportionate butterfly effect on millions of sessions. This little sentence, part of today’s Shrouded Sky update, will alter the fate and behavior of countless raiders: Wolfpack – Added Rocketeer Driver as a crafting cost. The Wolfpack is…
Category: Developer_Direct January 9, 2025 Developer_Direct Returns on January 23 – A Celebration of What’s Coming for Xbox Players Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief It’s time to get a look at what’s next – Developer_Direct is back. On Thursday, January 23 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK, fans will get an inside…
Shiren The Wanderer didn’t quite invent the traditional roguelike genre, but this long-running, rarely localized Japanese series sure as heck came to define it: Environments have to be grid-based Everything must be scavenged from monster-filled dungeons. And above all else, a true Shiren game (and thus a true old school roguelike) must be challenging, and…
With so many available passive skills it’s understandable that you’d want to know how to respec in Path of Exile 2. The game is very good at giving you plenty of skills via uncut skill gems and support skills to compliment them with uncut support gems. However, these are separate to your passive skill tree….
It is Wednesday and the latest edition of Japanese video games publication Weekly Famitsu is now with subscribers and in stores. This week’s edition contains a couple of big reviews including Fall Guys for the PlayStation 4 and Project CARS 3 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The highest rated game this week is the…
I’ve always admired Turtle Beach’s Stealth 700 range. The cheaper headsets, like the Turtle Beach Recon 70, don’t quite hit the right price-to-value ratio for me, and though the Turtle Beach Sealth 500 seems like a solid offering, I’ve always liked the more heavy-duty feel of the pricier gaming headsets. They have thick cushioning around…
Glitter ball. Following on from last week’s Mega Victreebel reveal, The Pokémon Company has revealed another powered-up ‘mon, with Mega Hawlucha joining the fray in Pokémon Legends: Z-A. The new Mega was introduced in a new combat-focused short on the official Pokémon YouTube channel titled ‘FULL MATCH: Hawlucha vs. Machamp’. Rather fittingly, it showed the…
Yooka-So-Smoothy. After its release in October 2025, Yooka-Replaylee is finally playable at 60fps on Switch 2 thanks to a new update from Playtonic Games. Many were understandably disappointed when the Switch 2 version launched with its performance capped at 30fps (heck, it was one of just two ‘cons’ in our 8/10 review), so this will…
I was disappointed by Amazon’s decision to cancel its TV adaptation of The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan’s long, winding, and endearingly extra series of fantasy novels. After a rocky debut in 2021, the show demonstrably improved in season 2, while season 3 delivered one of the best episodes of TV I’ve seen in years….