Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
Nightmares and Dreamscapes. The Metroidvania revival (did it ever really go away?) keeps rolling, and here comes another stylised combat-platformer where a strange little hero gets lost in a dark, labyrinthine fantasy world. This time, our protagonist is John, who stumbles into a bizarre realm full of somnambulist weirdos and giant babies. Studio Cima has…
Pokémon-inspired creature collectors are an ouroboros, and it’s just taken another bite of its own tail. During today’s Triple-I Initiative showcase, Crema Games—developers of Temtem, one of the more successful Pokémon-likes on Steam—revealed Temtem: Pioneers, “an ambitious open-world survival crafting adventure” where players can collect, battle, and build alongside a team of tameable creatures. It’s…
Update: The release has been delayed. Following successful funding on Kickstarter, the turn-based tactical strategy game Warside has finally locked in a release date. It will launch for Switch and multiple other platforms on 28th January 2025. In case you missed our existing coverage of this one, as you can see, it’s heavily inspired by…
“Expectation is so insane you can’t live up to it”. Given that the original Perfect Dark stands as Rare’s highest-rated game of all time, a follow-up was inevitable. The project began life on the GameCube (there was even a render of Joanna Dark in the tech demo reel at SpaceWorld 2000) before it was migrated…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for November 27 – December 1 Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published November 24, 2023 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Game Pass! Get more…
I’m excited to announce that Days Gone will be releasing its New Game Plus mode. This has been the most requested fan feature since we launched back in April, and it will be available on September 13 through a downloadable update. Players can now re-experience the epic journey through Days Gone, this time with the…
Squash those space bugs. No Man’s Sky landed its ‘Worlds Part II‘ update back in January, with the space adventure getting treated to new solar systems, biomes, terrains and a bunch more wonderful stuff. This week, in an attempt to iron out some of the creases, developer Hello Games has released a hotfix to get…
The obscure Japanese console was released all the way back in 1983. The preservationist website Gaming Alexandria has announced that it has managed to scan, dump, and preserve every game that was released for the Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy — an obscure game console that was released by the educational toy company/publisher Gakken. The…
I’d always assumed that Escape From Tarkov was just a catchy name and not something anyone could actually do—unless you’re speaking metaphorically, I suppose: The bullet that frees you from the weight and horror of this cold, rotting world, and all that. But no, you can escape from Tarkov, and just over two weeks after…