Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to…
Subscribe via iTunes, Google or RSS, or download here It’s a half-staffed show jam-packed with valuable #content for our dear listeners this week! Join us for lots of Mass Effect Andromeda talk, Justin’s early impressions of Persona 5, and interviews with the teams behind Hob, The Persistence and Farpoint. Phew! Stuff We Talked About Mass…
On leaving Tango Gameworks in 2023 industry legend Shinji Mikami started up a new development studio called Unbound. This was the third studio Mikami has co-founded or founded, after PlatinumGames (2007) and Tango itself (2010), not to mention his leadership of Capcom’s iconic Production Studio 4 and later Clover Studios. Unbound was recently in the…
Improved frame rate and higher resolution. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet got a Switch 2 upgrade earlier this week bumping the game up to Version 4.0.0 and breathing new life into the latest generation. Since then, our American-based video producer Zion Grassl has been spending some quality time with this new update – checking out the…
Marathon got a release date earlier today, confirming a March 5 launch for Bungie’s extraction shooter. The studio hasn’t skimped where voice talent is concerned: actors from pretty much every successful game from the last decade are present, though it’s yet to be confirmed what roles each will play (and how big they’ll be). Among…
World of Warcraft: Midnight‘s pre-patch is now live, meaning players are currently shivering in a cold room from the mother of all modding comedowns. I’m one of ’em, given I’ve always had stacks of Weakauras enabled to help soothe the ache of WoW’s sometimes-janky class design. In case you’re unaware, WoW’s been of a mind…
With the many areas we’ve covered over the months as we approach the launch of The Order: 1886, there’s still one major aspect we haven’t yet addressed: the cast. About a year into the project, once the story and initial script were written, it was time for us to cast our characters. The requirements were…
Now you’re playing with wonder. Super Mario Bros. Wonder definitely isn’t coming out on the NES, but this excellent fan-made commercial almost convinced us that it was. YouTuber LUIZ do Comercial has created various “fake commercials” for video games, and his latest creation is a work of 8-bit art. Luiz has taken the over-the-top style…
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…
Remember Styx? Cyanide Studios’ horrible goblin was the hottest stealth game protagonist of the early 2010s. By this I mean he was the only stealth game protagonist of the early 2010s, as bona-fide sneaking games were vanishingly rare. Then Hitman returned from the dead, and everybody forgot about Styx for a while. But the fast-talking,…