The What Ifs in video game history keep the lights on in gamers’ heads and the imaginations burning. The thought of the number of concepts that never see the light of day is staggering. With over 40 years of consoles and games in video game history to look back on, Old School Gamer Magazine picks…
The demo for The Talos Principle 2 is out now, building steam in the hype engine for what will probably be the premier first-person puzzler of 2023. Developers Croteam have made it special for you, standalone and set apart from the final game’s flow and puzzles. “You can jump in to get a taste of…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for April 29 to May 3 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published April 26, 2024 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…
Category: Games May 8, 2026 Arty-Facts: Why Two Point Museum’s New DLC is the Most Creative One Yet Luke Finlay-Maxwell Lead Designer, Two Point Museum Summary Two Point Museum: Arty-Facts is available now for Xbox Series X|S, with a limited 10% discount at launch.• Build and curate Two Point’s very first art museum, and take…
Turns out relying on AI-assisted vibe coding or similarly generative tools for major tech infrastructure has some drawbacks—who could’ve foreseen this? Apparently, Amazon may have some regrets.Earlier this week, the e-commerce team at Amazon arranged a “deep dive” meeting with a number of engineers to investigate what led to a series of outages. A briefing…
Category: Playtests August 8, 2025 Check out the Project EVILBANE Pre-Alpha Playtest Schedule! Jon At long last, the Project EVILBANE Pre-Alpha Playtest Schedule, revealed at IGN Live 2025, has been revealed! If you haven’t seen the video yet, check it out. Xbox Insiders, now’s your chance to check the game out early and give us…
Xbox is really getting around these days. Microsoft seems to be shoving the gaming platform onto all manner of things… handhelds, the cloud, Windows PCs… and now even cars, of all things. Not any and every car, though, just “select internet-connected vehicles” with some LG smart TVs in them. Xbox says: “With the Xbox built…
Riverhill Soft’s BURAI Joukan will be released in Japan early this Summer. Earlier this month, the Tokyo-based developer and publisher Mebius announced a new series of MSX reissues for the Nintendo Switch, in Japan, with the first of these scheduled to be a rerelease of the MSX2 version of the RPG BURAI Joukan (thanks Famitsu!)…
Has it all gone Pete Tong? It feels like absolutely ages ago that I first reviewed The Touryst on Switch, and returning to it so far down the line, and on the Switch 2 no less, I’ve been excited to see just how it’s held up in the six years since I last took a…
20 minutes of indie goodness awaits. All of Nintendo’s big announcements seem to be over for 2023, but we can always look forward to a November Indie World to tide us over into the next one. This year, the showcase comes our way, well, today! So, let’s watch it together, shall we? The showcase kicks…