Category: Announcements May 21, 2025 Xbox May Update: Retro Classics Come to Xbox Game Pass, PC Gaming Updates, and More Dean Shimabukuro, Product Marketing Manager, Xbox Services Marketing A variety of new updates are available this month across our gaming platforms. Coming today, Retro Classics games are available to play for Xbox Game Pass members….
The first episode of Fallout season 2 is out today, with the show releasing weekly episodes until early February (when we’ll no doubt get a ridiculous cliffhanger before waiting another year for the next season). As part of the show’s marketing various grandees have been doing the interview rounds, including Todd Howard, who’s now served…
IO Interactive recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of its flagship series Hitman, which has certainly been on a journey. Agent 47’s beautiful, barcoded bald head has become one of the industry’s icons, with the series’ growth into its own identity truly impressive: from the early days where it was a more traditional 3D action game…
Following revelations about the Israeli military’s use of Microsoft’s AI and cloud-computing systems in its bombardment of Gaza, as reported by The Guardian, the BDS movement called Microsoft “perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians”. When some of Microsoft’s own employees publicly protested against…
…as long as you’re ok with a bit of modding, that is. Ukrainian developer Anton Artemov has given Game Boy Camera fans a new way to preserve their images via a special adapter which enables connectivity with modern-day smartphones. As spotted by Retro Dodo, Artemov’s adapter, based on the pico-gb-printer repo, allows a Raspberry Pi…
About three years ago Cory Davis, the creative director of Spec Ops: The Line, and Robin Fink, long-time guitarist with bands like Nine Inch Nails and Guns n’ Roses, announced their game studio Eyes Out by doing some screeching in the California desert. Now we’ve got the impressively atmospheric trailer for Sleep Awake, a “first…
Gaming comfortably Cougar expanded its line of gaming mice today by launching an eSports version of its 700M. It includes most of the 700M’s features but adds a “radically different look” along with a new coating to set it apart in appearance and tactile feel. The 700M eSports consists of a folded aluminum chassis with…
While the new ultimate customisation feature in Season 3 of Marvel Rivals is cool, I think accessories are much more fun. These are little charms that you can attach to your character that also add a cute little animation above your KO prompt, though it’s not quite as extensive as I’d hoped—or what you’d expect…
Online puzzler GeoGuessr has taken players across the globe, but its most recently revealed location is perhaps its unlikeliest yet. The game, which involves identifying real world places based on contextual clues from Google Street View images, is getting a Steam edition that arrives next month. “We’re bringing Duels to Steam,” announced the GeoGuessr X…
Remember remember. Welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl, are you ready to rank some covers? Before we head into this week’s competition, however, let’s check out what happened last time. We got all agricultural as we matched up two covers for Harvest Moon 64 in celebration of it landing on NSO. They…