The hidden gems of Game Pass (Image credit: Microsoft) We’re checking out the hidden gems of Game Pass over the next few weeks, digging up all the obscure and esoteric games secreted away in our subscription and seeing how they play. To finish our round-up of the most interesting hidden gems buried in your PC…
Let’s split. A short while back, I looked at the Hautepad X, Cosmox Gaming’s premium arcade controller that boasts modular components for a highly customisable experience – with an equally high price to boot. For those who might not be on board with such an ambitious product but still want to see why Cosmox has…
PC gaming is not what you might call a cheap hobby. A thousand of your local currency units doesn’t go far once the old red mist descends and you start on the path toward obsessive acquisition of processor cores, TFLOPS, and always, always bigger numbers. And if you’re looking at spending more than three thousand…
Just hoppy. NetEase Games and NITRO PLUS have announced that action platformer Rusty Rabbit will be launching on Nintendo Switch on 17th April 2025 (via Gematsu). Now, on the surface, you might notice the gruff-looking, middle-aged rabbit that chain smokes carrots and think: “huh!”. You might be entertained as he rides around maze-like maps in…
Veteran voice actor Ben Diskin, who provided the voice of Mega Man in the 2018 release Mega Man 11, says he won’t be returning to the series because Capcom refuses to use unionized voice actors.Diskin isn’t the original or only voice of Mega Man, but Mega Man 11 is both the most recent and best…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview releasing to the Alpha ring today. It’s important we note that some updates made to these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We will continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes…
After 28 years, pioneering MMO Tibia will finally have a fifth playable character class. Joining the previous vocations of Knight, Sorcerer, Druid, and Paladin is the Monk, who will become the second melee character type in all of Tibia. It’s a pretty wild changeup for a game that launched in 1997 and has had the…
“I went to see the devil, now it’s your turn!”. The 2005 action-adventure title Killer7 is 20 years old today. It launched in Japan on June 9th, 2005 on PS2 and GameCube. Developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and Capcom and published by the latter, it was written and directed by Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda (it was notable…
Despite being one of 2025’s biggest flops, MindsEye is one of the more fascinating failures in recent memory, largely because of the seemingly paranoid allegations of developer Build A Rocket Boy’s co-CEOs Mark Gerhard and former Rockstar executive Leslie Benzies. Both before and after MindsEye’s release, Benzies and Gerhard have insisted—without substantiation—that its middling reputation…
Coming to Steam later this year. Yuzo Koshiro has been a busy man. Not only has he been hard at work recently finishing Earthion, his upcoming Mega Drive shmup (which is also coming to PC & consoles), but he has also continued offering his services as a freelance composer, with the latest of these projects…