“It seemed there’d been a not-very-robust sign-off process”. Don’t worry – you’re not suffering from déjà vu. If you feel like you’ve read this before, it’s because we’re republishing some of our favourite features from the past year as part of our Best of 2024 celebrations. If this is new to you, then enjoy reading…
Category: Games May 8, 2025 Overwatch 2: Introducing Freja – The Most Challenging and Rewarding Hero Yet Kenny Hudson, Senior Game Producer, Overwatch 2 Summary Freja is a challenging Hero designed to reward strategic movement and precise aiming, offering a highly rewarding experience for dedicated players. Senior game producer for Overwatch, Kenny Hudson, takes a…
Julian Gollop’s next game does not look like a Julian Gollop game. The man forever fated to be referred to as ‘XCOM creator Julian Gollop’ in headlines is making a game with no RNG, no turns, and no apocalyptic bleakness. Chip ‘n Clawz vs The Brainioids is as perky as its name suggests, and its…
Top Deal: Not everything you save is mission critical. You know the stuff we’re talking about — all those selfies, food pics, and anything else that wouldn’t shatter your world if you lost it. Nevertheless, if you store such things, they take up space and can fill up a hard drive in a hurry. The…
First, a confession. I’m not much of a mini-LED fan. You might even call me a dimming-zone snob. I’ve never found LCD panels with full-array local dimming terribly convincing, and of late it’s been hard to argue with the latest OLED gaming monitors. So, it’s definitely a surprise to discover that one of, if not…
The new console sole 1.6 million units in June. We already know the Switch 2 has broken sales records in the US — just last month, Nintendo’s upgraded hybrid console reportedly hit an “all-time launch week unit sales record for video game hardware”. And now, Circana’s Mat Piscatella has more data to back up that…
Japanese Nintendo magazine Nintendo Dream have published a wide-ranging interview with Koei Tecmo producer Yosuke Hayashi regarding the action-packed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild musou prequel, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. Mr. Hayashi talks about a number of things including making the four playable Champions playable, along with working with the Zelda:…
Summary We’re pleased to announce 10 nominations across 8 categories for our first-party studios at Xbox.Play any of the 11 Game Pass nominees like Starfield, Sea of Stars, Forza Motorsport, Party Animals, Hi-Fi Rush, and more today with Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass. See the full list of titles here on Xbox.com.Vote for…
Welcome to the Party, Pal! is the most frustrating challenge to kick off Series 1 of the Festival Playlist in Forza Horizon 6. It’s the first daily challenge, so at least you’ve got up to a week to beat it, and you might need it, since you’ve got to finish round three of a Horizon…
There have been an awful lot of layoffs across the game industry in 2023, but against that bleak backdrop this week’s cuts at Bungie came as a shock. Fans are mourning the loss of a number of long-term employees, particularly composers Michael Salvatori, who wrote countless memorable tracks for both Destiny games as well as…