Disconnects are an unpleasant fact of life in an MMO, and if you play WoW long enough you’ll start to recognize the telltale signs indicating one of your adventurer colleagues has fallen afoul of a network hiccup: They might simply halt in place mid-combat. If they were moving when the connection dropped, their character might…
Category: Games March 20, 2025 FBC: Firebreak Isn’t Just Reimagining Control – It’s Reimagining Modern Co-Op Shooters Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Remedy comes back to a key point about FBC: Firebreak repeatedly – “this game isn’t a second job.” You won’t need to check in every day. You won’t need to frettingly finish a…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows bombards you with a handful of confusing settings right at the start of your journey. Better to get them out of the way beforehand, I suppose, yet it’s hard to grasp what each one actually does. AC Shadows’ canon mode is perhaps the biggest culprit. Like the new immersive mode and guided…
Listen, you can say what you want about Avowed—I wouldn’t even blame you if you didn’t like it, or much of what has come out of Obsidian’s recent catalogue. There’s even a tiny, selfish scrap of my gamer heart that’s secretly very glad that Obsidian is working on a new Fallout game, again. But this…
We included Elden Ring and Armored Core developer FromSoftware among our notable Summer Game Fest no-shows, and that’s not technically true anymore: The studio piped up during today’s Nintendo Direct to say, “Yeah, Duskbloods network test sometime this summer, I guess.” The Switch 2 exclusive’s new trailer is even more cryptic than its first. It’s…
It’s been exactly one month since Windows 10 went kinda-sorta-not-really EOL. Microsoft’s previous operating system has stopped receiving official support for most things, but you can at least opt into a year of security updates and keep your system’s defenses, well, up to date. That’s just as long as those updates actually get downloaded and…
Minecraft Realms has officially been replaced by Minecraft Realms Plus, which is now available across all major platforms, including Nintendo Switch. The new monthly subscription service grants instant access to more than 50 Marketplace items like worlds and mash-ups, with new additions each month. To learn more about Realms Plus, click here and check out…
Only five days post-launch, Palworld has sold over seven million copies and become the second game ever to log over two million concurrent players on Steam. Its unexpectedly absurd level of success has led to much speculation over the source of its appeal—as well as some condemnation—but the simple notion that it’s “Pokémon with guns”…
Hello, Sean Murray from Hello Games here, working extremely hard on our game, No Man’s Sky. The game really has come together, and it’s such an incredible relief. As we sit an play it now, and as I watch playtesters every day, I can finally let myself get excited. We’re actually doing this. However, as…
As you’d expect from an Obsidian RPG, Avowed is rich in world-building and lore. Everywhere you go, you can read books about the history of the Living Lands, quiz NPCs about the motivations of their factions, and find ruins and artifacts that hint at hidden truths. And yet I remain unsatisfied, because there is one…