For me, the name Raphael Colantonio is basically synonymous with immersive sims, which for the record I love deeply. He founded Arkane, headed up Arx Fatalis, Dishonored, and Prey, and then proved immsims could work from an isometric perspective with the excellent Weird West. So I was more than a little shocked when he said…
Category: Next Week on Xbox April 17, 2026 Next Week on Xbox: New Games for April 20 to 24 Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC, and Game Pass! Get more…
PS Now players, you are in for an action-packed month as a new lineup of PS4 titles join the service from Tuesday, November 3. The biggest challenge will be deciding what to play first. Flex that superheroic muscle and clash with DC’s finest costumed heroes in Injustice 2? Cause mayhem across an apocalyptic wasteland on…
If you’re not careful, survivors in Quarantine Zone can bring the zombie virus into your camp. That’s not the only nasty baggage they can come with though. There’s a whole list of contraband items that can place your base in danger, so it’s vital that you know what to confiscate. From day seven onwards, you’ll…
Talk to anyone playing Battlefield 6 about what they’d like in the game right about now, and maps will certainly come up. Folks want more maps in Battlefield 6, but not just any will do—they want large ones with open space, lots of capture points, and support for air vehicles. Too few of BF6’s launch…
Larian Studios collects a lot of data—as plenty of studios do—about their player’s habits in-game, and Baldur’s Gate 3 is no exception. For example, it shared the game’s most-played multiclasses back in September, leading to some interesting insights about how a strong character theme wins out over min-maxing power. Well, it’s time to look at…
Launching later this month. If you ever played the Geometry Wars series back in the day, or are into titles like Vampire Survivors, you might be interested in this rather familiar-looking release from indie studio Brain Seal. It’s called Geometry Survivor and is described as a rogue-lite survival auto-shooter with aesthetics similar to the Geometry…
Some of the first mods for Hollow Knight: Silksong enabled co-op multiplayer in the challenging platformer, and now there’s a mod to move things in the opposite direction: Skong Boss Doubler by eniac-mod gives most bosses in the game their own Mimic Tear doppelganger to make your life hell. Does this seem like a fun…
Creating an Arknights: Endfield tier list isn’t quite as difficult as you’d think. Sure, we don’t really know who performs best in the endgame yet, and won’t until after launch, but similar to Zenless Zone Zero, the usefulness of characters is primarily dependent on which type of team they perform best in. A character can…
It’s hard to think of a more charged environment in which to start work on a game. In the wake of 2009’s Modern Warfare 2, the studio that invented Call of Duty had imploded. A power struggle between Activision and Infinity Ward’s leaders, Jason West and Vince Zampella, had led to the expulsion of the…