Category: Games June 12, 2025 Pragmata Brings a Thrillingly New Idea to Third-Person Shooters Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief The third-person shooter genre is a rich lineage, with developers building on the “right” way to combine gunplay, exploration, and puzzle-solving over the course of decades. We’ve seen these games adopt slow motion, cover mechanics, and…
Who wanted New Kids on the Block: The Official Video Game back in the day? As long as video games have been around, we’ve had unreleased titles—and the NES has its fair share of those, as The Video Game History Foundation’s recent GDC 2025 exhibition attests. The VGHF has a history of unearthing and highlighting…
Latest Broadwell parts up the ante in graphics Faster graphics is fast becoming a theme at Computex. First we had Nvidia representing the discrete side of the fence with its GeForce GTX 980 Ti (check out our review and benchmarks), and today Intel rolled out no less than 10 new processors sporting Iris Pro 6200…
Hello everyone! I’m Laurent Mercure, community manager at Frima. Last fall, we launched our latest game, Chariot, on PS4, and we were thrilled to have the PlayStation community embrace it! With Chariot, we wanted to make a game that was accessible and that players of different skill levels could play together and have a good…
42 games between both collections. Evercade maker Blaze has just announced not one but two new cartridges, bringing a grand total of 42 new games to the platform. Activision Collection 1 includes 15 Atari 2600-era games, and is the first in a trio of releases which celebrate the legacy of this industry veteran (the other…
PC Gamer’s super-survivalist Chris Livingston called Vintage Story his “new survival game obsession” in 2024, noting that it “looks like Minecraft but is way more complex.” It wasn’t new new, having been in development since 2016, but it was new to him (and us), in part because it’s not available on Steam, and thus has…
In the ‘90s, the “Ace Combat” series was easily one of the most heralded franchises in gaming. One of Namco’s big three of “Tekken” and “Ridge Racer,” the game sold close to four million copies on the PlayStation and even more when the series moved to the PlayStation 2. However, with little gameplay innovation during…
Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds is an expansion for Horizon Zero Dawn that takes place in the Cut, a boreal wasteland to the north that separates the Banuk homelands from the rest of the world. It is a place where none but the most skilled hunters dare venture, and those that do must survive…
Every time we start developing a new game, we remember a powerful experience that we had with video games in our childhood and try capture it and make it part of our game. In the case of Curses ‘N Chaos, it’s about going to an arcade with a friend and joining forces to face that…
We’re revved up and ready to hit the track next week when Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled races to PS4! The bandicoot’s Beenox-developed racing return launches Thursday at PlayStation Store. Before that, you can dive in to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night for some fresh new Igavania action, or Vacation Simulator, Owlchemy Labs’ follow-up to pioneering…