It looks absolutely delightful. Earlier this year, The Pokémon Company announced it would be teaming up with Netflix to release a Pokémon stop-motion animated series called Pokémon Concierge. Now, in an update, it’s been revealed the series will be airing in Japan and North America on 28th December 2023. There’ll be four episodes all up…
Critical Hit Welcome to Critical Hit (formerly known as Soundtrack Sunday), where I celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. I love Neverwinter Nights. I would count myself among the top 100, maybe even top 50 fans in the world of this joint…
Eidos will instead focus on an “original franchise”. It’s not a fun way to start the week, but unfortunately, there’s been even more video game development layoffs. According to Bloomberg, Embracer Group is cancelling the next entry in the Deus Ex series after two years in development. As a result of this, it’s laying off…
Category: Games November 26, 2025 Housing in World of Warcraft Is Giving Players a Huge Creative Suite to Make Azeroth Their Own Danielle Partis, Xbox Wire Editor When it comes to hotly anticipated World of Warcraft updates, few have sizzled for longer than Player Housing – a feature that will bring liveable homes and dynamic…
Starting March 6, Operation Chimera is going to heat up (you know, because chimeras breathe fire) the competition for Rainbow Six Siege players on PlayStation 4. The first in a series of content updates for Year 3 of Rainbow Six Siege, Operation Chimera features two new Operators from French and Russian counter-terrorism units. Like the…
First reported by Business Insider, a purported internal memo from Julia Liuson, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division, shows that managers are now being asked to evaluate employees based on their use of AI tools. An employee review metric for measuring AI use is reportedly under consideration according to Business Insider as well….
Ballistic is a disappointment. The 5v5 tactical FPS reconfiguration of Fortnite is available right now within the Fortnite app, and if you were excited for the paradigm shift that could come from Fortnite developer Epic Games turning their attention to the competitive FPS, you should probably wait a bit longer before diving in. Ballistic plays…
Battlefield 6 is here and it’s really rather good. PCG’s Morgan Park called it “a salve for an FPS scene that takes itself too seriously” in his review-in-progress, with the wider context of where shooters are in 2025 making its back-to-basics approach incredibly refreshing. Hell, it even runs like a dream. That’s not to say…
Sci-fi extraction shooter Arc Raiders is doing one last public playtest this weekend before its launch at the end of October, but quite a few players felt it was already good to go after its successful April playtest—or just wanted it to release ASAP so they could keep playing, perhaps more accurately. That Arc playtest…