As a “Rocktober” treat. Double Fine has released a previously unseen pitch video of its heavy metal-inspired action-adventure, real-time strategy game Brütal Legend, to celebrate “Rocktober” — the time of the year when Tim Schafer gets together with fans to matchmake against one another in multiplayer to mark the game getting one year older. The…
If you happened to have caught the Game Awards trailer for it, Highguard, an upcoming free-to-play hero shooter from ex-developers of Apex Legends and Titanfall, launches next week. You will need to enable Secure Boot if you plan on playing through. As we’ve spotted on the Highguard Steam page, the game needs Secure Boot, TPM…
The ‘Middo’ is a new ship “overtaken and fused with the Bydo”. Irem’s R-Type never graced the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, and was instead exclusive to the PC Engine, SNES, Master System and Game Boy back in the day. This egregious oversight is being fixed by TheRoboZ (Andrea Baldiraghi), who has been hard at…
Konnichiwa! I’m Nicolas Doucet, creative director and producer of The Playroom VR in Japan Studio. Today, I’d like to tell you about how we created our VR characters. Those of you who already know The Playroom on PS4 may remember the cute AR Bots who live inside the DualShock 4. As we began working on…
Category: Xbox Games Showcase June 2, 2025 How to Watch the Xbox Games Showcase and The Outer Worlds 2 Direct on Sunday Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief This Sunday, June 8, it’s time for another huge double feature. The Xbox Games Showcase 2025 kicks off at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK, immediately…
Acer is once again linking arms with Intel for their new Nitro Arc B-Series graphics cards. Two cards have been announced so far: the Nitro Intel Arc B570 OC 10 GB and Nitro Intel Arc B580 OC 12 GB. The target audience for these cards isn’t just PC tinkerers looking for a mid-range upgrade, but…
Hey folks – tonight, Square Enix’s E3 2019 Live Event gave the world an up-close and personal look at Final Fantasy VII Remake. The game will also be playable starting tomorrow at Square Enix’s E3 booth. Tonight’s presentation kicks off with gorgeous recreated scenes from the original game’s iconic opening, featuring fan favorite Aerith Gainsborough…
Category: Games March 3, 2026 From Sketch to Puzzle: Crafting Planet of Lana II’s Clever Challenges Dan Faxe, Lead Game Designer and Christian Enfors, Senior Game Designer Summary Planet of Lana II’s designers set out to expand on the first game’s beautiful world with new ways to interact with it and more interesting puzzles. By…
I enjoy a good traced ray, AI-upscaled texture, or ‘hallucinated’ frame as much as the next person, but I think pixel art remains an important part of any art team’s tool kit. Pixel art offers far more than a nostalgic throwback appeal, capable of a level of expression that would give even the most photorealistic…
//Body It’s the end of the line for preposterously successful cleaning sim PowerWash Simulator. The last of its free updates has emerged squeaky clean from developer FuturLab’s power shower, representing station terminus for PowerWash Simulator as a game still in active development. Through these updates, officially known as The Muckingham Files, developer FuturLab has been…