Star Wars Zero Company is giving the people what they want. And that is: more XCOM. The turn-based shootouts, perishable soldiers and those beautiful moments where you survive by the skin of your teeth because of judicious use of overwatch—it all unapologetically calls to mind the two games that have defined the modern tactics genre….
Summary Star Wars Zero Company arrives August 27, 2026 on XBOX Series X|S. A turn-based tactics game with RPG storytelling, it’s the debut from Bit Reactor, a new studio lead by Firaxis XCOM veterans. Polished, charming and fun, it’s a gift to fans of tactics games and Star Wars alike. When I spoke with the…
Terraria has a passionate and wide-spread modding community—and the jewel in its crown for many years was Calamity, a mod that was on a scope of an expansion pack, adding new bosses, weapons, and so on to the survival crafter. It’s existed for 10 years, but it’ll now be shutting down due to some heavy…
Graceful ascent. The latest UK boxed charts data is in, and it’s a fairly quiet week with no major new entries for the Switch 1 & 2. PS5 and PC got Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, which debuts at number 6, while Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation launched on PS5, PC, and Xbox, landing at number…
The company faces accusations of “punishing” existing customers. Since the initial announcement of GBA-inspired KONKR Pocket Advance back in July of this year, AYANEO has taken a very deliberate approach to marketing the Android-based handheld, drip-feeding reveal after reveal to keep it in the spotlight. For most people interested in the device, it was inevitably…
I recently had a chance to play a healthy chunk of the upcoming Star Wars: Galactic Racer, a—you guessed it—racing game where you can hop behind the seat of a handful of different vehicles: Landspeeders, a skim speeder, and speeder-bikes. There’s also, naturally, podracing. Each of these vehicles handles differently—landspeeders are the most consistent (they’re…
Taiwanese news site United Daily News reports that, according to one source, Microsoft is charging Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) significantly more for Windows licensing fees this year than in previous years (via Wccftech). These are the fees that PC makers, for instance, must pay to Microsoft to package their machines with the operating system. UDN…
“We have carefully reviewed your feedback”. As we’ve covered on the site before, Forever Entertainment’s long-delayed remake of the Sega Saturn classic Panzer Dragoon Zwei hasn’t exactly gone down well with fans of the series. Back in 2025, when the game resurfaced after years missing in action, one commenter, for instance, encouraged players to “reject…
“You’re finished”. Following the announcement of Final Fantasy Resonance back in June, Square Enix has begun highlighting the game’s ‘Visions’, which are characters that can fight alongside you during the journey. We already caught a glimpse of the Warrior of Light the other day, and now it’s the turn of series legend Cloud Strife. The…
Earlier this year, Google Chrome annoyed a whole lot of adblock users by killing support for Manifest V2 extensions. It’s a Manifest V3 world now, which means the permissions and APIs that thoroughgoing adblockers like uBlock Origin rely on are a thing of the past on Chrome (it’s since been replaced by a pared-down version:…