The half-year in review. Friday 5th December marks the six-month mark for Nintendo’s sequel system. Launching back in June, the earliest adopters among us have now been living with the console for half a year. Blimey! It seems like only yesterday we were all speculating about the follow-up to Switch 1. Would it launch in…
It’s taken a long time for TV adaptations of videogames to get, you know, actually good. Now we’ve got The Last of Us, Arcane and Fallout all showing off. Back in 2005, though, we just had Time Commanders. BBC’s Time Commanders was an exciting prospect for any strategy nerd who could drag themselves away from…
Adding its name to the bag of companies that absolutely does not need to do a ‘wrapped’ summary each year, but is in fact doing so, is Discord. Except this won’t be called ‘wrapped’ but instead ‘Checkpoint’: “Rolling out over the next few days, Discord Checkpoint is the first time we’re giving you a recap…
The MSX shooter is about to gets its console debut. If you are interested at all in the history of MSX shoot ’em ups, next week’s EGGCONSOLE title for the Nintendo Switch, Super Laydock Mission Striker, might be of some interest to you. Released in 1987, the vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from the Hydlide developer…
Camels most certainly included. Jeff Minter is a genuinely remarkable developer. Famous for his twitch gameplay and love of camels, Minter has somehow managed to carve out a niche in what has become an increasingly volatile and unpredictable industry, working with the likes of Atari and Xbox along the way but never losing sight of…
Category: Games December 5, 2025 How to Buy a Digital Game as a Gift This Holiday Joe Skrebels (Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief) and Albert Dankwa (Xbox Content Program Manager II, Social Lead) If you want to give a game to a friend or family member this holiday season, gifting a digital game is a great and…
Category: Games December 5, 2025 How to Buy a Digital Game as a Gift This Holiday Joe Skrebels (Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief) and Albert Dankwa (Xbox Content Program Manager II, Social Lead) If you want to give a game to a friend or family member this holiday season, gifting a digital game is a great and…
“AI adoption can face strong resistance in creative areas”. While rivals such as Electronic Arts and Ubisoft have jumped into the world of Generative AI development with both feet, not every company in the games industry is willing to throw caution to the wind. During a Q&A session following its recent Q2 financial results, Sega‘s…
Is that a psychic crystal embedded in your forehead, or are you just happy to see me? Now that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is finally in the wild (still feels weird to be able to type that) and given that it’s another excellent entry in this phenomenal series, you may well be feeling like now’s…
Disney Dreamlight Valley absolutely loves setting you quests that require you to wait. Whether that’s for a specific weather condition, or just sitting around waiting for crops to grow or flowers to respawn, I’ve spent hours just twiddling my thumbs, desperate to tick a quest off my to-do list. But with the new Dream Team…