Category: gamescom August 21, 2025 Onimusha: Way of the Sword Is a Modern, Graceful Action Classic-in-Waiting Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief It’s such a simple decision – in Onimusha: Way of the Sword, pressing the block button lets you deflect or parry attacks from any direction. Your character, Musashi Miyamoto, will seamlessly pull his katana…
The Pokemon Company has announced the times for the upcoming Pokemon Presents presentation which is set to reveal what’s thought to be a new game in the Pokemon franchise. You’ll be able to tune into the live stream on Wednesday 24th June at 6am PT / 2pm BST. The new Pokemon title is thought to…
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is still going. Nearly 10 years into its life, The Witcher 3 remains a popular canvas for modders adding new quests and locations, custom gameplay tuning, and the occasional oddity like Geralt on ice skates. For most of the last decade the mod scene had no official support from CD…
Baba is You is about as cool as puzzle games get, and PC Gamer contributor Philippa Warr agreed, scoring the game an exceptional 90% back when it released. But like most puzzle games, I binged it once with no plans to return until my withering hippocampus had fully lost all the puzzle solutions. To my…
“The most technically impressive game of the launch line-up”. Digital Foundry has provided its tech review for Fast Fusion on the Switch 2, calling it “the most technically impressive game of the launch line-up” and a “must-have” for early adopters. Starting off on a bit of a downer, however, DF notes that the overall image…
Cities: Skylines 2 was not in great shape when it launched in 2023. The underlying game was quite good but it was plagued with performance problems and missing a number of features, most notably an editor. That sparked a quick backlash on Steam, visible in the “mixed” user rating, but it also kicked off what…
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League spends much of its first couple of hours introducing the Justice League and establishing just how out of their depth the squad is, and while all of these introductions are pretty neat, one in particular stands out: Batman’s. Naturally, there are spoilers beyond. The criminal quartet has narrowly avoided…
Open world survival RPG Kenshi can be cruel, especially in the early hours. As our reviewer put it back in 2018, “basic survival plans can be easily derailed by a city guard who plants drugs on you then demands money you don’t have, or by finding yourself deep in a region inhabited by vicious alien…
One of the most obnoxious traits of the AI slop era is the way any phrase you type into Google is now likely to prompt an AI overview speculating about what a sequence of words means, making up a bunch of stuff whole cloth, and being completely wrong. Last week while trying to find traces…
Hey everyone, Today at PlayStation’s Press Conference, we revealed our new Spider-Man game coming exclusively to PlayStation 4. (Surprise!) You can see the trailer below. There are a few fun details embedded throughout the piece, so take your time watching! From a personal and professional standpoint, this is a dream come true. I’ve been an…