The recent retirement of longtime Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer and resignation of presumed heir apparent Sarah Bond sparked serious questions about the future of the Xbox, mostly in the vein of, “Does it have one?” In a message posted today on X, new Microsoft Gaming chief Asha Sharma says it does—and it’s going to…
Fallout season two recently ended and, as one of Amazon’s biggest hits, you can bet it won’t be too long before we’re all enjoying season three. We already noticed player numbers double as a knock-on effect from season two’s premiere, but the show has had an even bigger impact on the games than we first…
When I sat down to play Diablo 4’s new warlock class about a month ago at Blizzard HQ, I didn’t expect to come away from the experience thinking about all the other, older classes. Lord of Hatred is an expansion with a much bigger scope, introducing not one, but two new classes, and a major…
Marching onwards. We blinked and somehow we’re already almost a week into March! Where does the time go, eh? It’s already been a busy one, but we have yet another stacked month of Switch releases ahead of us. Here to guide you through some of the most exciting ones out there are the wonderful Alex…
Grasshopper Manufacture’s Let It Die, a free-to-play combat-focused roguelike, is closing down its online servers this August, but it has an offer for you. A new offline version of Let it Die is being made available for purchase, which will strip out all of the live-service stuff and replace them with offline equivalents. It’s certainly…
“I felt a lot of pressure with this one”. Resident Evil Requiem, the latest mainline title in Capcom’s survival horror franchise, is out now on the Switch 2. It tells an intimate tale that takes us right back to where it all started: Raccoon City. Joining us on the journey, of course, is series veteran…
Hopping into Marathon‘s server slam last week, I was surprised when I saw that we could still only have one contract active at a time. People have had much bigger complaints about its hard to parse items, confusing UI, and fast TTK, but for me, the grindiness of Marathon’s faction system was a bit of…
There are seven characters in Marathon, known as Runner Shells, and each one comes with unique abilities to set them apart. Even if you’ve played old playtests for the game, the classes have changed quite a bit at launch—for one, they’re not characters in the ‘hero shooter’ sense anymore, they’re more like classes. Below, I’ll…