The Galaxies Showcase returns on October 15, with announcements from ZA/UM, Embark Studios, and Frontier Developments | Gaming
I’m sure you already had it marked in your calendars, but it is that time of year again when the Galaxies Showcase takes one more spin around the internet. This…
Read moreBatman: Bad Seeds – Streets of Gotham #1 | News World
DC Comics releases Batman: Bad Seeds – Streets of Gotham #1 this coming Wednesday, and we have the official preview for you below; check it out… SIX STORIES OF SURVIVAL…
Read more2026’s OLED monitors can nearly recreate the sublime clarity of a ’90s CRT, but Windows will have to change before we can achieve true nirvana | Gaming
The 2007 season finale of TV phenom Lost ended with an all-timer twist: What had seemed like the show’s routine flashback storyline, filling in the events that preceded its characters…
Read moreHere’s How Much Xbox Game Pass Cost In 2017 Vs. 2026 | Gaming
Miguel Lagoa/Shutterstock Xbox Game Pass allows both casual and veteran gamers to dive into titles spanning every Xbox generation across the Xbox…
Read moreXbox’s new streak experiment – by Stephen Totilo | Gaming
See the flame? And the three days checked off? That’s the start of a streak, displayed on my Xbox user profile on my console dashboard. Screenshot: Game File A new…
Read moreWardogs season 2 deepens the sandbox shooter’s capitalist hell by letting you bet cash on your own performance | Gaming
“The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong,” wrote the late author Damon Runyon, “but that’s the way to bet.” As someone neither swift…
Read more“It’s not in the top five reference points”: Afterworld isn’t just a Fallout grand strategy game, say Paradox, it owes a lot more to the Bronze Age | Gaming
When Paradox announced their post-apocalyptic North American grand strategy game Afterworld, I made the obvious comparison to Fallout. For this I should be chained to the fender of a…
Read moreThis should be game streaming’s moment. It’s not | Opinion | Gaming
Earlier this week, there was a ripple of excitement among long-suffering Xbox fans over news that the platform had struck an exclusive deal for the streaming rights to Grand Theft…
Read moreAfter modders removed Skate’s live service bits, devs draw the line with tools that “bypass our systems to unlock paid cosmetics” | Gaming
EA and Full Circle – the developer behind the new early access Skate game (skate.) – don’t have a problem with modders and “creativity from players,” but they’re drawing the…
Read moreAMD FSR 4.1 May Be Coming Soon To Xbox Series X|S | Gaming
1 AMD may be bringing its AI upscaling technology, FSR 4.1, to Xbox Series X|S consoles sometime in the near future. WIndows Central’s Jez Corden (via IdleSloth84_) took to Twitter/X…
Read moreGolden Age No More in Dave Baker & Malachi Ward’s CITIZEN: STARDUST #1, Launching April 2027 | News World
With New York Comic Con now in full swing, Oni Press has announced Citizen: Stardust, a new intense and enthralling prestige maxi-series set to debut in comic book stores in April 2027….
Read moreLeisure Suit Larry is about to take his final bow | Gaming
2018’s Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry was a genuinely pleasant surprise, in that it’s actually good—quite a contrast to the preceding games in the series, Magna Cum Laude…
Read moreSelect PS5, Xbox, and Switch Gift Cards Are on Sale at Newegg Today | Gaming
Fall sales aren’t done just yet. If you’re looking to grab some gaming gift cards, especially if you’re getting a head start on holiday shopping, Newegg has just dropped some…
Read more“We’re not getting any younger, and the world seems to be ending”: Amanita reveal Machinarium 2, sequel to 2009’s prettiest robot adventure | Gaming
The dashing Da Vincis of Amanita Design have announced Machinarium 2, a sequel to the 2009 puzzle adventure young master John Walker called “a sort of beauty that games are…
Read moreEmbrace your jobbing musician soul with a new Cyberpunk 2077 quest mod that comes with the option of playing all the wrong chords for Master of Puppets | Gaming
Cyberpunk 2077 quest mods are still a relative rarity and the latest’s aimed at folks who don’t think getting to play that one gig with Samurai during the main story’s…
Read moreTech layoffs tracker 2026: All the job losses across Amazon, Xbox, Apple, Oracle, TikTok, Meta and others | Gaming
We’ve been inundated with tech layoffs throughout the whole of 2026 — and there’s likely more to come. In June, 14,000 job cuts happened at EV automaker Lucid, game developer…
Read moreVideo games aren’t the enemy of kids’ mental health – ignoring them is | Opinion | Gaming
Video games have become an easy target in conversations about young people’s mental health, often without much understanding of the positive role they can play. Parents cite them as the…
Read moreCaptain Britain 50th Anniversary Special #1 | News World
Marvel Comics celebrates half a century of Captain Britain next week with the oversized one-shot Captain Britain 50th Anniversary Special #1, and you can get yourself a sneak peek at…
Read moreEA Sports FC 27 review – some good weighty play meets the usual, cynical annual grind | Gaming
Smart iterations and steady developments mark a decent forward step for EA’s FC series, amidst the usual cynicism. The most touching of additions, in EA Sports FC 27, is a…
Read moreNew Razer Basilisk V4 executes perfect 180 degree turns at the click of a button, all while looking like a Power Ranger’s foot | Gaming
I’m a sucker for an ergonomically shaped mouse, particularly those with a futuristic design. Which is why I was pleased to have a mess around with the now-announced Razer Basilisk…
Read moreProspice: Anomalous Logistics is SnowRunner except instead of lengths of copper pipe, you’re transporting the body parts of eldritch gods | Gaming
Viewed from the front, my truck, with its winch and thick off-road tires, could be straight from SnowRunner central casting. Sure, it would an off-off-Broadway production of SnowRunner, with the…
Read moreXbox confirms next-gen plans beyond Project Helix as it gains upper hand over PS6 | Gaming
The Xbox next-gen console plan already sounds like a winner, but the driving force behind it isn’t the tech; it’s something Sony is currently lacking. Xbox has had its ups…
Read moreLazare’s Sacrifice is a narrative deckbuilder made with Gwent’s creator about avoiding the guillotine during the French Revolution | Gaming
The sort of beautiful thing about triple-A games is that sometimes they have the resources to make an entirely new game within them. That was how Gwent was born,…
Read moreMicrosoft launches new XBOX division to focus on films and televisions adaptations | Gaming
XBOX is expanding into the film industry with the establishment XBOX XP. In an announcement published on XBOX Wire, Microsoft revealed the creation of XBOX XP, a new division focused…
Read moreVolatiles takes the piece-by-piece map building of boardgames like Betrayal at House on the Hill and slaps a gory survival shooter on top of them | Gaming
I do love a boardgame where you reveal the tiles as you play. Sure, I also enjoy turning over all the pieces at the beginning of a game of Settlers…
Read moreThe Most Depraved Comic of the 2000s Is Officially a Movie – Watch the Crossed Trailer | News World
Was Preacher‘s mentally challenged, self-pleasuring Jesus clone insufficient to offend your sense of decorum and taste? Did the “Herogasm” episode of The Boys feel like light entertainment? Do we have…
Read moreBlizzard refuses to let World of Warcraft: Forever’s dungeons become the fastest way to grind XP: ‘We need to hold firm on these balance adjustments’ | Gaming
World of Warcraft: Forever players have a lot of intense feelings about the role dungeons play in the leveling experience. Some want dungeons to be an alternative way to level…
Read moreHands-on — Xbox’s brand new PC app offers BIG performance improvements | Gaming
Surprise! Here’s a quick look at Xbox’s new PC app, potentially set to go live to Xbox Insiders before the end of the year. Over the summer, Microsoft began testing…
Read more“A creative idea can save more money than AI can right now” – Glen Schofield on his retirement, Callisto Protocol’s development, and the state of AAA | Gaming
During the summer, veteran developer Glen Schofield announced his retirement from the games industry. He’d had an enviable career, spanning all the way back to 1992’s Barbie: Game Girl. He…
Read moreBobby Kotick returns: former Activision boss becomes board member of Skydance, the new company formed by Paramount and Warner Bros | Gaming
Former Activision boss Bobby Kotick has returned to a position of high influence as a board member of Skydance, the new entertainment juggernaut formed by the merging of Warner Bros….
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