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Nintendo has been on a bit of a rollercoaster ride for the past few weeks. First, we learned that holiday sales of Switch 2 had disappointed, potentially leading to the…

Ascenders: Beyond The Peak is a new turn-based roguelite in which a bunch of alpine occultists try to recover cursed artefacts from Lovecraftian mountains, before the world ends. Lotta genre…

The latest Steam hardware survey cites Linux as accounting for over 5% of the install base. That’s not a lot, and comes with the caveat of Valve’s info gathering not…

Recon is my favourite Shell to play as in Marathon, so I was surprised to learn that she is considered one of the weaker characters in Bungie’s extraction shooter. This…

iama_sing/Shutterstock Xbox looks set to unveil a new controller this year that could introduce WiFi connectivity, a move that could help reduce…

Years of careful study underpin a deceptively familiar sequel. The new additions make a difference but it’s the confidence in what this eccentric card game is that shines through. Cruelty…

GTA V and GTA Online have been confirmed to be leaving Xbox Game Pass once again. Following a few previous stints, Rockstar put the blockbuster back into Microsoft’s subscription service…

I think it’s entirely possible that I have not known true happiness since going through the childhood experience of going to your local Easter egg hunt, and finding a…

I’ve never really been able to wrap myself around raising sim games such as the Princess Maker series. The framing of them feels like it could quite easily teeter…

2026 is off to an exciting start as the winter season lineup introduces fans to some of the greatest anime ever and has an exciting list of upcoming series for the rest…

MechWarrior 5: Clans developer Piranha Games has reportedly conducted a round of layoffs. Former employees of the Canadian studio shared on LinkedIn that they were affected, including those working in…

What a crazy few months we’ve had in the world of Xbox, eh? It’s normally pretty quiet around this time of the year, but Asha Sharma has taken the role…

Before a career second act at Nightdive Studios, the recently-retired Larry Kuperman‘s big project was Impulse. It was to be GameStop’s answer to Steam, but it went the way of…

Earlier this week the team behind Oblivion remake mod Skyblivion put out a call for some “final” and “vital” veteran help to get their work over the line in 2026….

By Ben Adlin ( April 2, 2026, 9:14 PM EDT) — A group of gamers and their parents sued Microsoft Corp. in Washington state court over what they described as…

In the summer of last year, during Day of the Devs, immersive sim legend Warren Spector said that at his studio OtherSide Entertainment, “we don’t play it safe. We…

You could lock me into a chest packed with pieces of eight then toss me into a churning sea of pirate games and I’d still tell you there aren’t enough…

It is no overstatement to suggest that Batman possesses the most iconic Rogues’ Gallery in the history of comics. Over nearly a century of DC publications, the Dark Knight’s antagonists…

What a month. April is already here and ID@Xbox has you covered with a bunch of killer content. The indies they’ve designated as this months “Selects” are quite the bunch,…

Goat Simulator developer Coffee Stain has closed its mobile-focused Malmö studio. The developer’s VP of mobile Daniel Persson announced on LinkedIn that his role “leading this team has come to…

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Extracted a purple sniper rifle from a Marathon run, then promptly lost it to a knife rush. When I heard Call…

“The year is 2009,” opens the 1.0 launch trailer for Xenonauts 2, a sentence that tickles me greatly considering the game’s alternate future vibes. It presents a vision of…

Xbox has been through a lot over the past few years but it might finally be out of the trenches, as long as it doesn’t scrap anymore genuinely brilliant features….

I’ve not had a punt at Slay the Spire 2 myself yet, I’ve been too busy coming up with an excuse for not having played the first one, but…

Another Xbox Free Play Days period starts today and offers gamers the chance to dive into six different modern Assassin’s Creed titles. Every Assassin’s Creed Game Included in the Free…

The fighting game genre developed into one of the most prominent throughout the 2000s, and the trend continued well into the 2010s. The decade featured some of the genre’s best…

Former director of The Last of Us multiplayer game has claimed the cancelled online project was roughly “80 percent” finished when it was cancelled. In an interview in Lance E….

Legends of the Round Table isn’t just a turn-based RPG, it’s an extravagant 13th century puppetshow with live medieval lute music and a boisterous, singing narrator you can all…

Climbing games are having something of a moment: Fare like White Knuckle, Peak, and Cairn have all made big splashes (so to speak) and I maintain that Jusant is one…