Gaming

In unexpected but welcome news, premium mobile games are seeing a resurgence, after years in which free-to-play has been seen as the only option worth pursuing. The total number of…

Xbox laid off around 1600 people earlier this week, revealing plans to part ways with five studios at the same time. Naturally, boss Asha Sharma’s been tasked with justifying it…

For what it’s worth, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed in June that Xbox Game Pass has “started to grow again” in recent weeks following over eight months of decline. She…

Today’s best GEEKOM A9 Max AI Mini PC deals Honestly, I want to like the Geekom A9 Max, I really do. From a pure design perspective, the hardware, the engineering…

(Credit: Microsoft/The Shortcut) 🤔 Microsoft has expanded sign-ups for the Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition to the UK, US, Germany, and France, hinting at an upcoming announcement 📅 Pre-orders for…

Xbox aren’t closing or selling off Doom developers id Software as part of their latest business teardown, but they are reportedly laying off around half the studio, with swinging cuts…

Last week brought the news that Xbox had dropped their support for Project Fantasy the, er, fantasy project in development at IO Interactive. The Hitman maker announced they would remain…

It’s one of those weeks. After Xbox pulling out of a publishing and funding deal for Project Fantasy – IO Interactive’s next game – the developer has regained full control…

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has made a number of big changes since taking over from former chief Phil Spencer. Some of them—dialling back Game Pass, leaning into exclusives—collectively represent a…

X-Men ’97 Season 2, episode 4 ends with the perfect Weapon X setup. Post-credits scenes have been a Marvel tradition ever since 2008, but Marvel’s TV shows have increasingly avoided…

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service apparently has around 30 million users. That’s according to the Wall Street Journal, which reports that a person familiar with the situation said that…

On Monday, July 6, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wrote online that Xbox was laying off 3,200 people, offloading at least four gaming studios and that Xbox Game Pass hasn’t grown as…

The day has come! Almost, anyway, that day being Subnautica 2’s first update that isn’t just a hotfix, bringing in a small bounty of those previously promised improvements that’ll…

I’ve spent weeks playing Task Bar Hero as part of my daily work routine, and after pouring over 300 hours into the desktop auto-battler, it’s safe to say it sits…

Crikey, they sure do love putting Miss Lucy Cyberpunk in other games, don’t they? First Guilty Gear Strive, then Wuthering Waves, and now the Cyberpunk Edgerunners characters is finding…

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2023’s Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader is one of the best party-based CRPGs you can play today, but its Nintendo Switch 2 port was called one of the console’s worst so…

In the 1970s, the X-Men faced cancellation, and reprints were all that carried the comic book series on. However, with Giant Size X-Men introducing the new mutant heroes to the…

Licensed games don’t really exist in the way they did 20 years ago, with three different versions of the same game being made for different consoles adapting a popular…

Microsoft announces Xbox will reduce its workforce by 20%. Overall, the software giant is cutting its global workforce by 4,800 employees. The cuts come as Microsoft drastically increases investment in…

About a year and a half ago I bought a point and shoot 35mm film camera because I was getting a bit bored of taking photos on my phone…

IO Interactive will close its Istanbul studio following the loss of funding for its online fantasy RPG, codenamed Project Fantasy. Last week, Xbox withdrew from its agreement to fund and…

Polish studio Rebel Wolves hasn’t been shy about The Witcher 3’s influence on its open world vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker. Based on the four hours I’ve spent with…

Across the vast lands of Albion, rumors have been spreading of a growing rebellion. Piece-by-piece, information has reached the cities, and one thing now seems clear: on July 4, the…

Seeking relief from the terrible light of the Xbox resettification, I fall into the sweet, dank embrace of The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, a 17th century extraction game in which…

Tradd Moore is one of those cartoonists whose pages, filled with riotous color and ridiculously-cool eyeball kicks, can genuinely drop your jaw. In Silver Surfer: Black it’s cosmic psychedelia. In…

This week’s announcement that Xbox is cutting roughly 3,200 jobs and divesting five studios marks the most significant restructuring in the division’s history. It is also an admission that its…

I love a digital card game as much as the next person, but honestly, most of the time I feel that they’re a bit of a letdown in the…

I’ve played four hours of the hugely promising The Blood of Dawnwalker now which, if you don’t know yet, is the new vampire-themed role-playing project led by the person who…