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For the longest time, Windows on Arm has been the purview of Snapdragon processors with Adreno CPUs (and occasionally some repurposed Mac silicon). A couple of months ago, though, Nvidia…

While it’s not a series of truly Hitman-scale murder sandboxes, 007 First Light does make good on its promise of enabling multiple Bond, James Bonding disciplines: shooting, sneaking, punching, and…

Our second “day one” release today is for Tears of Metal, which bizarrely wasn’t mentioned in Microsoft’s official roundup yesterday, but nevertheless is still scheduled to release on time as…

A day will dawn when the premise “what if Darkest Dungeon but also XYZ” will lose its crablike stranglehold on my fancy, but that day is not this day, for…

The Duskbloods‘ first playtest – which will likely mark the first time anyone outside FromSoftware and Nintendo has played the Switch 2 exclusive – is coming next month, yet Google’s…

Comics 22nd July 2026 – ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2492 is OUT NOW! Call me The Mighty Tharg, for I am your effusive emerald guide to all that…

Meta and Xbox have officially announced a new partnership that bundles Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition with Meta Horizons+ subscriptions at no additional cost. Meta Unveils Horizons+ Subscriptions That Come…

Xbox has begun offering the starter edition of Game Pass to Meta Horizon+ subscribers. The starter edition of Game Pass is available to eligible members in supported regions. This follows…

Look at the nice fellow in the featured image of this article. Look into his eyes. Look at the slightly awkward grin plastered across his face at the moment in…

Most players eventually lose the drive to keep grinding a new league, or season, in Path of Exile 2 and simply log off until the next one. Others gather up…

Both Sony Interactive Entertainment and Nintendo are being sued over consumer tariff refunds. Now, Microsoft will join them in court. Trevor Hastings, from California, purchased an Xbox console from a…

Things are sounding bad over at Splitgate developer 1047 Games once again. After launching Empulse last month, a wall-running, quite Titanfall-esque FPS with mechs game that James had some…

Microsoft has secured the second cross-subscription licensing deal for Xbox Game Pass while also bringing a new control scheme to Quest Touch controllers. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Users who…

Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy has shared his lofty aspiration for RuneScape to be the biggest MMO in the world in the next five years. That, for those unaware, would mean…

A drawing of Dark Horse Comics character Hellboy, right, illustrated by Bob Layton, is on sale for 700,000 won at Alpha Gallery in central Seoul’s Namdaemun Market, July 20. The…

The idea of developing sound and well placed infrastructure in a contemporary city fills me with an overwhelming sense of incompetency, so for the most part I tend to…

Occasionally I will see a game that opts for an artstyle so complex and involved that will clearly take years to make, leaving me with an unbridled fear of…

In January last year, gaming startup Studio Atelico launched the Atelico AI Engine, which operates on-device rather than relying on costly cloud solutions. Six months later, the company secured $5…

A key executive has left Microsoft years ahead of the next-gen Project Helix console, opting for a similar role at an AI company instead. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Jared…

Just two months after he was appointed the new vice president of engineering at Xbox and technical advisor to CEO Asha Sharma, Jared Palmer is now the former vice president…

Stalker 2 was a financial success before it ever got into the hands of players. In a new interview with YouTuber OLDBoi, GSC Game World founder Sergiy Grygorovych spoke about…

Anyone who knows me knows that the one frustration I come back to in games, above all else, more than yellow paint, quest markers and horrendously written dialogue, is…

“This fall the Toxic Avenger will come face to face with his evil duplicate, The Noxious Offender, in a five-part, can’t-miss comic book event extravaganza by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist…

I’m sure there’s plenty enough of you that moved on from the first Darkest Dungeon onto the second one when that launched in 2023, but guess what! You’ll have…

Darkest Dungeon 2 landed well enough and received generally positive reviews, but it’s never been universally accepted in the same way the original game was, as Steam user reviews of…

Here’s something that I’ve been investigating for years at this point: Xbox’s support services. One of my personal nightmares as a heavy Microsoft ecosystem user is the prospect of somehow…

The Arctic Freezer 36-S lands at the right time. Prices are rising for PC builds but you can claw some money back with this cooler. It costs just $22/£19. A…

Esports communications consultancy The Story Mob has rebranded as a “strategic player culture advisory” to better serve the broader games industry. The company will offer social strategy, community management, marketing…

The rest of July and early part of August will see some big hitters join Xbox Game Pass, chief among them Halo: Campaign Evolved. As a first-party Microsoft game, Halo:…