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Forza Horizon 5 creative director Mike Brown, who’s currently working on open-world racer Clutch after departing Microsoft-owned Playground Games in 2023, has offered his perspective on Xbox’s current layoff-heavy pivot…

Future? No Thanks! is a jolly and acerbic open world city game from seasoned satirist Paulo “Molleindustria” Perdicini. It’s about a bitter old boomer trying to enjoy his final day…

The Cape Fear Pop Culture Fest made its debut on Saturday at the Elks Lodge in Wilmington. (WWAY) (WWAY) — Grab your superhero family & space cadet friends, climb onto…

The Planet Crafter, or simply Planet Crafter, if you will, is today’s Xbox Game Pass addition for July 2026, bringing its sci-fi base-building survival goodness to the subscription service on…

In a grim week for the games industry where Microsoft laid off 1,600 people (with 1,600 further job cuts hanging over the heads of Xbox employees) one decision stood out…

It’s a little surprising there aren’t more The Elder Scrolls clones. Aside from Avowed, the only other example I can think of is Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. It…

This week will soon kick into gear with lots of new Xbox releases on the horizon, but before we get there, we wanted to use this opportunity to highlight two…

Steam Machine developer and gaming giant Valve has admitted that sourcing memory and storage supply for the Steam Machine – and beyond – is “still getting worse.” In an interview…

Game Of Thrones: War For Westeros, the Age of Empiresy RTS teeming with Targaryens and laced with Lannisters, has been delayed to 2027. Developers PlaySide have decided that while development’s…

When it comes to portable gaming audio, over-the-ear headsets account for most of the options currently available. With the launch of Razer’s new Hammerhead V3 X Hyperspeed earbuds for Xbox…

Skip to comments VeeFriends by Gary Vee and D.J. Coffman began its Sunday run in Lee Enterprises newspapers on February 23, 2025 and while still running in those papers it…

Hello all! This week, there are a lot of new cat-themed games for some reason. One suspects that some dire cat anniversary is underway. Maybe week of 20th July 2026…

The big changes at Xbox in recent months are set to include a return to offering console exclusive games amid a pretty reasonable perception that offering games first-party Xbox games…

It’s been two weeks since Microsoft announced 3,200 layoffs and sweeping cuts hit the Xbox division. Not even well-established institutions like Doom and Quake studio id Software were safe –…

Less than a week after Ubisoft promised that a new Ghost Recon game is coming but probably not anytime soon, the company says it will mark the series’ 25th anniversary…

Sketchy Fables is a first-person explorathon in which, if you kill things with homing butterflies, the world will grow more beautiful, whereas if you kill things with shotguns, the world…

A judge has ordered the planned Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) merger be paused for at least 14 days following accusations the deal could violate US antitrust laws. WBD…

Samsung 990 specs: Sizes: 1TB, 2TB Form factor: M.2 (2280) Interface: PCIe 4.0 x4 Seq. read: Up to 7,250MB/s Seq. write: Up to 6,450MB/s Price: Starting from £220 / $270…

Summer always makes me nostalgic. Right now it’s making me nostalgic for the glory days of the Xbox 360, and not just because the latest iteration of Xbox is, well,…

Wonder Woman made her DC Comics debut in 1942’s “All-Star Comics” #8, and she’s since become one of the pillars of the DC universe. Comic books play fast and loose…

It feels like it was a long time ago now, but it was only back on Friday that Bethesda Game Studios announced a whole bunch of its plans for the…

What would you say to the following pitch: a Deus Ex fan mod, in the works for seven years, set in a Deus Ex forum whose moderator has been abducted….

A Florida-based student has been arrested by the FBI after allegedly stealing over $220,000 in cryptocurrency by means of malware-packed free games on Steam. The games in question include PirateFi,…

Former Gears of War and Unreal Tournament designer Cliff Bleszinski has opened up about his struggle with alcoholism and how it’s impacted his life and career in game development to…

There’s been one thought I haven’t been able to shake during my time with Battlefield 6‘s upcoming Tsuru Reef map – the game’s biggest yet, which arrives tomorrow with Season…

Xbox has been accused of “unlawfully” laying off staff without giving notice to, or discussing it with, recognized unions. As detailed on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) website and…

This article concludes ExDev Week. You can find previous articles here. Following stints in government work, fundraising, and finance, Mitch Patterson founded Wolfjaw Studios in 2018 after becoming interested in…

Following that epic first trailer, Marvel Studios has shared the official poster for Avengers: Doomsday. Showing Doctor Doom bowing his head before an intricate tapestry—mask in hand—this appears to confirm…

Publisher Nacon and developer Artefacts Studio have announced MXGP 26: The Official Game for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC (Steam). It will launch in October. Here is an overview…