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BioWare's Maligned Loot Shooter Anthem Will Go Offline Forever Next Year
3.7.2025
BioWare’s doomed looter shooter may have had some neat aesthetics and was a competent-enough action RPG when it wanted to be, but as we all know well by now, it was a complete disaster for the devs and publisher EA. While a planned reboot of the game was canned and everyone who’s played the game...
Xbox Invites Developers To AI Roundtable The Same Day It Does Mass Layoffs
3.7.2025
Yesterday was awful for people who work at Microsoft and the gaming industry in general. Thousands at the company either saw colleagues laid off or were laid off themselves, while outside observers watched as more game developers and projects were put on the chopping block. Microsoft’s $80 billion...
How To Hide Your Play Activity From Friends And Strangers On Switch 2
3.7.2025
Privacy is a big thing these days, and it’s perfectly reasonable to be choosy with who you share information with online. That includes even simple things like which games you play, which is why you can hide your play activity on Nintendo Switch 2. But whether you hide your play activity or not...
Battlefield 6 Reportedly Has A Massive Budget Of Over $400 Million
3.7.2025
The next Battlefield game, often referred to online as Battlefield 6, looks to be a return to the franchise’s modern warfare roots, and that has many fans, myself included, excited to play it. However, behind the scenes, EA reportedly has wild expectations for the game, which might cost as much...
Massive PS5 Hit Helldivers 2 Is Coming To Xbox This August As Console Exclusivity Wall Comes Down
3.7.2025
Helldivers 2 is breaking its PlayStation 5 console exclusivity and coming to Xbox Series X/S in August. Fans have long called for the hit extraction shooter to be available on every platform, and in a shocking twist the Sony published blockbuster is obliging. It’s another major crack in...
Xbox Boss 'Not Retiring Anytime Soon,' Microsoft Promises
2.7.2025
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has been in charge of Xbox for over a decade and the company says he’s not leaving anytime soon, calling rumors that the longtime exec might be resigning when the next generation of Xbox hardware launches “completely made up.” Read more
A Bunch Of Big PS5 Games Are On Sale Right Now
2.7.2025
A big summer sale is currently happening on the PlayStation Store, with a ton of PS5 games discounted to $25 or less. Read more
Xbox Reportedly Cancels That Cool-Looking Perfect Dark Reboot
2.7.2025
Xbox’s Perfect Dark reboot, announced back in 2020, has reportedly been canceled as part of the ongoing layoffs at Microsoft. The studio developing the game has reportedly been shut down, too. Read more
Microsoft Kills Sea Of Thieves Studio's Long-Troubled Action-Adventure Everwild
2.7.2025
Rather than doing the humane and dignified thing of telling thousands of people all at once whether or not they’re going to have a job tomorrow, Xbox is laying off over 9,100 employees today in waves. Xbox CEO Phil Spencer told workers in an email message (thanks, IGN) that this is to “position...
Microsoft Cutting 9,100 Jobs As Latest Mass Layoff Hits Xbox Beginning With Candy Crush Maker King
2.7.2025
Reports and rumors of massive layoffs at Xbox have been building since late last month and the first blood has now been spilled. Bloomberg reports that Candy Crush maker King is cutting 200 employees, or roughly 10 percent of its 2,000 person headcount, with layoffs also underway at other European...
Donkey Kong Bananza Does The One Thing I've Wanted For Decades: Stickerbush Symphony And Bramble Blast Back Together Again
1.7.2025
Few moments hit on the original SNES like your first time hearing “Stickerbush Symphony” while shooting through a labyrinth of towering thorny beanstalks in Donkey Kong Country 2's Bramble Blast levels. It’s one of the best songs to ever appear in a game, alongside one of the most evocative 16-bit...
Two Of The Biggest Names In Video Game Acting Star In A New Psychological Horror Game
1.7.2025
You probably won’t find many names in video game voice acting who have had the surge of success and recognizability Ben Starr and Neil Newbon have had since 2023. Starr, who played Clive in Final Fantasy XVI and Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Newbon, best known for his performance...
This Ghostly Bound Sword Is Oblivion Remastered’s Strongest Two-Handed Blade
1.7.2025
When tracking down Oblivion Remastered’s best greatsword, one would likely check the armorer first, right? Wrong! It’s at the Mage’s Guild of all places. You see, the best two-handed sword isn’t a sword at all, it’s an illusion. A trick of the eye that deals damage like a physical object. Oh,...
Nintendo Finally Confirms Mario Odyssey Team Is Making Donkey Kong Bananza But Still Won't Share Any Actual Names
1.7.2025
Who is making Donkey Kong Bananza? That’s been one of the big questions on fans’ minds ever since the Switch 2 title was revealed, fueled by the fact that Nintendo seemingly refused to say which studio or internal team was behind it. Now we finally know. Nintendo has confirmed the game that walks...
Halo's Future Will Be Revealed...In October, Says Xbox
30.6.2025
Rumors have been swirling for a while now that Xbox’s flagship series, Halo, might be making the leap to PlayStation in the near future. There have also been rumors about a remake of the OG game. Now, Halo Studios, formerly 343 Industries, has stepped forward to explain that it will provide actual...
Original Switch Getting Mysterious 'Price Change' In Canada 8-Years After Launch As Gaming Gets More Expensive
30.6.2025
The Switch launched in 2017 for $300. It’s now 2025 and it’s still $300. Will it finally get a price cut like every other Nintendo console has had at some point in its lifecycle or will the Mario maker take the unprecedented step of actually making it more expensive, even after the Switch 2 is out?...
Nintendo And Amazon Deny Being In An Ongoing Switch 2 Feud
30.6.2025
Anyone who’s recently tried to buy stuff from Nintendo through Amazon will have noticed that something weird is going on. Lots of new games you’d expect to find on the online retailer aren’t available there, and the ones that are often arrive with region codes indicating they were originally...
EA Reviving College Basketball Series After College Football Broke Records
30.6.2025
Fans of digital college basketball, get excited. Electronic Arts has officially announced that it is bringing back its college basketball franchise, though it might be a while before you get to play it. Read more
Buggy Warhammer 40K: Space Marine Remaster Gets Upgrade Discount And Refunds As Fans Trash It
30.6.2025
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Master Crafted Edition was one of the biggest surprises coming out of the Warhammer showcase in May. Following the success of last year’s Space Marine 2, the original Xbox 360-era nostalgia trap shooter would be playable on modern hardware with graphics upscaled...
Games We'd Love To See On Switch 2, What Makes Rematch So Fantastic, And More Of The Week's Takes
28.6.2025
This week we championedRematch, the great new soccer game from Sifu maker Sloclap. We also shared 25 games we’d love to see make their way to the Switch 2, and celebrated the incredibly influential Deus Ex on the 25th anniversary of its release.Read more