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Five Games Are Leaving Xbox Game Pass In Early November 2025
Including the huge departure of Stalker 2.Microsoft has today revealed the next batch of five games set to leave Xbox Game Pass in early November, with these titles appearing in the "Leaving Soon" section of the Game Pass tab on the official Xbox mobile app.Stalker 2 is the ma...
02/11/2025
The Sunday Papers
Sundays are for sleeping off your fourth 10-hour flight in two weeks, assuming you in fact can sleep, and have not exacerbated your physical disintegration by staying up late on Saturday putting together a list of interesting games and not-games writing. Why not do it earlier, you ask? Daft question. You were busy with those flights.
02/11/2025
Satisfactory meets Genshin Impact in Arknights: Endield, whose second beta test sign ups are open now
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around Arknights: Enfield. It is One Of Those Games, to which there are two versions of. Arknights: Enfield is One Of Those Games, as in an anime gacha game filled with anthro-adjacent women for you to roll for and fight with in flashy, lackluster-in-feeling combat. Arknights:...
01/11/2025
Frostpunk 2's first bit of DLC gets a seasonally appropriate release date, though it does sound a bit bare-bones
I know that with winter on the way, you might be wanting to play some summery games to remind you of what life was like before Jack Frost started nipping at your chestnuts. Put that to the side, perhaps, just for a while, as developer 11 bit studios have revealed the release date for Frostpunk 2's first bit of D...
01/11/2025
PUBG creator's oddly named open world survival roguelike Prologue: Go Wayback gets an early access release date
How do you follow on from making a game that essentially popularised a whole new genre? I can only imagine that question is one Brendan Greene, aka Player Unknown, i.e. the creator of PUBG, has asked himself a few times. The answer to that question is Prologue: Go Wayback, a game that has been in the works...
01/11/2025
Rockstar have been accused of union busting after the firing of more than 30 staff members
Things aren't sounding so hot over at Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar right now. Yesterday, a report came out from Bloomberg (paywalled) that a number of...
01/11/2025
Arc Raiders' first roadmap promises lots of goodies like a new map, quests and more before the end of the year
Sure looks like Arc Raiders is off to an alright start, 'ey? Success doesn't mean there's any rest for the wicked, i.e. a live service game, however. Just yesterday, only a day after launching, developer Embark Studios revealed their Arc Raiders roadmap for the re...
01/11/2025
Guide: Xbox Game Pass: All Games Coming Soon In November 2025
All the confirmed reveals so far.Looking for a complete list of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in November 2025? It can be pretty difficult to keep track of all the comings and goings in the world of Xbox Game Pass every month, so we've put together this handy guide to provide an overview of what's coming to Xbox Game Pass ...
01/11/2025
Feature: These 40+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (November 3-7)
Including lots of new Game Pass titles!Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for November 3-7! We're really looking forward to the releases of stuff like Football Manager 26 and Voidtrain over the next few days, and there's plenty of other great new titles on th...
01/11/2025
Everything Coming to Disney+ in November
New releases from the MCU, Food Network, Disney Channel... and Madame Web.
01/11/2025
Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 1-2)
Raiding some ARCs? Exploring the Outer Worlds?Welcome to your first weekend of November 2025! It's been a busy old week in the world of Xbox, with The Outer Worlds 2 making its Game Pass debut, ARC Raiders bringing...
01/11/2025
What are we all playing this weekend?
No time to talk. Raiders are nearby, and there's a Rocketeer soaring overhead. We have to stay quiet. No sudden moves, no loud noises. Just come over here and whisper in my ear: what are you getting up to this weekend? Read more
01/11/2025
Every New LEGO Set for November 2025
Your look at every LEGO set releasing in November 2025, plus GWPs and other promos.
01/11/2025
The Official Xbox Wireless Controllers Are on Sale for Just $39.99 at Amazon
Happens to be one of the best PC gaming controllers as well.
31/10/2025
ARC Raiders Review in Progress
10 hours in, this finely-tuned extraction shooter is hard to put down.
31/10/2025
The Wayfair Early Black Friday Sale for 2025 Has Already Begun
Furniture deals are starting early this year.
31/10/2025
The Stylish Cyberpowerpc RX 9070 XT Gaming PC Drops to Its Lowest Price Ever Ahead of Black Friday
The best gaming prebuilt deal from Best Buy's Halloween DoorBOOsters Sale.
31/10/2025
The Massive 77" LG B5 4K OLED TV Is on Sale for Just $1,499.99 Ahead of Black Friday
One of the best deals from Best Buy's Doorboosters Sale going on today.
31/10/2025
Best Buy Kicks Off Its Early Black Friday Sale With Halloween Deals
Best Buy's holiday sales event has begun, with new deals each week through Black Friday 2025.
31/10/2025
These Are the 10 Best New Horror Books of 2025 to Read This Halloween
Discover the best new horror books of 2025, perfect for reading on Halloween night. From chilling thrillers to supernatural tales, these picks will keep you turning pages till sunrise.
31/10/2025
Wreckreation melds Burnout's anarchy with GTA Online's airborne marble runs, but it needs a lot more polish
It’s often pointless to wish a game series would come back once it’s been thrown on the great pile of dormant names. I try, and regularly fail, to stop myself yearning too forlornly for a new Midnight Club, a new Motorstorm, or...
31/10/2025
The Best Streaming Services for Watching Live TV Online in 2025
The top cable alternatives we've found.
31/10/2025
The Outer Worlds 2's faction writing falls short of Fallout: New Vegas, and how it handles the powerful is key
Warning: Spoilers for Fallout: New Vegas and The Outer Worlds 2 lie ahead. Fallout: New Vegas has been an elephant in the room when it comes to my experience playing The Outer Worlds 2. Game ...
31/10/2025
Save $1,300 Off the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16" RTX 5080 Gaming Laptop with OLED Display
Two stackable coupon codes drop it to one of the best prices I've seen all year.
31/10/2025
Europa Universalis 5 review
Europa Universalis 5 is a forever game. Insofar as you might be able to play this grand historical strategy forever, but also because - my god - it takes forever to play. After a mere 45 hours of conniving, trading, battling, and scratching my head at menus, I have just about scraped my way throu...
31/10/2025
Europa Universalis 5 Review
Tuning issues aside, this might be the most on-paper impressive historical strategy game of all time.
31/10/2025
Pokémon TCG Market Watch: Mega Evolution Cards Are Crashing Hard Right Now
Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution cards have dropped up to 33% in value since Oct. 10, marking the biggest correction since the set’s release. From Mega Gardevoir ex to Mega Lucario ex and Venusaur ex, here’s how prices have shifted and why now might be the time to buy.
31/10/2025
'No One Is Taking the Books Away. No One Is Taking the Video Games Away' — The Witcher Showrunner Responds to Backlash to Netflix Show
The Witcher Season 4 is upon us, and as fans know, the series has strayed away somewhat from the books upon which it is based, which has sparked a backlash among some fans. Showrunner Lauren Schmidt-Hissrich has, however, defended the approach.
31/10/2025
Master Of Command is a gunpowdery Total War alternative that narrows the focus to armies and real-time battles
My dearest Hedwig, I write to you from the churning battlefields of King Friedrich II's campaign to reinforce Silesia against the lurking Gallic aggressor. I regret to inform you that the French Hussars are kicking our Hussarses. We just engaged what our scouts from the 17th Pop-Up Tutorial Squadron promised was a "light" patrol of ill-trained musketmen and cavalry, just outside Hildesheim. Frenc...
31/10/2025
Painkiller Review
Neither good enough to get into heaven nor bad enough to be damned to the inferno.
31/10/2025
Deals for Today: MTG Avatar Back In Stock And The Best (Annoying) Xbox Controller and GPU Sale
As of Oct. 31, Lenovo’s ‘SIXSEVEN’ sale drops Xbox controllers to as low as $34.99 and RTX 5070 GPUs to $449.99. MTG: Avatar – The Last Airbender preorders are also back on Amazon, plus deals on Beats Studio Pro headphones for $99 and the cheapest RTX 5090 gaming PC yet.
31/10/2025
Everything Coming to Netflix in November
Christmas movies, the remnants of the DCEU, and the beginning of the end for Stranger Things.
31/10/2025
Indie Game Gets 'The Best Accidental Marketing' in Japan After Title Mistranslated to 'Sh***y Dungeon'
With all the indie titles being released on Steam every week, it can be hard to make your game stand out. Italian developer Fix-a-Bug accidentally gave its 2D dungeon crawler a big prelaunch popularity boost in Japan by accidentally naming the game “Shitty Dungeon” in Japanese.
31/10/2025
Edgar Wright’s Explanation for Never Wanting to Make Shaun of the Dead 2 Makes Perfect Sense
Should there be a Shaun of the Dead 2? Not now, not ever, director Edgar Wright has insisted — and his explanation for why he has such a hard line on it makes perfect sense.
31/10/2025
Silent Hill 2 Remake Has Been Rated For Xbox Series X|S In The US
Is an Xbox release imminent?Earlier this month, the PS5 exclusivity window for Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 Remake finally expired - and a new ESRB Rating suggests that the game's Xbox release is imminent.Yep,
31/10/2025
Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam
Arc Raiders has only been out a day, but it has already surpassed a Steam concurrent peak player count of 264,673, making it one of the biggest extraction shooters ever on Valve's platform.
31/10/2025
Love and Deepspace Devs Respond to Player Complaints That Their Dark-Skinned Custom Characters Are Invisible in Cutscenes
Love and Deepspace has been out for almost two years now, but its playerbase is growing increasingly exasperated over a persistent issue impacting players with dark-skinned custom main characters: their characters are literally invisible.
31/10/2025
Silent Hill 2 Remake on Xbox Pops Up On ESRB Website
We have good news for patient Silent Hill fans who have been waiting for a chance to play Silent Hill 2 Remake on an Xbox console — a new rating listing has popped up on the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).
31/10/2025
Microsoft Shares Initial List Of ROG Xbox Ally Games That Support Advanced Shader Delivery
"Launch faster, play smoother, game smarter".With ROG Xbox Ally now out in the wild, Microsoft is bringing its PC and console gaming tech closer together - and as part of the team's October 2025 Update, an initial list of ROG Xbox Ally games that support 'Advanced Shader Delivery' has been shared.If yo...
31/10/2025
Opinion: ARC Raiders Is One Of The Most Visually Impressive Multiplayer Games I've Ever Played
A stunner on Xbox Series X!Yesterday, we rounded up some early impressions of ARC Raiders as it was just launching on Xbox - and the general consensus was that this is a very good extraction shooter. Those were very early impressions of course, with full reviews of this new multiplayer title likely to crop u...
31/10/2025
Aliens, Bees, Conspiracies – the ABCs of Bugonia
Discover more about Yorgos Lanthimos's prickly tale of echo chambers and ecological collapse
31/10/2025
Speedrunner event Games Done Queer kicks off today, raising funds for LGBTQ+ legal aid by lighting Diddy Kong's butt on fire
Brethren! Cease your prattling and pick up your GameCube controllers. It is time to start playing Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem at an unhealthy velocity, while funding lawyers to uphold the legal rights of LGBTQ+ people in the USA.
31/10/2025
Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Against Pirate Who Boasted 'You Might Run a Corporation, But I Run The Streets'
Nintendo has won a lawsuit against a streamer who pirated games and livestreamed them ahead of their release dates.
31/10/2025
Stranger Things Creators Promise Season 5 Will Answer a Big Question Left Hanging Since Season 1
The creators of Stranger Things have promised fans that Season 5 will finally answer one of the biggest questions left hanging since Season 1 made its explosive debut a decade ago.
31/10/2025
Xbox 'Best Rated' Sale Now Live, Packed With Indie Titles At Up To 90% Off
Hundreds of games on offer!Alongside its ongoing Shocktober Sale (which is live through the coming weekend), Microsoft has just set a new ID@Xbox Best Rated Sale live on its digital storefront - featuring hundreds of discounts from indie developers and publishers at up to 90% off.These aren't just small indie titles either; th...
31/10/2025
40 Years Later, Lifeforce Is Still the Most Insane Would-Be Blockbuster Ever Released
If you’re looking for something different for your Halloween party this year, look no further than the 1985 Tobe Hooper film Lifeforce, starring Mathilda May and Steve Railsback. Even 40 years after its release, the sci-fi/horror/zombie movie about space vampires may still be the most bonkers big-budget film of all time.
31/10/2025
Fortnite's adding pets, and changing your invincible banana dog's colour will require buying another invincible banana dog
You head down to the pet shelter in Fortnite. It's full. Woof, says one invincible banana dog, I barely see my owner because they wanted me to be a banana dog who regularly changes colour. Alas, this cannot be, so they've had to spend their V-Bucks on a small army of invincible banana dogs in a variety of hues. You try to cheer up this Sidekick by telling them that their owner ca...
31/10/2025
The hardest part of making Arc Raiders was creating a "meaningful" item meta so that your loot doesn't just feel like "cash"
A question I often ask game developers when I've run out of real questions is: what was the hardest part of making your game? Which is a terrible line of inquiry, because it's like asking somebody with their foot in a hornet's nest which individual hornet they dislike the most. As Arc Raiders executive producer Alek...
31/10/2025
Fortnite Sidekicks Are Here, Epic Confirms You Can Customize the Appearance of Your Pet Just Once and It's Permanent
Fortnite's Sidekicks, the adorable little pets that accompany you on your Fortnite adventures, have caused quite a stir with Fortnite fans — and not necessarily for all the right reasons.
31/10/2025
14 Titles Added To Xbox Stream Your Own Game, Including Some Brand-New Releases
Another batch of games have been added.As part of its big October 2025 update, Microsoft has named 14 more titles that have been added to the Xbox Stream Your Own Game service - including brand-new releases such as
31/10/2025
Netflix 'Actively' Exploring Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, New Report Claims
Netflix is in the mix for Warner Bros. Discovery, a new report has claimed.
31/10/2025
Rumour: Halo 2 & 3 Remakes Are Supposedly Coming After Halo: Campaign Evolved
No multiplayer though.With Halo: Campaign Evolved's announcement now out in the wild, it's only natural to think about what else Halo Studios is cooking up as part of its new multi-game plan - and a new rumour suggests that the team could be moving onto more Halo remakes....
31/10/2025
Paradox apologise for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2's new Halloween gear initially only being a treat for fresh saves
Existing PC vampires of Seattle, you should now have access to the expanded wardrobe Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 devs Paradox and The Chinese Room have rolled out for Halloween. The free update's fresh hairstyles, makeup styles, and eye colour...
31/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Hidden Room Discovery has Players Developing Theories and Searching for Easter Eggs
Battlefield 6 players are trading theories about Easter Eggs and future updates after one fan discovered a mysterious hidden room in the firing range.
31/10/2025
Japanese Organization Representing the Likes of Bandai Namco, Square Enix, and Studio Ghibli Demands OpenAI Ceases Unauthorized Training of Sora 2 on Their IPs
On October 28, the Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), an organization representing many of Japan’s major publishers and producers, submitted a written request to OpenAI. As previously reported on by Automaton, the request calls on the American tech company to cease training its Sora 2 generative AI on the copyrighted IPs of its members. This is the latest move in the ongoing controversy in Japan over Sora 2.
31/10/2025
IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 2 Review
It: Welcome to Derry’s second episode is at its best when continuing to terrorize the kids in town, but some outlandish developments seem to be pointing the conspiracy plot in surprising and not-all-that-convincing directions.
31/10/2025
AU Deals: Handpicked Game Discounts You Can’t Afford to Miss Today
Today's lineup is stacked with titles that offer serious mileage for your money, whether you’re craving long-haul RPGs, roguelike reruns, or cinematic campaigns that beg for a second playthrough.
31/10/2025
Get a Free iPhone 17 Pro From T-Mobile With Trade-in
Or get a free iPhone 17, no trade-in required, with select plans.
30/10/2025
Stock Up on a Four-Pack 6.6-Feet 240W USB Type-C Cables for Just $12 on Amazon
These cables are perfect for your Nintendo Switch 2, Steam Deck, iPhone 17, or laptop.
30/10/2025
Pokemon Legends: Z-A's Ranked Battle Mega Stone Rewards Are Getting Easier to Obtain
Pokemon Legends: Z-A is getting an update that will make rewards from Ranked Battles, specifically a desirable set of Mega Stones, much easier to obtain.
30/10/2025
HyperMegaTech Super Pocket Editions Review
It doesn't have the best screen size and resolution, or the most ideal controls for every single game, but the HyperMegaTech Super Pocket series is a value-packed, highly collectible portable companion and a fun gateway to the bigger Evercade hardware lineup.
30/10/2025
The Lenovo Legion Tower 7 RTX 5090 Gaming PC Drops to a New Historically Low Price
I'm fairly certain you won't find a better deal even on Black Friday.
30/10/2025
Save 38% Off the Xbox Breaker Edition Wireless Controllers with Code SIXSEVEN
Choose among Heart Breaker, Storm Breaker, and Ice Breaker limited editions.
30/10/2025
Mega Evolution: Mega Latios ex Box is at Market Value on Amazon
As of Oct. 30, the Pokémon TCG Mega Latias ex Box is available on Amazon for $37.20 matching market value. Each box includes two Mega Evolution, one Destined Rivals, and one Journey Together booster pack, plus a Mega Latias ex promo card.
30/10/2025
Power Rangers and More LEGO Ideas Submissions Are Getting Official Releases
The LEGO Ideas Review Board has green-lit six new sets based on fan designs, including Power Rangers, Smurfs, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, and more.
30/10/2025
The 77" Samsung S90 4K OLED TV (Factory Refurbished) Drops to Just $1,399.99 at Woot
Includes a 90-day Samsung warranty.
30/10/2025
Microsoft Highlights 50+ Xbox Play Anywhere Titles Added To The Program Last Month
Hollow Knight: Silksong, Silent Hill F and lots more!As part of the Xbox October 2025 Update, Microsoft has highlighted more than 50 Xbox Play Anywhere titles added to the program last month - including major games such as
30/10/2025
Save $1,200 Off the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16" RTX 5080 Gaming Laptop with OLED Display
Two stackable coupon codes drop it to one of the best prices I've seen all year.
30/10/2025
Call of Duty Movie: Yellowstone's Taylor Sheridan to Script, Peter Berg to Direct
Activision has officially announced that Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan will script and Lone Survivor’s Peter Berg will direct a live-action Call of Duty movie for Paramount Pictures.
30/10/2025
Save 33% Off the Xbox Breaker Edition Wireless Controllers at Lenovo
Choose among Heart Breaker, Storm Breaker, and Ice Breaker limited editions.
30/10/2025
King of the Hill Season 16 and 17 Confirmed With 20-Episode Order
Hulu has renewed King of the Hill for Seasons 16 and 17 with a 20-episode order. The adult animated series was initially revived in January 2023 with a 20-episode order.
30/10/2025
Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (October 30 - November 2)
A new batch of free titles.Xbox Free Play Days has arrived! As we roll into November, Microsoft has added seven games to the program this week - including a longer trial of its 2024 shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.Here's your full list of Free Play Days titles this weekend:Read the
30/10/2025
Former Suikoden and Romancing Saga devs release fairytale RPG Stray Children, with a plea to never spoil the ending
Onion Games have released the English language version of Stray Children, a "bittersweet, fairytale RPG" I hadn't heard of till Oisin wrote it up in June, and then became very excited about. Created by Onion Games, th...
30/10/2025
Here's What's Included In The Xbox October 2025 Update
"We continue our quest to add improved innovation...".The Xbox October 2025 update has just been highlighted by the folks over at Team Xbox, with ROG Xbox Ally, the Handheld Compatibility Program and fresh PC and ...
30/10/2025
It Looks Like Amazon's The Lord of the Rings MMO Is Dead
Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings MMO appears to have been canceled as part of sweeping layoffs that hit the company’s gaming business hard.
30/10/2025
Let us indulge in some kneejerk reactions to Apex Legends Season 27’s biggest updates
Apex Legends is rolling out its Season 27 update next Tuesday, November 4th, and RPS has been furnished with an overview of its meatiest rejigging work. I haven’t playtested this megapatch so unlike with
30/10/2025
Poll: Which Was Your Favourite Xbox Game Pass Title From October 2025?
Lots to choose from!October is about to come to a close, and before we look ahead at what's coming to Game Pass next month (be on the lookout for our November guide at the weekend), we want to look back at what's been a packed October for Xbox Game Pass s...
30/10/2025
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord's War Sails naval warfare expansion takes to the high seas in late November
To the boats, sword stabby and arrow shooty folk! Well, to the boats as of November 26th, which is when Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord's War Sails expansion finally arrives. Until then, maybe practice climbing some rigging, hosting mainsails, or scrubbi...
30/10/2025
Resident Evil Requiem Is Up for Preorder: Here’s What Comes in Each Edition
Everything you need to know to preorder Resident Evil Requiem, including the release date, what comes in each edition, what preorder bonuses to expect, and more.
30/10/2025
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company's Monster Capture Patent Rejected, May Signal Problems for Their Palworld Lawsuit
Nintendo has run into another issue during its ongoing legal battle against Pocketpair’s open-world survival game Palworld. As reported by GamesFray, one of the Nintendo patents related to the case has been rejected by the Japan Patent Office (JPO) for lacking originality.
30/10/2025
Take-Two Boss Says GTA Couldn't Be Made With AI Because 'There's No Creativity In That Model'
Some sense, finally!In a new interview with CNBC, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick talked down the use of AI in the company's video games - going on to say that GTA couldn't be developed with that technology because "there is no creativity" in the AI model.In...
30/10/2025
Resident Evil Requiem's Switch 2 Pro Controller Is Up for Preorder
Resident Evil Requiem is getting its very own special edition Switch 2 Pro Controller. It costs $100, and is available to preorder now.
30/10/2025
Stranger Things Season 5 Trailer Offers Our Best Look Yet at the Series Finale
Stranger Things is coming to an end with Season 5, and a new trailer from Netflix goes deep into what fans can expect.
30/10/2025
Arc Raiders is out now, and the best thing about it so far is bumsliding through a buried desert city
I’m not that keen on extraction games like Arc Raiders. The last two I played at length were Tom Clancy's The Division (specifically its Survival mode), which features possibly my favourite videogame piles of trash, and
30/10/2025
Resident Evil HD Remaster and Resident Evil 0 join GOG's preservation program, tell 16 other new arrivals to budge up
GOG continue to conquer the world of old games you either remember fondly or have totally forgotten about. They've added 18 new ones to their preservation program this week, with the latest ar...
30/10/2025
Nintendo Announces Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch 2 Edition and a Free Update to the Base Game
Nintendo has brought Animal Crossing: New Horizons back into the big time with a Switch 2 Edition and a free update to the base game.
30/10/2025
PSA: The Next Few Months Could Be Very Busy With Xbox-Related Showcases
Showcases for six months straight? Why not!If it feels like we're getting Xbox showcases pretty much every month at the minute, that's because, well... we basically are! Aside from July (which makes sense given June's Xbox Games Showcase), we've had monthly showcases in the back half of 2025 so far - including August's
30/10/2025
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Review
Worthy updates to originals and a showcase of what makes the series so endearing.
30/10/2025
'She Is a Pawn in the Middle of All of It' — Wicked: For Good Director Confirms You'll See More of Dorothy This Time Around, but Not Her Face
Wicked: For Good will feature more of Dorothy this time around, but it will not show Dorothy’s face.
30/10/2025
The Top 5 Ghost Movies From Around the World
The Top 5 Ghost Movies From Around the World: Our pics for the spookiest specters in horror film history.
30/10/2025
New Report Alleges Doctor Who Disney Deal Fell Apart After Plans to ‘Marvel-Ize’ the Franchise Failed to Work Out
A new report into the end of Disney’s deal with the BBC for Doctor Who has alleged that part of the reason for its demise was that plans to "Marvel-ize" the franchise failed to work.
30/10/2025
Roundup: The First Impressions Are In For Xbox Extraction Shooter ARC Raiders
Launching today!As we covered in our recent guide on all-things ARC Raiders, Embark's new extraction shooter goes live on Xbox Series X|S today - and before any full reviews of the title emerge, we are starting to see some early impressions trickle out on the web (based...
30/10/2025
Avatar: The Last Airbender's MTG Commander Bundle is Finally Back in Stock at Amazon Today
Avatar: The Last Airbender's elusive MTG Commander Bundle is finally back in stock at Amazon, and several other preorders have also been discounted in the final few weeks before release.
30/10/2025
Capcom Gets Behind Nintendo Switch 2 With Resident Evil Requiem Switch 2 Pro Controller, the First Ever Resident Evil Amiibo, and a RE7, RE8, RE Requiem Generation Pack
Capcom is throwing the full force of Resident Evil Requiem at the Nintendo Switch 2 with a number of exclusive announcements for the console.
30/10/2025
Resident Evil Requiem Deluxe Edition Includes Lady Dimitrescu Costume for Grace, Preorders Get Apocalypse Costume
Capcom has opened preorders for Resident Evil Requiem and in doing so confirmed the various editions of the game and their bonuses.
30/10/2025
Capcom Drops 'Road To Requiem' Deep Dive As Resident Evil 9 Pre-Orders Go Live On Xbox
Coming to a console near you next Feb.The Road to Requiem begins! Capcom has just released a short ViDoc building up to its Resident Evil Requiem launch next February - and pre-orders are now open on the Xbox Store as well.The new Road to Requiem video — which we've...
30/10/2025
Amazon have reportedly cancelled their Lord Of The Rings MMO, again
Amazon have cancelled their second attempt at a Lord Of The Rings MMO as part of recent mass layoffs, according to a now-former senior gameplay engineer at Amazon Games.
30/10/2025
Morrowind in Elden Ring mod shows off questing and criminal scumming, and there's only one thing its creator is worried about
You can now retrieve Fargoth's ring and get in hot water for not-so-sneakily pilfering someone's sujamma in a mod which is aiming to port Morrowind into Elden Ring. This and more is shown off in ...
30/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Season 1 Map Blackwell Fields in the Firing Line as Players Report Being Killed From as Far Away as Enemy HQ Spawn Points
Battlefield 6 Season 1 is here, and players have already turned their attention to one major issue: Blackwell Fields.
30/10/2025
VVVVVV and Super Hexagon's Terry Cavanagh is back with a joyfully cracked platformer about eggs
Once upon a time, the great graven cave troll Terry Cavanagh rose from his slumbers, scratched the opals from his beard of woven copper, and said to himself: "Today I will make a 3D egg platform game in which a 3D egg goes platforming, like my hit game VVVVVV, but 3D and with eggs." And because there was no-one around to say "WTF, Terry...
30/10/2025
The Witcher: Season 4 Review
The Witcher Season 4 review: Toss a coin to your (NEW) Witcher, Liam Hemsworth!
30/10/2025
AU Deals: Some Spooky Good Halloween Discounts on PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Games Today
The latest round of sales spans everything from haunting detective stories to chaotic co-op mayhem, and these are the highlights worth clicking "add to cart" on.
30/10/2025
We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one
For as video gamey a series as The Matrix is, it is a touch surprising there have only been a handful of actual games. Obviously the one that makes most sense is The Matrix Online, what other genre but an MMO could The Matrix could be? Well, there's also Enter The Matrix, which is basically Max Payne, but you...
29/10/2025
Xbox Content & Services Revenue Sees Slight Increase In Q1 2026, Hardware Drops Almost 30%
Microsoft's latest fiscal report is in.Microsoft has released its financial results for Q1 of the 2026 fiscal year - and just like recent quarters, content and services are on the up, but hardware sales are drastically down.The Xbox owner says that its content and services revenue increased by 1%
29/10/2025
RuneScape Dev Really, Really Wants Its Players to Vote in Favor of Removing the Game's Least Popular Microtransactions
RuneScape developer Jagex is considering removing one of the game's least popular, yet most pervasive, layers of microtransactions. But instead of just making the decision itself, it's letting its entire playerbase vote on whether or not to ditch them entirely. Oh, and the vote is definitely rigged.
29/10/2025
The Florist sounds like a lovely, cosy game right up until its a survival horror about killer plants
Right, what do we have here, a new game called The Florist, 'ey? About a woman delivering a beautiful flower arrangement to a lakeside town? Well, surely this is one of those wholesome, cosy games I've been hearing about! Nope! It is, in fact, a survival hor...
29/10/2025
Aussie Streaming Guide: The Best TV & Movies for November 2025
Nothing but the finest content to binge stream. All the best TV series, movies, comedy specials, docos, and more!
29/10/2025
Save Up to $800 Off the Powerful Alienware Area-51 GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming PC
Alienware's biggest and best prebuilt desktop computer.
29/10/2025
Battlefield REDSEC Review in Progress
How does Battlefield's free-to-play, standalone battle royale stand up?
29/10/2025
Are We Sure Absolute Batman Doesn't Kill People?
The latest installment of DC's Absolute Batman series is so brutal it has us wondering - are we sure this Batman doesn't kill?
29/10/2025
The Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Intel Core Ultra 9 RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Laptop Drops to $1,757
This is a powerful gaming laptop with excellent build quality and a gorgeous OLED display.
29/10/2025
CEO of GTA 6 publisher Take-Two is surprisingly hesitant about AI usage for entirely unsurprising reasons
Because that sacred line called profit must always go up, we are seeing more and more game studios announce their intention to incorporate various forms of AI tech. PUBG publisher Krafton just recently referred to themselves as an
29/10/2025
Save $125 Off PlayStation 5 Consoles with IGN Rewards
This limited time offer only runs for 3 days.
29/10/2025
Save 40% Off the Wolfbox Mega Flow 100 Cordless Electric Air Duster with USB Charging
An upgrade compared to other cheap air dusters you'll find on Amazon.
29/10/2025
Descent of Lunaris is a sci-fi dungeon crawler RPG for sickos, with Wizardry and Shin Megami Tensei roots
I'm two for two on writing about games set on the moon today, but sometimes that's just how it is! This time around it's about a newly revealed game called Descent of ...
29/10/2025
Helldivers 2, Minecraft and Sea Of Thieves hit by connectivity issues following big Microsoft services outage
If you're having trouble getting into Minecraft, Helldivers 2 or Sea Of Thieves right now, it might have something to do with a Microsoft outage that has taken services such as Azure offline. All three of the aforesaid games are ex...
29/10/2025
Get October’s Humble Choice for $10 (for a Limited Time)
Even at regular price, Humble Choice is a solid deal for PC gamers, but this deal gets you 33% off for a limited time.
29/10/2025
Remedy CEO Steps Down Following FBC: Firebreak's Sales Flop
Remedy Entertainment's CEO has resigned, leaving the new CEO of the developer of Control and Alan Wake to reassure investors after weak sales of FBC: Firebreak left the company significantly lowering its revenue expectations for the year and writing off the game's development costs.
29/10/2025
The CyberpowerPC AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D RTX 5070 Ti Gaming PC Drops to Just $1,699 at Walmart
One of the best gaming CPUs paired with one of the best gaming GPUs.
29/10/2025
13 years on, TimeSplitters Rewind will finally launch this November, smooshing all three Free Radical games together
Enough time has passed, and enough disappointment endured, that all I can remember of the Timesplitters series is a map's worth of landmine-throwing monkeys. It's possible this is an actual traumatic event from my youth, warped into a harmless videogame anecdote by years of cold water therapy and hypnosi...
29/10/2025
Battlefield REDSEC Launches to 'Mostly Negative' Steam Reviews as Battlefield 6 Players Push for Battle Pass Changes and Bigger Maps
EA just introduced its new, destructive take on battle royale with Battlefield REDSEC, and Battlefield 6 base game players are already slamming it with “Mostly Negative” Steam reviews.
29/10/2025
Is Xbox Down? Huge Azure Server Outage Causes Issues Across Microsoft Services
The Xbox support page isn't working either.We're seeing reports online that a huge Microsoft Azure server outage is causing issues across Xbox, Windows and other Microsoft services that are connected to the web.As shared by The Verge, Microsoft has confirmed Azure Portal issues on the s...
29/10/2025
Floorboards creak, spooks spook and I harass a man with a bell in detective puzzler The Séance of Blake Manor
Ring ring. Ring Ring. Ring ring. The stern and bespectacled manager of Blake Manor's hotel appears for the eighth time. You're looking a bit narked there mate, I, the investigatorman, observe. Yes, he says yet again, I'm a bit stressed and busy on account of our telegram machine having gone kaput. Makes sense, I reply, can't think of any other reasons why you might be piss...
29/10/2025
Physicist Brian Cox Thanks YouTube for Taking Down 'AI Shite' Accounts Featuring Deepfakes of Him Saying 'Nonsense' About Comet ATLAS 3i Being a Spaceship
Physicist Brian Cox has thanked YouTube for taking down accounts that used AI to create deepfakes of him saying “nonsense” about comet ATLAS 3i — but was left wondering what the long-term solution is.
29/10/2025
Yes, after 13 years it really does look like retrofuture survival horror Routine has a release date
It is more than commonplace these days for games to get some kind of delay, in fact it's surprising when the big boy names don't get one, like, say, GTA 6, which was meant to be out this year, but got pushed to 2026. But it's rare that most games take more tha...
29/10/2025
Dark Souls meets Ocarina of Time in Mouseward, a back-to-basics "soulslike collectathon" with sweet N64 visuals
If you miss the original Dark Souls as much as you do the mottled grass textures of Hyrule Field, you will perhaps enjoy Mouseward, which is available now in pre-alpha form. It's a "soulslike collectathon" from the people behind Void Sols, which Katharine (RPS in peace) ...
29/10/2025
Sony Confirms PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for November 2025
Sony has confirmed the PlayStation Plus monthly games for November 2025, confirming a prior leak.
29/10/2025
Lost In Random: The Eternal Die Gets Free 'Wager's Gauntlet' Update On Xbox Game Pass
"Just in time for a hauntingly stylish Halloween".Just in time for spooky season, the Lost in Random: The Eternal Die devs have just shared with us that its action-packed roguelite is getting a free update on Xbox Game Pass... today!Tit...
29/10/2025
Exclusive: Avatar: The Last Airbender Gets Epilogue Scene Box For Magic: The Gathering Crossover
Take a look at all 6 cards from the Tea Time at the Jasmine Dragon Scene Box (plus 2 more).
29/10/2025
Pokémon TCG: White Flare Binder Collection Is Now At Market Value at Amazon
As of Oct. 29, Amazon has the Pokémon TCG White Flare Binder Collection for $50.23 matching TCGPlayer’s $49.87 price, and the Black Bolt Elite Trainer Box for $84.95, now under market value. Plus, Mega Evolution ETBs are also available at competitive prices.
29/10/2025
Stellar Trader, a 4X Strategy Game Where You Wield Galactic Economic Influence, Announced for PC
Play as a space merchant selling and trading your wares across the galaxy in Stellar Trader, a new 4X space-trading sci-fi sim in development for PC. You'll build space stations, negotiate prices, avoid pirates, work the black market, tilt the scales in wars with your economic prowess, and so much more.
29/10/2025
'The Flood Are Evil Space Zombie Parasites and Are Not an Allegory to Any Group of People' — Original Halo Devs Hit Out at Homeland Security ICE Recruitment Ad
Key members of the original Halo development team have hit out at the Department of Homeland Security’s use of Microsoft's first-person shooter to promote ICE, with one saying: “it makes me sick.”
29/10/2025
Deals for Today: Pokémon Black Bolt ETB Under Market Value At Amazon and Hot Preorders
As of Oct. 29, the Pokémon TCG Black Bolt Elite Trainer Box is under market value at $84.95 on Amazon. Plus, preorders are live for Star Wars’ Kyle Katarn Black Series figure, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners MADNESS Volume 1, and the Meta Knight & Shadow Star amiibo set.
29/10/2025
Darth Vader and More Star Wars Black Series and Vintage Collection Action Figures Are Up for Preorder
Here's where you can preorder Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and more new Star Wars The Black Series and Vintage Collection action figures announced at NYCC 2025.
29/10/2025
Following FBC: Firebreak flopping, Remedy have a "sense of urgency" and are banking on hits from their established series
In their first set of financial results since issuing a profit warning and switching CEOs earlier this month, Remedy have revealed that they're moving resources away from
29/10/2025
'We Won!' – Battlefield 6 Fans Rejoice as EA Tones Down Bright Colors on 'Monster Energy' Skin
EA is taking steps to ease tensions in the Battlefield 6 community, as the new Season 1 update seems to have toned down the bright green highlights of one controversial infantry skin.
29/10/2025
Arc Raiders doesn't AI-generate guns from Youtube videos, Embark clarifies: "that's a research project, and not something that we're using in the game now"
Let's get the hot potato out of the way without preamble: Embark's extraction shooter Arc Raiders doesn't include any gun models generated from Youtube videos, executive producer Aleksander Grøndal has told RPS in an interview about the game's usage of generative AI and machine learning technologies. <...
29/10/2025
DOOM Co-Creator Was 'Midway Through' New Project Before Xbox Pulled Funding
Romero Games gives us an update.Back in July — as part of mass layoffs at Xbox — John Romero's new project had its funding pulled, before the game was ever properly announced to the public. In the wake of finding out,
29/10/2025
Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake Review
A pair of remakes that recapture the retro magic of the originals while giving them a modern facelift.
29/10/2025
Xbox Confirms Its First Two Game Pass Titles For December 2025, And They Both Look Brilliant
We could be in for a strong end to the year!Prior to yesterday's Xbox indie showcase, Microsoft hadn't confirmed any Game Pass titles for December 2025, and while 12 XGP additions were shown off in total during the event - we...
29/10/2025
The Boys Season 5 Release Date Coming 'Reasonably' Soon, Showrunner Eric Kripke Teases
The Boys Season 5 is still without a release date, but showrunner Eric Kripke has teased it’s coming to Prime Video “reasonably” soon.
29/10/2025
Amid Speculation About James Gunn's Future as DC Studios Co-CEO, Paramount Is Reportedly Keen to Keep Creative Teams Intact Should It Buy Warner Bros.
The boss of Paramount Skydance reportedly wants to keep the creative teams of both it and Warner Bros. intact, should it end up buying the gargantuan media company.
29/10/2025
Guide: ARC Raiders: Release Date, Release Times & Preload Details On Xbox Series X|S
Everything you need to know.ARC Raiders is upon us! Yep, the brand-new shooter from The Finals dev Embark Studios is almost here - so we're going to gather up everything you need to know for its upcoming Xbox launch.Without further ado, let's get stuck into all-things ARC Raiders, including the Xbox release date, launch timings...
29/10/2025
Life is Strange and Lost Records devs Don't Nod are working on a new Netflix-backed narrative game
Life is Strange developers Don't Nod have revealed that they're working on a new narrative game based around a "major IP" in partnership with Netflix. The game'll be developed at Don't Nod's Montreal studio, with the chilling-based streaming service set to publish it.
29/10/2025
Arc Raiders Release Date Between Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 May Have Some People Wondering 'What the Hell Are They're Doing?' but Dev Insists 'We Believe the Game Can Launch There'
The developer of Arc Raiders isn't worried about coming out between Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, stating: "it needs to start somewhere."
29/10/2025
New World Enters Maintenance Mode as Amazon Cuts 14,000 Jobs — but What's Happening With Its Lord of the Rings MMO?
Amazon is walking away from making new content from its MMO, New World, amid huge layoffs affecting 14,000 roles at the company. Now, there is concern over the status of its The Lord of the Rings MMO.
29/10/2025
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Director Doubles Down On Yellow Paint — 'There is Definitely a Need for That Kind of Thing'
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi is once again championing the infamous "yellow paint" to guide players, saying "there is definitely a need" for it.
29/10/2025
The Outer Worlds 2 Gets Day One Patch As Obsidian RPG Rolls Out On Xbox Game Pass
Available in the library later today!You may have seen lots of content on The Outer Worlds 2 last week (due to its five-day early access window) but the title actually arrives on Xbox Game Pass today - and developer Obsidian has just set a new patch live as its day o...
29/10/2025
New World won't be getting any more new additions following mass layoffs at Amazon
New World has seen its last content update, with Amazon Games confirming their development of the MMO is winding down. The game's servers will be staying online in the short term. This news follows mass layoffs at Amazon, with over 14,000 roles reportedly being affected across the company and the g...
29/10/2025
Loki Writer Reveals Pitch That Would Have Seen The Young Avengers Defeat an Inexperienced Kang Variant in Scrapped Avengers: The Kang Dynasty
Michael Waldron, creator of the MCU show Loki and writer of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, has revealed a pitch he came up with alongside Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania writer Jeff Loveness for a battle that would have taken place in the scrapped Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
29/10/2025
Microsoft CEO Says Xbox 'Wants To Innovate' With Its Next-Gen Console
"We want to do innovative work...".Another Xbox exec has been out chatting about next-gen gaming this week - with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the latest to chime in on the company's plans for gaming post-
29/10/2025
Hideo Kojima Is as Surprised as We Are That Konami Reportedly Turned Down a Matrix Video Game: 'There Could've Been a Way to Make It Work'
Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding developer Hideo Kojima says he was "surprised" to read that the creators of The Matrix wanted him to develop a game based on the franchise, insisting: "no one ever told me such a conversation had taken place."
29/10/2025
The Outer Worlds 2 pre-launch hotfix makes you less likely to fall through the world or have to fight a closet
The Outer Worlds 2 arrives in full today, October 29th. Ahead of the gates to Arcadia finally being flung open to those who didn't fancy paying extra for early access, Obsidian have taken a stab at fixing some key issues and pesky bugs which've reared their heads so far. Good ne...
29/10/2025
'It's Funny That People Think About the Console-PC as Two Different Things' — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Drops Biggest Hint Yet That the Next Xbox Is Basically a PC
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has dropped yet another hint that the next-gen Xbox is basically a PC.
29/10/2025
Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 Review
Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 is the most uneven installment of the series, but there’s still some real gold to be found in this animated anthology. Read our full review.
29/10/2025
John Williams Will Score Steven Spielberg’s 2026 UFO Movie
The project will mark their 30th partnership since 1974.
29/10/2025
Grab a Pair of Beats Studio Pro Headphones With 1 Year Warranty for Just $99.99 at Woot
Certified refurbished model with a great warranty.
29/10/2025
The Anker Prime 6-Port 200W USB Desktop Charging Station Drops Under $50 on Amazon
Plenty of ports, high power output, and a heavyset base so it won't move around.
29/10/2025
AU Deals: The Best Game Price Drops of Today That Hit Harder Than a Final Boss
Welcome back to another day and another bunch of bargains you'd better not let get away.
28/10/2025
Best Buy Has the Lowest Price I've Seen on a QD-OLED Gaming Monitor
The 27" AOC OLED monitor is priced just under $400.
28/10/2025
The Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5080 Gaming PC With Liquid Cooling Is Availabe for as Low as $2,045
One of the least expensive RTX 5080 prebuilts you can get right now.
28/10/2025
Lanterns ‘Is In a Lot Of Ways About Replacement’ and ‘That Push And Pull Between’ Hal Jordan and John Stewart
"Our show is in a lot of ways about replacement—when should someone step aside and when is it time for the next person to take the reins?,” Lanterns showrunner Chris Mundy said in a new profile on the series' John Stewart actor, Aaron Pierre.
28/10/2025
Save 46% Off the Exceptionally Tiny Baseus Picogo Ultra Mini Qi2 MagSafe Power Bank
About the size of a credit card and weighing in at less than 5 ounces.
28/10/2025
Doom Arena Board Game Hands-On Preview: Rip and Tear on the Tabletop
We go hands-on with the upcoming Doom Arena Board Game, which lets you rip and tear through hordes of demons, or Doom Guy himself.
28/10/2025
The New Secretlab Magnus Evo Desk Is Now Available, Comes Highly Recommended for Gamers
Secretlab's newest premium desk is available now, and we'll tell you where you can buy it for yourself.
28/10/2025
New American Psycho Movie Won't Gender-Swap Serial Killer Protagonist or Star Margot Robbie
Luca Guadagnino's American Psycho movie won’t gender-swap its serial killer protagonist as a recent report had claimed. In both American Psycho the book and the 2000 movie, the killer is Patrick Bateman, played in the earlier film adaptation by Christian Bale.
28/10/2025
Xbox Announces 12 Titles Coming To Game Pass At October's Indie Showcase
Including some big additions for this year!Today's Xbox Indie Showcase treated us to a bunch of new reveals for upcoming Xbox Game Pass titles, including Darkwood 2,
28/10/2025
Save Over $1,000 Off a Lenovo Legion RTX 5070 Ti Gaming PC, Can Run Most Games in 4K at 60fps
Currently one of the least expensive RTX 5070 Ti prebuilts.
28/10/2025
Poll: How Would You Grade The October 2025 Xbox Indie Showcase?
Give us your verdict.The dust is now beginning to settle on the Xbox Indie Showcase for October 2025!If you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, you can catch the full thing over at our live coverage page, and we've also provided an
28/10/2025
Roundup: All The Reveals From October 2025's Xbox Indie Showcase
Missed the event? Here's a recap.Weren't able to catch October 2025's Xbox Indie Showcase earlier today? No worries! You can always go back and watch the on-demand version for yourself, which you'll find elsewhere on Pure Xbox.If you don't want to watch it all the way through, we've also detailed all the important revea...
28/10/2025
Dark Forces’ Kyle Katarn Gets a Star Wars The Black Series Action Figure
Everything you need to know to preorder the upcoming Star Wars The Black Series action figure of Kyle Katarn, the hero of the classic FPS Dark Forces.
28/10/2025
So, it turns out The Outer Worlds 2 spent 95% of its runtime mocking me for a purchase I didn't make
My review of The Outer Worlds 2 begins with a retelling of the first unexpected curveball the RPG threw my way. Barely out of the intro and having made exactly two vending machine purchases, I was offered the ...
28/10/2025
Star Wars: The Acolyte Showrunner Confirms Plans to Reveal the Stranger's Connection to Kylo Ren in Future Seasons
The divisive Star Wars TV series The Acolyte would have featured a connection between The Stranger and villain Kylo Ren had the show been given a Season 2 and not been cancelled, its showrunner has confirmed.
28/10/2025
Battlefield 6's battle royale mode REDSEC is out now and surprise surprise, there's a new Gauntlet mode attached
Battlefield 6's battle royale mode REDSEC is out now, a "genre shifting free-to-play destination" that includes both the promised Fortnite functionality and a new squad-based competitive mode, Gauntlet - no, not that Gauntlet, auto-keyword tool, stop it, you're m...
28/10/2025
The Pathologic devs are making Darkwood 2 with Acid Wizard's blessing in a frankly outrageous piece of horror synergy
"ICE quoting Halo is surely as close as I'll get to hell this week", I said to myself earlier. "Hold my beer," interjected Manor Lords publishers Hooded ...
28/10/2025
Tom the Dancing Bug: The Beloved Surrealist Comic Strip Gets a New Book Collection
The beloved surrealist comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug is being reprinted by Clover Press, and we've got an exclusive preview.
28/10/2025
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is Getting a Prequel Manga Starring Rebecca, and It's Up for Preorder Today
You can now preorder the upcoming Cyberpunk: Edgerunners prequel manga, starring Rebecca and Prior. It costs just $15 and will be released at the end of February 2026.
28/10/2025
Live: Watch The October 2025 Xbox Indie Showcase Here
Including some Game Pass reveals!It's time for the Xbox Indie Showcase - October 2025 edition! Today's show promises lots of indie reveals for games that will (obviously) be coming to Xbox, and we're expecting quite a lot of Game Pass announcements as part of it."The event will be packed with exclusive trailers, new looks, and gameplay fo...
28/10/2025
Deals for Today: Cheap Yet Epic Power Bank and Shin Godzilla Steelbook Out Now
As of Oct. 28, the Shin Godzilla Limited Edition 4K Steelbook is out now for $34.95, while INIU’s 10,000mAh 45W power bank drops to $18.69 on Amazon. Also on sale: rechargeable hand warmers, a cordless air duster, and retro Nintendo NES drink coasters.
28/10/2025
ID@Xbox Showcase October 2025: Everything Announced So Far (Updating Live)
IGN has once again teamed up with ID@Xbox for a brand-new showcase that arrives today, just a few days before Halloween. This article will tell you everything you need to know to watch the show with us, and we'll be updating it live and adding all the biggest reveals and moments right here to ensure you don't miss a thing!
28/10/2025
Freaky Friday Sequel Freakier Friday Gets Disney+ Streaming Release Date
Disney+ has officially announced the streaming release date for the new Freaky Friday sequel film Freakier Friday.
28/10/2025
In Escape From Duckov, I roll great clutter Katamari of avian avarice and agony
Quack. My flesh-coloured form tightens up beneath my body armour. The sausage fingers of my massive human hands grip the trigger of the SMG with white-knuckle desperation. The tiny eyes halfway up the huge head which forms the majority of my unnaturally lanky form spot it. A flash of green. I open fire mercilessly. Blood and bullets fly for 30 seconds. I’...
28/10/2025
BBC Confirms Future of Doctor Who, New Christmas Special in 2026, and the End of the Disney+ Partnership
The BBC has confirmed the future of Doctor Who with a Christmas 2026 special written by Russell T Davies. But the Disney+ partnership is officially dead.
28/10/2025
Battlefield REDESC Is Available Now As A Free-To-Play Battle Royale On Xbox
BIG shadow drop from EA!Shadow drop time! Rumours have been swirling on this one for a few weeks now, but EA has just officially launched Battlefield REDSEC - a new battle royale spinoff to its recent FPS Battlefield 6. The best part? It's available now on Xbox Series X|S as a completely free-to-play title.
28/10/2025
Battlefield REDSEC Is Available Now As A Free-To-Play Battle Royale On Xbox
BIG shadow drop from EA!Shadow drop time! Rumours have been swirling on this one for a few weeks now, but EA has just officially launched Battlefield REDSEC - a new battle royale spinoff to its recent FPS Battlefield 6. The best part? It's available now on Xbox Series X|S as a completely free-to-play title.
28/10/2025
'Ariana Grande's Impression of Me on SNL Was Spot-On' — Jennifer Lawrence Thinks She Was 'Annoying' Back in the Mid-2010s When Everyone Was Making Fun of Her Candid Personality
Remember in the mid-2010s when Jennifer Lawrence was the butt of nearly every cultural joke? The actress recently opened up about being hesitant to speak to the press to promote her work ever since the public turned on her so distinctly about a decade ago.
28/10/2025
Build a Roller Coaster Codes (October 2025)
Create the best track you can with these Build a Roller Coaster codes.
28/10/2025
Switch 2 Just Got Its First Big Discount in the Build Up to the Black Friday Sales in the UK
Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundles have dropped to just £409 in the UK.
28/10/2025
Battlefield REDSEC Launches Alongside Battlefield 6 Season 1 With Battle Royale, Gauntlet, and Portal Modes — Here's Everything You Need to Know
The free-to-play Battlefield 6 battle royale game mode has officially arrived in the form of Battlefield REDSEC – but it’s probably not exactly what you think it is.
28/10/2025
Bride of Rocky Horror Continues the Iconic Stage Musical
Get ready to do the Time Warp again. We've got an exclusive preview of Bride of Rocky Horror, the graphic novel that serves as the official sequel to the iconic musical.
28/10/2025
Haunted, an Asymmetrical Dollhouse-Set First-Person Co-op Horror Game, Announced for PC
An asymmetrical co-op horror game set inside a cursed Victorian dollhouse? Sounds creepy; count us in! In Haunted, one player (the Supervisor) is locked inside the dollhouse and must navigate your way through – every run is different because puzzles will shift and new problems will confront you – while up to three Explorer players are locked inside the full-size Woodman Manor that holds the dollhouse. To survive, developer Coven says, "both sides must communicate to solve intricate puzzles, esca...
28/10/2025
The Sims Creators Quit EA Partnerships Amid Buyout Concerns
Content creators specializing in The Sims 4 content are leaving EA's Creator Network in protest after EA confirmed it is to be acquired by an investor group composed of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners.
28/10/2025
Ninja Gaiden 4 Performance Is Impressive But Xbox Series S Visuals Suffer, Says Digital Foundry
The DF tech review is here.Ninja Gaiden 4 launched a week ago today on Xbox Game Pass, and now the folks over at Digital Foundry have delivered their latest tech review on Platinum's new slasher - and the title is turning in ...
28/10/2025
The Florist, a New Survival Horror Game, Announced for Consoles and PC
Introducing The Florist, a new upcoming survival horror game from developer Unclear Games that's due out for PC and consoles in 2026. You play as Jessica Park, who arrives in the small town of Joycliffe just as it descends into madness, forcing you solve puzzles and survive against rapidly evolving monstrous enemies.
28/10/2025
Pokémon TCG: Team Rocket Tin is Back in Stock at Amazon Today, and Includes Destined Rivals Boosters
As of Oct. 27, the Pokémon TCG Team Rocket Tin is selling at market value for $42.94 on Amazon and matching TCGPlayer listings. Each tin includes three Destined Rivals and two Journey Together boosters, with possible variants featuring Mewtwo, Persian, or Nidoking ex.
28/10/2025
Microsoft Remains Quiet After Trump AI Master Chief Image and Homeland Security Uses Halo to Promote ICE
Microsoft has chosen to remain silent after Donald Trump released an AI image of the U.S. president as Master Chief and the Department of Homeland Security used Halo to promote ICE on social media.
28/10/2025
Ron Gilbert's new Death by Scrolling RPG about "never-ending grind" and "the absurdity of social media" is out now
For too long have you remembered Ron Gilbert as the peddler of point-and-click adventure game comedies like The Secret of Monkey Island, despite his long history of forays into other genres. From now on, you are only allowed to remember him as the purveyor of Dragon...
28/10/2025
EA's big AI push is reportedly leading to staff concerns about "flawed code" and setting up your own layoff
Workers at soon to be under new ownership Electronic Arts are reportedly struggling with a push from management towards trying to use AI for "just about everything". That's according to a new report, which claims sta...
28/10/2025
Masters Of Albion Will Be Peter Molyneux's Final Game, And A Chance At 'Redemption' For The Creator Of Fable
"It's the most significant title that I've ever done".Just over a year ago now, Fable's legendary creator Peter Molyneux announced his next game in the form of
28/10/2025
We May Not Have Bully 2, But This Fan-Made Bully Online Mod May Be The Next Best Thing
If you've been missing Jimmy and still long for a Bully sequel, we may have the next best thing. While Rockstar hasn't delivered Bully 2 yet — and where there's life, there's hope — a dedicated team of modders has created an entire online mode to keep you occupied in the meantime.
28/10/2025
US immigration enforcers use Halo art to promote mass detention, while the White House and Gamestop swap Master Trump memes
The USA's Immigration Customs Enforcement service, aka ICE, have started using imagery of Microsoft's sci-fi shooter Halo for recruitment posts on social media, even as Gamestop and the US administration indulge in some bantz characterising Donald Trump as Master Chief, and even as Microsoft attempt to flog a new Halo game.
28/10/2025
Halo: Campaign Evolved's Prequel Missions Will Feature An 'All-New Story' Says Xbox Dev
"New story, new gameplay".Following Xbox's reveal of Halo: Campaign Evolved last week, we covered everything new coming to the team's brand-new remake - and in a fresh
28/10/2025
Hollow Knight: Silksong devs Team Cherry try drafting in fans to sort translation woes with patch 4 beta update
Twice now Hollow Knight: Silksong devs Team Cherry have put out a Simplified Chinese translation of the Metroidvania, only for Chinese players to point out some stuff it does weirdly. Well, in their third crack at providing said translation, Team Cherry look to have gone the tried and tru...
28/10/2025
What About an Absolute Batman Anime From Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' Studio Trigger? Co-Creator Nick Dragotta Would ‘Love to See’ It
Nick Dragotta, character designer and artist of the hugely successful Absolute Batman comic book series, would love to see Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ Studio Trigger adapt it into an anime.
28/10/2025
Three Games Are Available This Week With Xbox Game Pass (October 28-31)
One being a huge first-party release!We're gathering up everything coming to XGP this week, including Xbox's big new release in The Outer Worlds 2.Here's everything coming to Xbox Game Pass from October 28th-31st:Read the full article on purexbox.com
28/10/2025
Four Games Are Available This Week With Xbox Game Pass (October 28-31)
One being a huge first-party release!Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass roundup! We're gathering up everything coming to XGP this week, including Xbox's big new release in The Outer Worlds 2.Here's everything coming to Xbox Game Pass from October 28th-31st
28/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Update 1.1.1.0 Now Live on All Platforms Ahead of Season 1 and Battle Pass Progression Later Today
Battlefield 6 update 1.1.1.0 is out now across all platforms ahead of the launch of Season 1 and battle pass progression. Check out the patch notes.
28/10/2025
The Wachowskis Asked Metal Gear Creator Hideo Kojima to Make a Matrix Video Game, but Konami Reportedly Turned Them Down
The Wachowskis, the writers and directors behind the Matrix movies, once asked Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima to design a Matrix video game, but publisher Konami reportedly turned it down.
28/10/2025
Bully Online sees modders have another go at schoolyard multiplayer mayhem, arrives in paid early access this year
Bully, Rockstar's classic boarding school Bart Simpson simulator, is about to have another massive multiplayer mod fired at it from a slingshot. The mod's dubbed Bully Online, stands atop the battered blazer of a previous attempt to let a bunch of folks play Bully together, and is set to arrive in paid early access this December. ...
28/10/2025
Civilization 7 will bring back the ability to play as one civ for the whole game, bypassing the divisive Age system
After much wrangling with players over Civilization 7’s Age system, which sees you taking charge of different civilizations as you progress from Antiquity into the Modern era, Firaxis are bringing back the option to play as one culture all the way to the endgame. They...
28/10/2025
Activision Announces Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Multiplayer and Zombies Go Free Again Today, Just as EA Launches Battlefield Battle Royale, REDSEC
Activision has announced yet another free trial of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Multiplayer and Zombies, which just so happens to launch as EA releases its Battlefield battle royale, REDSEC.
28/10/2025
NASCAR 25 Review
If you’re after a deep multiplayer experience you may want to circle back to iRacing, but if you want some quality, single-player stock car racing against extremely solid AI, NASCAR 25 delivers.
28/10/2025
Crash Bandicoot Set to Return — as a Netflix Animated Series
Crash Bandicoot looks set for a return in animation form with a new series on Netflix.
28/10/2025
The Alienware 16X Aurora Gaming Laptop Boasts Premium Build Quality and Performance at a Great Price
2025 successor to the Alienware m16 laptop.
28/10/2025
Save 60% Off the Harman Kardon Go + Player 3 Portable Speaker with Built-in 5" Subwoofer
Harman's best portable speaker with up to 8 hours of battery life.
28/10/2025
Get a 2025 65" LG B5 4K OLED TV at Black Friday Pricing, Plus a Free Wall Mount
One of the few 65" OLED TVs I've seen for under $1,000.
27/10/2025
The Best LEGO Christmas Sets Available Now
Out picks for the best LEGO Christmas sets, including decorations, a giant Santa minifigure, and even an adorable Gizmo from the hit 1984 Christmas movie Gremlins.
27/10/2025
Lenovo Guarantees That This Legion Tower 7 RTX 5090 Gaming PC Deal Won't Be Better on Black Friday
Currently one of the only RTX 5090 prebuilts for under $4,000.
27/10/2025
Get a Cordless Rechargeable Electric Air Duster for Your PC Maintenance for Just $19.99
Say goodbye to buying compressed air canisters in bulk.
27/10/2025
Digital Foundry Impressed By Halo: Campaign Evolved, But Worried About Unreal Engine 5
"Some unfortunate Unreal Engine 5 issues...".In its latest weekly podcast episode, the folks over at Digital Foundry have discussed last week's Halo: Campaign Evolved reveal - and the team's thoughts are mixed on the title despite being impressed by Halo Studios' vision thus far.The gist of DF's discussion revolves...
27/10/2025
The $11 Iniu 10,000mAh Power Bank Will Nearly Triple Your Nintendo Switch 2 Play Time
You can also charge and play at the same time.
27/10/2025
The 2025 77" LG Evo C5 4K OLED TV Drops to Under $2,000, Plus Get a Free Soundbar and Wall Mount
One of the best TVs you can get for console gaming.
27/10/2025
Microsoft Reportedly Still Has Plans To Make Its Own Xbox Handheld
After shelving it to develop ROG Xbox Ally.This afternoon, we shared a huge report from Windows Central that breaks down a bunch of what Microsoft is working on for the next-generation of Xbox - and in that report, we've spotted a little tidbit that hints Team Green still has plans to make its own handheld console at some stage.T...
27/10/2025
Ghoul's Saloon, a PvE FPS Where You Defend an Old West Saloon, Announced for PC
Get your first look at Ghoul's Saloon, an over-the-top PvE co-op first-person shooter where you run the titular Ghoul Saloon in the Old West – collecting resources, serving ghoul customers, cleaning your bar, crafting items, fortifying your saloon, and defending it from waves of aggressive enemies.
27/10/2025
Hallmark's New Pokémon Christmas Tree Ornaments Are Now Available, and They're Absolutely Adorable
Featuring Jigglypuff and the Kanto Starters, Hallmark's new 2025 Pokémon Christmas ornaments are now available at Amazon, and they look adorable.
27/10/2025
What Is Crimson Desert? This Fantasy-Steampunk Open World Isn’t As Strange as You May Think
Crimson Desert may have battle robots and dragon mechs, but its medieval fantasy open world makes for a more traditional video game than you may expect.
27/10/2025
Steven Soderbergh Says Kathleen Kennedy Told Him Disney Had Never Turned Down a Completed Lucasfilm Script Before Star Wars: The Hunt for Ben Solo
The discovery of the unrealized The Hunt For Ben Solo film has really shaken up Star Wars fans over the last week — and recently, Steven Soderbergh, the brains behind the project, revealed that the decision not to greenlight the completed Lucasfilm script for the film was a first for Disney.
27/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Battle Royale Shadow-Drop Imminent as EA Schedules REDSEC Gameplay Reveal for Tomorrow
The long-leaked Battlefield 6 battle royale experience seems to be ready for a shadow-drop across PC and consoles, with a full gameplay reveal for Battlefield REDSEC now set to premiere tomorrow morning.
27/10/2025
Jump Space's first big update adds daft yet lovable deflect-o-parrying
Co-operative starship mishap sim Jump Space just received the first major update of its early access phase, bringing both functional capitalism and a surprisingly enjoyable trio of melee weapons. The former takes the shape of newly ope...
27/10/2025
Battlefield's battle royale mode is a free-to-play experience called REDSEC
Battlefield 6’s battle royale mode has a name, and it isn’t quite as awful as I was expecting, though it falls well short of the exhilarating cringe of "Battlefortnite". Battlefield REDSEC, they’re calling it. Such a Tom Clancelled, Limp Bizkit-ass moniker. What does REDSEC stand for,...
27/10/2025
First Impressions of Disney Lorcana: Whispers in the Well TCG’s New Starter Decks
Get an early look of Lorcana’s upcoming expansion.
27/10/2025
Huge Xbox Report Details 'Ambitious' Next-Gen Console With Free Online Play
Microsoft seemingly has big plans for next-gen.Chatter about Microsoft's next-gen console has been one the rise recently, with multiple execs — including Xbox president Sarah Bond — coming out and talking about future plans as of late. Now though,
27/10/2025
Deals for Today: Pokémon Team Rocket Tin Below Market Value
As of Oct. 27, Amazon has Pokémon TCG Team Rocket Tins in stock for $42.94 — cheaper than TCGPlayer’s market price. Plus, find the best deals on Mega Evolution sets, Prismatic Evolutions, and more sealed Pokémon products under market value..
27/10/2025
Borderlands 4 Just Got Its Biggest Discount Yet in the Build Up to the Black Friday Sales
Borderlands 4 just got a discount at Amazon not long after launch, and it's dropped to its lowest price yet before the Black Friday sales have even kicked off.
27/10/2025
Dear diary, this Baldur's Gate 3 mod lets you write in-game journals documenting your characters' adventures
What happened today? Well, Astarion said something sassy, Lae'zel tried to teach Gale how to build a shed, and Shadowheart wrote a Gauntlet of Shar-themed parody of 'Is This The Way To Amarillo'. That's about how I imagine the journal entries a new
27/10/2025
I shouldn't feel this at home in the nightmare office world of Pager
Is it bad that I find the office labyrinth of Pager rather cosy? Is it a sign that I have finally gone full 9-to-5 zombie, or have I simply been mugged on Memory Lane by a composite of 90s aesthetics and technologies - pebbly Macintosh wallpaper patterns, mock-Bauhaus prints and yes, pagers, though I never owned one of those as a kid. I even like the background whine of the omnipresent...
27/10/2025
Next-Gen Xbox Will Reportedly Play PlayStation Games Like God of War and Spider-Man Because It’s a Console / PC Hybrid That Runs Steam
A new report has revealed details on Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox console, which is allegedly a console / PC hybrid that will play PlayStation games released on PC via Steam.
27/10/2025
Xbox Journalist Says Microsoft Has Another Showcase Planned For November 2025
Following this week's indie event.This week, we have an ID@Xbox showcase confirmed for Tuesday, October 28th - but that may not be the final Xbox showcase for 2025, looking at a new report.<...
27/10/2025
The Day I Will Die: New Horror Game Announced for PC
Developer Lost Lighthouse has announced is first game, the horror title The Day I Will Die, for PC. It takes place in Little Red Valley, a quaint mountain town where pop culture, urban legends, and horror stories of a certain age will come to life. No release date or window has been announced as of yet.
27/10/2025
Netflix Won't Change Its Theatrical Release Strategy — No Matter How Well KPop Demon Hunters Did At the Box Office
We might’ve spoken too soon. Despite what seemed like it could be a change of heart, Netflix has confirmed it has no plans to shift its release strategy when it comes to theatrical exhibition.
27/10/2025
Halo Co-Creator 'Absolutely Loves' What Xbox Is Doing With The Campaign Evolved Remake
"I absolutely love where this is going".Halo Studios unveiled its Combat Evolved remake last week in the form of Halo: Campaign Evolved, and over the weekend, co-creator on the original game — Marcus Lehto — has heaped...
27/10/2025
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is motoring off to Ireland with an expansion being worked on alongside a UK revamp
Ideal podcast game and source of all my lorry knowledge Euro Truck Simulator 2 is expanding its map to Ireland in the future, devs SCS Software have revealed. The DLC, dubbed Isle of Ireland, will include both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as fresh t...
27/10/2025
Leaked Screenshots of Canceled Multiplayer God of War Game Tease A Return to Greece and an Infamous Former Villain
Details and images of Sony's canceled live-service multiplayer God of War game have leaked online.
27/10/2025
How IT: Welcome to Derry Connects to the Stephen King Multiverse
Stephen King has established an entire horror multiverse in his stories. Here's how It: Welcome to Derry draws on that mythology and connects to movies like The Shining.
27/10/2025
PS Plus Essential Flagship Game for November 2025 Leaks Online
The PlayStation Plus Essential main game for November 2025 has leaked online.
27/10/2025
Battle Arena Toshinden, the Forgotten PS1 Fighting Game Series, to Get Re-Release on Modern Consoles
PlayStation 1-era 3D fighting game series Battle Arena Toshinden is getting a long-awaited re-release. Tokyo-based publishing company Edia announced today that it will release Toshinden 1, 2 and 3 on current gen consoles in 2026-2027.
27/10/2025
'It’s About Making Sure the Pacing Feels Right' — Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Director Clarifies He Is Not Cutting Content
Final Fantasy VII Remake series director Naoki Hamaguchi has clarified that while he recently assured fans that Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 would "strike a balance" when it came to pacing and be "more concise," that didn't mean he would change anything about Rebirth's pacing.
27/10/2025
The Batman Co-Writer Hasn't Got a 'No' Yet on Spider-Man 4 Film Where Tobey Maguire Juggles Being a Husband and a Father
Mattson Tomlin, co-writer of Matt Reeves' The Batman movies, has said he hasn't received a "no" yet on his attempts to write a Spider-Man 4 film where Tobey Maguire is juggling being a husband and a father.
27/10/2025
The Outer Worlds 2 modders have already unleashed all of the words and delivered a boon to cowards
I know it all. All of the witty insights, all of the arcane knowledge, and all of the random blather. I know all of the words. Or at least I will if I decide to use one of The Outer Worlds 2's early mods, which ditches the skill restrictions to give you access to every dialogue line...
27/10/2025
Bloodlines 2 is losing a drinking buddy as spinoff Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt plans server shutdown
In further evidence that the Vampire game series is as cursed as its toothy goreguzzlers, the developers of troubled battle royale offshoot Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt have announced that it’s shutting down for good – mere days after
27/10/2025
This week in PC games: Outer Worlds 2, Arc Raiders, occult detectives and some chunky strategy games
Happy this week all! Good news, James has returned from India and appears none the worse for his voyages. I was hoping he'd come back with a top-to-bottom report on Indian game development, but no, it turns out the smirking jackanapes was merely "on holiday". Still, we welcome him back with open arms and in the Maw's case, orifices, because it's another stuffed week for PC game releases. Here are...
27/10/2025
Twitch Admits It 'Failed' Streamer Assaulted at TwitchCon, Emiru Responds With New Statement Declaring 'I'm Done With Going to TwitchCon'
Twitch has admitted it "failed" streamer Emiru after she was assaulted at TwitchCon, both in "allowing [the assault] to occur, and in our response following." Now, Emiru has released a new statement declaring she is done attending TwitchCon.
27/10/2025
The White House Wades Into the Console Wars, Releases AI Image of Donald Trump as Master Chief Saluting in Front of an American Flag That Contains a Big Mistake
Microsoft’s announcement that Halo: Campaign Evolved is coming to PlayStation is the final nail in the coffin for the Xbox exclusive, and for some marks the end of the console wars. Now, the White House has waded in with an AI image of Donald Trump as a saluting Master Chief that, well… there’s something very wrong about it.
27/10/2025
Nearly half the 1.48 million Stop Destroying Videogames signatures have been okayed, as campaigners seek "expert" backing
Almost half of the 1,448,270 signatures amassed by the Stop Destroying Videogames EU citizens' initiative have now been verified, according to the campaigners' latest update.Meanwhile, the group are working to "secure expert backing" which doesn't rely on "expensive consulting firms" for their effort to push EU lawmakers to look into the issue of publishers rendering online games unplayable when servers are switched off.Read more
27/10/2025
HBO Max Brings IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 2 Release Date Forward to Coincide With Halloween
After IT: Welcome to Derry premiered on October 26, HBO Max has announced it’s bringing the Episode 2 release date forward to coincide with Halloween.
27/10/2025
Bluepoint's cancelled God Of War game revealed by alleged leaked screenshots
Screenshots for Bluepoint's cancelled live service God Of War game appear to have slipped through the titan fingers of publishers Sony. Assuming they aren't a dream woven by Morpheus (via his earthly emissaries at MP1st), they reveal a few work-in-progress environments from the abandoned proje...
27/10/2025
'I Made It Right and They Are Breaking It for No Reason' — One of the Key Members of the Original Halo Dev Team Doesn't Sound Thrilled With Microsoft's Halo: Campaign Evolved
Microsoft has finally unveiled Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of the campaign portion of Bungie’s beloved Halo: Combat Evolved. Halo fans have spent most of the weekend debating the changes Halo Studios has made for this upcoming 2026 shooter, from the addition of sprint to the more pristine art style. But what do the developers of Halo: Combat Evolved itself make of the remake?
27/10/2025
IT: Welcome to Derry Season Premiere Ending Explained: 'No One Is Safe In This World'
IT: Welcome to Derry executive producer and director Andy Muschietti recently chatted with IGN about the ending of the season premiere and why audiences needed to know from the outset that Welcome to Derry wasn’t going to be a rehash of the IT movies.
27/10/2025
AU Deals: Discounted Zelda, Monster Huntin', and Silent Hill Are Back on the Must-own Menu
Between Nintendo nostalgia, Xbox epics, PlayStation powerhouses, and PC throwbacks, today's round of bargains certainly has something for everybody.
27/10/2025
‘They Complained, Then Left With the Best Exclusivity Deal of All Time’ – The Story of PS2’s Blockbuster GTA Deal
Inside the lucrative West Hollywood meeting where Sony secured Grand Theft Auto as a PS2 timed-exclusive.
26/10/2025
Halo Studios Gives Reason For Dropping PvP Multiplayer In Campaign Evolved
4-player co-op is in, but PvP is out.As the name suggests, Microsoft's new Halo: Campaign Evolved remake focuses on just the story mode of its famous OG Xbox shooter - and now developer Halo Studios has explained the thinking behind dropping PvP multiplayer for its new version of Halo.Speaking in an interview with
26/10/2025
The Sunday Papers
Sundays are for rediscovering the joy of bouncing a tennis ball off your bedroom wall. When's the last time you bounced a ball? I recommend it. Sometimes I play a game with myself where I say "if I bounce and catch this ball 10 times in a row, I will win a million pounds". Then I get to five and hit myself in the face. Every time. If you are able to accomplish this seemingly impossib...
26/10/2025
Xbox Has More Competition From TikTok Than PlayStation, Claims Microsoft Exec
"Our biggest competition isn’t another console".In the wake of Microsoft's announcement of Halo: Campaign Evolved heading over to PS5 next year, Xbox executive Matt Booty reckons that the platform has more competition from the likes of TikTok than another gaming console these days.Speaking in a new interview...
26/10/2025
Break open a dead MMO and find what goofs and horrors await in Gorgon's Garden
MMOs are a strange facilitation of games because they are, ostensibly, dead on arrival. Not dead in the sense of "lol dead game," that exact comment you see littered in the comments of articles, videos etc. about literally any online game, no matter how popular it is. Dead in the sense that it will die, as all things do, becau...
25/10/2025
Old School RuneScape is getting its first new skill since it launched, and so the XP grind begins anew
A thing I find a lot of joy in is the fact that despite there's technically a new, shinier, perhaps by some people's standards better version of it, Old School RuneScape is still kicking around. Before the Old School was tagged on the front end of it,
25/10/2025
Xbox Boss Says Forza Motorsport Isn't Dead Despite 'Scaling Back' At Turn 10 Studios
"We sometimes need to shift our focus".Back in the summer, Xbox developer Turn 10 suffered mass layoffs as part of a huge restructure at Microsoft - and that led to the team promptly halting major updates for
25/10/2025
Nivalis catches yet another delay, this time into 2026, but it sounds like it's for fair reasons
There are two sides to every game delay coin. On the one hand, it's a shame when you're looking forward to a thing only to have to wait even longer for said thing. On the other, there's too many damn video games these days and, oh, gods, don't we all just have a laundry list of things to attend to right now? So make of it what you will that ...
25/10/2025
The Paranormal Activity games gets a slightly new name and a scarily underwhelming first gameplay trailer
You know, with the original Paranormal Activity steadily approaching two decades of existence, it's becoming harder and harder to recognise what it actually was and is as opposed to the cultural consensus around it. First and foremost you probably think of it as a cheap, jump-scare-filled kind of horror movi...
25/10/2025
After EA's buyout and creator exodus, The Sims team wants you to know their "values and commitment remain the same"
Last month, something a bit surprising, and perhaps concerning, took place in the games industry: a deal was made which saw that a mixture of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, equity firm Silver Lake, and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners had privately acquired EA. There's a whole host of reasons why this is worrisome, but one reason in particular ...
25/10/2025
Poll: So, Are You Playing The Outer Worlds 2 In Early Access?
Or are you waiting for the Game Pass release?Technically, The Outer Worlds 2 is out now, despite its official release date coming on October 29th. Yep, Obsidian's latest RPG is the next game to implement a pretty big early access window if you're willing to pay for it - so our poll question this weekend revolves around whether you're indeed willing to pay for The Outer W...
25/10/2025
Talking Point: How Do You Feel About Halo: Campaign Evolved Launching Day One On PS5?
Master Chief finally makes the jump.Well, there we have it - Halo: Campaign Evolved is coming to Xbox Series X|S in 2026. However, with Microsoft's new multiplatform strategy, the game is also coming to PlayStation 5 next year, along with PC of course. With that being said, how do you feel about the new Halo r...
25/10/2025
Hunty Zombie Codes (October 2025)
Keep up to date with the newest Hunty Zombie codes using our list.
25/10/2025
Feature: These 40+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (October 27-31)
Including another major first-party Xbox title!Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for October 27-31! More big games are on the way over the next few days including Wreckreation, ARC Raiders,
25/10/2025
Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 25-26)
Tempted by The Outer Worlds 2 early access?The weekend is officially here, and that means it's time for another edition of What Are You Playing! It's been a busy week on Game Pass with the likes of Ninja Gaiden 4 being added, and we've got
25/10/2025
What are we all playing this weekend?
I'm fresh back from my holiday with the family, and I miss my cats already. My partner and I will therefore be beelining to the local cat cafe, and spending hours there meowing at some very unimpressed-looking furry faces. But first, I'd very dearly love to know what everyone else will be getting up to this weekend. Here's what we'll be clicking on!
25/10/2025
Full Metal Schoolgirl Review
The charming anime-style girls-with-guns veneer wears thin fast, and beneath it is a dull roguelike shooter that only hits its stride once you've already slogged through a lot of tedium.
25/10/2025
The iBuypower Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming PC Can Run Games in 4K for Just $1,530
The Radeon RX 9070 XT is the only 2025 GPU that we rated a 10 out of 10.
24/10/2025
Gaming Laptops Are a Better Deal Than The Xbox Ally X
Why pay gaming laptop prices for a handheld?
24/10/2025
Xbox Details All Of The New Content Packed Into Its Halo: Campaign Evolved Remake
There's a lot of new stuff!Halo: Campaign Evolved has been announced as a major remake of the first Halo game coming in 2026, which of course means that the bulk of this Halo experience will be overhauled content from the OG releas...
24/10/2025
Here's A Full Walkthrough Of 'The Silent Cartographer' Level In Halo: Campaign Evolved
Fully rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5.Alongside Halo Studios' initial reveal of Halo: Campaign Evolved today, the team has also unleashed a full 13-minute demo of the series' iconic The Silent Cartographer level - which you can watch in all its glory via the link up above.This extended gameplay segment from Halo: Campaign Evo...
24/10/2025
Weak Legacy 2 Codes (October 2025)
Use this article to keep up to date with working Weak Legacy 2 codes.
24/10/2025
Halo: Campaign Evolved Is the Final Nail in the Coffin for the Xbox Exclusive — but in Truth the PS5 Version Comes as No Surprise
Halo, once the flagship Xbox exclusive, the video game Microsoft launched its first console with, has finally jumped ship. Microsoft has announced Halo: Campaign Evolved — a remake of the original game’s campaign — and it’s coming to PlayStation 5 day one.
24/10/2025
Halo: Campaign Evolved Officially Announced, Coming To Xbox In 2026
"A faithful yet modernized remake".It's official, a Halo: Combat Evolved remake is coming in 2026! Yep, as part of today's Halo World Championship event, the newly-rebranded Halo Studios has announced its first project - titled Halo: Campaign Evolved.Halo: Campaign Evolved is a "faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign"...
24/10/2025
Halo: Campaign Evolved Is a Pretty Remake Coming to PS5, but Not an Exact One
We played an early-in-development chunk of the classic Silent Cartographer mission in Halo: Campaign Evolved, the upcoming Unreal Engine 5 remake of Halo: Combat Evolved that's due out in 2026 for Xbox, PC, and yes, PlayStation 5. It's not quite a 1:1 remake though, so IGN's veteran of every Halo battle, Ryan McCaffrey, is here to give you his first impressions and tell you about what's new and what's been changed.
24/10/2025
Halo: Campaign Evolved Announced for Xbox, PC, and Yes, PS5 – Here’s Everything We Know So Far, Including New Missions
Here's everything we do and don’t yet know about Halo: Campaign Evolved, the Unreal Engine 5 remake of 2001's Halo: Combat Evolved – which will be the first Halo release since 2021’s Halo Infinite when it drops in 2026.
24/10/2025
T-Mobile "Apple iPhone 17 On Us" Deals Explained
One involves trade-in, another port-in, but the third could save you the most money in the long run.
24/10/2025
Halo Project Update 2025: Everything Announced (Updating Live)
Halo is looking for a fresh start, and today’s 2025 Halo Project Update livestream could give it just that.
24/10/2025
Playground Basketball Codes (October 2025)
Be the best ball player in town with these active and working Playground Basketball codes.
24/10/2025
Save 40% Off the Wolfbox Mega Flow 100 Electric Air Duster With This Amazon Lightning Deal
An upgrade compared to other cheap air dusters you'll find on Amazon.
24/10/2025
Austin Butler in Talks to Play Sonny Crockett in New Miami Vice Movie
Austin Butler is poised to join Michael B. Jordan in the new Miami Vice movie. Butler is reportedly in early talks to play Detective James “Sonny” Crockett opposite Jordan as Crockett’s partner, Ricardo Tubbs.
24/10/2025
Raise Animals Codes (October 2025)
Use this list of working codes to increase your Rubies and Coral in Raise Animals.
24/10/2025
The 77" Samsung S90 4K OLED Smart TV Drops to $1,799.99 wtih Free Delivery (65" for $1,299.99)
Up to 144Hz refresh rate, perfect for gaming on a PlayStation 5 console.
24/10/2025
The Iniu 10,000mAh Power Bank Will Nearly Triple Your Nintendo Switch 2 Play Time for $10
You can also charge and play at the same time.
24/10/2025
The Fantastic Four: First Steps Gets Streaming Release Date on Disney+
Disney+ has finally given The Fantastic Four: First Steps a streaming release date.
24/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Battle Royale Official Name and Release Date Reportedly Leak Online
Battlefield 6 appears to have suffered yet another leak, this time relating to its battle royale release date and official name.
24/10/2025
Digital Foundry Delivers Its Verdict On The Outer Worlds 2, With Xbox The Clear Console Winner
"Impressive on Xbox, PS5 needs work".Digital Foundry has dropped its latest DF Tech Review - this time for Xbox studio Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2.Naturally, we've included the video version of their analysis up above - which goes over every version of the game including Xbox Series X and S, and PS5 & PS5 Pro. What'...
24/10/2025
Deals for Today: Mario, Pokémon and Zelda Christmas Tree Ornaments
As of Oct. 24, Hallmark’s new Nintendo Christmas ornaments featuring Mario, Zelda, and Pokémon are available from $11.49 on Amazon. Plus, Anker’s 24,000mAh 140W power bank drops to $74.99 for Prime members, and there are more great gaming deals from Fanatical and Humble.
24/10/2025
Mario Will Finally Make His Thanksgiving Day Parade Debut With 40th Anniversary Balloon
Nintendo of America and Macy’s have announced that a new Mario character balloon will make its debut at the 99th annual Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City on November 27.
24/10/2025
Please let me bow before The Protectorate's gold-trimmed porcelain thrones, The Outer Worlds 2
I blast my way through another hulking dragoon, and run off down a corridor, companions breathlessly in tow. Surrounded by doors, I pick one before the next platoon of goons can descend upon us. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Nirvana. A rare breather from The Outer Worlds 2's
24/10/2025
John Boyega Will Always Be a 'Lightsaber Guy' — but Admits There's One Thing Star Wars Can Learn From Star Trek
John Boyega is open about the fact he's not a Star Trek fan, but has revealed the one thing he believes Star Wars can learn from its rival science fiction franchise.
24/10/2025
Pixel Quest Codes (October 2025)
Make the most of these bonus items with our list of working Pixel Quest codes.
24/10/2025
Stranger Things Showrunner Wants You To See the Finale in Theaters 'If You Don't Mind Crying in Front of Strangers'
The final episode of Stranger Things is bound to be one of the biggest television events of the season — but it’s an even bigger deal now the two-hour series finale will be screening in theaters nationwide. However, cocreator and showrunner Ross Duffer has a new message for fans: only come and see the Season 5 ender in front of a cinema screen if you’re cool with crying in a crowded room.
24/10/2025
Bethesda's Todd Howard Teases Future Projects At Fallout Day 2025
"Just know, we are working on even more...".Fallout Day 2025 is now all wrapped up, with the team at Bethesda announcing Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition and
24/10/2025
Ghost of Yotei's U.S. Launch Was 'Perfectly fine... Not Amazing, Not Bad,' Says Analyst — but the True Test Will Be in the Months Ahead
Ghost of Yotei has done about as well as its predecessor, Ghost of Tsushima, in terms of U.S. sales, an analyst has revealed. But the true test will be in how well it sells in the months ahead.
24/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Community Update Reveals Long List of Gameplay Changes Ahead of Season 1 and Battle Royale Launch
Battlefield Studios has outlined a long list of gameplay changes coming to Battlefield 6 ahead of the launch of Season 1 and with the expected battle royale mode waiting in the wings.
24/10/2025
Goonies LEGO Set Announced, Coming in November
LEGO has announced LEGO Ideas The Goonies, a big new set for adults, coming in November.
24/10/2025
Black Ops 7 Season 01 Revealed Before The Game's Even Out, And It's Absolutely Stacked
10 maps confirmed for Season 01.Black Ops 7's Xbox launch is exactly three weeks away, with the latest Call of Duty title set to grace Xbox Game Pass on November 14th
24/10/2025
Japanese Teacher Introduces Terrifying New Way For Students to Learn English — Playing Hideo Kojima's P.T. Demo
A language teacher in a Japanese secondary school has introduced a novel — if horrifying — new way to teach students English: by playing P.T., also known as the Silent Hills teaser.
24/10/2025
Metroid Prime Producer Seems as Excited as Fans for a Metroid Prime 2 Remake
If you are interested in catching up on the Metroid Prime trilogy ahead of Metroid Prime 4, Nintendo isn’t making it easy at the moment. We think that should be remedied — and so does Metroid Prime series producer Kensuke Tanabe.
24/10/2025
Either Battlefield 6's battle royale mode will release next week or they're adding granite, or something called granite
Actually, the mission area is leaving you.Battlefield 6’s long-awaited battle royale mode seems likely to be revealed on 28th October.In less than a week, we could be laying eyes on the Battlefield interpretation of the well-worn Plunkbat and/or Fortnite premise of a vast map fringed by corrosive oblivion that shrinks overtime, forcing scavenging players into a claustrophobic last stand.
24/10/2025
Hello, Pacific Drive DLC, Boltgun 2 trailer, Denshattack release window and Solasta II early access update
As a result, here's a quick run around the houses of interesting stuff we've not covered from yesterday's Galaxies showcase that I think's worth nattering about.Look, you can't ask a person to choose between writing about a shadow-dropped Pacific Drive expansion and some other things that folks in the RPSverse may also be interested in hearing about.I can't be expected to make decisions.
24/10/2025
Fallout 76 Is Officially Getting A Native Xbox Series X|S Version In Early 2026
As part of yesterday's Fallout Day livestream — which included the announcement of Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition — Bethesda announced a released window for the native Xbox Series X|S version of Fallout 76.Coming "early next year", Fallout 76's Xbox Series X|S upgrade "will take full advantage of their hardware capabilities".The team didn't go into anymore detail on the upgrade's new features for now, but we'd expect to hear more about them in the coming months.
24/10/2025
'I Love That Universe. I'm Ready. Anytime' — Jennifer Hale Calls on Fans to Tell BioWare They'd Love to See Commander Shepard Return for Mass Effect 5
The iconic voice behind Commander Shepard, Jennifer Hale, hasn’t been asked to return for Mass Effect 5, but “would be there before they finish the sentence” if asked.
24/10/2025
Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss gropingly squeezes its gelatinous green immensity onto PC in April 2026
First-person undersea scare-o-puzzler Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss launches April 16, 2026, as announced during last night's Galaxies showcase of less than blockbustery videogame darlings. It kind of looks like a marginally more combative Soma with less
24/10/2025
Pokémon Legends: Z-A Sells 5.8 Million in Launch Week, Half Were Bought For Nintendo Switch 2
Pokémon Legends: Z-A sold almost six million copies in its opening week.
24/10/2025
Johnny Depp Looks Set to Play Ebenezer Scrooge in His First Role From a Major Studio Since 2018's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Johnny Depp is reportedly in final talks to star in Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol for Paramount Pictures. Depp would play the title role of Ebenezer Scrooge, following in the footsteps of the likes of Bill Murray, Michael Caine, and Jim Carrey.
24/10/2025
Phil Spencer Addresses AI & Developer Creativity At Xbox Game Studios
"I really leave it up to the teams...".In a new panel at the Paley International Council Summit, Phil Spencer sat down with Double Fine Studio Head Tim Schafer to discuss a whole host of gaming-related topics - and the Xbox boss had some interesting things to say about AI use and developer creativity over at Microsoft's gaming division.Despite the c...
24/10/2025
Have Fallout 4 and New Vegas again, say Bethesda, and also a release date for Fallout 76's Burning Springs
Yesterday was Fallout Day, the date in the series' universe when the bombs dropped and permanently turned a lot of people into those skeletons you grind into dust while tramping about in your power armour. Bethesda awakened Todd Howard from cryo-sleep, and announced some stuff in a broadcast.
24/10/2025
Assassin's Creed Shadows Finally Has an Official Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date and a Price
Ubisoft has finally made it official: Assassin's Creed Shadows will release for Nintendo Switch 2 on December 2 priced $59.99 / £49.99.
24/10/2025
Spec Ops: The Line director's new insomnia horror game Sleep Awake will release in December
Speaking as a veteran insomniac who routinely has to operate across time zones, let me share a few of my top tips for staying awake when you really want to sleep. Firstly, fill your eyes with as much light as possible - moonlight, fridgelight, phonelight, flamingoilbarrelight - and your lungs with as much bracing outdoors air as they can take. Secondly, enlist a similarly restless friend for some...
24/10/2025
Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (October 24)
Featuring a shadow drop!Initially, today was going to just be a one game update - but we got an awesome shadow drop late last night in the form of driving survival game Pacific Drive - so we're going to include that one in today's roundup as well.Without further ado, here's what's new on Xbox Game Pass:Read the full article on purexbox.com
24/10/2025
Battlefield 6 drops bots from verified mode playlist as EA continues fight against those dastardly XP farmers
Battlefield 6's battle against the bot farmers continues with a series of backend updates from EA. Amongst other things, the developers have reversed some "unintended" changes to XP progression and balance, and removed bots from "verified" modes available through the Portal editor. Read more
24/10/2025
Hades 2 post-launch patch 1 revamps Melinoë's "true ending", and is out now in Steam preview form
Hades 2's true ending didn't feel totally slam dunk satisfying to me in its 1.0 release form, and developers Supergiant Games seem to have agreed with those sorts of assessments. Hence, in the roguelike's first proper post-launch pat...
24/10/2025
Star Wars Fans Actually Flew a 'Save The Hunt for Ben Solo' Banner Over Disney Studios After Adam Driver Revealed Failed Sequel
Star Wars fans want Adam Driver's The Hunt for Ben Solo movie so much they flew a banner over Disney studios.
24/10/2025
Xbox Boss Phil Spencer on AI Use: 'Much More Operational Than it Is in the Creative Space'
While speaking at a media summit, Xbox Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said that Xbox does use AI, but probably not how you might think.
23/10/2025
Costco's Black Friday Sale Dates and Discounts Have Been Revealed for 2025
Check out the full holiday booklet.
23/10/2025
AU Deals: Smash Hits, Dragon Hunts and Absolute Must Owns Light Up This Week’s Sales
Between a stack of heavy hitters and cult faves going for pocket change, your cart may just fill itself before your smoko coffee can get gulped.
23/10/2025
Bounty Star Review
This combination of mech combat and farming is equal parts compelling and tranquil.
23/10/2025
Galaxies Showcase 2025: Everything Announced
From the long-awaited release date for Mouse: P.I. For Hire, a release window for the Tony Hawk meets Trains game called Denshattack!, and a new look at Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2, here is everything announced at the Galaxies Showcase 2025.
23/10/2025
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Review
Review: Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc has some issues and it sacrifices some of the first season's experimental approach, but it compensates with a compelling romance and one of the best soundtracks of the year.
23/10/2025
Twin Peaks-inspired spooky private eye puzzler Silver Pines is set to deliver missing musician mystery next year
Watch out. There's a musician mystery afoot. They've gone missing, mysteriously. So says Silver Pines, a Twin Peaks-inspired survival horror puzzler that's set to arrive next year, according to an announcement trailer that's just barged into my house in a trenc...
23/10/2025
Bojack-style band management sim Rockbeasts gets a fresh trailer which asks existential questions I was afraid to
Looking back on it, when I played a preview build of zoological band management game Rockbeasts earlier this year, I think I went along with it a bit too easily. I d...
23/10/2025
Michael B. Jordan Up for the Role of Tubbs in New Miami Vice Movie
The new Miami Vice movie has reportedly found its Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs in the person of Sinners and Creed star Michael B. Jordan. Philip Michael Thomas originated the role of Tubbs in the TV series while Jamie Foxx played him in Michael Mann’s 2006 big screen reboot.
23/10/2025
Tormented Souls 2 Review
A gorgeous, if occasionally frustrating, homage to horror games past.
23/10/2025
Xbox & Bethesda Announce Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition For Next Month
Giving it the Skyrim treatment.As part of today's Fallout Day livestream, Bethesda has announced Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition to mark the game's 10-year birthday - and it's coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S next month.The major new feature for Xbox players here is the addition of Creations for
23/10/2025
DC's Batman/Deadpool #1 to Feature Crossovers Between Nightwing and Wolverine, Harley Quinn and Hulk, and More
DC has revealed the full lineup of stories in November's Batman/Deadpool #1 crossover, and it includes team-ups between Nightwing and Wolverine, Harley Quinn and Hulk, and more.
23/10/2025
The Powerful Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5080 Gaming PC with Liquid Cooling Dips Below $2,000 at Dell
One of the least expensive RTX 5080 prebuilts you can get right now.
23/10/2025
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Review
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is small in scope and lacks stakes-heavy drama as far as showbiz biopics go, but as a character study of an artist trying to find his true self before the world of celebrity engulfs them, Scott Cooper’s film and Jeremy Allen White’s awards-worthy performance do The Boss justice.
23/10/2025
Bethesda Announces Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition, Confirms Nintendo Switch 2 Version for 2026
As part of its Fallout Day broadcast, Bethesda announced Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition, due out across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox on November 10, 2025, and on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026. It’s the first time Fallout 4 will be available on a Nintendo console.
23/10/2025
Fallout 76 Is Finally Getting Native Versions for Xbox Series X and S and PS5 Early 2026
Bethesda has announced native versions of Fallout 76 are coming to Xbox Series X and S and PlayStation 5 early 2026.
23/10/2025
Fallout: New Vegas 15th Anniversary Bundle Announced on Fallout Day — Here Are the Contents
Bethesda has used Fallout Day to announce the Fallout: New Vegas 15th Anniversary Bundle, which celebrates Obsidian’s much-loved post-apocalyptic role-playing game turning 15 years old. Check out the contents.
23/10/2025
Todd Howard Reassures Fallout Fans as Fallout Day 2025 Ends Without a Brand New Game Reveal: 'Just Know We Are Working on Even More'
Fallout Day 2025 has come to an end without the announcement of any new Fallout video game. Yes, there’s a new version of Fallout 4, a new Fallout: New Vegas bundle, and new content for Fallout Shelter and Fallout 76. But there was no word on any Fallout remasters, which some had hoped for, or — less likely — Fallout 5.
23/10/2025
Weapons Is Finally Streaming on HBO Max Tonight
Zac Cregger's horror movie is at the top of my streaming list.
23/10/2025
Save Over 30% Off the Anker 737 24,000mAh 140W Power Bank for Xbox Ally X and MacBook Pro
Has the capacity and power output to fully charge any handheld gaming PC even while you're playing.
23/10/2025
The $1,000 Xbox Ally X Drops in Price for the First Time When You Buy Slightly Used
You can save $50 or $80 on a Geek Squad Verified open-box Xbox Ally X at Best Buy, depending on the condition.
23/10/2025
Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Is Getting A Graphics Overhaul & Returning TDU2 Features
Arriving next week on Xbox.Ahead of its arrival next week, KT Racing has just dropped an extensive developer overview of Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown Season 5 - featuring a major graphics overhaul, classic returning features, in-game economy tweaks, new cars & outfits and more.This new se...
23/10/2025
The Iniu 10,000mAh Power Bank Will Nearly Triple Your Nintendo Switch 2 Play Time for $10
You can also charge and play at the same time.
23/10/2025
Borderlands 4 Day 30 Update Out Now — Check Out the Patch Notes
Gearbox has released the big Borderlands 4 Day 30 update, which makes a number of key balance changes to the game. Check out the patch notes.
23/10/2025
Fallout Day 2025: Everything Announced (Updating Live)
Bethesda Softworks will soon kick off its Fallout Day 2025 livestream, and we’re here to share every new announcement and detail it has to offer.
23/10/2025
The Outer Worlds 2 Comparison Shows Difference Between Xbox Series X And Series S
Here's how both Xbox versions stack up.Following our hands-on impressions of The Outer Worlds 2 earlier today, we thought you might be interested in how the game is shaping up across both Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S!Fuzion Xbox Testing has become our go-to fo...
23/10/2025
Deals for Today: Ridiculous Deals on a 75-Inch TV and Hulu
As of Oct. 20, LG’s 77-inch Evo C5 4K OLED TV bundle is on sale for $1,999.99 with a free soundbar, Hulu is 30% off for three months, and Anker’s 25,000mAh 165W power bank drops to $91.99. Plus, get a free game with Fanatical’s new promo.
23/10/2025
Oneway.exe is the tale of an abandoned game that really, really wants your skin(s)
I have come to the conclusion that it was a mistake to play the demo for cyber horror game Oneway.exe on my lunch break.But I will say that it featured red peppers and purple onions, and I now wish never to see those colours ever again.Also, it's possible that I'm still playing the demo for Oneway.exe, because the game takes place inside an off-brand mock-up of a desktop operating system.
23/10/2025
Some Battlefield 6 Players Hate This Season 1 Skin So Much They're Threatening Not to Revive Anyone Who Uses It
Some Battlefield 6 players are up in arms after first information about Season 1 revealed what they believe is an out of place soldier skin.
23/10/2025
Microsoft's 'This Is An Xbox' Ad Evolves As Holiday Marketing Ramps Up
"This is an Xbox - yup!".Almost a year ago now (yep, it's been that long), Microsoft unveiled its 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign which defined a huge shift in messaging for the company - and this year the whole thing has evolved, as Microsoft tweaks its advertising strategy for Holiday 2025.You can check out the new advert up...
23/10/2025
Medieval city builder Farthest Frontier says good knight to early access with its 1.0 release today
A new day, a new city builder! Today the particular entry in this far reaching genre we're talking about is Farthest Frontier, because it's leaving early access after more than three years in development. If you've never heard of it b...
23/10/2025
The 2-Hour Final Episode of Stranger Things Will Premiere Both on Netflix and In Theaters Nationwide
Netflix is doing stranger things lately — and this time it's both literal and figurative. The series finale episode of Stranger Things will officially be shown in movie theaters, a move that goes against the streamer’s well-known ethos.
23/10/2025
Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusive Elden Ring Tarnished Edition Delayed to 2026
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition for Nintendo Switch 2 has had its release date delayed until 2026.
23/10/2025
Microsoft Has Reportedly Pushed Xbox Studios to Deliver a 30% Profit Margin, Allegedly Leading to All Those Layoffs, Canceled Projects, Price Rises, and the End of Exclusives
A new report has shed light on the goings on at Microsoft, which has allegedly pushed Xbox studios to deliver a 30% profit margin — much higher than the industry average.
23/10/2025
Roundup: Here's What The Reviews Are Saying About Xbox's The Outer Worlds 2
Early access starts tomorrow!The Outer Worlds 2 is almost here!Yep, Obsidian's next title goes live for early access players tomorrow, before the standard edition lands on Xbox Game Pass next week.
23/10/2025
Microsoft pushing for profits "well above the industry average" is reportedly behind Xbox's layoff and cancellation misery
The bit of reporting I'm about to relay to you probably isn't surprising, but it's worth making sure you've got a pillow on standby to scream into once you've digested it. Microsoft, they of more money than a company could ever need or know what to do with, have reportedly spent the last two years pushing Xbox to deliver profit margins which are well above the industry average. ...
23/10/2025
Hands On: Is The Outer Worlds 2 Obsidian's Third Xbox Success Of The Year?
It's safe to say that 2025 has been a prolific time for Xbox studio Obsidian Entertainment.The team kicked off the year with the well-received Avowed, before rolling into Grounded 2's early access launch in the summer - and now The Outer Worlds 2 is almost here.So, has the team gone and done the unthinkable in delivering three big successes in one calendar year?
23/10/2025
The Outer Worlds 2 review
I am a baby, floating through space. A decade or so passes while I’m frozen in a pod, dead to the world. Clearly, though, all is not as it seems. Upon finally being rescued and thawed out, I’m given grave news. I’ve been diagnosed with consumerism. Read more
23/10/2025
The Outer Worlds 2 Review
A sequel that sharpens Obsidian’s RPG formula with smarter writing and better combat.
23/10/2025
Valve casually gut Counter-Strike's billion dollar skins market with a "small update"
Ah Valve, you awful, giggling vultures. You terrible purveyors of mischief and misfortune. Weeks go past without you making any significant game-related announcements, and then you suddenly dropkick the entire Counter-Strike cosmetics economy into the sun. Read more
23/10/2025
Report: Xbox Has Been Asking Its Studios To Hit 'Higher Profit Margins' Since 2023
Bloomberg's ever-reliable gaming journalist Jason Schreier (along with colleague Dina Bass) has today put out an extensive report on Xbox, and how Microsoft is now asking the division to deliver "higher profit margins" in the wake of its massive acquisition of Activision Blizzard.The report says that MS execs "have set an across-the-board goal of 30% 'accountability margins'" - a term which Microsoft uses internally "according to people familiar with the business".Bloomberg also says that "according to estimates from S&P Global Market Intelligence", the average profit margin in the gaming industry ranges "between 17% and 22%", going off recent statistics.
23/10/2025
Ubisoft want to trim down The Division developers and are pivoting Trials creators Redlynx to mobile
Two Ubisoft studios have announced plans to cut back staff, though one of them is trying to encourage people to lay themselves off in the form of "a voluntary career transition program".The studios in question are Ubisoft Massive - creators of Tom Clancy's The Division, Star Wars Outlaws, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - and Ubisoft Redlynx, creators of the multiplayer gadabout Trials biking games. Read more
23/10/2025
Helldivers 2's huge Into the Unjust: 4.1.0 update fires out over 200 bug fixes, plus some weapon balancing
Seriously, it's massive.Dubbed the Unjust: 4.1.0 update, this behemoth boasts of having attempted to murder more than 200 bugs, alongside delivering some performance optimisation and gun balancing tweaks.Read more
23/10/2025
'She's Not Neo at the End of The Matrix' — Don't Expect Marie From Gen V to Kick Homelander's Ass in The Boys Season 5
With Gen V Season 2 wrapped up, fans are wondering how the incredibly powerful Marie might fare in a showdown with The Boys supervillain Homelander. Well, according to showrunner Eric Kripke, fans shouldn’t expect Marie to appear in The Boys Season 5 as a Captain Marvel-style deus ex machina who kicks Homelander’s ass.
23/10/2025
Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (October 23-26)
Free Play Days is here!This weekend, Xbox has five games playable as part of the program - including the latest EA Sports FC release, ghost-hunting sim Phasmophobia and multiplayer horror title The Outlast Trials;Here's Microsoft's full list of Free Play Days title this week:Read the full article on purexbox.com
23/10/2025
'Remaster New Vegas Boss!' — Danny Trejo Calls on Bethesda to Give Fallout Fans What They Really Want
Ahead of Fallout Day, Danny Trejo has called on Bethesda to remaster the much-loved Fallout: New Vegas.
23/10/2025
Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (October 23)
Two new additions to the Ultimate library!Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass update! Today, we have two new additions to the library - both being day one releases including the hotly-anticipated PowerWash Simulator 2.Here's some more information on FuturLab's sequel, ...
23/10/2025
Helldivers 2 Into the Unjust: 4.1.0 Update Focuses on Making the Game 'Feel Better to Play' With Over 200 Bug Fixes, Key Balance Changes, and Quality-of-Life Improvements
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has released the Into the Unjust: 4.1.0 update, which it said is designed to make the game “feel better to play.” Check out the patch notes.
23/10/2025
Best Buy Drops the Price of Final Fantasy MTG Commander Decks for a Limited Time
Best Buy has discounted every Magic: The Gathering deck from the Final Fantasy set, including the very popular Limit Break.
23/10/2025
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 devs provide workarounds for "high priority" bugs, including Seattle's populace disappearing
Paradox have outlined some workarounds for a number of "high priority" issues which have been draining folks' ability to get sucked into Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 now the gates to Seattle are open.Proper fixes for these and other known issues are also in the works, as is planning for post-release additions.Read more
23/10/2025
'The Idea of Locking It to One Store or One Device Is Antiquated for Most People' — Xbox President Says Microsoft Is Seeing Players 'Evolve Way Past' Big, Blockbuster Exclusive Games
Microsoft has said the idea of a video game exclusive locked to a single storefront has become “antiquated for most people,” as the company soldiers on with its multiplatform push for Xbox games.
23/10/2025
Secretlab Magnus Evo Desk Review – A Premium Desk Kitted for Gaming
The Secretlab Magnus Evo is a lovely piece of kit, a reliable and well-built electric sit/stand desk with a handful of clever features I found genuinely useful for creating a good-looking and functional PC gaming setup.
23/10/2025
Andy Muschietti Confirms Batman: The Brave and the Bold Is Still Happening, but He Has to Wait 'A Couple Months' Before He Can Talk About It
Batman’s arrival in the rebooted DCU is perhaps the most anticipated superhero reveal in James Gunn’s fledgling new universe. But it is shrouded in mystery even now, years after it was announced. So, is it still happening, and, if it is, when will we hear more?
23/10/2025
Anker's New 25,000mAh 165W Power Bank Includes Two Built-In USB Type-C Cables
Intended for laptops (including MacBooks) and power-hungry handheld gaming PCs.
23/10/2025
Save Up to $800 Off the Powerful Alienware Area-51 RTX 5090 Gaming PC
Alienware's biggest and best prebuilt desktop computer.
22/10/2025
LEGO Reveals the Dates for Its 2025 Black Friday Sale
See when LEGO is running its Black Friday 2025 sale, plus info about LEGO Insiders Weekend and Cyber Monday 2025.
22/10/2025
RV There Yet? is a dad-core co-op game about doing a very bad job driving home from your campervan vacation
It's really quite interesting how, in a time where big budget live service games are doing anything they can to get you to continue playing (and importantly spend money on) them, the sort of spiritual opposite of this to rise out of this are games where you just hang out with a few buds doing silly nonsense that don't cost very much.
22/10/2025
Amazon Paid Just $20 Million for the James Bond Franchise
Amazon, one of the wealthiest corporations in the world, paid a relative pittance for control of the James Bond franchise: $20 million. The revelation comes from a U.K. tax filing made by EON Productions, the former 007 franchise production company.
22/10/2025
The 77" LG Evo C5 4K OLED TV (2025 Model) Drops to Under $2,000, Plus Get a Free Soundbar
One of the best TVs you can get for console gaming.
22/10/2025
IDW's Death of Godzilla Homages Iconic Death of Superman Cover Art
IDW is killing the king of the monsters in January's Godzilla #6, and they're paying tribute to the iconic Death of Superman cover in the process.
22/10/2025
Random: This Custom Xbox Series X Looks Amazing, And Fits Right In For Halloween
Spooky season activated.We've seen our fair share of custom Xbox consoles over the years and most of them never really catch our eye - but a new horror-themed Series X setup from Reddit user deRgiB6319 looks bloody fantastic... literally<...
22/10/2025
Exclusive: Ghost of Yotei Joins Magic's PlayStation x Secret Lair Crossover
IGN's got an exclusive look at the new Ghost of Yotei card from Magic: The Gathering's Secret Lair x PlayStation set. Plus, we talk to Wizards of the Coast and Sucker Punch about the developer's involvement in card creation.
22/10/2025
Wiccan Walks the Witches' Road in First Ever Solo Marvel Series
20 years after his debut, Marvel is finally giving ex-Young Avenger Wiccan a solo series of his very own. Check out our exclusive preview and interview for the new series.
22/10/2025
We Build LEGO Star Wars Gingerbread AT-AT Walker, A Bundle of Christmas Joy
Get a first-hand looks at the building process for the delightfully seasonal new LEGO Star Wars AT-AT Walker set, available now.
22/10/2025
Arrowhead need just a smidge more time for that next Helldivers 2 patch, promises a healthy suite of optimisations
You might be currently wondering where the latest Helldivers 2 patch is, seeing as it hasn't turned up yet, and to explain its absence developer Arrowhead have taken to the game's Witter account with a post going into some details about it. Apparently it was originally planned for Tuesday, i.e. ...
22/10/2025
No More Robot’s new cruise ship management sim is hella bleak, despite the input of former Overcooked devs
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth, whenever it is a damp, drizzly October in my soul, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. Specifically, I dream of cruise liners. I’ve never been on an ocean cruise, but I’ve been on at least two North Sea ferries and in my mind, cruise ships are paradise. They are places of luxury and possibly a few exotic ...
22/10/2025
Borderlands 4 Generated the Highest Launch Month Dollar Sales of Any Title in the Franchise’s History in the U.S.
Borderlands 4 looks like a big hit in the U.S. at least, where it has outperformed Borderlands 3 in terms of money made during its launch month.
22/10/2025
The Iniu 20,000mAh 65W Power Bank Can Fast Charge the Xbox ROG Ally X for Just $23
You can even charge and play at the same time.
22/10/2025
Palworld dev Pocketpair, famous for making wholly original games, won't publish your game if it uses generative AI
Earlier this year, Palworld developer Pocketpair used its newfound success to start a publishing arm. This, I think, is generally a net good, even if I have some feelings ab...
22/10/2025
Telltale and The Boys make mostly beautiful love in Dispatch, a slick and surprisingly tactical superhero comedy
It's been so long since I played a Telltale-style game that all the Telltale quirks feel novel again. Timed dialogue choices and action QTEs. X will remember that. Hashtag 4 Clementine. Created by a team co-founded by former Walking Dead and Wolf Among U...
22/10/2025
Roundup: Here's What The Reviews Say About PowerWash Simulator 2 On Xbox Game Pass
Hitting the library tomorrow!PowerWash Simulator 2 is bringing its squeaky-clean sequel to Xbox Game Pass tomorrow, October 23rd, which means a bunch of early reviews for the title are now starting to ...
22/10/2025
Dispatch Review in Progress
This superhero successor to Telltale's legacy is off to a great start.
22/10/2025
No Man's Sky adds ship wreck salvaging for new bits to stick on your own craft with the Breach update
If the interstellar equivalent of scrabbling around under the sofa for loose change or dragging a slightly rusty bumper out of a scrapyard is something you yearn for, No Man's Sky's latest update sounds right up your slightly grimy alley. It's dubbed Breach and adds in a bunch of mysterious shipwrecks to strip for...
22/10/2025
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria's first expansion launches next month, even if gameplay is currently MIA
It's been more than a year since The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria first launched, and now it seems like the survival crafting game's first proper expansion is right around the corner. Deve...
22/10/2025
IT: Welcome to Derry Season Premiere Review
Review: IT: Welcome to Derry is off to a great start in its season premiere by re-establishing Derry and Pennywise, even if some of the CG doesn't quite work.
22/10/2025
Deals for Today: Alienware Discounts And Refurb RTX 5000 Series Graphics Cards
As of Oct. 22, Alienware gaming desktops and laptops are on sale at Dell starting from $1,099.99. Woot also has refurbished RTX 5000 series GPUs from $529 — perfect for DLSS 4 and 4K gaming upgrades.
22/10/2025
Fallout Day Broadcast: Bethesda Reveals What It Has Planned for the Show
Bethesda has outlined what it has planned for this week’s Fallout Day broadcast.
22/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Season 1 Brings Lots Of Free Content To Xbox, Starting This Month
More multiplayer mayhem.EA and Battlefield Studios have lifted the lid on Battlefield 6 Season 1, with plenty of additional content being added to the game over the coming weeks. The team is doing things a little differently with three separate updates making up Season 1 - with the first of those updates arriving on October 28th.Yep, that first Season 1 update — kn...
22/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Season 1 Trailer Highlights Blackwell Fields and Eastwood Maps Ahead of Next Week's Launch
The first Battlefield 6 Season 1 trailer is here, revealing a first look at the new Blackwell Fields and Eastwood maps, new weapons, and more.
22/10/2025
Digital Foundry Analyses ROG Xbox Ally X In New Review-In-Progress
Games tested, thoughts shared.We — along with lots of other gaming and tech outlets — delivered our ROG Xbox Ally review last week, and despite us having a great time with the system - opinions on the device(s) are certainly mixed across the board. Now though, the tech experts at Digital Foundry have shared some of their initial thoughts ...
22/10/2025
Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted Review
This remaster of a classic stumbles while trying to bring the original into a new light.
22/10/2025
Microsoft Announces Xbox Game Pass Wave 2 October 2025 Lineup
Microsoft has announced Wave 2 of its Xbox Game Pass October 2025 lineup, fleshing out the rest of this month’s titles.
22/10/2025
KPop Demon Hunters Will Get a Ton of Branded Toys Through New Netflix Hasbro and Mattel Partnership
Here we go: KPop Demon Hunters is poised to be a global phenomenon. Why are we just saying that now? Well, because Netflix has officially announced that the hit film will work in joint partnership with toy giants Mattel and Hasbro to license a ton of cool toys for HUNTR/X and Saja Boys fans alike.
22/10/2025
'The Game We Are Making Now Is a Nintendo Game' — Metroid Prime Producer Kensuke Tanabe Reveals Creative Tensions With Retro in New Book
Nintendo and Retro Studios brought Metroid into stunning 3D, reforming the series in a first-person shooter style through a sometimes challenging but ultimately fruitful relationship between Japanese and Western teams with their own unique backgrounds and perspectives. But it wasn’t always smooth rolling for Samus along the way.
22/10/2025
Two Games Are Moving Over To Xbox Game Pass Premium Today (October 22)
Just announced by Microsoft!With Microsoft's recent Xbox Game Pass overhaul, the new 'Premium' tier is a much more affordable option - and despite a lack of day one launches on there, plenty of games ...
22/10/2025
PowerWash Simulator 2 review
The first level of PowerWash Simulator 2 is cleaning the moving van that just brought you to your fancy new office. 'We're not in Kansas anymore,' say developers FuturLab, as you take in the map wall where you can select levels in an expanded PowerWash world, the open warehouse space where you can place i...
22/10/2025
These 10 Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (October 22 - November 4)
Your latest roundup of new additions.Microsoft has today unveiled its latest roundup of new Xbox Game Pass titles, a few weeks on from overhauling the service with an Ultimate price bump and two refreshed tiers in Essential and P...
22/10/2025
These 11 Games Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass (October 22 - November 4)
Your latest roundup of new additions.Microsoft has today unveiled its latest roundup of new Xbox Game Pass titles, a few weeks on from overhauling the service with an Ultimate price bump and two refreshed tiers in Essential and P...
22/10/2025
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4K Collection Drops to a New Low Price, Just in Time for Halloween
The A Nightmare on Elm Street seven-film collection on 4K has hit a new low price at Amazon of $90.40 before Halloween.
22/10/2025
No Man’s Sky’s Latest Update, Breach, Adds Space Wrecks to Explore
Hello Games has released yet another No Man’s Sky update, this time adding space wrecks to explore. Check out the patch notes for the Breach update.
22/10/2025
After Releasing a $1,000 Handheld, Microsoft Has Said Its Next-Gen Xbox Console 'Is Going to Be a Very Premium, Very High-End Curated Experience'
Microsoft is keeping its next-gen Xbox console plans under wraps, but it has suggested it will be ultra premium hardware.
22/10/2025
Remedy CEO Steps Down, Not Long After Studio Admitted 'Weak Sales' For FBC: Firebreak
"Tero Virtala will step down from his position...".Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind the likes of Alan Wake and Control, has today announced a change in CEO - as Tero Virtala steps down from the company.The team announced this via a new
22/10/2025
Gen V Season 2 Ending Explained: How It Sets Up the Final Season of The Boys
We break down the biggest moments in the Gen V Season 2 finale and look to the future of the Boys universe.
22/10/2025
Mortal Kombat 2 Release Date Changes Once Again, but This Time It's Good News
Mortal Kombat 2's theatrical release date has changed again, but this time it's brought forward a week to May 8, 2026.
22/10/2025
'You Know, It Just Didn't Work' — James Gunn Confirms the DCU Arkham Asylum Series Is Behind Bars
James Gunn has confirmed DC’s Arkham Asylum series is well and truly dead.
22/10/2025
Stellar Reach is a thoughtful "real-scale" space 4X strategy game from a former Creative Assembly developer
Once upon a time, Stellar Reach developer James Miller wanted the stars to move about over the course of 4X strategy game campaigns that might stretch for hundreds of years. In reality, stars are in continual motion: our Sun, for example, orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, which means that right now, you and I a...
22/10/2025
If Starfield Had Been Released by a Studio Other Than Bethesda 'It Would Have Been Received Differently,' Former Developer Says
Former Bethesda developer Bruce Nesmith has offered his thoughts on the divisive Starfield, insisting if it has been released by any other studio “it would have been received differently.”
22/10/2025
'If You're Big on AI Stuff Or Your Game is Web3 or uses NFTs, We're Not The Right Partner,' Says Palworld Publisher Pocketpair
Palworld developer and publisher Pocketpair has confirmed it will not be publishing any games that feature NFTs, Web3, or "big AI stuff," revealing the company "doesn't believe" in them.
22/10/2025
Classic Cartoon Shooter 'Mouse P.I. For Hire' Will Now Blast Its Way Onto Xbox In 2026
Big reveal coming tomorrow!The development team behind the classic cartoon-inspired shooter Mouse P.I. For Hire has today pushed the upcoming Xbox title back to "early 2026".The game was previously due out ...
22/10/2025
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 mods are flowing, offering quicker movement, more blood, and a manicure
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is out now, and naturally modders have immediately emerged from the shadows to start shapin...
22/10/2025
SaGa Series Creator Reveals Inspiration Behind Final Fantasy II Character, 37 Years Later
A post on the official Japanese Twitter / X account for the upcoming game Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy received a reply from none other than veteran developer Akitoshi Kawazu, who surprised users by revealing new information about the inspiration behind a Final Fantasy II character.
22/10/2025
Microsoft Is Reportedly Increasing The Cost Of Xbox Dev Kits In Latest Price Hike
Said to be a 33% price bump.A new report is being shared by The Verge today (paywalled) that claims Microsoft is making another Xbox-related price increase; this time for its Series X|S console dev kits.This isn't looking like a small bump in price either, according to the report. The Verge says we're looking at a 33% cost ...
22/10/2025
Silent Hill Series Producer Claims Silent Hill f's 'Bold Choices' Were A Result of Human Design That AI 'Would Never Be Able to Make'
Silent Hill series producer Motoi Okamoto has insisted "AI would never be able to make" Silent Hill f, responding to comments made by former Konami developer Hideo Kojima that "remakes and sequels will be made by AI" in years to come.
22/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Engineers are Becoming In-Game Artists Instead of Capturing the Objective
While Battlefield 6 Support, Assault, and Recon classes work together to win matches, some Engineer players have been caught using their time becoming in-game artists instead of capturing objectives.
22/10/2025
Scarface PC re-release "unintentionally pushed live" early on Epic with Steam to follow, but I may smell a rat
Maybe prepare to dig out your finest gaudy suit and mountains of, er, a certain substance. A PC re-release of Radical Entertainment's Scarface: The World Is Yours has suddenly popped up on the Epic Store and Steam. The Epic version is available already, having been "unintentionally pushed live" early due to backend issues, according to new publishers ...
22/10/2025
Steam is getting a new eight-week, daily refreshed calendar for recommendations and wishlisted games
Steam is getting a new eight-week calendar feature for both games you've wishlisted and recommended games based on your previous playtime. No longer will you have to source recommendations by reading tea leaves, or visualise your wishlist by labelling different-shaped food in your fridge. Now, you'll get a proper, personalised Monday-to-Friday chart that refreshes every day.
22/10/2025
Sarah Bond: Our Next-Gen Console Will Be 'Very Premium' & Informed By ROG Xbox Ally
The Xbox President speaks...Shortly following the release of ROG Xbox Ally, Microsoft's Sarah Bond has been dropping hints about the team's next-gen plans - and the Xbox President has had some interesting things to say about the next console from Microsoft.In a new interview with Masha...
22/10/2025
GameCube Classic Luigi's Mansion Hits Nintendo Switch 2 Just in Time for Halloween
Luigi's Mansion is finally coming to the Nintendo Switch Online library. Debuting on October 30, the GameCube classic arrives just in time for Halloween, and means the entire trilogy, along with Luigi's Mansion 2 and Luigi's Mansion 3, is now playable on Nintendo Switch 2.
22/10/2025
James Gunn Rules Out Darkseid as the 'Big Bad' for His DC Universe Because Zack Snyder 'Did It So Cool in His Way,' and Thanos in Marvel
James Gunn has officially ruled out his fledgling DC Universe building towards Darkseid as the "big bad," and explained why.
22/10/2025
Gen V Season 2 Finale: "Guardians of Godolkin" Review
Just as it has all season long, Gen V Season 2 thrives on the strength of its main villain in its final episode. Check out our full-spoiler review of the finale.
22/10/2025
Former God of War Dev On the Use of AI in Games Development: “If We Don’t Embrace It, We’re Selling Ourselves Short”
AI is a tool that’s “going to evolve whether you’re onboard with it or not.”
22/10/2025
Score an RFID Blocking Men's Slim Leather Wallet for $5
Practical, stylish, and super duper cheap.
21/10/2025
Double Dragon Revive Review
Less a miraculous resurrection and more like exhuming a shambling corpse.
21/10/2025
Save $750 Off the High-End Alienware Area-51 16" RTX 5080 Gaming Laptop Directly From Dell
Top-of-the-line build quality and performance.
21/10/2025
Game Companies Compete in the Kitchen for Charity
As part of gamescom asia x Thailand Game Show 2025, the first ever Charity Cook-Off was held in Bangkok on October 13, with 10 contestants from the game industry flexing their kitchen skills for Chef Willment Leong, the hot-tempered celebrity chef who hosts Hell’s Kitchen Thailand.
21/10/2025
Save 33% Off the Steelseries Arctis Gamebuds Earbuds for PlayStation 5 and PC
These are the best dedicated gaming earbuds of 2025.
21/10/2025
Gearbox Confirms the Big Borderlands 4 Patch That Will Finally Dull the Infamous Crit Knife Is Now Set to Launch Alongside the Horrors of Kairos Mini-Event
Gearbox has said the hotly anticipated Borderlands 4 patch that will finally dull crit knife builds is delayed again and will now launch alongside the Horrors of Kairos mini-event.
21/10/2025
Apple TV Announces Season 3 Release Date For Hit Dramedy Shrinking
Apple TV — no, not Apple TV+, remember the rebrand — finally announced the premiere date for season 3 of its beloved dramedy Shrinking. It feels great to have a date on the books… but make no mistake, fans will still have to wait a bit for their next appointment.
21/10/2025
Netflix Goes All-in on Catan, With Live-Action and Animated Films and TV Series Planned
Netflix is making various films and TV series based on Catan, the world-renowned multiplayer board game.
21/10/2025
Stephen King's The Long Walk Is Now Available to Watch at Home
A big year for Stephen King movies.
21/10/2025
'It's Good to Put Her Down and Then I Miss Her and I Want Her Back' — MCU Star Elizabeth Olsen Says She'd Jump at the Chance to Play Scarlet Witch Again, but Is the Character Still Alive?
Marvel star Elizabeth Olsen has said she’d jump at the opportunity to play Scarlet Witch again. But is her character still alive in the MCU?
21/10/2025
The Sinking City 2 delayed to 2026, as Frogwares battle "ongoing challenges related to the war in Ukraine"
Frogwares have delayed the release of Lovecraftian survival horror The Sinking City 2 to the first half of 2026, citing the effects of developing a g...
21/10/2025
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 cannot possibly be on sale now
Mere moments before release, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed by the occult implosion of developers The Chinese Room, seemingly triggered by a last-ditch request from Paradox Interactive to add a microtransaction system and start charg...
21/10/2025
Roundup: Here's What The Reviews Are Saying About Jurassic World Evolution 3
Out on Xbox today!One of this month's big releases that's slipping under the radar a little bit is Jurassic World Evolution 3, which was announced by Frontier Developments back in the summer. Yep, the team's dino-tastic park builder is available on Xbox today, which means we're just starting to see some early reviews trickle out fo...
21/10/2025
Crimson Desert: Introducing Three Brand New Bosses
Check out three brand new boss battles from Crimson Desert: Muskan, Walter Lanford, and Kearush the Slayer
21/10/2025
Save 45% Off the High Quality Wolfbox Mega Flow 200 Electric Air Duster
A big upgrade compared to the cheap air dusters you'll find on Amazon.
21/10/2025
Deals for Today: The Best Prices on MTG Preorders and Sealed Products
As of Oct. 21, TCGPlayer has the best prices on MTG preorders including Avatar: The Last Airbender, TMNT, and Lorwyn Eclipsed sets. Amazon’s listings remain above MSRP, but you can still find select sealed products under market value.
21/10/2025
Xbox 360 Hallmark Keepsake Ornament Is Available Now, and Looks Awesome
Deck out your Christmas tree with an Xbox 360 ornament from Hallmark Keepsake's new 2025 line.
21/10/2025
Come Nerevar, Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt's next expansion will finally let you join House Indoril
House Indoril is one of those housed houses, more specifically the one to which Indoril Nevevar, the bloke Morrowind's protagonist is a reincarnation of, belonged.After about two decades of waiting, the modders behind massive project Tamriel Rebuilt are set to start dishing out Indoril membership cards with their next expansion.Damn, shout the three great houses you can join in base Morrowind, the salespeople of Hlaalu, the grizzled warriors of Redoran, and the spoiled shroom-dwelling sorcerers of Telvanni.
21/10/2025
The Sinking City 2 Suffers Last Minute Delay, Now Aiming For The First Half Of 2026
"We don’t have an exact date set".Back in March 2024, developer Frogwares announced The Sinking City 2 for Xbox Series X|S, with plans to release its upcoming Lovecraftian adventure in 2025. Until now, the team had been planning to surprise launch the game towards the end of the year, but that's no longer possible - so...
21/10/2025
The Folio Society Teases Vibrant Illustrated Edition of Nnedi Okorafor's The Binti Trilogy
Already a modern sci-fi classic, Nnedi Okorafor's The Binti Trilogy is getting a big upgrade in the form of a lush illustrated edition from The Folio Society.
21/10/2025
Score Some Great Digital Games on Sale Right Now at the Nintendo eShop
A wide variety of digital games are on sale right now at the Nintendo eShop, including 40% off Sonic X Shadow Generations, 80% off LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Deluxe Edition, and more.
21/10/2025
Bug-hunting RTS Starship Troopers: Terran Command gets a free Territory Mode update that has you defending three planets at once
Publishers Slitherine and developers The Artistocrats have launched one of those high-fadoodling "2.0" updates for Starship Troopers - Terran Command, their violently arachnophobic real-time strategy game from ...
21/10/2025
Ubisoft Provides Closer Look At Avatar's Third Person Mode Ahead Of Xbox Launch
Coming as a free update this December!Back in July, Ubisoft announced that it was bringing a third-person mode to Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora to coincide with the upcoming Fire and Ash movie release -...
21/10/2025
Warner Bros. Discovery Says It Is Officially Considering Buyout Offers Amid ‘Unsolicited Interest From Multiple Parties’
Warner Bros. Discovery has confirmed it is now officially considering buyout offers amid reported interest from Paramount Skydance.
21/10/2025
Jurassic World Evolution 3 Review
A dinosaur sequel that builds on an already satisfying management formula.
21/10/2025
HBO Max Price Rises Kick in Across All Subscription Tiers, HBO Max Standard Now $18.49 per Month
Warner Bros. has hiked the price of subscriptions to its streaming service HBO Max, effective immediately.
21/10/2025
Kirby Air Riders Direct With Director Masahiro Sakurai Set for This Week — Brace Yourself for 60 Minutes on the Upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusive
Nintendo has announced the second Kirby Air Riders Direct with director Masahiro Sakurai. It’s set for October 23 at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm UK time.
21/10/2025
Rumour: Xbox Won't Announce Starfield For PS5 Until 2026, It's Claimed
"Unless plans change...".Back in August, we heard separate rumours to do with Xbox's Starfield - both relating to the game expanding to more platforms in 2026. First we heard about a PS5 version coming in Spring, before
21/10/2025
Out of Alcatraz: Read the Entire First Issue of the Prison Escape Thriller
Oni Press' Out of Alcatraz is one of the best new comics of 2025, and now you can read the entire first issue for free.
21/10/2025
Resellers Beware: Nier Automata Dev Yoko Taro's Real Autograph Includes 'Small, Unknown Features' to Help Spot Fakes
Nier series director Yoko Taro has warned fans to be wary that "nearly half" of the items purporting to be autographed by him include fake signatures.
21/10/2025
PS Plus Extra Set to Lose 7 Games in November 2025, Including Battlefield 5
PlayStation Plus Extra will lose seven games in November 2025, Sony has confirmed. Here's the list.
21/10/2025
Arc Raiders boss boasts of being able to AI generate guns from Youtube videos, but says it'll never replace "the human aspect"
Embark Studios CEO and former EA guy Patrick Söderlund has been chatting about the usage of generative AI and machine learning in Arc Raiders, the forthcoming looter shooter with the neat motorbike helmets. He's of the opinion that while generative AI tools at large are "pioneering" inventions that "should completely...
21/10/2025
Two More First-Party Games Get Dynamic Backgrounds On Xbox Series X|S
The collection grows again!Microsoft has added two more dynamic backgrounds to its Xbox Series X|S collection, following a batch of recent additions that we covered on PX last week. These two new options are based on The Elder Scrolls Online and <...
21/10/2025
Arc Raiders Design Director Says Running a Playtest Around the Same Time as Bungie's Marathon Was 'A Great A/B Test for Us'
The Arc Raiders design director has said it's been fortuitous timing to have its extraction shooter launch a playtest around the same time as Bungie's Marathon, calling it "a great A/B test for us."
21/10/2025
South Park Season 27 and Season 28 Having Just 5 Episodes Each Was Reportedly Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Plan All Along
The decision to bring South Park Season 27 to an end after just five episodes and kick off Season 28 has gone without an official explanation from either Comedy Central, Paramount, or series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. But a recent article has suggested there was misreporting around how many episodes Season 27 would include before it even began, and that the showrunners always planned for Season 27 and Season 28 to have five episodes each.
21/10/2025
Former Battlefield 6 developer slams EA for leaving himself and other Ridgeline staff out of the credits
Former Ridgeline Games boss and Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has spoken out against the diminished representation of certain old Ridgeline colleagues in Battlefield 6's credits, pointing out that some have been "entirely omitted" despite their years of work laying the "foundation" for EA...
21/10/2025
Halo Co-Creator Marcus Lehto 'Disappointed' Ridgeline Staff 'Were Not Properly Credited' in Battlefield 6, Says They Built the 'Foundation' of the Game
Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has expressed his disappointment that former staff of the now shuttered Ridgeline Games were not "properly" credited in Battlefield 6, despite building the "foundation" of the game.
21/10/2025
Roundup: Here's What The Critics Think Of Ninja Gaiden 4 From Xbox Game Studios
Out now on Game Pass!In what's fast becoming an incredibly busy month for Team Green, Xbox Game Studios' latest release in Ninja Gaiden 4 is now out in the wild - and we delivered our Pure Xbox verdict just a few hours ago!To give you a broader range of opinions though, we're going to gather up a bunch of reviews d...
21/10/2025
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy Responds to Emiru TwitchCon Assault, Says It's a 'Challenge in Today's Society,' and 'Not Limited to Twitch'
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy has addressed last weekend's public assault of prolific streamer Emiru, saying he is "looking very closely at everything that happened there" and insisting creator safety is his "top priority."
21/10/2025
$1,000 for a ROG Xbox Ally X? Oh yeah, that was Asus' idea, says Microsoft exec
Fingers have been pointed regarding the ROG Xbox Ally X's beefy £800 / $1000 price tag. Xbox, whose name is on the handheld, have pointed to collaborators Asus as having spearheaded that decision, with president Sarah Bond saying that it came down to the hardware company's assessment of what'd be acceptable to charge.
21/10/2025
Charlie Cox Insists Daredevil Is Not in Spider-Man: Brand New Day or Avengers: Doomsday, but Some Fans Think He’s Taking a Leaf Out of Andrew Garfield’s Book and Misdirecting Us
Marvel star Charlie Cox has insisted he will not play Daredevil in next year’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day, although there are many fans who don’t believe him.
21/10/2025
Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (October 21)
Including a new first-party release!Welcome to your latest Xbox Game Pass roundup! Today, we have two titles coming to the library, including Microsoft's Ninja Gaiden 4 - which has just launched for Xbox Series X and S.Down below is a quick introduction to NG4, alongsi...
21/10/2025
Konami Revealed 3 New Silent Hill Games at Once So Fans Knew It Was 'Serious' About Resurrecting the Horror Franchise
Silent Hill series producer Motoi Okamoto has opened up on why Konami revealed three new Silent Hill games after a full decade of silence, saying the publisher was keen to stress to old fans and new that it was "serious" about resurrecting the flailing horror series.
21/10/2025
Hold your horses, 13th century Mongolian courier sim The Legend of Khiimori's early access release is delayed
Following its latest Steam Next Fest demo, The Legend of Khiimori's early access release has been pushed back to March next year.There's neigh way developers Aesir Interactive and NightinGames have done this to you.Read more
21/10/2025
'They Didn't See How Ben Solo Was Alive. And That Was That' — Adam Driver Reveals Disney Said No to a 'Really Cool' Kylo Ren Star Wars Movie
Kylo Ren actor Adam Driver has revealed he and director Steven Soderbergh spent two years developing a Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker follow-up called The Hunt for Ben Solo, but Disney said no to the proposal.
21/10/2025
Soarin' Across America Arriving at Walt Disney World and Disneyland for Disney's Celebration of the United States' 250th Anniversary
In celebration of the United States' 250th anniversary next year, Walt Disney World and Disneyland's Soarin' will be transformed into Soarin' Across America in Summer 2026. This new "bi-coastal offering will showcase the United States - from sea to shining sea - highlighting some of the country's natural beauty and iconic cityscapes."
21/10/2025
One Punch Man: Season 3, Episode 2 Review
One Punch Man Season 3, Episode 2 review: After last week's slow-burn, J.C.Staff serves up a well-balanced main course with “Monster Traits.”
21/10/2025
Amazon Is Having a Massive Manga Sale Disguised as a Coupon Code
But 1, get 1 50% off popular manga.
20/10/2025
Review: Ninja Gaiden 4 (Xbox) - Platinum Propels The Series Forward On Xbox Game Pass
There's a new kid on the block.When it was revealed that PlatinumGames was helping with the fourth major entry in the Ninja Gaiden series, I had two immediate thoughts. How would the Bayonetta studio handle this kind of responsibility, and could another character really lead the next big entry in the modern series, in plac...
20/10/2025
Birdcage is a stylish, tough, frenetic bullet hell "sword action shooting game" inspired by anime and '90s arcade classics
For a myriad of reasons, I can't really write any particular profane curse words here, but an approximation of my feelings on Birdcage, an anime as hell, "sword action shooting game", it would be something like, "this game is so ******* sick, like what the ****, how the **** can one game be so ******* stylish."I'm sure you can fill in the blanks of what words I wish I could use there, but if you'll allow me, I'd also like to take the time to actually talk about why Birdcage rules so much. Read more
20/10/2025
Best Buy Reveals Its Black Friday Sale Dates for 2025 With Deals Starting on Halloween
Doorbuster tech deals are coming your way.
20/10/2025
One of the few Nintendo DS horror games is making its seasonally approrpiate debut on PC later this month
The Nintendo Dual Screen! Or Nintendo DS, as it was actually known. There's a console that has practically no relevance to this site, except for right now, because of a game called Dementium: The Ward. For those that haven't heard of it, this is one of the incredibly few
20/10/2025
'You're Too Good for Camo' – Battlefield 6 Players Can't Help But Poke Fun at 'Absurd' Orange Recon Skin
Battlefield 6 is giving fans some of the most cinematic FPS action they’ve seen in years, but one of its hard-to-reach Recon skins has the community in stitches.
20/10/2025
How to Read the Game of Thrones Books in Chronological Order
Wondering how to read the Game of Thrones books in order? We're here to help break down the chronology of George R.R. Martin's novels.
20/10/2025
The 77" LG Evo C5 4K OLED TV (2025 Model) Drops to Under $2,000 on Amazon
One of the best TVs you can get for console gaming.
20/10/2025
Event Horizon: Dark Descent Prequel Series Gets Horrifying New Cover Artwork
IDW's massively successful Event Horizon: Dark Descent is going back to print, and we've got an exclusive first look at the horrifying artwork adorning the new covers.
20/10/2025
Apple TV and Peacock Launch New Streaming Bundle Starting at $14.99/Month
A new streaming bundle has appeared.
20/10/2025
Get a Complete Prebuilt Windows 11 Pro Micro PC Computer From Amazon for Just $131
Smaller than a Mac Mini and comes preinstalled with Windows 11 Pro.
20/10/2025
Marathon's playtest wasn't great for Bungie, but Arc Raiders' design director says it was a "great A/B test" for them
There should have been two major extraction shooters launching in the last quarter of this year.One of them is Arc Raiders, which is in fact coming out later this month.Interestingly, though, with both games hosting tests earlier in the year, there was an opportunity for Arc Raiders' developers to learn something from Marathon.
20/10/2025
How Does Xbox Play Anywhere Work – Can I Play Xbox Games On The ROG Xbox Ally
The Asus ROG Xbox Ally may not be an Xbox, but it's close. Here's how Play Anywhere works so you can get the most out of your Xbox and PC gaming library.
20/10/2025
We Build the LEGO Lord of the Rings Book Nook, Which Recreates an Iconic Scene
Check out the building experience of the LEGO Lord of the Rings Book Nook, which re-creates the iconic Gandalf vs. Balrog scene from The Fellowship of the Ring.
20/10/2025
Save Over 50% Off the High Quality Wolfbox Mega Flow 100 Electric Air Duster
A big upgrade compared to the cheap air dusters you'll find on Amazon.
20/10/2025
Escape From Duckov off to flying start on Steam amid modest outbreak of save file bugs, AI problems and duck dicks
Team Soda's ex-quack-tion parody Escape From Duckov launched last week, and has proven rather popular, with over half a million players on Steam.You are an Average Duck with a gun, trying to survive one of five maps against shifting enemy patterns and weather conditions.Yes, you can also make your duck look like an item of human genitalia in the character editor.
20/10/2025
Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu retains said status by explaining why AI music doesn't work
Though I deeply wish for it to not be the case, unfortunately the reality you and I find ourselves in is one where AI is being forced into every single crevice the worst corporations you know can fit it in to.It hasn't completely dominated any of the arts just yet, but its usage is becoming more and more common.If you're one such developer considering doing so, voluntarily, I would normally offer you some potentially unkind words, but instead I'll point you towards the one and only Nobuo Uematsu, whose stance on AI is one I'm quite fond of.
20/10/2025
X-Men Star Michael Fassbender to Play Joseph Kennedy Sr. in Netflix Kennedy Family Drama
Netflix’s Kennedy family drama is moving forward, with X-Men star Michael Fassbender set to play Joseph Kennedy Sr.
20/10/2025
Glen Powell Reveals How Stephen King Ultimately Approved Him For The Running Man Remake
It’s no easy feat to get horror maestro Stephen King to approve a casting choice for a movie based on one of his works — or is it? According to Glen Powell, who stars in the upcoming adaptation of The Running Man, it might be easy, but it’s agonizing nonetheless.
20/10/2025
Guide: The Outer Worlds 2: Release Date, Release Times & How To Get Early Access On Xbox
Everything you need to know.The Outer Worlds 2 is almost here! Yep, Obsidian's third major release of 2025 is on the horizon, and with the title having a pretty generous early access period starting in just a few days' time - we wanted to bring you up to speed on everything you need to know for launch.Without further ado, here are all the key details for The Outer Worlds 2 and its...
20/10/2025
The Simpsons Hit & Run Gets Eye-Catching Futurama Mod — And Even The Original Game's Lead Designer is Impressed
An impressive new mod for The Simpsons Hit & Run has rebuilt the game to instead feature Futurama, catching the attention of the cult classic's original lead designer.
20/10/2025
Dead Cells 2 doesn't exist because its devs would rather make what they want than listen to external pressures
Sequels! More often than not, they're completely unnecessary, but until we're at a point where we don't have to bow to the whims of the free market, studios of all sizes will likely continue to push them out. Right now people like familiarity, there's a risk in paying for something new. What if the thing you're buying is a waste of what little money you have? Ah, but a sequel to ...
20/10/2025
Deals for Today: Pokémon TCG Blaziken ex & Volcanion ex Premium Collection Is In Stock Now
As of Oct. 20, the Pokémon TCG Blaziken ex & Volcanion ex Premium Collection is back in stock at Amazon for $69.99 — no markups. Plus, TCGPlayer has the best prices on Mega Evolution, Prismatic Evolutions, and more Pokémon TCG sets.
20/10/2025
Rumoured Resident Evil 0 Remake looks like it could star the voice of an indeterminate number of FarCry 5 NPCs
One of the actors starring in the rumoured Resident Evil 0 Remake has seemingly been unearthed, via a codename listed on his resume. In case you're wondering who it is, he played various characters, possibly including a mine-dwelling cultist, in FarCry 5. As a refresher, this is ...
20/10/2025
Everything That Happened in The Outer Worlds (So You Know It All Before Playing The Outer Worlds 2)
If you're about to start playing The Outer Worlds 2, then now's the perfect time to remind yourself of everything that happened in The Outer Worlds 1.
20/10/2025
'This is Their Hardware': Xbox Boss Says Ally X Handheld's Eye-Watering $1,000 Price Was Set by Asus
Xbox has addressed the ROG Ally X handheld's controversial $1,000 price point — and said it had been hardware maker Asus that ultimately decided how much to charge.
20/10/2025
'RIP. He's Fully Under That Ground' — Stranger Things Showrunners Confirm Joseph Quinn Was Baiting Us: Eddie Munson Will Not Return for Season 5
There’s a lot we don’t know about the final season of Stranger Things, but one thing’s for sure: despite all the teasing, Joseph Quinn will not be returning as Eddie Munson for Season 5.
20/10/2025
MindsEye director Leslie Benzies' micro-management led to bugs being dubbed "Leslies" or "Leslie tickets", former devs claim
A number of former staff at MindsEye developers Build A Rocket Boy have offered some more details on alleged mismanagement at the company.They claim that director Leslie Benzies "never decided what game he wanted to make" during development of both dodgy action-adventure MindsEye and the umbrella game creation tool Everywhere.The former developers also paint a picture of disruptive micro-management, with issues Benzies spotted being named after him and forced to the top of the priority list.
20/10/2025
Talking Point: Xbox Should Use And Improve This New PlayStation Store Feature
Often, when covering these for Pure Xbox we use external sites like Deku Deals to track price history and such - and a new PlayStation Store update has implemented something similar directly on the console storefront.As covered by our good friends over at Push Square, a new PS Store feature is rolling out now that showcases a game's 30-day price history right on the game's store page.The above example shows Gears of War: Reloaded - which is currently 25% off on PS5, and that's showing up as the lowest price on the platform for the last 30 days.
20/10/2025
Stranger Things Showrunners Reveal First Details on Linda Hamilton's Season 5 Character — And She Sounds Badass
We already knew the star of The Terminator — Sarah Connor, of course… aka Linda Hamilton — would be joining the Stranger Things Cinematic Universe for Season 5. But now, we’re getting a glimpse, albeit a small one, into her character from the Duffer Brothers themselves.
20/10/2025
The Walmart-Exclusive Icon Blue PS5 Controller Is Now Available to Buy
The Walmart-exclusive Icon Blue DualSense controller is now available to buy from the retailer, with a price tag of $84.
20/10/2025
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 review
Let's get this over with early: Bloodlines 2 probably should not have been called Bloodlines 2. Shared setting and a couple brief, questionable cameos (plus one utterly rubbish bit of cosmetic DLC) aside, there is little tying this game to Troika's original
20/10/2025
The Best Times to Buy a New iPhone in 2025
Should you buy a new iPhone in the summer or wait?
20/10/2025
'Does Anyone Really Want Another?' Marvel Star Mark Ruffalo Unsure if a Hulk Solo Movie Will 'Ever Really Come to Be, Honestly'
Marvel star Mark Ruffalo has said he's still keen for a solo Hulk movie — though isn't sure if it will ever happen.
20/10/2025
Helldivers 2 Dev Is Working On A 'New Co-Op Action Game', And It'll Likely Launch On Xbox
New job listing tells all.As shared by Insider Gaming, Arrowhead Studios has posted a new job listing for its next big project.The game hasn't been revealed just yet, but the team is looking for a senior system designer to "help shape the foundation of a brand-new, unannounced project".
20/10/2025
Jurassic World Evolution 3 Release Times Confirmed
Jurassic World Evolution 3 release times are now confirmed. Here's when you'll be able to play in your timezone.
20/10/2025
Escape From Duckov Is a Tarkov Parody That's Going Quackers on Steam With 500,000 Sales and Big Concurrents
Escape from Duckov is an unlikely hit on Steam after half a million sales and big concurrents over the weekend.
20/10/2025
Final Boss: Get an Exclusive Look Inside the Hyper-Violent New Image Comics Series
If there's a gaping void of action in your reading list, then you need to check out our exclusive preview of the hyper-violent new Image Comics series Final Boss.
20/10/2025
Xbox President Explains Why Microsoft Ditched Its First-Party Handheld
It came down to "speed" and being "innovative".In a new chat with outlet Variety, the Xbox exec further detailed why it decided to stick with just partnering with Asus on a handheld for the time being, as opposed to working on both devices.Bond said "we could do partnered much quicker, and in a much more innovative way" than Microsoft working by itself - likely due to Asus's experience in the market and its existing ROG Ally product line.
20/10/2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 May Suggest JRPGs Are 'Back,' But Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Co-director Is Focused On 'What Game Experience Fans Will Enjoy'
Despite the blockbuster reception to Sandfall's RPG, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 co-director Naoki Hamaguchi says that decisions about Part 3's gameplay will be "based on the director's decision himself," and it had not been "pre-determined yet."
20/10/2025
'The Studios Don't Seem to Understand How Important This IP Is but We Will Get Them There' — Sleeping Dogs Movie Progresses as Marvel Star Simu Liu Confirms 'Script Draft Is Done'
The first draft of the script for the movie adaptation of Sleeping Dogs is "done."
20/10/2025
IShowSpeed Slams Sora 2 Deepfakes That Feature the Streamer Kissing Fans, Racing Animals, and Declare He Is Gay
IShowSpeed has slammed AI-powered Sora 2 deepfakes that show the streaming star doing and saying things he hasn’t.
20/10/2025
Resident Evil Zero Remake Reportedly Aiming For 2028 Release, With Guardians of the Galaxy Video Game Actor On Board
Capcom's upcoming, unannounced Resident Evil Zero remake will reportedly be released in 2028 and feature the lead actor from Square Enix's Guardians of the Galaxy video game.
20/10/2025
Two Upcoming Xbox Game Pass Titles Win Big At Australian Game Awards Show
One of them won Game of the Year!This past weekend, Australian gaming show SXSW Sydney 2025 took place, highlighting a bunch of new and upcoming titles across the industry - and a pair of Xbox Game Pass upcomers won big during the event's awards show.Mixtape won Game of the Year, whilst Way To The Woods took home the People's Choice award.
20/10/2025
The Simpsons: Hit & Run modders have made their own Futurama total conversion, with future and ramas
GT-Abe gateway drug The Simpsons Hit & Run's status a thing people my age remember from their childhoods has earned it a strong modding community, and the latest export to come out of it is a Futurama total conversion designed to mirror an official expansion.It's predictably called Futurama: Hit & Run and has a demo out now.For free, of course, so attempts to deploy the 'shut up and take my money' meme here are thoroughly misplaced.
20/10/2025
This week in PC games: Jurassic Ninja Vampire Powerwash Plant vs Katamari Double Dragon Edition
I'm back from last week's unscheduled spell of Maw mastication, and regrettably, I still have possession of all my typing fingers.James was kind enough to do the round-up post in my absence, but the experience has clearly taken a toll, as he is now in India.James, if I fled to another country everytime the Maw ate a colleague I'd have run out of other countries to flee to.
20/10/2025
Doctor Who Producer Says Show 'Will Change' — but Blasts 'Rude' Writer Who Claimed It Was 'As Dead as We've Ever Known It'
The executive producer of Doctor Who has hit back at "rude" comments from a former writer who claimed the show was now "as dead as we've ever known it" during its current production hiatus.
20/10/2025
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Co-Director Doesn't Think Rebirth Was 'Longer Than Necessary,' But Is Working To Make Part 3 Feel 'More Concise'
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 co-director Naoki Hamaguchi has assured fans that the team working on the highly anticipated final instalment is "striking a balance" between keeping the story moving and tightening the pacing.
20/10/2025
Microsoft Passes The Buck To Asus For ROG Xbox Ally's Price Tag
"It really was Asus, because this is their hardware".One of the most controversial aspects of Microsoft's new ROG Xbox Ally device is the eyewatering price tag — particularly the X version, which comes in at a thousand bucks — and in a new interview with Variety, Xbox exec Sarah Bond says that it was largely manufacturer Asus that decided on pricing.Bond says that Xbox "looked at creating multiple options for people" while partnering with Asus - but ultimately, "it really was Asus, because this is their hardware".
20/10/2025
"There's really no winning": Fallout 2 Remake mod lead talks "walking the thin line" of reimagining a classic
Skyblivion might have bagged more headlines, but it's far from the only ambitious modding project being worked on for a Bethesda game with the goal of putting a fresh spin on a classic.Fallout 4: Project Arroyo arguably has an even tougher task, with its team aiming to reimagine the turn-based and isometric Fallout 2 through Fallout 4's 3D action lens.In a fresh interview with YouTuber AVV Gaming that also sheds light on how the team are hoping to incorporate aspects of an original Fallout remake mod that was mothballed last year, Project Arroyo lead Damion Daponte has discussed how they've approached the difficult task of deciding how much to tweak as they reinterpret the 90s RPG.
20/10/2025
Streamer Emiru Issues Statement Following TwitchCon Assault, Confirms She Is Pressing Charges
Prolific streamer Emiru has urged fellow creators to "seriously consider not attending" future TwitchCon events after she was publicly assaulted.
20/10/2025
'Rotta Can Move Quickly, Yes' — Jeremy Allen White Teases Mando / Rotta the Hutt Team Up for The Mandalorian and Grogu
Jeremy Allen White has teased a Mando and Rotta the Hutt Team Up for The Mandalorian and Grogu.
20/10/2025
Roblox, Fortnite and other online games nuked by massive Amazon web outage
Fortnite, Roblox, Clash Royale and various other games and gaming services have been struck down by an "operational issue" with Amazon's web services today, though Amazon themselves promise that they're already seeing "significant signs of recovery". Read more
20/10/2025
After Previous James Bond Movie Snub, Fans Think Lana Del Rey Has Recorded The Theme Song For 007: First Light
Lana Del Rey looks to have gotten a second chance at recording a James Bond theme song, this time for the upcoming video game 007: First Light.
20/10/2025
Report: Resident Evil 0 Remake In Development For Release After Requiem
This summer, Capcom finally revealed Resident Evil Requiem as its next mainline RE title, and now a fresh report details what we can expect from the series after RE9 drops on Xbox next February - and we'll be firmly back in Resident Evil remake territory by the looks of it.According to outlet MP1st — who've recently reported details on the now-cancelled Xbox duo Everwild and Perfect Dark — Resident Evil 0 Remake is in the works over at Capcom, currently targeting a 2028 release.Read the full article on purexbox.com
20/10/2025
In Among Us-style romp Frankenstein's Monster, four Frankensteins fight over body parts for their creations
It's essentially 21st century medicine but minus painkillers and handsoap, right?All the surgeons looked like Clive Owen and were addicted to bath salts.Still, I do recall reading that there was a lot of competition for access to corpses.
20/10/2025
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Set Photos Reveal Stranger Things Star Sadie Sink, Sparking Fresh Speculation Around Who She's Playing
Sadie Sink has been spotted filming her first scenes in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, giving fans fresh clues to identify the mystery character that the Stranger Things star is playing.
20/10/2025
Huge Outage Knocks Out Amazon, Roblox, Fortnite, Snapchat, Slack and a Lot More
An Amazon Web Services outage appears to have knocked out a number of key websites, social media networks, work platforms, and video games.
20/10/2025
Arc Raiders Ends 'Server Slam' Playtest With Big Steam Concurrents, Suggesting Strong Launch Ahead
Arc Raiders has ended its 'Server Slam' playtest with a big peak concurrent player number on Steam, suggesting a strong launch is ahead.
20/10/2025
Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show 2025 Wraps Up with Record Attendance
Southeast Asia's newly merged game expo has enjoyed a promising first year.
20/10/2025
The 10 Best Survival Horror Games
Survival horror games carefully balance tension, resource management, puzzles, and labyrinthine locations, but what are the greatest examples of this terrifying blend? These are IGN's pick of the top survival horror games.
19/10/2025
The 10 Scariest Moments in Movie History
The 10 Scariest Moments in Movie History: From jump scares to simmering existential dread, here's how the scariest movies freak you out.
19/10/2025
The Sunday Papers
Sundays are for landing on a mysterious planet.Adrian Edmondson's planet-sized head stares at you, licking its lips to get rid of leftover spittle.Well, there's two of you in the bleakness now.
19/10/2025
Even more Blizzard workers have voted to unionise, this time around 100 devs who work on Hearthstone
It's a busy week for union organisers at Activision Blizzard.Yesterday, in conjunction with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a group of over 100 developers that work on Hearthstone and the mobile only strategy game Warcraft Rumble voted "strongly in favor of wall-to-wall union representation."This comes after around 400 Blizzard platform and technology workers voted to unionise, also with the CWA.
18/10/2025
Hell Maiden makes a compelling case for mixing Hades, Vampire Survivors, anime and, uh, Dante's Divine Comedy
I think if you were to travel back in time to around the 14th century to wherever Dante Alighieri was at the time, and showed him Hell Maiden, a roguelike, bullet hell, deckbuilding, '90s anime-esque, essentially fan fiction sequel to his Divine Comedy, he'd probably say something like "Mama mia" and die on the spot in fear of what his own creation spawn hundreds of years later.Yet as ridiculous a concept as it is - and it is ridiculous - the demo for it is quite good. Read more
18/10/2025
FIFA finds its way back to video games through a "multi-year partnership" with Football Manager
It's been a while since we've last seen anything FIFA in the world of video games, namely because EA took a gamble on saying goodbye to the sports association's official licence back in 2022.Whether that has paid off, literally, is neither here nor there right now though, as FIFA announced this week that it has signed a "multi-year partnership" with Football Manager, once again bringing its recognisable (if potentially tainted) name back to video games. Read more
18/10/2025
Three Games Are Leaving Xbox Game Pass In Late October 2025
All of them are well worth a play.Microsoft has just revealed the next batch of three games set to leave Xbox Game Pass in late October, with all of them showing on the official Xbox mobile app as of this morning.All of these are well worth a play, with Metal Slug Tactics being an RTS title, Return To Monkey Island being a point-and-click title, and Jusant being a bit like Double Fine's new Keeper game - a casual platformer with plenty of charm.
18/10/2025
Modern classic momentum platformer N++ gets a 10th anniversary update as its devs tease what's next for them
Like whatever genres you like, but for me personally, I find platformers to be the quintessential video game genre.Even with the most challenging entries, there are very few other genres that (when done well) are as easy and quick to pick up, play, and have fun with.I think that's why so many of them have such longevity, one such game being N++, a tough but fair platformer that's celebrating its 10th anniversary with a new update.
18/10/2025
Cult of the Lamb buys into the cult of farming sims with a new trailer for its next expansion Woolhaven
Cult of the Lamb is honestly not a game I expected to still be going for as long as and as strongly as it has.It came out in 2022!There's no release date other than an early 2026 release window, but a new trailer did at least show off all of that farming you'll get to do.
18/10/2025
Best New Anime to Watch (Fall Season 2025)
This is some of the best new anime to watch for the fall season of 2025.
18/10/2025
Poll: Are You More Interested In The ROG Xbox Ally Now That Reviews Are Out?
The device is available to the public right now.Microsoft's big handheld launch day has come and gone — the ROG Xbox Ally is now available to the public, and plenty of impressions are already out there — so our poll today revolves around whether the device's launch reviews have tempted you into picking one up, or at least have you considering it.dubbing it an "amazing handheld PC with plenty of console-like potential".
18/10/2025
20+ Games Are Reduced By 90-95% In This Year's Xbox Shocktober Sale
HUGE discounts for great games!Looking for some cheap Xbox games during the Xbox Shocktober Sale 2025?Well, there are around 20 games that are reduced by 90-95% in this specific sale alone, with highlights including Control Ultimate Edition, Killing Floor 2, Mad Max, Middle-earth: The Shadow Bundle and a whole lot more!
18/10/2025
Black Phone 2 Should Be Great, But Something’s Holding It Back
Like with many of Scott Derrickson’s previous efforts, he turns in a solid film, but not a great one. Watching Black Phone 2 crystallizes what its director does well and what he’s struggled with over the course of his career, and is perhaps the most cogent example of why Derrickson has become the patron saint of “pretty good” horror movies. Let’s take a look at why Black Phone 2 just misses out on being the next great horror classic.
18/10/2025
Feature: These 50+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (October 20-24)
Including five new Game Pass additions!Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for October 20-24!We've got a very busy few days ahead of us for new releases, including the likes of Ninja Gaiden 4, Jurassic World Evolution 3, early access for The Outer Worlds 2 and so much more, while five games are arriving into the Xbox Game Pass service as well!
18/10/2025
How Pro Wrestlers Took Over Hollywood
John Cena, Dave Bautista, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson are the holy trinity of wrestlers-turned-actors. So what lessons could an aspiring in-ring thespian learn from their careers?
18/10/2025
Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 18-19)
Time for a lighthouse tour?Welcome to another weekend!It's a big one in the world of Xbox with first-party title Keeper and the ROG Xbox Ally now available to the public;
18/10/2025
Ubisoft Montreal Discusses the Past, Present, and Future of Rainbow Six Siege X
Creative director Alexander Karpazis says “there’s no end in sight when it comes to what we want to do with the game.”
18/10/2025
What are we all playing this weekend?
See ya, suckers – I’m off to India for a week, and am only writing this introductory paragraph because Ollie stole my 'taking holiday' idea while I was distracted by a bird.Specifically, I’ll be in Dharamshala, the mountain town where the Dalai Lama lives.Maybe I’ll get to ask him what he thinks of my Steam Deck.
18/10/2025
Pokémon Card Market Watch: Lost Origin is Going Through Some Mega Value Shifts This Week
As of Oct. 17, Pokémon TCG: Lost Origin cards are seeing major shifts. Gengar and Pikachu Trainer Gallery cards drop to $26–$38, while Giratina V soars past $720 on TCGPlayer.
18/10/2025
Black Friday 2025: When to Expect Sales to Start This Year
The season of savings is almost here.
17/10/2025
Borderlands 4 Players Are Tearfully Waving Goodbye to Their Hard-Earned Legendary Loot as It Erupts From Bosses and Gets Trapped Out of Bounds
Borderlands 4 is a looter shooter that revolves around… loot. But what happens when you can’t get your hard-earned Legendary drop because it got trapped out of bounds or behind an invisible wall? Desperate Borderlands 4 players are running into that exact problem and are now pleading with developer Gearbox for a fix.
17/10/2025
How to Avoid the Latest Disney+ Price Hikes
Disney+ prices are going up again next week. If you're committed to the streaming service, there's some ways to get ahead of the hike.
17/10/2025
The Lenovo Legion Pro 5 RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Laptop with OLED Display Drops to $1,700
This is a powerful gaming laptop with excellent build quality and a gorgeous display.
17/10/2025
Over Half of You Are Picking Totodile as your Pokémon Legends: Z-A Starter
Who's your starter Pokémon in Pokémon Legends: Z-A? Wait, wait, let me guess: is it Totodile?
17/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Sparks 'Zoomers' vs 'Battledads' War Over Movement — but the Devs Are Looking for Somewhere In-Between
Battlefield 6 movement is top of mind for EA, Battlefield Studios, and players, as the community’s latest debate has formed around the topic of "zoomers" vs. "battledads."
17/10/2025
How To Sign In To Your Gaming Accounts On The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X
A breakdown of how to get into all your gaming accounts on the new Xbox Ally X, including Steam, the Epic Games Store, and Ubisoft Connect.
17/10/2025
We Build LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Captain Jack Sparrow’s Pirate Ship
We build LEGO Icons Pirates of the Caribbean Jack Sparrow's Pirate Ship, a huge, elegant re-creation of the Black Pearl.
17/10/2025
Review: 8BitDo Ultimate 3-Mode Controller For Xbox - Rare 40th Anniversary Edition - A New Gold Standard
8BitDo's first wireless Xbox pad is worth every jiggy.The company's latest offering – and its first wireless pad for Xbox – is the Ultimate 3-Mode Controller, and comes in a special Rare-themed design to mark the company's 40th birthday.I've been fortunate enough to go hands-on with the controller, and the good news is that it sets a new standard in Xbox pads.
17/10/2025
Lenovo's Most Powerful Legion Gaming PC with RTX 5090 GPU Drops Below $4K for the First Time Ever
Top the line specs including a liquid cooled Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU, 64GB of RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
17/10/2025
Get a Cordless Rechargeable Electric Air Duster for Your PC for Just $19.99 with Coupon
Say goodbye to buying compressed air canisters in bulk.
17/10/2025
'His Methods Sometimes Created Friction' — Back to the Future Star Michael J. Fox Opens Up About On-Set 'Feud' With Crispin Glover, Who Played His Father George
Back to the Future was such a cultural phenomenon — but interestingly enough, there’s still mystery surrounding the production. Michael J. Fox, who played Marty McFly, recently published his memoir Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum, and in it he detailed something of an on-set feud with Crispin Glover, who played McFly’s father George.
17/10/2025
Control's New 120FPS Mode Tested In Latest Digital Foundry Analysis
Earlier this month, Remedy unveiled its new patch for Control Ultimate Edition - adding in a bunch of current-gen features that had been present in the PC version for a number of months prior.Since then, Digital Foundry has been testing these features out across all platforms including Xbox Series X|S;For a bit of context, this patch included unlocked 120FPS support on current-gen consoles (except Xbox Series S), improved anti-aliasing, HDR support and more - all of which have been tested out by the DF team.
17/10/2025
The Biggest Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers This Week - October 17
Spider-Man cards are on the slide, and there's a non-TMNT Ninja Turtle in this week's Magic: The Gathering Market Watch.
17/10/2025
Fallout Is Getting an Official, Bethesda-Backed Exhibition Complete With Easter Eggs at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas
The world of Fallout is a fictional one, but it deals with some very real and very serious issues, chief among them the threat of nuclear war. Now, the video game series is set for an official exhibition at pretty much the most appropriate place for it on earth: the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas.
17/10/2025
Deals for Today: Alienware Prebuilt Gaming PCs, Laptops and Monitors on Sale
As of Oct. 17, Alienware gaming PCs, laptops, and 4K monitors are on sale at Dell starting from $1,199.99. Save on MagSafe power banks from $14.99 and other tech deals from Amazon and Walmart.
17/10/2025
Bone-twisting sadism and immersive simulation go together unpleasantly well in Brush Burial: Gutter World
Brush Burial: Gutter World is the sneaky and frenetic new dollop of squalor from Knife Demon Software.It casts you once again as Fennel, a swamp devil with a pronged tail you can use as a whip and a grapple, knocking props around and swiping crossbow bolts out of midair.Those little fatal jerks at the end of the animation are more visceral than anything in Doom: Eternal.
17/10/2025
Roblox Updates This Weekend: 17-19 Oct Event Roundup
A roundup of all the latest Roblox updates launching this weekend.
17/10/2025
Call of Duty vs. Battlefield: The Last Great Gaming Rivalry
The two global superpowers of first-person shooters have been locked in conflict for decades, and their simmering cold war is about to heat up thanks to a head-to-head between Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Battlefield 6.
17/10/2025
Death Stranding 2 and More PS5 Games Are Discounted in the Build Up to Black Friday Sales
A selection of PS5 games are discounted right now at Amazon ahead of Black Friday sales, including Death Stranding 2, Silent Hill 2, and plenty more.
17/10/2025
The ROG Xbox Ally’s Project Killswitch is nice, but spotlights handheld PCs' chronic case neglect
I squeezed my Xbox Ally X into it.Everything that makes the original Killswitch one of the best Steam Deck accessories, wrapped snugly around 800 quid of Windows handheld.More the fact that it’s so important that they exist, as neither ROG Xbox Ally models – costly as they can be – bother to include a carrying case in the box.
17/10/2025
Zach Cregger's Weapons Gets HBO Max Streaming Release Date
Warner Bros. has announced a streaming release date for Weapons, this summer's hit supernatural horror movie written and directed by Barbarian's Zach Cregger.
17/10/2025
In Japan, Pokémon Legends: Z-A Discusses Pikachu Pooping, Though The Game's English Translation Simply References 'Tummy Troubles'
Japanese fans playing Pokémon Legends Z-A have spotted a rare mention of Pikachu pooping. However, the game's English-language translation adjusts the dialogue — and instead simply references Pikachu having "tummy troubles."
17/10/2025
Roundup: Here's What The Critics Think Of Keeper On Xbox Game Pass
Yep, Double Fine's Keeper is now available to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass players, so we're here to round up a bunch of early reviews to get an idea of what folks are thinking so far.Of course, our Pure Xbox review has also just gone live - where we scored the game an 8/10!Read the full article on purexbox.com
17/10/2025
Avatar MTG Preorders Are Finally Back in Stock Online, So Here's the Cheapest Place to Buy Right Now
Magic's Avatar: The Last Airbender set is back in stock at Amazon today, including the popular Booster Bundles.
17/10/2025
Infamous Van Gogh Pokémon Card Is Now Worth Over $1,000, Spiking Over 300% in Under a Year
The Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat promo card is selling for around $680 raw and over $1,000 graded. Originally tied to the Van Gogh Museum Pokémon event, this rare card is back on the rise after a year of steady growth.
17/10/2025
The final free Arc Raiders open playtest is rolling out now, showing off quests, progression and crafting
As I wrote in our King of Meat preview, I've long since fallen out of love with looting games.But I'm not unenticed by the clanky and colourful, Deathloop meets The Division stylings of Arc Raiders, Embark and Nexon's third-person extraction shooter, which is getting a three day open playtest this weekend. Read more
17/10/2025
Hallmark's New Decayed Master Sword Zelda Christmas Ornament is Now Up for Preorder
Featuring the Decaying Master Sword, Hallmark's new 2025 Zelda Christmas ornament is now up for preorder at Amazon, and it looks amazing.
17/10/2025
Batgirl Star Has 'Hope' for Film's Eventual Release After It Was Shelved 3 Years Ago: 'Hollywood's a Funny Place'
Warner Bros.' decision to shelve Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s Batgirl movie over three years ago was the shot heard around the world of cinema. The choice ignited a backlash from fans that has so far gone ignored — but one person involved in the film thinks there might be some potential for it to be released one day.
17/10/2025
Review: Keeper (Xbox) - A Memorable Puzzle Adventure From Xbox Studio Double Fine
Reviewed across both Xbox Series X and ROG Xbox Ally!Microsoft has suffered some criticism for not putting the spotlight on Double Fine's new Xbox first-party game, but after playing it, I think there are a couple of key reasons behind the decision - the first being that it doesn't have anywhere near the scope of a Psychonauts 2 (so it's best to keep expectations in check), and the second being that you can't talk about the game too much without ruining aspects of what it has to offer.Despite being very low-key, it does a good job of stirring the emotions at times, and ultimately kept me invested for its around 5-6 hour duration.
17/10/2025
Super Meat Boy 3D Makes Great Use of its Extra Dimension
Based on our hands-on time with the newest preview build of Super Meat Boy 3D, we can confidently say this isn't just the same old Super Meat Boy. Instead, it’s shaping up to be a thoughtful reimagining that captures the essence of what makes the series beloved while embracing new possibilities that only 3D can offer.
17/10/2025
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Really Does Sound Like It Will Address Deep Space Nine's Biggest Mystery: What Happened to Benjamin Sisko?
Star Trek fans finally look set to discover what happened to Deep Space Nine captain Benjamin Sisko — a mystery left unanswered for more than 25 years.
17/10/2025
Guide: ARC Raiders Server Slam: How To Download The Open Beta & What To Expect On Xbox
Play for free all-weekend long!ARC Raiders is an upcoming extraction FPS that's been hotly anticipated for some time now, and ahead of its imminent launch at the end of October, developer Embark Studios has just released a 'Server Slam' open beta on all platforms - including Xbox.Prior to this one going live, we were seeing lots of questions about how to download it - but the good news is that a separate Server Slam application is now live and free to download on the Xbox Store.
17/10/2025
Stellar Blade On PS5 Is Down To Its Black Friday Price Right Now at Amazon
Get ready for Stellar Blade 2 with this deal on the first game, down to its lowest price this year at Amazon ahead of Black Friday.
17/10/2025
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on 4K Is on Sale, Just in Time for Halloween
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on 4K has received a 60% discount at Amazon, dropping its price from $29.98 to $11.99.
17/10/2025
Marvel Rivals gets its first ever PVE mode when the zombies arrive on October 23rd
Marvel Rivals is finally getting a PVE mode, pitting five of the game's 42 stylish and bizarre, caped or capeless crusaders against...The AI and character design are supposed to look basic, stoopid.The experience is supposed to feel like punching a bucket of porridge, you ass.
17/10/2025
The indie-heavy Galaxies Showcase is back next week, here’s how to watch it and what to expect
The Galaxies Showcase games show – which, if you missed the Spring edition, is a game reveal showcase with more of an indie/lower-budget focus – is back next Thursday, October 23rd. Read more
17/10/2025
Galaxies Showcase 2025: How to Watch and What to Expect
The Galaxies Showcase 2025 is nearly here, and it's set to feature more than 50 games, six world premieres, exclusive reveals, demo drops, and so much more. There is a lot to look forward to, and we're here to break down how you can watch the show and what to expect.
17/10/2025
Roundup: Here's What The Reviews Are Saying About Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 was first announced before the current generation of consoles even started, and now after multiple delays, reboots and developer handovers, this vampiric action-RPG is about to grace Xbox Series X and S.Well, the reviews look a bit all over the place at the moment, and Bloodlines 2 does sound like it's suffered somewhat from being in development hell.We've got everything from 4/10s to 8/10s here (currently 67 on Metacritic and 66 on OpenCritic), so there's definitely a broad range of opinions out there on this one!
17/10/2025
Live-Action Horizon Zero Dawn Movie Has a 'Working Script,' Sony's Release Plans Revealed in New Court Document
Sony is hoping to start filming of its live-action Horizon Zero Dawn movie in 2026 with a release at some point in 2027, according to a new court document.
17/10/2025
Sony Blasts Tencent's 'Knock-off Horizon' Lawsuit Response As 'Nonsense,' Insists 'Damage Is Done' And Calls For Injunction
Sony has asked the courts for a preliminary injunction against Light of Motiram maker Tencent to stop the Chinese megacorp from commencing pre-release promotion of the upcoming adventure game, filing its opposition to Tencent's motion to dismiss the high-profile copyright lawsuit.
17/10/2025
Microsoft Debuts ROG Xbox Ally At Gamescom Asia With Impressive Hands-On Booth
The ROG Xbox Ally is out now of course, and neatly coinciding with the device's launch, Gamescom is currently hosting its Asia x Thailand edition of the convention - and Microsoft SEA is there in full force with the new handheld Xbox!We're starting to see Gamescom Asia Xbox booth pics crop up on our social media feeds now, and it all looks like a great way for fans in that region to test out the new Asus x Microsoft device.Of course, you've also got some highly-anticipated 2025 games on show as well, such as Xbox's Ninja Gaiden 4 and the adorable-looking indie title Tanuki: Pon's Summer.
17/10/2025
See an Exclusive Excerpt of the Batman 1989 Sequel Batman: Revolution
Batman: Revolution is the latest book to expand the world of Tim Burton's Batman. We've got an exclusive excerpt of the novel and a "Riddle Me This" word puzzle for Bat-fans to pick apart.
17/10/2025
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Review
This sequel is another flawed but unique and remarkable bite at the apple.
17/10/2025
'Disney Took It Over and They Gave It Their Vision. That's What Happens' — George Lucas Says He's 'Moved Past' His Instinct to Manage Star Wars, 13 Years After Selling Up
George Lucas has said he’s let go of his instinct to manage Star Wars, 13 years after selling the sci-fi universe to Disney.
17/10/2025
Three Very Intriguing Racing Games Are Coming To Xbox This November
Hopefully a good month for racing fans!This week has marked the announcement of yet another new racing game for Xbox in November, which means we've now got three (that we know of) that are well worth keeping on your radar - and that's without even mentioning Wreckreation that's coming in late October - don't overlook that one either!<related ids="187956">Read the full article on purexbox.com
17/10/2025
'They Took the Bait': Pokémon Leaker Insists They Deliberately Hosted Hacked Images to Draw The Pokémon Company's Legal Attention — and Confirm Details of Unannounced Games Are Legitimate
The owner of a high-profile social media account dedicated to sharing Pokémon leaks has boasted of having numerous images removed by The Pokémon Company today in response to copyright claims — something they say only proves the leaked details are legitimate.
17/10/2025
Assetto Corsa Rally aims to fill a Colin McRae-shaped void, and it's out in early access next month
Assetto Corsa devs Kunos are bringing out a rally sim.It's called Assetto Corsa Rally, therefore instantly winning the inventive video game name award for this year.As with road racing AC successor Assetto Corsa EVO, the studio and co-developers Supernova Games Studios have opted to go the Steam early access route for this selection of Scandinavian flicks, with a release penned in for November November 13 this year.
17/10/2025
Mr. Scorsese Review
Mr. Scorsese review: Across five hours, the Apple TV documentary series about Martin Scorsese becomes a detailed portrait of not just a legendary filmmaker, but of why his movies took the form they did.
17/10/2025
The Crew 2 Will Now Be Playable 'For Years To Come' As Ubisoft Adds Offline Mode
"This marks a major milestone...".After months of promises and post-launch work from the Ivory Tower development team, an offline mode has finally been added to The Crew 2, ensuring that the game will be playable "for years to come" on Xbox consoles.The first of those is officially here - described as a 'hybrid mode' by the Ubisoft developer:Read the full article on purexbox.com
17/10/2025
New Total War fantasy and historical project announcements are coming this December, alongside Warhammer's Tides of Torment DLC
If you are fond of snake ladies, sea snakes and staffs that look like snakes, you'll likely be hypnotised by Total War: Warhammer 3's Tides of Torment DLC, which adds three Legendary Lords representing the High Elves, Slaanesh and Norsca.Creative Assembly and Sega have just slapped a release date atop this serpentine assembly - 4th December.On that very same day, they're hosting a 25th anniversary showcase "unveiling what's next for the franchise".
17/10/2025
The Crew 2's offline mode is live, so you don't have to worry as much about Ubisoft ramming it off the road
The Crew 2's offline mode is now live, ensuring that the racer "remains accessible for years to come".Well, assuming you're not bothered about playing online, which would still be deep-sixed if Ubisoft opted to shut down the game's servers, as they did with its predecessor.That acknowledgement very much looks to be a way of nodding to the Stop Killing Games campaign, who rose to prominence following Ubisoft's shutdown of the first Crew's servers - thereby rendering it totally unplayable - without naming them directly.
17/10/2025
Stranger Things Star Admits 'Everyone Was Pretty Worried' About Wrapping Up the Show Well With Season 5, After Seeing Game of Thrones' Final Season 'Torn to Shreds'
The fear that Stranger Things might tank its reputation with a dodgy Season 5 finale was a concern for the show's cast, star Finn Wolfhard has admitted, after seeing Game of Thrones' final season brutally "torn to shreds."
17/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Recently Patched Conquest Mode to Make the Matches Shorter, the Community Complained, and Now the Developers Have Reversed the Decision
The developers of Battlefield 6 have reversed course on controversial changes to Conquest mode after a backlash from players.
17/10/2025
46 Games Discounted To Less Than $1 In New Xbox Play Anywhere Sale
"Play anywhere, save everywhere".Well, you'll find plenty of them in the Xbox Shocktober Sale (we'll be highlighting a bunch over the weekend), but there's also a new Xbox Play Anywhere sale that's specifically dedicated to low-priced titles.It's called the "Xbox Play Anywhere Sale" here in the UK, but known as the "99 Cents Sale" (for obvious reasons) over in the US.
17/10/2025
61 Games Discounted To Less Than $1 In New Xbox Play Anywhere Sale
"Play anywhere, save everywhere".Well, you'll find plenty of them in the Xbox Shocktober Sale (we'll be highlighting a bunch over the weekend), but there's also a new Xbox Play Anywhere sale that's specifically dedicated to low-priced titles.It's called the "Xbox Play Anywhere Sale" here in the UK, but known as the "99 Cents Sale" (for obvious reasons) over in the US.
17/10/2025
Battlefield 6 is getting updates to speed up XP progression and unlocks, as EA tackle plague of bot-farmers
Battlefield 6 will soon receive updates that let you earn more XP per shootbrawl, rank up faster, and unlock gadgets and weapons attachments sooner.The tweaks are coming in response to frustrations about sluggish progression that have seen players pack the game's community servers with XP-farming matches against bots. Read more
17/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Dev Increases XP Gain, Addresses Progression Complaints, and Targets XP Farms Taking Up Server Space
Battlefield 6 developer Battlefield Studios has addressed XP and progression complaints by outlining plans for a number of key changes to the game.
17/10/2025
Silent Hill 2 Remake Sales Hit 2.5 Million as Franchise Surpasses 10 Million
A little over a year since Konami relaunched its long-dead Silent Hill horror series with the superb Silent Hill 2 Remake, the publisher has provided a sales update, confirming that it's now up to 2.5 million worldwide.
17/10/2025
Double Fine's Keeper Is Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (October 17)
A new Xbox first-party release!Today brings just the one game - although it's quite a big addition as Double Fine's Keeper makes its XGP debut.Here's what to expect from Keeper on Xbox Game Pass:Read the full article on purexbox.com
17/10/2025
'I Did Not Walk Away': Former Assassin's Creed Boss Says 'Ubisoft Asked Me to Step Aside' After 15 Years Working on the Franchise
Former Assassin's Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté has made clear that his shock exit from Ubisoft was not his decision.
17/10/2025
Ex-Assassin's Creed lead says leaving Ubisoft wasn't his choice, instead down to restructure musical chairs
Former Assassin's Creed series lead Marc-Alexis Côté's departure from Ubisoft after 20 years in various roles was announced earlier this week, and the developer's now put out a post in which he says that leaving wasn't his choice.Instead, Côté asserts that it came after he was asked to step aside as Assassin's Creed boss by Ubisoft as part of a corporate restructure, then offered a reduced role as part of the company's Tencent-backed Vantage Studios subsidiary.Read more
17/10/2025
Pokémon Legends: Z-A's Mega Starmie Is a Meme Now, Thanks to Its Horrible Legs
If you've been anywhere on the internet this week, Pokémon Legends: Z-A leaks were probably hard to avoid — particularly Mega Starmie and its bizarrely humanoid legs.
17/10/2025
Marvel Rivals' First Ever PvE Mode Is Based on the Marvel Zombies Disney+ Show
Marvel Rivals' first ever PvE mode drops on October 23, 2025, and it's based on the Marvel Zombies Disney+ TV show.
17/10/2025
Let the Right Ones in and sell them eldritch chips in Hellmart, a jobbing horror game with far too much smiling
There is a woman trying to get into my supermarket.I do not think I should let the woman in, but she explains to me in text dialogue that I have it all backwards.She's not outside the store.
17/10/2025
'Is There Anything More Cruel?' — Japanese Pokémon Legends: Z-A Players Are Debating the Rights and Wrongs of Eating Food in Front of Your Pokémon
Pokémon Legends: Z-A is taking us back to a revamped Lumiose City. Of course, you can catch Pokémon, battle them and do quests, but there’s also time for relaxing. One aspect of the game that some Japanese fans have been getting excited about is simply chilling with your Pokémon outside an in-game cafe.
17/10/2025
Flashbang: Battlefield 6 Lighting Is So Bright That Players Feel Like They Have to Fight the Sun
As players continue to deploy into Battlefield 6 multiplayer to try out its many maps, modes, and guns, they are finding a new enemy to fight: the sun.
17/10/2025
Dead Space Creator Glen Schofield Thinks the Games Industry is “Broken, Beaten, and Battered”
Dead Space Creator Glen Schofield Thinks the Games Industry is “Broken, Beaten, and Battered” but he has a three-point plan to fix it.
17/10/2025
The Crew 2 Offline Mode Now Available
Unlike the original, The Crew 2 will be able to live on after its servers go dark.
17/10/2025
T-Mobile "Apple iPhone 17 On Us" Deals Explained
One involves trade-in, another port-in, but the third could save you the most money in the long run.
17/10/2025
AU Deals: Big Price Drops Across All Platforms – Here’s What’s Worth Grabbing
We've gone and found some great bargains to round out your week and make your days off amazing.
16/10/2025
The iBuypower Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming PC Is the Best Gaming PC You Can Get for $1,500
The Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card can run most games in 4K at 60fps or higher.
16/10/2025
Save 40% Off the Exceptionally Tiny Baseus Picogo Ultra Mini Qi2 MagSafe Power Bank
About the size of a credit card and weighing in at less than 5 ounces.
16/10/2025
Absolum Studio Clarifies Xbox Situation, Tells Fans To 'Stay Tuned For Upcoming Announcements'
There's been a bit of buzz about a new game called Absolum recently - we've been seeing quite a lot of people trying to find details about an Xbox version, and so we've dug into the game's Discord server to find out why it's skipping Microsoft's console platform at launch.Absolum, if you don't know, is a roguelite beat ‘em up from Dotemu - the company behind the likes of Streets Of Rage 4 and Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, although Guard Crush Games and Supamonks are also credited with working on it.It's got a fantastic Metacritic average of 86 as things stand, but unfortunately the launch platforms are only PC, PS4, PS5 and Nintendo Switch.
16/10/2025
Netflix’s The Diplomat: Season 3 Review
In Season 3, Netflix's The Diplomat ramps up the action and proves why it's the best political show on TV right now.
16/10/2025
SteelSeries Rival 3 (Gen 2) Wired Gaming Mouse Review – The Budget Master
Although its design remains quite standard, the updated SteelSeries Rival 3 solidifies itself as the go-to budget gaming mouse with exceptional performance for the price.
16/10/2025
The Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5080 Gaming PC with Liquid Cooling Drops Below $2,000 at Dell
One of the least expensive RTX 5080 prebuilts you can get right now.
16/10/2025
The New Apple iPad Pro with M5 Chip Is Up for Preorder at Amazon
The latest generation of the iPad Pro is now available to preorder.
16/10/2025
Apple's New 14-Inch MacBook Pro With M5 Chip Is Up for Preorder at Amazon
The latest generation of the Macbook Pro is now available to preorder.
16/10/2025
Four New Retro Classics Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (October 16)
More classics to play on Game Pass!Microsoft has added four new titles to its Retro Classics library this week, shortly after adding the same amount of games to the collection back in September.Read the full article on purexbox.com
16/10/2025
Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order Season 1 Review
Review: Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order Season 1 isn’t as richly produced as Interview With the Vampire, but it’s got a charismatic lead in Nicholas Denton’s Guy Anatole who carries the series and its stakes very well.
16/10/2025
Save 25% Off the Excellent Tomtoc Slim Case for the Nintendo Switch 2 With Several Color Options
It's one of our favorite Switch 2 cases.
16/10/2025
Ninja Gaiden & Dead Or Alive Director Tomonobu Itagaki Has Passed Away
Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive have both played major roles in the history of Xbox over the past 24 years, and we're saddened to hear that a key figure on both those franchises has passed away.It's been announced that Tomonobu Itagaki, who created the Dead or Alive series and revived the Ninja Gaiden series back in 2004, died recently at the age of just 58.Read the full article on purexbox.com
16/10/2025
Infamous Van Gogh Pokémon Card Is Now Worth Over $1,000, and Primed to Continue Its Upward Trend
The Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat promo card is selling for around $680 raw and over $1,000 graded. Originally tied to the Van Gogh Museum Pokémon event, this rare card is back on the rise after a year of steady growth.
16/10/2025
'Now’s the Time They’re Paying Attention to the Numbers' — The Boys Showrunner Has a Message for Fans Who Want Gen V Season 3
Gen V and The Boys creator Eric Kripke has a stark message for fans who want Amazon to greenlight Gen V Season 3.
16/10/2025
'People Don't See Things, but They Like to Talk S*** About It’ — The Flash Director Reflects on DC Box Office Bomb
The Flash director Andy Muschietti has defended his DC Extended Universe box office bomb, insisting people “like to talk s***” about films they haven’t seen.
16/10/2025
Deals for Today: Preorder A Back to the Future Delorean Lego Speed Champions Set and Disney Lorcana
As of October 16, 2025, you can preorder the LEGO Speed Champions Back to the Future Delorean for $27.99 and Disney Lorcana’s Whispers in the Well booster box for $143.99 at Amazon. Both include Amazon’s preorder price guarantee—plus, Pokémon Legends: Z-A is out now.
16/10/2025
Select 4D Build Puzzles Have Dropped to Under $10 for a Limited Time at Woot
A selection of 4D Build puzzles have dropped below $10 at Woot for a limited time. Save on the Grogu 3D model kit, the Mjolnir 3D puzzle kit, and more.
16/10/2025
You aren't finishing your Battlefield 6 Conquest matches fast enough, so EA have made them shorter
Too many Battlefield 6 rounds of Conquest have been ending in a dissatisfying time-out, Uncle EA have found, with rival teams failing to completely devour each other's supply of spawning tickets.The gutsy response would have been to retitle Conquest "Bathos", or "War on Terror" if they wanted to sadden George Bush, or "Waiting for Bravo" if they wanted to amuse the Beckett fans, or "Deadlock" if they wanted to tweak Valve's whiskers.Instead, EA have taken the coward's way out and chopped the allowance of tickets on a per map basis.
16/10/2025
We Build the LEGO Death Star, the Most Expensive LEGO Set Ever Designed
This is not a fully operational battle station.
16/10/2025
Hollow Knight: Silksong Patch 1.0.28954 Adds Fresh Fixes, New Simplified Chinese Translation Following Backlash
Hollow Knight: Silksong post-launch support continues again today with patch version 1.0.28954, now available via the game's Steam public beta branch. Check out the patch notes.
16/10/2025
Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (October 16-19)
Your latest batch of free trials.Xbox Free Play Days has landed!We've got a big batch of games playable on the service this week, with five games available as part of Microsoft's main list - and a bonus sixth game thanks to Focus Interactive and a new Space Marine 2 trial.
16/10/2025
Crimson Desert: How the Golden Star Dragon Boss Was Created
We go behind the scenes of Crimson Desert's coolest boss yet to see how developer Pearl Abyss created the Golden Star dragon fight.
16/10/2025
iRacing Arcade is zippy bumper cars from the folks behind the simmiest racing sim ever to sim racing simishly
Not just because you pay for it with a subscription that I've never felt committed enough to proper online sim racing in one place to sign up for, but because it's serious.A 42 page-long official sporting code doc for members level of seriously serious.iRacing Arcade, its new sibling with a Steam Next Fest demo, is thankfully not as serious.
16/10/2025
'Well, We Have to Now!' — Stranger Things Season 5 Will Finally Explain the Series' Biggest Mystery, Showrunners Confirm
Stranger Things fans, start sounding the alarms: you’re about to find out all the secrets of the show’s expansive world during the upcoming fifth and final season — at least as it relates to the Upside Down.
16/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Has Brought Absolute Cinema Back to Multiplayer
Battlefield 6 brings the series' signature cinematic spectacle back to the multiplayer scene during the era of battle royale and ultra-competitive tactical shooters.
16/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Sold 'Record Shattering' 7 Million Copies in 3 Days, Giving EA's Shooter Franchise Its Best Ever Launch
It's official: the release of Battlefield 6 has been a huge success, with an enormous 7 million copies sold over the game's first three days. Simply put, it's the franchise's best launch ever.
16/10/2025
Amazon’s Massive LEGO Sale Drops Prices on Harry Potter Sets and More
Amazon's LEGO sale features a wide variety of discounts for shoppers, including some great discounts on Harry Potter LEGO sets.
16/10/2025
Pokémon Legends: Z-A Finally Resolves One of Pokémon Legends: Arceus' Saddest Stories
Pokemon Legends: Z-A is out now. We're enjoying it considerably so far, and it's got its own interesting story of a group of young adults learning to love and protect their city and all the people and Pokemon in it. But there's one moment in Z-A that's got us thinking about another story entirely, one contained in Pokemon Legends: Arceus.
16/10/2025
Xbox Fan Thinks They've Discovered More 'Play Anywhere' Titles Being Added Soon
With the ROG Xbox Ally now out in the wild, there's been hope that Microsoft might accelerate its Xbox Play Anywhere program even further and add some big games to the list, and one fan thinks they've discovered a few on the way.This person took to Reddit on Wednesday to explain that when they ticked the "Xbox Series X|S" and "Handheld" boxes for playable games on the Xbox website, they found five titles that don't have Xbox PC versions at the time of writing.Read the full article on purexbox.com
16/10/2025
'I Can Save You $30-40 Million on the Idea I Have' — Dead Space Creator Glen Schofield 'Already Making Calls' About Dead Space 4 Now EA Has New Owners
Could Dead Space return now EA has new owners? That's what Glen Schofield, the creator of the series, is hoping to make a reality.
16/10/2025
From Detroit to Deadlock: Quantic Dream are making a MOBA
They’re also taking a sharp turn into competitive multiplayer, announcing Spellcasters Chronicles: a 3v3, third-person, free-to-play MOBA full of aerial magefights and big stompy demon lads.It's hard to imagine a starker departure from the studio’s previous work, or a riskier one.Still, Spellcasters Chronicles seems determined to try, offering shorter, punchier matches and bigger maelstroms of hero-shooter spectacle.
16/10/2025
Unionised EA workers slam billion dollar buyout for risking layoffs to "pad investor pockets", while senators worry about Saudi Arabia rewriting US history
Unionised EA workers and senators have spoken out against the Battlefield 6 publisher's recently announced acquisition by US and Saudi-backed investors, which (assuming it's approved by regulators) will leave the resulting privately-owned EA with a $20 billion debt.The two sets of complainants appear equally cheesed-off, but for mostly different reasons. Read more
16/10/2025
Star Wars Eclipse Developer Quantic Dream Announces Free-To-Play Multiplayer Game Spellcasters Chronicles in Drastic Departure From Single-Player Story-Based Roots
Quantic Dream, the developer of narrative-based single-player games such as Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human, has announced its first ever multiplayer project.
16/10/2025
Masahiro Sakurai, Katsuhiro Harada, and More Japanese Video Game Developers Pay Tribute to Dead or Alive Creator Tomonobu Itagaki, Who Has Died Aged 58
On October 16, Tomonobu Itagaki’s Facebook account revealed that the video game developer had passed away at age 58. Tributes to the Dead or Alive creator have been pouring in from fans and fellow game developers alike, especially in his home country of Japan.
16/10/2025
Xbox Says It 'Defines Success' By How Much Time Players Spend On The Platform
All about the engagement.With the ROG Xbox Ally now spreading its wings around the globe, the Xbox Wire team has shared a blog post about the device's day one launch and what updates are coming in future - and they've used some interesting language here as Microsoft enters new territory with its first handheld system.<related ids="192638">Read the full article on purexbox.com
16/10/2025
Sony fire arrows alleging "nonsense" and deliberate corporate water muddying at Tencent, as Horizon lawsuit rumbles on
Letters, phrases, and sentences are being flung to and fro with reckless abandon.Sony are the latest corp to take a swing, not only calling Tencent's defense "nonsense", but accusing the Chinese conglomerate of playing shell company hide-and-seek.Tencent battled back, filing a motion to dismiss the case last month.
16/10/2025
Microsoft Teases New Features Coming To ROG Xbox Ally In Late 2025 & Early 2026
The ROG Xbox Ally is only just starting to be delivered across the world today, and Microsoft is already talking about plans for new features!Specifically, they've highlighted a few things arriving in the coming weeks and months.It sounds like the first major post-launch addition will be "Default Game Profiles", which will "balance frame rate and energy use for select titles to give players smooth, enjoyable gameplay while extending battery life".
16/10/2025
Waterpark Simulator Has Become A Viral Hit On PC, And The Devs Might Bring It To Xbox
"We plan to expand to other platforms".Despite this being a Steam-only release for now though, the developer has hinted that other platforms are part of the plan eventually.Responding to a fan question on Steam last month, the team said that "we do indeed plan to expand to other platforms and OS , but we do not have a date set for it yet".
16/10/2025
Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human Developer Quantic Dream Insists Star Wars Eclipse Development 'Continues,' Despite Competitive Multiplayer Game Plans
Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human developer Quantic Dream has given fans a brief update on its long-gestating Star Wars Eclipse, as it reveals plans for a separate competitive multiplayer project.
16/10/2025
LEGO Code Break Sweepstakes Kicks Off, With Big Prizes for the Winner
Crack the code for the LEGO vault and get a chance to win a ton of LEGO sets as well as new gaming equipment.
16/10/2025
Avatar: The Last Airbender MTG Booster Bundles Are Back in Stock, Here's the Cheapest Place to Buy Right Now
Magic's Avatar: The Last Airbender set is back in stock at Amazon today, including the popular Booster Bundles.
16/10/2025
Digital Foundry Delivers Its Verdict On The Xbox Versions Of Battlefield 6
"A detailed breakdown of every mode".Battlefield 6 has been out for almost a week now, which has given the folks at Digital Foundry plenty of time to dig into every version of the game for its latest analysis video - including the Xbox Series X and S versions which largely impress throughout.We're going to break down the big takeaways here as well of course, starting with resolution and frame rate figures.
16/10/2025
South Park Season 28 Premiere: "Twisted Christian" Review
South Park's Season 28 premiere is more of the same for the series, but in this case, that's a very good thing.
16/10/2025
Good Fortune Review
Movie review. Keanu Reeves and Aziz Ansari's Good Fortune is a hilarious, heaven-sent comedy about cosmic blunders revealing earthly inequities.
16/10/2025
The ROG Xbox Ally X Is Sold Out, But You Can Still Get an Xbox Ally
Everything you need to know to get your hands on the new Xbox handheld.
16/10/2025
Crisol is a baroque Spanish horror shooter with blood bullets that sometimes feels too wooden for comfort
In Crisol: Theater of Idols, you fire bullets of your own blood at frenzied wooden puppets while exploring an island saturated with unpleasant Spanish folklore.As elevator pitches go, I like the immediacy of this one's trade-offs.But I need that stuff inside my body to convey oxygen and vital nutrients to my trigger fingers.
16/10/2025
Xbox Shocktober Sale 2025 Now Live, 200+ Games Discounted
It's time for the Xbox Shocktober Sale 2025!This year's version of the sale includes a list of over 200 discounted games, plenty of which are major AAA titles, including some recent releases such as Hell is Us and Killing Floor 3.Below, we've included just some of the major highlights from the Xbox Summer Sale 2025.
16/10/2025
'Not All Games Are Created Equal' — Original Saints Row Dev Says GTA 6 'Deserves' to Be $100
As the debate over the price of Grand Theft Auto 6 rages on, one developer of the original Saints Row game — itself heavily inspired by GTA — has said he hopes Rockstar charges $100 for it, insisting it’s the only game in the world that can get away with it.
16/10/2025
Mulitple Games Are Suddenly Getting Updated With ROG Xbox Ally Optimisations
Happy ROG Xbox Ally day!Both versions of the new ASUS and Xbox handheld are officially releasing today in many regions across the world, and therefore it's no surprise to see developers and publishers highlighting their support for it.In fact, some are actually rolling out additional support for the device, with Hogwarts Legacy being the first one we spotted yesterday - the game's latest update mentioned that it now has "full handheld compatibility".
16/10/2025
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's Collector's Edition Just Got a Surprising Discount at Amazon
Save on this bundle, which includes Konami's excellent remake, a controversial terrarium, and other collectibles at a discount.
16/10/2025
Around 400 Blizzard platform & technology staff are the latest Microsoft workers who've voted to unionise
Another group of workers at Microsoft-owned Blizzard have voted to form a union, with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) set to represent them.The CWA say that this union will be made up of "nearly 400" workers across Blizzard's platform and technology department.Their action follows the formation of a number of other unions at Blizzard over the past couple of years, with developers on World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo all having recently secured representation.
16/10/2025
Pokémon Legends: Z-A Finally Introduces Unique Nurse Joys to Pokémon Centers
Since the very first games, Pokémon Centers have been staffed by a roster of completely identical women (skin, hair, eyes, expression, everything!), all known in the anime as Nurse Joy. But in Pokémon Legends: Z-A, for the first time, working Nurse Joys can be a little different.
16/10/2025
'For Me, It Makes Little Difference Which I Played' — Michael J. Fox Addresses 'Temporal Inconsistency' In Iconic Back to the Future Guitar Scene, 40 Years Later
Back to the Future's iconic Marty McFly guitar scene contains a number of timeline conundrums fans have noted many times over the years. But chief among them is a mistake that revolves around the iconic guitar McFly plays during his performance of Earth Angel and Johnny B. Goode.
16/10/2025
Xbox Indie Showcase Announced For October 2025
"Packed with exclusive trailers, new looks, and gameplay".We have a new Xbox showcase coming this month!IGN hasn't confirmed any XGP announcements just yet, but the team does say that the show will consist of "about 50 minutes of brand new content" including "exclusive trailers, new looks, and gameplay".
16/10/2025
Doom modders fall into civil war as devs launch new engine in protest at GZDoom creator's leadership and use of ChatGPT
The future of GZDoom, the community-updated engine behind many thousands of brilliant Doom mods, is in doubt following a bust-up over the lead developer's use of generative AI to create code.The fracas has seen a number of GZDoom developers announce plans to splinter off and maintain their own engine, UZDoom. Read more
16/10/2025
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Release Date Confirmed by Disney
Marvel fans now have a date for the return of Daredevil: Born Again, which will air its second season on Disney+ early next year.
16/10/2025
Hallmark's New Halo 3 Christmas Ornament is Now Up for Preorder, and It Looks Incredible
Hallmark is releasing a brand new Halo 3 Christmas ornament, and it features Master Chief leaning out from the front cover of the Xbox 360 game case. It's up for preorder now.
16/10/2025
Hollow Knight: Silksong patch 4 is live in Steam beta, and problems persist with its new Simplified Chinese translation
Around the time of Hollow Knight: Silksong's release, the Metroidvania's Simplified Chinese translation was flagged as being a bit stilted, with Team Cherry quickly promising to rectify the "quality issues".They've aimed to take the first step in doing just that with the game's fourth patch, which is now live in Steam beta with a fresh translation, but early impressions from players are largely negative.Read more
16/10/2025
Nintendo Responds to Reports its Servers Were Breached, While Keeping Silent on Pokémon Teraleak
Nintendo has responded to reports that its servers were recently breached by hacking group Crimson Collective, and has claimed that no development or business information was taken.
16/10/2025
Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden 2004 Creator Tomonobu Itagaki Dies Aged 58, Fans React to Final Message: 'I Am Proud to Say That I Followed My Beliefs and Fought to the End'
Japanese video game developer Tomonobu Itagaki has died aged 58.
16/10/2025
Ravensburger Reveals Disney Lorcana's 10th Set Whispers in The Well, and It's Now Up for Preorder
Disney Lorcana's latest expansion, Whispers in the Well, is now available to preorder alongside two new playmats, which all have a release date of November 14 this year.
16/10/2025
South Park Abruptly Ends Season 27 After Just 5 Episodes, Kicks Off Season 28 With a '6 7' Obsessed Cartman and Peter Thiel
South Park has abruptly brought Season 27 to an end after just five episodes, and kicked off Season 28 with a new episode, dubbed Twisted Christian.
16/10/2025
Target Is Slashing Prices New LEGO Sets That Just Released in 2025
Some great LEGO deals ahead of Black Friday.
15/10/2025
Target Is Slashing Prices on New LEGO Sets That Just Released in 2025
Some great LEGO deals ahead of Black Friday.
15/10/2025
Every Loose End in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
From White Vision to the Council of Kangs to Samuel Sterns to Scorpion, we've got you covered with a definitive list of every loose end in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
15/10/2025
Save 33% Off the Steelseries Arctis Gamebuds for PlayStation 5 and PC
These are the best dedicated gaming earbuds of 2025.
15/10/2025
Jim Carrey in Talks to Star in The Jetsons Live-Action Movie
Jim Carrey is reportedly in talks to star in Warner Bros.’ live-action movie adaptation of the 1960s animated TV series The Jetsons, which Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow is in line to direct.
15/10/2025
Save 44% Off the PowerBlock Adjustable Dumbbells
Can be upgraded to as much as 90 pounds per dumbbell.
15/10/2025
2K Reaffirms Support for Project Ethos, Names Apex Legends Executive Producer as Head of 31st Union
2K has reaffirmed its support for 3rd-person action roguelike shooter Project Ethos, and has appointed the former executive producer for Apex Legends as the new studio head of developer 31st Union.
15/10/2025
Mouse: P.I. For Hire Gameplay Trailer Highlights Hand-Drawn Visuals Ahead of New Deep Dive Presentation | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
PlaySide and Fumi Games showed up for IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025 to premiere a behind-the-scenes gameplay trailer for its black-and-white boomer shooter, Mouse: P.I. For Hire.
15/10/2025
The Witcher’s Final Seasons: Liam Hemsworth and Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich on Replacing Henry Cavill and Crafting ‘A Really Good Payoff to the Series’
In IGN’s latest digital cover story, the new Geralt of Rivia, actor Liam Hemsworth, and The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich speak out on casting changes, a "refresh" of the Netflix show, and crafting "a really good payoff to the series" as they head into its final two seasons.
15/10/2025
Metro Rivals: New York – Dovetail’s New Train Simcade Game Announced | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
The new game features both a story mode and a PvP where you and your friends can race trains through New York City.
15/10/2025
Hulu + Live TV Is Offering 3 Months for $64.99/mo (Normally $83), Includes Disney+ and ESPN
One of the best cable alternatives at an even lower price.
15/10/2025
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Renewed for Season 2 | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch creator and showrunner Derek Kolstad exclusively revealed on the IGN Fan Fest: Fall Edition live stream Wednesday that the Netflix animated series has been greenlit for a second season.
15/10/2025
Roundup: Ball x Pit Launches On Xbox Game Pass To Impressive Reviews
"A brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite".Amidst all of the craziness regarding the ROG Xbox Ally today, don't forget that Ball x Pit is launching on Xbox Game Pass, and the first reviews have arrived!This game is a described as a "brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite", and there's been a lot of hype because of who it's published by - Devolver Digital, known for the likes of Return To Monkey Island, Cult Of The Lamb, Death's Door and so many others.
15/10/2025
Denshattack! Is Tony Hawk With Japanese Trains, for Train-Lovers, by Train-Lovers
David Jaumandreu and I are supposed to be having our interview about his upcoming game, Denshattack, in a studio built out to look like a train. And we will, eventually, as you’ll see from the video above. But before we shoot the video version, we chat for my written piece in a very different setting: a dungeon.
15/10/2025
Ambrosia Sky Act 1 Trailer Reveals November Release Date for Power Wash Action | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
Soft Rains made an appearance at IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025 to announce that Ambrosia Sky Act 1 has a November 2025 release date for PC via Steam.
15/10/2025
The Outer Worlds 2 Gameplay Trailer Highlights Alien Weapons as Launch Looms | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
The Outer Worlds 2 has a lot of guns, so developer Obsidian Entertainment stopped by IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025 to give fans a sneak peek at the arsenal they’ll have at their disposal when launch arrives later this month.
15/10/2025
Stock Up on Select Spooky Games From Amazon at a Discount Before Halloween
A selection of horror games (and lighter spooky games) are on sale right now at Amazon ahead of Halloween. Stock up on some options to play this month.
15/10/2025
'I Hope It Could Happen' — Predator: Badlands Director Dan Trachtenberg 'Desperate' for an Uncharted or Assassin's Creed-Style Predator Video Game | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
With the upcoming movie Predator: Badlands set for release next month, the question of a new Predator video game is more pressing than ever. It turns out, director Dan Trachtenberg, who also doubles as a sort of Predator showrunner for the franchise, wants a new Predator video game just as much as fans do.
15/10/2025
Predator: Badlands Director Says the Predator's New Laser Sword Was Inspired by the Demon Hunter's Warglaive From World of Warcraft | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands was inspired by a number of video games. The director has said 2005 PlayStation masterpiece Shadow of the Colossus inspired the relationship between the film’s young Predator, called Dek, and Elle Fanning’s character, a Weyland-Yutani synth he must carry around. Now, add World of Warcraft to the mix.
15/10/2025
Terminator 2D: No Fate Trailer Teases Remixed Events for T2 Fans to Discover | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
Bitmap Bureau has published a new Terminator 2D: No Fate trailer as part of IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025 that shows off how next month’s arcade-inspired action game reimagines the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with remixed events.
15/10/2025
Sarah Bond Shows Off Where Microsoft Is 'Prototyping For The Next Generation Of Xbox'
"This is where the team is actually designing, prototyping and testing".As you can see in the clip below, Xbox's Sarah Bond takes Good Morning America on a tour of the labs and specifically mentions (at 0:41) how it's the location for designing, prototyping and testing the next generation of Xbox.Read the full article on purexbox.com
15/10/2025
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy Gets a New Trailer and Alpha Release Window | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy has a new trailer fresh from IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025, and it confirms a Q4 2025 release window for the alpha.
15/10/2025
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Confirmed for Nintendo Switch 2 | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
Warhammer 40,000 has officially arrived on Nintendo Switch 2 with the announcement of a Rogue Trader port.
15/10/2025
Jurassic World Evolution 3: New Dinosaur Revealed | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
The team behind Jurassic World Evolution 3 stopped by IGN Fan Fest to reveal a new dinosaur and other secrets from the upcoming game.
15/10/2025
Good Fortune: Keanu Reveals The Worst Job He Ever Had | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
The actor and co-star / writer / director Aziz Ansari stopped by IGN Fan Fest to share a new clip from their upcoming movie.
15/10/2025
The Outlast Trials Invasion Mode Will Put Players at Each Other's Throats With PvP Update Next Week | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
Red Barrels showed up for IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025 with a trailer for The Outlast Trials Invasion Mode, a major update coming in Season 4 that finally introduces its take on PvP.
15/10/2025
Frankenstein: First Clip From Guillermo del Toro’s Long-Awaited Monster Epic | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025
IGN Fan Fest can exclusively reveal the very first clip from director Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. This is the key scene from the Frankenstein mythos: the stormy experiment that gives birth to Frankenstein’s monster!
15/10/2025
Two More Games Announced For Xbox Game Pass In November 2025
A couple of fresh announcements for next month!You may have seen this past weekend that we brought you an early look at what's coming to Game Pass next month - well, we now have two more November 2025 additions confirmed for the library.Both of these titles got fresh release date announcements today, along with accompanying trailers, so we'll throw those down below - alongside brief descriptions of what to expect from each game!
15/10/2025
Cry Havoc for this open world cyberpunk dog-fighter inspired by G-Police
That psychic shockwave you just felt was my brain registering the words "Yes, G-Police was definitely an inspiration" in the Steam forums for G-Rebels, an upcoming cyberpunk flight combat simulator.You've never heard of G-Police?I am about to tell you of G-Police, the only good videogame ever made.
15/10/2025
Deals for Today: MTG Deals Are Coming In Hot Between Amazon and TCGPlayer
As of Oct. 15, Magic: The Gathering fans can preorder TMNT, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Fallout sets at lower prices from Amazon and TCGPlayer.
15/10/2025
Stardewy warlock schooler Witchbrook delayed to 2026, but its devs have magicked up an interactive map
Developers Chucklefish have opted to push the cosy magic schooler's release from this winter to 2026.At the same time, they've put out an interactive map offering the first proper look at its setting, Mossport.Read more
15/10/2025
Ubisoft Missed The Xbox Kinect, So They Created An Ambitious Alternative
Here's something interesting we came across this week - Ubisoft has been talking about an alternative to the Xbox Kinect (a device that was discontinued in the Xbox One era), with the catch being that it's specifically for Just Dance.They call this "Camera Controller mode", and it works pretty much the same way as the Xbox Kinect did, but only requires your smartphone.It's been an idea at Ubisoft since 2021, and has been available in beta form for quite some time (it worked in Just Dance 2025, for example), but it's only now getting a fully-fledged release in Just Dance 2026.
15/10/2025
Read an Exclusive Excerpt of Totto-chan, The Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel
Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel is the follow-up to the best-selling Japanese book of all time. Check out an exclusive excerpt of this harrowing memoir.
15/10/2025
How a nod to Nietzsche in Soma got me thinking twice about that suffocating buzzword, immersion
I find the continuing use of "immersive" to describe believable videogame worlds weird and a bit alarming.The "immersion" of the "immersive sim" is a different matter entirely: it's a box of clockwork you're invited to tease apart, not some hyperreal enclosure.But the "full" or "total" sensory immersion repeatedly offered by big-budget, photoreal 3D games seems a lot like suffocation.
15/10/2025
Microsoft Offers a Glimpse at Where It's 'Designing, Prototyping and Testing For The Next Generation of Xbox'
Xbox president Sarah Bond has hosted a rare tour of Microsoft's gaming hardware development offices, including the briefest of looks at where the company's next-generation consoles are being built.
15/10/2025
Deadpool Star Ryan Reynolds Enlists a Real Tilly Norwood for New Mint Mobile Ad Amid AI Actress Backlash
Remember that fake AI actress Tilly Norwood? The one that sparked a Hollywood backlash? Well, one actor is taking a stand against her, albeit a funny one: Ryan Reynolds. The Deadpool actor announced his company Mint Mobile’s first foray into providing Wifi, and he found a real-life actress named Tilly Norwood to help him out.
15/10/2025
The Disney Lorcana Whispers in The Well Expansion Is Now Available to Preorder
The Disney Lorcana expansion, Whispers in The Well, is now available to preorder alongside two new playmats, which all have a release date of November 14 this year.
15/10/2025
Report: Battlefield 6 Sells Over 6 Million Copies, And A Good Chunk Of Those Are On Xbox
A solid split for Series X|S!It's no secret that Battlefield 6 has had some hype behind it after years of the series not quite hitting the mainstream mark - but an early sales report shows just how well the game is doing right now, including on Xbox Series X and S consoles.The headline news here is that the game has reportedly sold more than 6.5 million copies already, and that's "through its first few days" according to Alinea estimates.
15/10/2025
Humans birth geese who birth mutants to pay for elaborate sky mating in Tingus Goose's Steam Next Fest demo
The people on the platform attached to the 30 foot long and continually growing goose's neck applaud.Far below, the base of the goose's neck juts out of its human host's body, next to a piggy bank the tingi keep dropping into.Everything's as it should be in the Steam Next Fest demo of Tingus Goose.
15/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Devs Say New Conquest Tweaks Will Improve the Pace of Matches, But Fans Have Other Ideas
The Battlefield 6 team is shrinking Conquest ticket sizes, but players aren’t sold that these changes will improve the pace of matches.
15/10/2025
Feature: A Quick Look At What It's Like To Unbox The ROG Xbox Ally X
First impressions count.The ROG Xbox Ally X comes in black and the standard ROG Xbox Ally in white, but they're basically the same thing.For what it's worth, it was sent to us in a ridiculously oversized cardboard box - that'll probably be the same for everyone who orders directly from ASUS.
15/10/2025
Resident Evil Survival Unit Strategy Game Won't Use Paid Gacha to Unlock Leon, Jill and Other Favorite Characters
Resident Evil Survival Unit, the series' upcoming free-to-play smartphone strategy spin-off, will not require paid gacha mechanics to unlock its long list of characters.
15/10/2025
Feature: 10 Tips And Tricks For Your First Day With The ROG Xbox Ally
Some handy hints to make your day one experience even better.If you've already committed to buying a ROG Xbox Ally or ROG Xbox Ally X, or you're thinking about picking one up in the near future, we think there are a few things you need to know in order to get the best day one experience possible!I've been spending basically all of October with the "X" version so far, and there are definitely some tips and tricks to be aware of - after all, this is a PC handheld and it functions very differently to an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S.
15/10/2025
Here's What The Reviews Are Saying About The ROG Xbox Ally
A roundup of first impressions for both versions of the device.With just a day to go until the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X handhelds are released to the public, the first reviews have been going live at a variety of outlets across the web, and they make for some pretty interesting reading!Of course, we've got our own review of the ROG Xbox Ally X at Pure Xbox, in which we gave it an "Excellent" 9/10 and highlighted that it's a "superb PC handheld with outstanding ergonomics, terrific cooling and natural-feeling controls".
15/10/2025
The Best Xbox Ally X and Xbox Ally Accessories Available Now
The ROG Xbox Ally X sets a new bar for gaming handheld PCs. These accessories will take that already great experience to the next level.
15/10/2025
Marvel Fans Are Calling For Quicksilver Actor Evan Peters to Get a Proper Comeback Instead of Another Ralph Bohner Cameo, as the Former X-Men Star Says He'd 'Love' to Return
X-Men actor Evan Peters has said he'd love to return as Pietro "Quicksilver" Maximoff, and now Marvel fans have taken up the call.
15/10/2025
Feature: ROG Xbox Ally X Battery Life: How Many Hours Do You Get Per-Charge?
Here's what we've experienced so far.With our big ROG Xbox Ally X review going live here at Pure Xbox earlier today, we thought we'd delve a little deeper into the battery life side of things - they only get a passing mention as part of the main review.During my time with the ROG Xbox Ally X, I've obviously been playing lots of games across various power and graphics settings, and I've generally tried to find a happy medium where they look great, perform great and hopefully don't have to run at max capacity, meaning I can squeeze more life out of the battery where possible.
15/10/2025
Asus ROG Xbox Ally X review: Falling short of Xboctations
You know it, I know it, and at last, Microsoft know it: Windows 11 just isn’t that good as a handheld OS.Thus, the biggest upgrade that the ROG Xbox Ally X – and its little brother, the ROG Xbox Ally – makes is not to its hardware, but the software.Instead of booting straight into the Windows 11 desktop, a miserable experience when your only navigational tools are thumbsticks and a touchscreen, it defaults to a far more gamepad-optimised (and specifically gaming-focused) 'Xbox' mode that provides quick, D-paddable access to your choice of launchers and the games installed within.
15/10/2025
Review: ROG Xbox Ally X - An Amazing Handheld PC With Plenty Of Console-Like Potential
The future looks bright for Xbox's new handheld device.With the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X officially releasing on October 16th, ASUS was kind enough to give us rough two weeks of early access to the "X" version of the device (the most premium model) here at Pure Xbox, and I've been playing it every single day in the lead-up to launch.In this review, I'm going to delve into the hardware, the battery, the performance, the ergonomics, the software experience, what it's like playing everything from indie games to AAA games, and a whole lot more.
15/10/2025
Gen V Finally Reveals the Truth Behind Cipher, and It's an Incredible Payoff
Gen V Season 2's penultimate episode finally reveals Cipher's big secret, and it's an incredible payoff. Here's what we learned about the sinister dean of God U.
15/10/2025
Green Man Gaming Has a Destiny 2 Expansion Bundle Worth $275 From Just $5 Today
Get Final Shape for $5, as well as a ton of other expansions for Bungie's shooter for big discounts and support charity, too.
15/10/2025
This Magic Precon Bundle is Down to $122 at Amazon Today, Including a Deck That's Normally $80 By Itself
Save on this Magic: The Gathering Commander Bundle and get one of the best recent precons ever, usually selling for $80, for just under $31.
15/10/2025
As Borderlands 4 Players Brace Themselves for the End of the OP Crit Knife, Gearbox Developers Explain Why Nerfs Are Needed Even in Mostly Single-Player Games
Gearbox developers have been addressing disgruntled Borderlands 4 players who have questioned the need to nerf overpowered builds in the mostly single-player looter shooter, saying it’s necessary to preserve the challenge and encourage build “diversity.”
15/10/2025
Upcoming FPS ARC Raiders Is Completely Free-To-Play This Weekend On Xbox
ARC Raiders, an upcoming extraction shooter from The Finals dev Embark Studios, has been in the works for quite a while now - but launch is almost here!The full game releases at the end of this month, and ahead of time, the team is opening up a portion of the experience for a "full-scale server slam" this weekend - and it's completely free on Xbox.Yep, the ARC Raiders Server Slam goes down October 17-19, and the aim is exactly how it sounds; to stress test the servers ahead of launch.
15/10/2025
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow is now on Steam, but you'll have to deal with some Ubisoft faffage
Ubisoft have opened up the pandora's box of mid-2000s shooters and deployed Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow onto Steam, rendering its PC version easy to grab for the first time in ages.It's not a remaster, so don't get too excited, as you might still have fun getting things to run as smoothly as your covert ops.Read more
15/10/2025
The Astronaut Review
The Astronaut review: Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne and Gabriel Luna star in this slow burn slog about a NASA astronaut who violently returns to Earth with no recollection of what happened *up there*.
15/10/2025
The Outer Worlds 2 Global Release Times Confirmed, Including Early Access
The Outer Worlds 2 global release times are confirmed, including Early Access. Here's when you'll be able to play in your timezone.
15/10/2025
Project Shadowglass channels Thief, Deus Ex and System Shock while dunking on generative AI
Starhelm Studios have announced Project Shadowglass, a purebred first-person Thief-like with a light-shadow system, lockpicking, pickpocketing, noisy or quieter walkable surfaces, magical traps, heist planning and jailbreaks.Lead developer Dominick John is one of the two people behind Youtube music parody outfit Space Bards, but it doesn't sound like you'll be singing much in Project Shadowglass.Or are great at ventriloquy.
15/10/2025
PlayStation Plus October Game Line-up Leaked, Includes Until Dawn Remake
October's list of PlayStation Plus games has been leaked online, and will reportedly include the 2024 remake of horror classic Until Dawn.
15/10/2025
Three Games Are Moving Over To Xbox Game Pass Premium Today (October 15)
With Microsoft's recent Xbox Game Pass overhaul, the new 'Premium' tier is a much more affordable option - and despite a lack of day one launches on there, plenty of games are still being added on a regular basis.Back on Monday, we covered the five games that are coming to all Xbox Game Pass tiers this week, and three of those are applicable to Premium (including today's addition of The Grinch: Christmas Adventures).Alongside those additions though, Microsoft is also moving three more games over to Premium that were previously exclusive to PC/Ultimate - so we're going to round those up down below as this mid-tier library continues to grow.
15/10/2025
'So I'm Not Crazy?' — Battlefield 6 Players Struggle as Bullets Seem to Fly Right Through Enemies
Battlefield 6 launched to impressive player numbers just last week, but EA’s latest entry in the long-running FPS series is facing one issue that has players missing more shots than they should be.
15/10/2025
Sales of PS5 Exclusive Ghost of Yotei In-Line With Ghost of Tsushima in Europe, New Data Reveals
Sales of PlayStation 5 exclusive Ghost of Yotei are in-line with Ghost of Tsushima’s in Europe, data shows.
15/10/2025
Battlefield 6 gets a hotfix targeting bugged hit damage and EA are busy inspecting bouncy ladders
Misbehaving bullets, your hour of reckoning is nigh.A Battlefield 6 hotfix has been deployed with the goal of stopping you from refusing to register hit damage when you embed yourselves in virtual flesh.Bouncy ladders, your time will likely come soon, as EA's Battlefield Studios are busy trying to work out the arcane secrets of your rubbery rungs.
15/10/2025
Xbox Begins Adding 'Handheld Optimized' Tags To PC Games Ahead Of ROG Xbox Ally Launch
Back in August, Xbox unveiled a new feature known as the "Handheld Compatibility Program" that would help PC handheld owners (and particularly ROG Xbox Ally owners) understand how certain games will perform on their systems.Everything kinda went quiet on this immediately afterwards, but as shown off by The Verge's Tom Warren on social media, new "Handheld Optimized" tags have started showing up for various games when playing them on a handheld.Read the full article on purexbox.com
15/10/2025
The Matrix Star Still Upset Over Character's Death, Says Wachowskis 'F***ing Lied' About His Fate
The Matrix star Joe Pantoliano has said he was "lied" to by the Wachoskis about his character Cypher's fate.
15/10/2025
Rumour: Halo Remake To Feature 'Modern Mechanics', Could Be Announced This Month
In recent months, we've heard little bits and pieces about a Halo: Combat Evolved remake potentially coming to Xbox next year - and now some new information has been shared that hints at the sorts of changes we can expect Halo Studios to make with its new version of the original Halo.Twitter account Halo Leaks — a source that's been accurate about Halo info in the past — claims they can "definitely confirm the Halo CE Remake will have sprint and 'modern gameplay mechanics'".The account didn't go into any more detail about what those modern gameplay mechanics will consist of, but they seem confident of their existence.
15/10/2025
Rockstar Games, Red Dead Redemption 2 Fans Pay Tribute to D'Angelo, Who Has Died Aged 51
Fans across the world are paying tribute to "titan of soul" D'Angelo, who died yesterday aged 51 after an undisclosed battle with cancer. D'Angelo was behind the hugely popular Red Dead Redemption 2 track, Unshaken, and fans of the game as well as developer Rockstar paid tribute following the news.
15/10/2025
Marvel's Blade Star Mia Goth Says The Movie's Continued Delays Were 'For The Best'
Frankenstein star Mia Goth has said that Marvel's decision to delay its long-awaited Blade reboot and retool the movie's story was "for the best."
15/10/2025
'I Just Reacted… I Didn't Want to Know What Was Coming' — Matthew McConaughey Says the Iconic Tape Scene in Interstellar Is the First Take, and He Did It Without Rehearsing
It is one of Matthew McConaughey’s most iconic scenes, one that has endured as both a prime example of his acting prowess and a meme. But Interstellar’s tape scene was not heavily rehearsed. Nor did McConaughey have to go through multiple takes to get the emotional reaction we see on-screen. McConaughey in fact nailed it on the first take, and he didn’t rehearse the scene at all.
15/10/2025
GOG say their preservation program has been "harder than we thought", thanks to DRM and elusive creators
As it turns out, though, the folks behind the CD Projekt-owned site underestimated just how difficult an undertaking the program would be.That's not to suggest they're giving up though, just that they've had to re-evaluate some of their ambitious early goals.Read more
15/10/2025
The earliest major inspiration for Shadow Of The Colossus was... Battlefield 1942: "I felt immense potential in the experience"
It's one of many things that separate me from Fumito Ueda, director of melancholy PS2 titan-feller Shadow Of The Colossus, first released in 2005.In a new interview, he and other former staff at Team Ico and Sony explore the game's development from start to finish, including some early dabblings with multiplayer.Read more
15/10/2025
Battlefield 6 'Ladder Launching' Will Get Patched, but That Hasn't Stopped Players From Having Fun While It Lasts
Battlefield 6 players haven’t decided what their favorite weapons are yet, but they’ve already fallen in love with a new movement tech called “ladder launching.”
15/10/2025
Amazon Has Quietly Dropped Game Pass Prices Again, and It Might Be Your Last Chance to Lock In This Discount
You can now buy Xbox Game Pass Ultimate at a discount from Amazon, but it likely won't last long.
15/10/2025
AU Deals: Stock Up on the Cheapest Must Plays That Are Pile of Shame Proof
My pile of games already stretches past the moon, but some discounts just hit that "add to cart" button for you.
15/10/2025
The Best Audible Deal for the Holiday Season Is Already Here (3 Months of Premium Plus for Under $3)
Catch up on the latest audiobooks from Brandon Sanderson, Stephen King, Suzanne Collins, and more.
14/10/2025
Save 35% Off a 4-Pack of Apple Airtags on Amazon (Just $12.99 Per Airtag)
A necessity for iPhone users who tend to lose their small wearables.
14/10/2025
The PNY Geforce RTX 5080 Graphics Card Drops Below Original Manufacturer's Pricing on Amazon
PNY's fancier Epic-X ARGB OC model is currently less expensive than a Founder's Edition 5080.
14/10/2025
The Cooler Master TD5 Pro GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming PC Drops to $3,699.99 at Walmart
Currently the least expensive RTX 5090 prebuilt I can find.
14/10/2025
Stock Up on a Four-Pack 6.6-Feet 240W USB Type-C Cables for Just $12 on Amazon
These cables are perfect for your Nintendo Switch 2, Steam Deck, iPhone 17, or laptop.
14/10/2025
Xbox Reveals First Three Games Included In Big 'Shocktober Sale' Starting This Week
We've got another big Xbox sale on the way in a couple of days' time!Yes, it's been announced that the Xbox Shocktober Sale for 2025 will begin on Thursday, October 16th and will last until the start of November, featuring "horrifyingly good savings on spooky titles across console and PC".Read the full article on purexbox.com
14/10/2025
A New Back to the Future Time Machine LEGO Set Is Up for Preorder
Where we're going, we don't need roads.
14/10/2025
Legendary Movie Poster Artist Drew Struzan Dies at 78
Legendary movie poster artist Drew Struzan died October 13, 2025 at the age of 78. He is responsible for some of the most iconic movie posters of all time, but his legacy may arguably be his posters for the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and Back to the Future franchises, artwork that captured the magic of those movies for generations of fans.
14/10/2025
Logitech's Sleek New Astro A50 X McLaren Edition Gaming Headset Is Now Available
Logitech has teamed up with McLaren to produce a papaya orange version of its popular Astro A50 X headset.
14/10/2025
Summer Game Fest 2026 Date Revealed With 'Spectacular Cross-Platform Showcase' Teased
Well, as ever, this industry just keeps on ploughing forward - and today, The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has revealed the date for their Summer Game Fest 2026 showcase.Yep, the de-facto replacement for E3 hosts its opening showcase on Friday, June 5th, 2026.Keighley says fans can expect "a spectacular, cross-platform showcase of what’s next in video games", with public tickets for the event going on sale next spring.
14/10/2025
'There Are Many More Continents to Visit' — The Walking Dead Might Keep Going Another 15 Years as Its Characters Work Their Way Across the Globe
If there’s one show in the modern era that has endured, it’s The Walking Dead. The series has had many seasons and multiple spinoffs over the years — and it appears writer and executive producer Scott Gimple feels there’s a lot more life left in the greater Walking Dead Universe.
14/10/2025
Skate Story now has a release date and a Steam Next Fest demo, leaving no excuse not to munch on its moons
Soon, I will eat more than one moon.But for now, both you and I can eat a single moon as a demo starter for the main course Skate Story'll ollie into our lives when it releases in December.Read more
14/10/2025
Star Wars Comic Teases Jar Jar's 'Pivotal Role' Forming the Rebel Alliance Following Revenge of the Sith
Ever wondered what happened to Jar Jar following the Star Wars prequel movies? Well, a new canon comic is set to reveal the much-maligned character's fate, with a "pivotal role" in the forming of the Rebel Alliance teased.
14/10/2025
Assassin's Creed Franchise Lead Quits Ubisoft As New 'Vantage Studios' Label Takes Shape
He worked on some massive AC games.Amidst attempting to convince him to stay, Assassin's Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Coté has quit the company.The former Ubisoft dev has worked as co-director on Assassin's Creed 3, creative director on Assassin's Creed Syndicate and producer on every AC game since, before assuming the role as franchise lead in 2022.
14/10/2025
Deals for Today: TCGPlayer Is Destroying Amazon in Pokémon TCG Sealed Product Bargains
As of Oct. 14, TCGPlayer is offering cheaper prices than Amazon on popular Pokémon TCG sealed products like Surging Sparks and White Flare ETBs. Also don't forget about your preorder for Pokémon Legends: Z-A.
14/10/2025
'If We Were Good at Juggling Four Projects, Yeah, We'd Have a Remaster' — Ghost of Yotei Dev Sucker Punch Says It Will Remain a Single-Project Studio
What next for Sucker Punch now Ghost of Yotei is out the door? The Sony-owned studio has yet to say, but based on comments from the boss of the company, it will remain a single-project studio.
14/10/2025
The Outer Worlds 2 Is Bringing 'Big Sequel Energy' To Xbox Game Pass This Month
New live action trailer is very Obsidian.We're just about two weeks away from The Outer Worlds 2 at this point, and as the game's marketing cycle starts to ramp up, the team has dropped a new live action trailer that takes the mick out of sequels - and it's very tongue-in-cheek Obsidian.We'll admit, there's not a load of new information to gleam from this - but it is quite funny, with its cheeky 'Big Sequel Energy' tagline and use of actor/comedian Ben Schwartz to prop up the whole thing.
14/10/2025
Stranger Things Season 5 Episode Runtimes Finally Confirmed — And They Squash All the Rumors
Remember those rumors about the Stranger Things Season 5 episode runtimes? Of course you do, they’ve been all over the internet for months — but now, co-creator Ross Duffer is setting the record straight on exactly how long each of the episodes of the final season will run.
14/10/2025
Amazon Is Offering Up to 20% Off Select Bags of Halloween Candy
A selection of Halloween candy bags are on sale right now at Amazon. Save up to 20% on tasty variety packs.
14/10/2025
Assassin's Creed Franchise Boss Departs Ubisoft
Assassin's Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté has departed Ubisoft after a career spanning more than 20 years, IGN understands.
14/10/2025
Roundup: Here's What The First Reviews Are Saying About NASCAR 25
A brand-new release from the iRacing team.We've got a new racing game releasing on Xbox this week in the form of NASCAR 25, and this one's being developed by the team at iRacing Studios - you know, the developer behind the ultra-popular iRacing simulation game on PC?NASCAR 25 boasts "laser scanned car models and tracks for a level of authenticity that is previously unmatched", along with all the game modes you'd expect - Championship, Multiplayer, Career and others.
14/10/2025
Battlefield 6 XP Farming via Portal Lobbies Explodes as Players Complain of Sluggish Progression System
It took less than one week for Battlefield 6 players to start making Portal lobbies for XP farming – and some believe EA has already caught on.
14/10/2025
Helldivers 2 director confirms Arrowhead are biting the addition delay bullet while working on performance fixes
Despite having initially indicated they'd prefer not to do so if it could be avoided, Helldivers 2 developers Arrowhead have now confirmed that they're holding off adding new stuff to the shooter while they focus in on improving its performance.It's for the best, as issues with stability and bugs overshadowed the verdict players had on Helldivers 2's last big update, Into the Unjust.Read more
14/10/2025
'Not Everyone Can Love Everything' — DCU Chief James Gunn Acknowledges Criticism of Peacemaker Season 2 Finale, but Says 'I Don't Get' Complaints About Lack of Big Reveals
James Gunn has acknowledged criticism of the Peacemaker Season 2 finale, and addressed one point in particular that had left some fans disappointed.
14/10/2025
Blood West Is A Stealth FPS Inspired By 'Thief' And 'Stalker', And It's Getting An Xbox Release This Week
"An immersive stealth FPS".One of the games we mentioned in our "coming to Xbox next week" article on Saturday was Blood West, which is described as "an immersive stealth FPS" that's received "Very Positive" reviews on Steam since its launch back in 2023.This game features open-ended worlds that'll take you around 20 hours to complete and 35 hours if you want to see everything they have to offer, and it challenges you to take on quests and stealthily dispose of the ghouls and monsters that roam its lands (or if you really want to, just go in all-guns blazing!).
14/10/2025
We Finally Know When Pokémon Legends: Z-A Takes Place in the Pokémon Timeline
When Pokémon Legends: Z-A was first revealed, we all immediately got to work speculating on when it would take place. Given that Legends: Arceus was a time-traveling narrative going back hundreds of years into Sinnoh's past, we had every expectation based on trailers that Z-A would be many, many years in Lumiose City's future. Now we finally know when Pokémon Legends: Z-A takes place in the Pokémon timeline.
14/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Boss: 'The Only Reason COD Exists Is Because EA Were D*cks'
Vince Zampella speaks openly.With BF6 out in the wild, veteran developer Vince Zampella has now had a major hand in both of these franchises - and in a new interview, he had some interesting things to say about them."The only reason that Call of Duty exists is because EA were d*cks", he says.
14/10/2025
'The Feedback That We've Got Has Been Very Justified' — Helldivers 2 Dev Pushes Content and Feature Updates Back to Sort Out Performance Problems First
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has revealed it's putting a temporary pause on content updates while it works on improving performance.
14/10/2025
Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World
The Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement. This comes as a response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos featuring the likenesses of copyrighted characters from anime and video games.
14/10/2025
Survival FPS 'Beneath' Launches This Month, A 'Throwback To The Golden Era Of Xbox 360 Classics'
Like survival first-person shooters?In that case, Beneath might be something to keep an eye on, as it's just been announced to be releasing on October 27th for Xbox Series X and Series S.The game is specifically described as a "Lovecraftian first-person survival horror adventure" that's being created by indie developer Camel 101 - you may have played one of their past titles known as Those Who Remain.
14/10/2025
Battlefield 6 backend tweaks tune down some sniper rifles and shotguns, as EA keep fiddling with little knobs
Since Battlefield 6 rolled onto the, er, battlefield late last week, a huge patch having been smashed against its hull to see it off, EA and their Battlefield Studios have understandably only put out a few more tweaks.Their latest little round of changes are server-side rather than being a proper patch, and enact a bit of balancing clearly deemed too important to wait for the next big patch's deployment.Read more
14/10/2025
Fallout Creator Reveals Lore the Original Team Decided Was True but Never Explained — 'Bethesda Is Free to Invent Different Reasons That the Things in the Game Exist'
Fallout creator Tim Cain has continued his insightful video series on the development of the original Fallout game, this time focusing on lore with a number of fun reveals that have got fans talking.
14/10/2025
Skyrim Lead Designer Is 'Eternally Shocked' At The Game's Lasting Appeal, Saying: 'I Think Skyrim Did Open World in a Way That Nobody Had Ever Done Before'
The lead designer of Skyrim is "eternally shocked" at not just the RPG's success, but its enduring appeal, suggesting it's the game's open world and "quirkiness" that keeps players coming back 14 years after its debut.
14/10/2025
'The Only Reason Call of Duty Exists Is Because EA Were Dicks,' Battlefield Boss Vince Zampella Says
Battlefield boss Vince Zampella has said that Activision's best-selling Call of Duty franchise only exists "because EA were dicks."
14/10/2025
Guide: Keeper: Release Date, Launch Times & What To Expect From Xbox's Next First-Party Release
Double Fine is back!Xbox Game Studios drops another release this week in the form of Keeper from Double Fine Productions - and so far, this one has been flying under the radar a little bit!Therefore, we're here with all the information you need ahead of its nearby launch - including the game's release date, exact launch times, Xbox download size and more.
14/10/2025
New Witcher 3 mod adds an in-depth standalone monster hunting mode set in a fresh region the size of Toussaint
Sometimes the simple life is the one I crave when I fire up The Witcher 3.A modder's seemingly heard my protestations, having just released a standalone monster hunting mode for the game, which comes with an optional extraction shootery twist if you fancy an extra challenge.Read more
14/10/2025
Pokémon Go Leak Reveals XP and Level Up Tasks Needed for Game's New Level 80 Cap — And Some Fans Are Saying it's Too Easy
Pokémon Go's new level cap requirements have leaked, and some fans say the fresh XP total required, as well as the some of the extra tasks involved, are too easy.
14/10/2025
Ninja Gaiden 4 Devs Insist Game Needs To Be Challenging But Maintain A 'Sense Of Fairness'
"That’s something we talk about a lot at Team Ninja".Ninja Gaiden 4 will be with us this time next week (look out for our review in the near future), and ahead of this big Xbox first-party release, a couple of developers have been speaking to Automaton about how challenging of a game it'll be.Directors Yuji Nakao (PlatinumGames) and Masakazu Hirayama (Team Ninja) discussed with the outlet about how maintaining a "sense of fairness" has been crucial when it comes to balancing the difficulty, insisting that it's going to be a tough game with challenges that you'll need to overcome, but they'll still (hopefully) be fair challenges.
14/10/2025
'You Want to Do Your Job and Promote the Movie' — Alicia Silverstone and Chris O'Donnell Remember Having to Do Press for Batman & Robin Amid 'So Much Hatred'
Batman & Robin is considered the worst Batman movie ever released, but Alicia Silverstone and Chris O'Donnell, who played Batgirl and Robin respectively, are philosophical about it now, nearly 30 years later.
14/10/2025
Xbox Journalist Says Latest Rumours Are 'A Huge Challenge For The Brand Right Now'
"Some Xbox fans have been worried...".Rumours about the imminent demise of Xbox are hardly a new phenomenon — they seem to start swirling around every time Microsoft makes a controversial decision — but we've seen them dialled up to 11 after the recent Game Pass price hikes - and journalist Tom Warren believes they're becoming "a huge challenge for the brand right now".This was followed up by Target themselves saying that they "continue to sell Xbox consoles, games and accessories" - and this is what the Xbox journalist responded to yesterday:Read the full article on purexbox.com
14/10/2025
Skrilla Claims Viral Hit 'Doot Doot (6 7)' Is in GTA 6: 'I'm Going to Be My Own Person on There, Playing My Own Music'
Rapper Skrilla says his viral hit Doot Doot (6 7) is in Grand Theft Auto 6.
14/10/2025
Pathologic 3's full release is set for early 2026, and there's a fresh Steam Next Fest demo to examine
Well, the full version of Pathologic 3, a game in which you play a doctor tasked with saving a town from a mysterious contagion will rock up.I'm sure that if you turn off all of the lights and pay someone to sit in the next room coughing every two minutes, the difference'll be negligible.Read more
14/10/2025
Pokémon Teraleak Reveals Unannounced Games, Seemingly Laying Out Franchise's Major Releases Through 2030
A swathe of upcoming Pokémon game projects have seemingly been detailed online, via the latest release of material originating from the so-called "Teraleak" of data hacked last year from the servers of series developer Game Freak.
14/10/2025
Hollow Knight: Silksong Patch 1.0.28891 Is Heavy on the Fixes, Light on the Balance Changes
Post-launch support for Hollow Knight: Silksong continues, this time with update 1.0.28891 out now. Check out the patch notes.
14/10/2025
Netflix’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Review
Sam Fisher’s return is to TV rather than video games, but it’s an engaging return for the sardonic super spy, and it’s over all too quickly. What will we get first: Season 2 of Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, or a new Splinter Cell game?
14/10/2025
AU Deals: The Hottest Games You Can Score Without Copping a Wallet Critical Hit
I've seen enough sales to know when the stars align, and right now the savings galaxy is sparkling mighty nice.
13/10/2025
Save Over $1,000 Off Lenovo's Most Powerful Legion Gaming PC with RTX 5090 Graphics Card
Top the line specs including a liquid cooled Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU, 64GB of RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
13/10/2025
A House of Dynamite Review
A House of Dynamite review: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and a cast of familiar faces lead director Kathryn Bigelow's "what if?" crucible about nuclear Armageddon.
13/10/2025
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Graphics Card Drops to the Lowest Price Ever (Below MSRP)
This is the first time I've seen an RTX 5070 graphics card priced below $500.
13/10/2025
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein Review
Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix film Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, and Mia Goth, is a crowning achievement for the beloved genre director and one of the most effective adaptations of the Mary Shelley story ever put to film.
13/10/2025
Amazon's Buy 1, Get 1 Half Off Board Game Sale Is Back
A ton of popular games are included.
13/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Players are Using the Repair Tool to Beg for Revives, But Medics Say Saving Downed Players Isn't as Easy as It Looks
Medics have found themselves fighting their own war in Battlefield 6 as desperate players take to using the repair tool to leave messages begging for revives.
13/10/2025
Talking Point: How Often Do You Replay Games?
Earlier today, we got talking about Sunset Overdrive for one reason or another (it's almost the game's 11th anniversary, that's our excuse), and one of the subjects we touched on was getting around to replaying it.The Insomniac title is just one of those games where a replay continues to allude us (even though we think it's fantastic), so we wanted to check in on the Pure Xbox community to see how often you replay video games.Despite that particular title escaping a replay for now, we do indeed go back and replay games from time to time.
13/10/2025
Apple TV+ Ditches Plus Sign in a Move To Rebrand and Announces Upcoming F1: The Movie Streaming Premiere
Streaming services love a rebrand, so here’s the latest one: Apple TV+ is dropping the plus sign and simply becoming Apple TV.
13/10/2025
One Punch Man: Season 3 Premiere Review
One Punch Man: Season 3 premiere review: A slow and plot-heavy reintroduction isn’t the best opening move for Saitama’s return.
13/10/2025
Deals for Today: MTG TNMT Preorders Are Still Live
As of Oct. 13, Magic: The Gathering’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set is still available for preorder at Amazon, with bundles from $49.99. Pokémon Legends: Z-A preorders are also live ahead of launch, and Game Pass Ultimate 3-month codes are down to $59.99.
13/10/2025
IGN Fan Fest 2025: Fall Edition Humble Bundle Announced with Train Sim World 6, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, and More
In celebration of IGN Fan Fest 2025: Fall Edition, Humble Bundle is releasing a special bundle that, for at least $25, will get you a collection of 8 games and DLC worth $293, including Train Sim World 6, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake, and TerraTech.
13/10/2025
Modded Skyrim gets a hair closer to a merging with reality, thanks to dynamic NPC trim changes which won't ruin canonical baldies
Real life recieves a patch which renders you able to see every item you own with such fidelity that your eyes basically become microscopes.If you're wondering what's inspired me to reach for my crystal ball, it's the emergence of yet another Skyrim mod which takes the RPG one step closer to featuring as many dynamically moving parts as our own reality.It allows folks across Tamriel to look at a calendar and decide they need a fresh hairdo without any input from your character, who's then left playing catch-up on all the new trims like a distant aunt at a family gathering.
13/10/2025
See All the Amazing Marvel, Star Wars, and Tron Figures Revealed at NYCC 2025
Hasbro brought a very impressive lineup of Marvel, Star Wars, and Tron figures to New York Comic-Con. See everything that was revealed at the show.
13/10/2025
Insomniac's Xbox Exclusive Sunset Overdrive Celebrates Its 11-Year Anniversary This Month
So, here's to almost 11 years of existence, Sunset Overdrive!Yep, Insomniac Games' sole Xbox exclusive will be 11 later this month, and we still have very fond memories of this game and its launch.The title's bonkers open world was very impressive back then, and it proved to be one of Xbox One's most revered launch-era games back in 2014.
13/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Presents Players With a Campaign Uninstall Button After They Beat It, Tells Them It'll Save Space
EA and Battlefield Studios want players to know they are free to delete the Battlefield 6 campaign from their platform of choice after completing its story mode.
13/10/2025
A Year on From The Teraleak, Hackers Release Pokémon Legends: Z-A Files, Including Gameplay Videos Showing Cut Content and Early Builds
A year on from the infamous "Teraleak," further data hacked from the servers of Pokémon developer Game Freak has spread online — this time focused on the upcoming Pokémon Legends: Z-A.
13/10/2025
Enginefall Is a Compelling Extraction Shooter Set on a Moving Train
Enginefall’s greatest strength based on the limited time I had with it is that it doesn’t have that immediate signature identity of survival extraction battle royale-y sorts of games that it resembles on paper. Read on for our hands-on preview impressions.
13/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Comparison Shows Difference Between Xbox Series X And Series S
Here's how both Xbox versions stack up.We're a little late to this one, but following our review of Battlefield 6 earlier today, we thought you might be interested in how the game is shaping up across both Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S!Fuzion Xbox Testing has become our go-to for stuff like this - we're not affiliated with the channel whatsoever, but it's a great source for getting early snapshots of how a game performs on both of Microsoft's current-gen consoles.
13/10/2025
Crimson Desert: See a Mechanical Dragon Go Wild in New Quest Gameplay
Take a look at nine minutes of brand new Crimson Desert quest gameplay, featuring a battle with the ferocious Golden Star mechanical dragon.
13/10/2025
RoadCraft sibling Docked's Steam Next Fest demo is aimed at folks who're deeply moved by container movement
It needs to be moved.Get in this big crane thing and move it.That's the short and sweet summary of the Steam Next Fest demo for Docked, Saber Interactive's latest addition to their ever-expanding roster of simulations based around jobs which require high-vis gear.
13/10/2025
The 10 Best Pokémon Spin-off Games
Pokémon has expanded well beyond the mainline generation games and into a variety of other genres, but what are the best Pokémon spin-offs? We rank the top 10.
13/10/2025
Random: Xbox Glitch Leads To Insane Price Tag For Game Pass Ultimate
The recent price increases to Game Pass Ultimate — along with the broadly negative community reception to them — have been well-documented at this point, with Microsoft now charging $30 a month for the Xbox service.Well, what if your console was quoting you $25,000 a month when you decided to check out the changes for yourself?Indeed, they had a massive reason to be unhappy, with Microsoft quoting them $12,000 a month for Premium - and as we just mentioned, a whopping $25,000 for Ultimate per-month.
13/10/2025
Gears of War: Reloaded for PS5 Drops to a New Low Price at Amazon
Gears of War: Reloaded for PlayStation 5 has received a 13% discount at Amazon, dropping its price from $39.99 to $34.99. This marks its lowest price yet.
13/10/2025
Xbox Adds Multiple Dynamic Backgrounds On Series X|S, Including A Few First-Party Additions
Since we last posted an update on Xbox's dynamic background collection for Series X|S, Microsoft has added a bunch more options for players to customise their console home screens, including fresh wallpapers for some of the team's biggest Fall 2025 titles.Up above is an example of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 background that's now available and has been for a few weeks; we'll share another example of that and where to find it down below as well.We've also got new efforts for Keeper and the now-released Battlefield 6, so we'll throw some examples of those additions underneath too:Read the full article on purexbox.com
13/10/2025
No, commuters of Bus Bound's Steam Next Fest demo, I will not stop publicly transporting you to the scene of accidents
The next stop beckons, and I'm not going to make it on time.For I am Bus Bound in this Steam Next Fest demo, and that bus is too large to slice through gridlock like a hooligan.Read more
13/10/2025
Taylor Swift Announces 6-Episode Eras Tour Disney+ Documentary and Concert Film of Final Show
A six-episode documentary series detailing Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour has been announced, as well as a full concert film of the tour's final performance.
13/10/2025
New ROG Xbox Ally X Footage Shows Battlefield 6, Helldivers 2, Forza Motorsport & More
Welcome to the week of the ROG Xbox Ally launch!With just days to go until these new handhelds are in the hands of the public, more footage is creeping out onto the likes of YouTube and social media that suggests it's going to be an awesomely powerful system - at least in the case of the ROG Xbox Ally X model.This latest footage is coming from the YouTube channel GameV, which has posted gameplay footage for the likes of Battlefield 6, Helldivers 2, Forza Motorsport, Black Ops 6 and Fortnite (with likely a lot more to come).
13/10/2025
Code Vein 2 Preview: New Moon, Same Blood
We got an exclusive 45 minutes of hands-off time with Code Vein 2, and came out feeling confident that direct sequel or no, this follow-up feels like a far more fully realized vision of the fast-paced, flashy action RPG that Code Vein 1 was always striving to be.
13/10/2025
Exclusive: First Look at Two New Phantasmal Flames Pokémon Cards in English
IGN's got an exclusive first look at two cards from the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution expansion, Phantasmal Flames, including an adorable full-art offering.
13/10/2025
Review: Battlefield 6 (Xbox) - A Fantastic FPS, And A Great Base For The Future Of Battlefield
The previous game in the series, Battlefield 2042, left a lot to be desired - and truth be told, I was losing a bit of faith in the series ever getting back to its glory days.Visuals and performance are fantastic on both Xbox Series consoles, gunplay is vastly improved over its predecessor, and there's everything here on day one that you want to see from a Battlefield game.We've got a full single-player campaign, a vast online suite of maps, modes and weapons and the game's Portal toolset right at launch.
13/10/2025
Borderlands 4 Reveals Bounty Pack 1: How Rush Saved Mercenary Day, the First Seasonal Mini-Event, an Invincible Boss, and More
Gearbox has revealed Borderlands 4 Bounty Pack 1: How Rush Saved Mercenary Day, the first seasonal mini-event for the game, an invincible boss, and more.
13/10/2025
The House Of The Dead 2: Remake Arrives On Xbox Later This Month
It's been announced today by Forever Entertainment that The House of the Dead 2: Remake will be coming to Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S (along with PlayStation and Nintendo Switch) at some point in Spring 2025!This new version promises "modern graphics" along with remastered music, and it's playable either solo or in local co-op.For now, there's no confirmed release date or pricing for this sequel, but we'll let you know when that changes.
13/10/2025
'We Went for It' — Channing Tatum Still Wants to Make His Fox Gambit Movie, but Says Marvel and Disney Would Never Approve Its R-Rated Mutant Sex Scenes
Deadpool and Avengers: Doomsday star Channing Tatum has said he's still keen to make his previously-planned Gambit solo movie, though believes Marvel and Disney would never film its planned superhero sex scenes.
13/10/2025
Everwild screenshots leak after Microsoft cancellation, and you'd seemingly have been a walking garden centre
Rare's Everwild was one of a number of games Microsoft tossed in the bin as part of wider layoffs earlier this year.It was disappointing, if not a huge surprise given how protracted Everwild's development had been up until its demise, with lots of questions remaining as to what the mysterious ramble through nature would be like to play.Now, some leaked screenshots might offer a bit more of an idea as to some of the stuff you'd have been able to get up to in between patting various creatures and swinging a staff around.
13/10/2025
Five Games Are Being Added To Xbox Game Pass This Week (October 14-17)
Including an Xbox first-party title.Ready for a new week of new Xbox Game Pass additions?!We're kicking things off with Supermassive Games' The Casting of Frank Stone on Tuesday, followed by Ball x Pit and The Grinch: Christmas Adventures on Wednesday, Pax Dei (for PC only) on Thursday, and finally the biggest Game Pass addition of the week - Double Fine's Xbox first-party title Keeper on Friday!
13/10/2025
Assassin's Creed Shadows Gets Another Nintendo Switch 2 Leak, and It Looks Like It's Another Game-Key Card
A French retailer has all but confirmed Assassin's Creed Shadows is indeed coming to Nintendo Switch 2, and it looks like it'll be another controversial Game-Key Card game.
13/10/2025
Borderlands 4 Chief Randy Pitchford Says if More Developers Better Understood Why Gamers Love Making Decisions About Loot, 'We'd Have Good Competitors'
Borderlands 4 chief Randy Pitchford has said that if other developers better understood why gamers love making decisions about loot, Gearbox would have “good competitors.”
13/10/2025
This week in PC games: Next Fest demo excess and Double Fine's sentient lighthouse
You can’t feed a Stygian horror nothing but PC game releases and expect it to simply forget about protein.The good news is that the Maw isn’t a particularly thorough masticator, so I imagine Edwin will have clambered back out by, ooh, say, Wednesday.Like that episode of the Samurai Jack reboot, except he spends even more time in a loincloth.
13/10/2025
Everwild Screenshots Show Xbox's Canceled Fantasy World in Fresh Detail
New screenshots have surfaced of Everwild, the long-awaited fantasy game in development for more than a decade — until its cancelation this summer by Xbox.
13/10/2025
I Just Preordered MTG x TMNT After Preorders Went Live in the UK, Here's What I Picked Up
From a new co-op game to a fresh Commander Deck, here's everything you can preorder for Magic: The Gathering's newly announced TMNT set in the UK.
13/10/2025
Atsu's Sword-Drawing Technique in Ghost of Yotei May Look Impossibly Cool, but According to Japanese Martial Arts Experts It Is (Kind Of) Doable in Real Life
Atsu's sword-drawing technique in Ghost of Yotei may look impossibly cool, but according to Japanese martial arts experts it is (kind of) doable in real life.
13/10/2025
Everwild Screenshots Leak Online Several Months After Xbox Cancellation
Featuring gameplay & UI elements!Back in July, as part of broader layoffs at Microsoft, Rare's Everwild was cancelled after more than five years in the making - and now a selection of in-development screenshots have been shared online; giving us an idea of what the Sea Of Thieves developer was looking to build with its next game.Here are a selection of those screenshots, showcasing gameplay and several UI elements:Read the full article on purexbox.com
13/10/2025
Amazon’s Got The Best Price on Mega Evolution Pokémon TCG Elite Trainer Boxes Right Now
Mega Evolution Pokémon cards are back in stock on Amazon, but collectors can find better prices elsewhere. Here’s where the real deals are hiding.
13/10/2025
Borderlands 4's first bounty pack DLC releases next month, followed by a free mutant tree fight
That being the natural way to precede the arrival of the shooter's first paid DLC bounty pack next month and a free December update that'll bring a weird tree fight to the endgame.All of this stuff will lay a pre-Christmas foundation for the arrival of a fresh vault hunter early next year.Read more
13/10/2025
Jessica Jones Actress Krysten Ritter Just Leaked the First Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Trailer
Jessica Jones actress Krysten Ritter has posted (then deleted) our first look at Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, via a trailer meant to be an exclusive for attendees at New York Comic Con.
13/10/2025
Black Myth: Wukong Patch Makes Significant Performance Improvements, but Brace Yourself for a 93GB Download on PS5
A new update for Black Myth: Wukong makes significant performance improvements, but brace yourself for a mammoth 94GB download. Check out the patch notes here.
13/10/2025
Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Was Canceled Last Year, but Now It's Back on With a Debut Gameplay Trailer and a New Developer Whose Entire Existence Is About Giving Games a 'Second Life'
The pre-alpha footage trailer for Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game has got fans of the enormously popular Avatar the Last Airbender animated series excited, but there are questions over exactly what type of game fans can expect, and who’s actually developing it.
13/10/2025
Microsoft Issues Statement Denying Target & Walmart Are Pulling Xbox Products
"Target and Walmart remain committed partners".Over the weekend, there was a lot of rumour and speculation that both Target and Walmart might be pulling their Xbox products, with one particular Reddit post getting a bunch of attention after it was suggested that someone's local Target store had been "getting rid" of their Xbox section.Here's a look at the post that primarily sparked it all it off:Read the full article on purexbox.com
13/10/2025
'I Don't Feel Happy Breaching Contracts or Missing a Deadline': George R.R. Martin Says He Doesn't Love How Late Winds of Winter Is
Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin may have been writing The Winds of Winter for 15 years, but he wants fans to know he's not happy with how late it is.
13/10/2025
New Dissidia Final Fantasy Is Game Coming, But Only to Mobile Devices
A new Dissidia Final Fantasy game is on the way, but only for mobile devices.
13/10/2025
Pokémon Go Pulls New Weekly Challenge Feature Within Hours After Completion 'Bricks' Game, Fuelling Concern Over This Week's Level 80 Update
Pokémon Go's big week where it finally raises the game's level cap is off to a bad start.
13/10/2025
Tron: Ares Disappoints With Opening Weekend Box Office Below Even Jared Leto's Spider-Man Universe Flop Morbius, Calling Into Question Disney's Franchise Reboot Hopes
Tron: Ares got off to a disappointing start at the global box office, raising questions about the future of the franchise.
12/10/2025
Microsoft Rewards October Gift Card Sale Begins, Includes Discount On Xbox Credit
Last month, it was announced that Microsoft Rewards would be hosting a Gift Card Sale at some point in October, and that sale has now begun - it features up to 10% off select gift cards, and Xbox is included in the mix.If you go to the Microsoft Rewards dashboard on a browser (and you're in an eligible region), you should see a banner for the Gift Card Sale in the "Redeem" section at the top of the page.Read the full article on purexbox.com
12/10/2025
Two More Ubisoft Classics Have Quietly Been Added To PC Game Pass
Not originally Ubisoft titles, but they are these days!In addition to all the Ubisoft games that were added to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass earlier this month, the company very quietly trickled out two more late last week - both of which are exclusive to PC Game Pass.These are Heroes of Might and Magic 2 - Gold Edition and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - Complete Edition, both of which are credited to Ubisoft despite the very earliest versions of these games having been developed by New World Computing and published by The 3DO Company.
12/10/2025
The Sunday Papers
Sundays are for getting your 10,000 steps in, apparently.I bring this up specifically because I’ve been crap at exercising recently and I need you, RPS readers, to shame me into doing it more, much as you did when I admitted on the podcast to rarely using sunscreen.In exchange, here are some good writings, mostly about games, from the past week or so.
12/10/2025
Diane Keaton Dies: Annie Hall and The Godfather Actress Was 79
Actress Diane Keaton died at the age of 79 on October 11, 2025 in California. The Oscar winner and fashion icon known for her films with Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola and more.
11/10/2025
Mortal Kombat II’s Johnny Cage Will Be a “Very Dispirited Character” - NYCC 2025
Karl Urban reveals more about his role in the 2026 movie
11/10/2025
Everything Revealed by Marvel at NYCC: Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, VisionQuest, Wonder Man, and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Head of Marvel Television and Marvel Animation Brad Winderbaum appeared at New York Comic Con on Saturday to unveil what’s next for the MCU’s streaming series Daredevil: Born Again, Wonder Man, and VisionQuest.
11/10/2025
Star Trek NYCC Panel Reveals New Trailer for Starfleet Academy and First Look at Strange New Worlds Season 4
Paramount+ released the first trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, revealed that Stephen Colbert will voice a character on the show, and provided a first look at Strange New Worlds Season 4 at the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con 2025.
11/10/2025
X-Men '97 Season 2 Release Date Confirmed - NYCC 2025
While we've know that X-Men '97, the hit Disney+ Marvel animated series, would be getting at least two more seasons, the news out of New York Comic Con today is that Season 2 now has a release date: Summer 2026.
11/10/2025
Poll: Are You Buying Battlefield 6 For Xbox On Launch Weekend?
Battlefield 6 is here - after years of waiting, EA's big FPS series has made its grand return on Xbox Series X and S.We've seen a lot of hype for this one in all corners of the internet already — including in the comments here at Pure Xbox — and we want to know if you've been bitten by the Battlefield bug and are playing the game this weekend.Some early reviews are already out though, and things are looking pretty good for Battlefield 6 so far.
11/10/2025
Four Games Are Confirmed For Xbox Game Pass In November 2025 So Far
An early look at next month.The next Call of Duty title is the big one confirmed so far;Black Ops 7 comes to the main Game Pass library in mid-November.
11/10/2025
Feature: These 30+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (October 13-17)
Including five new Game Pass titles!Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for October 13-17!The big release of the next few days from an Xbox perspective is Double Fine's Keeper, while there are absolutely tons of new indie titles and five brand-new Xbox Game Pass additions to look forward to.
11/10/2025
Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 11-12)
Joining us on the Battlefield?It's going to be a busy one here at Pure Xbox HQ as we get stuck into Battlefield 6 and plenty of other Xbox-related goodness - we're looking forward to getting some gaming time in over the next few days, to say the least!Here's what we're playing this weekend:Read the full article on purexbox.com
11/10/2025
Pokémon Legends: Z-A Global Release Times Confirmed
Are you ready to catch — then Mega Evolve — 'em all over again? The Pokémon Legends: Z-A global release times are now confirmed. Here's when you'll be able to play in your timezone.
11/10/2025
What are we all playing this weekend?
Someone's managed to force their way through the doors of the RPS Treehouse, and like a cat that knows it belongs wherever it pleases, he's settled himself in the corner he's deemed comfiest, and refuses to budge.Ah well, might as well mic him up and ask him what he's playing this weekend.Read more
11/10/2025
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Casts Megan Fox as the Voice of Toy Chica - NYCC 2025
Transformers and TMNT franchise vet Megan Fox has joined the cast of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 as the voice of Toy Chica, Blumhouse announced at their New York Comic Con panel on Friday.
11/10/2025
Gorgeous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Battle Nexus Artwork Revealed at NYCC 2025
IDW Publishing took to NYCC to reveal stunning new artwork from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Battle Nexus #1, a series that smashes together many incarnations of the Turtles from across the multiverse.
11/10/2025
Marvel Reveals 'Shadows of Tomorrow,' the Next Phase of X-Men Comics | NYCC 2025
Marvel Comics revealed Shadows of Tomorrow, a new status quo for the X-Men franchise that includes new solo series for Cyclops and Rogue.
10/10/2025
Prime Video's Invincible Series Is in the Endgame Now, as Lee Pace's Thragg Debuts in Season 4
With the news that Lee Pace has been cast as Grand Regent Thragg in Invincible Season 4, let's discuss why the series is entering the critical endgame stage.
10/10/2025
Invincible Season 4 Teaser Trailer Confirms March 2026 Release Date, Reveals Thragg Voice Actor, and Jokes About Mark Never Winning an Actual Fight
The Invincible Season 4 hype train has left the station, with its Burger Mart-inspired teaser trailer confirming a March 2026 release date.
10/10/2025
Batman: Knightfall to Get Multi-Part Animated Movie Adaptation
Warner Bros. Animation, DC, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced at New York Comic Con on Friday that the iconic early ‘90s DC Comics storyline Batman: Knightfall is being adapted into a multi-part animated film.
10/10/2025
Sony InZone H9 II Gaming Headset Review – Competitive Luxury
Sony’s InZone H9 II is a super comfortable and smartly designed headset that shines specifically in competitive gaming, but carries a demanding price tag.
10/10/2025
Tron: Ares Ending and Post-Credits Scene Explained - How Is Tron 4 Set Up?
We explain the ending of Tron: Ares, and answer your biggest questions! Is there a post-credits scene? Does the movie acknowledge Tron: Legacy? Where does Ares end up? And what might happen in Tron 4?
10/10/2025
Talking Point: As We Approach GOTY Season, What's Your Pick As Things Stand?
The votes for Pure Xbox GOTY will begin in two months' time!We're getting closer and closer to Game of the Year season!We'll be opening up the votes for the annual Pure Xbox GOTY poll in about two months' time, but before we get there, we thought we'd reach out for your preliminary thoughts on what deserves the #1 spot in 2025 so far.
10/10/2025
Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution is Still Causing Mayhem With Some Giant Price Spikes This Week
Mega Evolution has launched with a bang, but card prices are already moving fast. From a $650 Mega Lucario dip to Helioptile’s 50% surge, here’s your October 10 Pokémon TCG market breakdown.
10/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Gets Off to Huge Start on Steam With Over 740,000 Concurrent Players Just Hours After Launch
Battlefield 6 has enjoyed an enormous start on Steam, with over 740,000 concurrent players.
10/10/2025
Magic: The Gathering's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Set Has Been Announced, and Preorders Are Up
From booster boxes to a new Commander Deck and Draft Night box, here's everything you can preorder from Magic's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set.
10/10/2025
36 Years Later, DC Will Finally Publish a Controversial Canceled Comic Where Swamp Thing Meets Jesus Christ | NYCC 2025
In 1989, DC canceled a Swamp Thing comic that would have seen the noble hero meet Jesus Christ. Now, 36 years later, that controversial story will finally see the light of day.
10/10/2025
The evil ghost lorry in Truckful's demo nearly ate me and the lady who did a headstand in my bed
I know, headstand lady, I know, comes my response from behind the wheel.We'd be safe if I hadn't botched one of the switchbacks and gently skidded into a low wall.I'd best put my foot down if I want to escape the demo of mysterious delivery driver Truckful without finding out what happens when a little truck is swallowed by a bigger truck.
10/10/2025
If Your Battlefield 6 Crew Plays On Xbox, It'll Earn Less XP Than On PlayStation
Battlefield 6 is out now, and after four years of waiting since 2042, thousands of players will be hopping into the game's vast multiplayer suite in the coming days - and for years to come, for that matter.Bringing a good squad with you is always recommended in Battlefield, but as it turns out, that squad will be benefitted if it plays on PlayStation over other platforms.As shared by CharlieIntel, it's been discovered that partying up with two or more PS Plus subscribers nets your whole BF6 crew an extra 5% in bonus XP.
10/10/2025
Amazon Drops the Price of Xbox Game Pass, So It's Now Even Easier to Avoid the Price Hike
You can still buy Xbox Game Pass at its pre-hike prices at Amazon, but it likely won't last long.
10/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Launched Just Hours Ago and Players Have Already Recreated Call of Duty Map Shipment in Portal
Battlefield 6 launched mere hours ago, and someone has already managed to recreate the iconic Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare map, Shipment, in its Portal mode.
10/10/2025
'Once Again, F*** Off': Fantastic Four and Assassin's Creed Star Ralph Ineson Reacts to Report Ubisoft Cancelled Post-Civil War Game Featuring Former Slave Fighting Ku Klux Klan
Marvel actor Ralph Ineson, who played Galactus in this year's The Fantastic Four: First Steps, has weighed in on Ubisoft's decision to reportedly cancel a post-Civil War Assassin's Creed game starring a former Black slave as its star.
10/10/2025
Battlefield 6 Developer Triggers Queue System for Launch as Fans Immediately Face Full Servers
Battlefield 6 is out now, and in the blink of an eye the game's servers became full with hundreds of thousands of players waiting to get in on the action.
10/10/2025
New Rumours Suggest PS6 & Next-Gen Xbox Could Both Release In 2027
Yesterday, we covered the big Xbox 'Magnus' Leak and what it could potentially mean for Microsoft's next-gen console - and while some of that information admittedly goes a little over our heads, the rumoured release window is something that we can fully understand.Yep, that leak again suggests that the next-gen Xbox is due out in 2027, and now a fresh rumour doing the rounds says that Sony's PS6 could follow suit.As shared by Insider Gaming, apparent leaker 'KeplerL2' took to NeoGAF to say that Sony's "plan" is to release PS6 in 2027, barring "any unexpected delays".
10/10/2025
Amazon’s Got Mega Evolution Pokémon Cards Back in Stock, But the Real Deal’s Hiding Elsewhere
Mega Evolution Pokémon cards are back in stock on Amazon, but collectors can find better prices elsewhere. Here’s where the real deals are hiding.
10/10/2025
MindsEye devs accuse studio execs of "disastrously" mishandling redundancies and enforcing "unbearable" crunch
Following the inauspicious launch of MindsEye and subsequent layoffs at developers Build A Rocket Boy, 93 current and former staff at the studio have signed an open letter demanding an apology, while accusing Build A Rocket Boy's senior leadership of having "consistently mishandled the redundancy process" and mandating "unbearable levels of overtime" around the game's launch.Read more
10/10/2025
Backyard Sports Leads Announce Completion of the Retro Collection, Discuss Animated Special Wrapping Production, and More
During NYCC, we sat down with the leads of Backyard Sports revival from Playground Productions and talking about the past and future of the beloved franchise, including completing their retro collection of games, wrapping production on a new animated special, and much more.
10/10/2025
October’s Humble Choice Is Live With an Exciting Line-Up of PC Games Worth Over $260
October's Humble Choice line-up has been released, with Atomic Heart, V Rising, and System Shock leading the way alongside five other games.
10/10/2025
Back to the Future Star Michael J. Fox Jokes He's 'Always Retiring' Ahead of Upcoming Supporting Role in Apple TV+ Series Shrinking
Michael J. Fox has returned to acting after retiring five years ago — but it turns out the Back to the Future star didn’t necessarily see his original retirement as the end of his life in showbiz.
10/10/2025
After 250 Job Losses and 'Disastrous' Management, MindsEye Staff Past and Present Unite in Open Call For Better Conditions, as Further Layoffs Feared
More than 90 staff who worked on this year's blockbuster flop MindsEye have sent a searing open letter to the company's management calling for change, after "one of the worst video game launches this decade."
10/10/2025
The Casting Of Frank Stone Looks Set To Prove Popular On Xbox Game Pass Next Week
"A haunting horror game that won’t soon be forgotten".You've probably seen that Microsoft unveiled a bunch of new Xbox Game Pass titles earlier this week, and the one that seems to be getting most interest here at Pure Xbox (based on the stats we're seeing) is The Casting of Frank Stone.Read the full article on purexbox.com
10/10/2025
Absolum Studio Admits Xbox Release 'Wasn't A Priority' Due To Small Development Team
There's been a bit of buzz about a new game called Absolum recently - we've been seeing quite a lot of people trying to find details about an Xbox version, and so we've dug into the game's Discord server to find out why it's skipping Microsoft's console platform at launch.Absolum, if you don't know, is a roguelite beat ‘em up from Dotemu - the company behind the likes of Streets Of Rage 4 and Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, although Guard Crush Games and Supamonks are also credited with working on it.It's got a fantastic Metacritic average of 86 as things stand, but unfortunately the launch platforms are only PC, PS4, PS5 and Nintendo Switch.
10/10/2025
'He's Really Important to Me' — James Gunn Rules Out Peacemaker Season 3, but Says Peacemaker Himself Is Now Set Up for a Broader Role in the Wider DCU
Peacemaker Season 2 has come to an end with a series finale that, as DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn had teased, sets up 2027 DC Universe movie Man of Tomorrow. But what does it all mean for the future of the Peacemaker TV show, and indeed Peacemaker himself? Here's what James Gunn has had to say.
10/10/2025
Xbox's Minecraft Movie Is Officially Getting A Sequel, Airing In 2027
Following the incredible success of 2025's A Minecraft Movie, outlet Deadline has confirmed that A Minecraft Movie 2 is now officially in the works - and it's heading to theatres in summer 2027.Jared Hess returns to direct the upcoming sequel, with Hess and Chris Galletta working together on the screenplay.The outlet describes said screenplay as "under wraps" as work begins on putting the second Minecraft movie together.
10/10/2025
James Gunn Talked to Ryan Reynolds About Deadpool Showing Up in Peacemaker, 'But I Think We Would've Had to Go Through Some Pretty Big Hoops'
James Gunn wanted Ryan Reynolds to cameo in the Peacemaker Season 2 finale as Deadpool, which would've cemented a connection between the MCU and the DCU.
10/10/2025
Peacemaker's Season 2 Finale May Have Revealed the Villain of James Gunn's Man of Tomorrow Movie, and We're Not Happy
Peacemaker Season 2's final episode may have just revealed the main villain of James Gunn's Man of Tomorrow movie. Here's why we're less than thrilled.
10/10/2025
So, Does Bubsy 4D Scatch an Itch or Choke on a Hairball? We Played it to Find Out
Could an unironic Bubsy game be any good in 2025? After our hands-on session with Bubsy 4D, it seems that yes, there are plenty of things to like in this mascot-platformer revival. But definitely not everything.
10/10/2025
Arc Raiders won't force you to give up all of your progression via mandatory wipes, at least for now
No, say the developers of shooter Arc Raiders.They will not bow before the mandatory wipe gods at this time, instead trying out a voluntary wipe system dubbed Projects.Read more
10/10/2025
Layers of Fear: The Final Masterpiece Edition Is Coming to Nintendo Switch 2, Along With a Mysterious Switch Exclusive Horror Game Codenamed 'Project M'
Silent Hill 2 Remake and Cronos: The New Dawn developer Bloober Team is working on a number of new projects, including a Nintendo Switch 2 version of its disorientating horror Layers of Fear, Layers of Fear: The Final Masterpiece Edition, and a number of smaller games from its subsidiary, Broken Mirror Games, which include a mysterious Switch exclusive, codenamed Project M.
10/10/2025
Magic’s New Final Fantasy Set Just Hit TCGPlayer, But Resellers Are Already Summoning a 200% Markup
Magic’s new Final Fantasy Scene Boxes inspired by FF1, 8, 9, and 15 are live, including the Chocobo bundle and FF7 deck, with prices already rising at TCGPlayer.
10/10/2025
17-Year Halo Veteran Sparks Fan Concern After Departing Franchise With Ominous Message About Not Trading Away 'Ethics or Values,' and Promising to Explain More 'When It is Absolutely Safe to Do So Next Year'
Glenn Israel, a 17-year veteran of Halo game development, has announced his departure from the series via a startling message that has left fans worried over the future of Xbox's flagship shooter franchise.
10/10/2025
Guide: Xbox Adds More Perks For Game Pass Members (October 2025)
The latest freebies for XGP subscribers.The Xbox Game Pass Perks program is continuing to add a bunch of freebies for Game Pass members throughout October 2025, including for the likes of Call of Duty: Warzone, Throne And Liberty and a whole lot more.As a result of the recent overhaul to Xbox Game Pass, it seems the free-to-play benefits for Warzone, Asphalt Legends Unite, Zenless Zone Zero and various other games will now be accessible to Essential, Premium and Ultimate Game Pass members (these are known as "in-game benefits"), while the ones that are classed as "available Perks" and have to be claimed manually are mostly limited to Ultimate members.
10/10/2025
Discord Confirms Over 70,000 Users Affected By Customer Service Hack That Has Compromised Images of Government-Issued ID like Driving Licences And Passports
70,000 Discord users may have had their government ID photos compromised following a cyber attack on one of its "third-party vendors."
10/10/2025
Ex-Zenimax devs say their Sackbird was drawn by a human, but bits of their website are AI-generated
Earlier this week, a group of former ZeniMax developers revealed that they'd formed a new worker-owned studio in the aftermath of Microsoft's mass layoffs.It's called Sackbird Studios, and the logo's a bird with a sack.Following accusations that this bird looked like it could be AI-generated, the studio have responded that it isn't, but some of the images on their website were.
10/10/2025
'I Want to Know What Sort of Odds I Am Trying to Beat When I Am Grinding a Game' — 150 Hours and Over 3,000 Boss Kills Later, a Superfan Has Worked Out Borderlands 4's Disappointingly Low Drop Rate
"I want to know what sort of odds I am trying to beat when I am grinding a game" — 150 hours and over 3,000 boss kills later, a superfan has worked out Borderlands 4's disappointingly low drop rate.
10/10/2025
Doctor Who is 'Probably as Dead as We've Ever Known It,' Writer Says
Former Doctor Who writer Robert Shearman has stated that the beleagured British sci-fi series is now "probably as dead as we've ever seen it."
10/10/2025
ROG Xbox Ally X Spotted At Best Buy, TIME Calls It One Of The 'Best Inventions Of 2025'
We're now less than a week away from the release of the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X!With such little time left to go until the launch, it's no surprise that the handheld has started to crop up in more and more places.Over on the Xbox Ally Reddit, multiple people have pointed out that Best Buy is openly stocking the system in a specific store - and apparently one person asked an employee to "ring it up" for them, but they were told it wasn't possible!
10/10/2025
Fan-Favorite Kitana Plays Just as Big a Role in the Mortal Kombat 2 Movie as Karl Urban's Johnny Cage, Adeline Rudolph Says
Next year’s Mortal Kombat 2 movie will see Kitana play just as big a role as Karl Urban's Johnny Cage, according to actress Adeline Rudolph.
10/10/2025
As Datamining Begins, Fans Warn That the Pokémon Legends: Z-A Spoiler Floodgates Have Now Opened
With a week to go until the official launch of Pokémon Legends: Z-A, fans have issued a warning over online spoilers, as datamined details from the game have begun to leak online — including word of even more new Mega Pokémon.
10/10/2025
Xbox's The Outer Worlds 2 Is Now Available To Preload, More Than 2 Weeks Before Launch
Better clear some storage space.Well, we're less than three weeks out from launch - and the game has now gone gold, with pre-loading available on Xbox Game Pass as we speak.We're looking at a current download size of just shy of 80GB here, so this will be quite a chunky install on your Xbox Series X|S console.
10/10/2025
Cyberpunk 2077 Now Boasts Its Own Take on the Wordle Phenomenon — Thanks to One Clever Modder
Like Cyberpunk 2077? Love Wordle? Then boy, is today your lucky day — Night City now boasts its own take on the Wordle phenomenon, thanks to one clever modder.
10/10/2025
Potential BIOS dive aside, Battlefield 6 goes surprisingly easy on PC hardware
I can’t offer this Jim’ll Fix It service to everyone, not least because IGN’s lawyers have issues with the name, so I’ll just say this: Enabling Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 is inconvenient, but not as fiddly as it sounds, and can be done with at most a couple of toggles in your BIOS/UEFI’s Security section.As it turns out, that’s probably the worst of BF6’s hardware worries.I don’t know who forgot to tell DICE that all FPS blockbusters must now be callously demanding graphics card shin-kickers, but in both the campaign and multiplayer, this seems to run quite...