Just as we exit one big showcase season in video games, it’s already time to start thinking about August 2026 and the lead-up to Gamescom. With publishers and promoters looking to breathe some of Geoff Keighley’s air around Opening Night Live on on August 25, a brand-new contender has appeared with a unique proposition. Instead […]
Hot Wheels Unleashed and its sequel, Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged, are a pair of games that play straight into my fields of interest – action-packed arcade racers and games played at a micro scale. I blame a glut of both on the PS1 for bringing me here. So the announcement of Hot Wheels Infinite
After being hinted at last week, and closely following a successful Summer Game Fest showing where it splashed cash on lavish events and fan giveaways, it’s now all but confirmed that Xbox is set to shutter a number of studios, with some high-profile names in the mix. That’s according to reporting from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier
A horror game must be a hard thing to demo in a short span of time, with little opportunity to set up any stakes or tension and truly earn any thrills. But kudos to SEGA and Creative Assembly for giving it a go anyway, ushering myself and other media into an almost-pitch-black basement wherein lie
I went into a preview session with Control Resonant at Summer Game Fest 2026 with some trepidation. As a huge fan of the original Control, the idea of a sequel was always going to be exciting, but everything I’d seen of this one so far had been… off-putting. What I love most about Control, and
It used to be that ignorance was bliss, but it’s becoming increasingly apparent that ignorance is now the baseline to getting through a regular day crisis-free. We’re all turning a blind eye to something just to get by at this point, and your particular interests or field of work may prescribe more or less. The
With the Nintendo Switch 2 having recently celebrated its first birthday, my personal console has been going strong since day one inside what is still one of the best carry cases around, the Belkin Switch 2 Gaming Charging Case – though a more recent version has since launched that I’ll likely update to at some
I’ve been to plenty of dedicated, hands-on game preview events in my career, but there’s always still opportunity for the circumstances to surprise me. When Nintendo invited me to play Rhythm Paradise Groove (which you might know as Rhythm Heaven Groove or Rhythm Heaven: Miracle Stars, based on where you live), I hadn’t anticipated sitting
