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Original Xbox Games Come to PC at Last - Four to Start, and That's the Catch
Microsoft's new Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC is live, dragging original Xbox exclusives onto modern rigs and handhelds for the first time. Four games in, the tech looks great - the library doesn't.
Half of id Software Is Gone - and That Should Worry Anyone Who Loves Doom
Microsoft laid off more than half of Doom studio id Software. The layoffs are grim, the rumours around id-tech are worse, and Game Pass players should pay attention.
The KOTOR Remake Might Actually Show Its Face Again This Year
The on-again, off-again KOTOR remake might be re-revealed this year, per a new report. I've heard that before - and the 2003 original is still the smarter buy.
Nintendo Says Switch 2 Owners Aren't Owed a Tariff Refund - and That Stings
The tariffs got struck down and Nintendo's in line for a refund. It's arguing in court that the players who paid inflated Switch 2 prices don't get a cent of it back.
MSI's Panther Lake Claw 8 Is the Best Handheld Yet - and You Probably Can't Justify It
The Claw 8 EX AI+ puts Intel's Arc G3 Extreme in your hands and outruns the AMD Z2 Extreme. Then the price tag shows up: $1,799 / €1,649. There's the catch you saw coming.
DLSS 5 Hands Devs Two Sliders and a Mask - And I'm Cautiously OK With It
Nvidia finally showed how developers steer DLSS 5's diffusion-transformer upscaler: two global sliders and per-object masking. It's less than I feared, more than the doomposters expected.
Xbox Says More Exclusives Are Coming - But Don't "Overly Fixate" on Single-Player
Two Xbox executives sat down to explain Microsoft's exclusivity plan. More exclusives are coming beyond Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution - but the single-player rule of thumb apparently isn't carved in stone.
GTA 6 launches without PC - and around here, PC is the whole audience
A former Rockstar producer explains the console-first plan for GTA 6. The reasoning holds up technically. It just happens to leave most players in our region sitting on the bench until further notice.
Eighteen Years Later, 2D Castlevania Is Finally Coming Back - And Early Impressions Are Good
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse ends an 18-year drought for proper 2D Castlevania. Evil Empire's take lands October 15 on Switch, PS5, Xbox Series and PC - all at once, no console left waiting.
A dead studio is doing what living publishers won't: Deceive Inc. is getting community servers
Sweet Bandits closed in 2024. Now the team is back to rebuild Deceive Inc.'s backend for community-hosted dedicated servers - and quietly demolish the industry's favourite excuse for shutdowns.
Black Flag Resynced is the biggest Assassin's Creed Steam launch ever. The people who made it are on strike.
Two million copies on day one, $35m on Steam alone - and Ubisoft Barcelona is still striking over layoffs. For us in the region, the sting is closer to home: the Belgrade studio is gone.
Star Ocean: The Second Story R Is On Switch 2 Now - And Square Enix Wants You To Buy It Again
A surprise Switch 2 release for one of the loveliest RPG remakes around, with no upgrade path and no save transfer. That's twice in one week from the same publisher.