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Xbox Will Start Asking Australians for ID This Month. Europe Is Next in the Queue
Microsoft has warned Australian players that from August 2026 they may need to verify their age to buy - or even open - games rated 18+ on Xbox and the Microsoft Store. The EU is building its own verification machinery, and here that changes what owning a digital library actually means.
Grain Rot Review: Ten Euros of Beautiful Panic
A two-person Stockholm studio has made the co-op extraction horror game of the summer: you're a spark possessing disposable wooden bodies, and dying is a mechanic, not a game over. Rough in places, brilliant in the moments that count. Score: 8/10
Minecraft Lands on Switch 2 on October 27 - Now Just Tell Us What the Upgrade Costs
Mojang has dated the native Switch 2 version of Minecraft for October 27, with Vibrant Visuals on by default and world transfers from Switch. The one thing still missing: whether the digital upgrade is free.
The Division Resurgence Hits Steam at 46% Positive - and the Mouse Is the Tell
Ubisoft's mobile-first looter-shooter landed on Steam sitting at Mixed, with roughly 46% of user reviews positive. The complaints - mouse handling, login errors, a loot curve tuned for a phone - aren't all things a patch can fix.
The Mermaid Mask Review: The Best Whodunnit of the Year
SFB Games drops Detective Grimoire into a locked-room murder aboard the world's strangest submarine, and the result is funnier, prettier and sharper than Tangle Tower ever was. It is also far too willing to solve itself for you. Score: 9/10
Devolver Is Leaving the Stock Market - and Croteam Goes With It
Devolver Digital has filed to delist from London's AIM, and its shares promptly fell around 59 percent. The publisher owns Croteam, the Zagreb studio behind Serious Sam and The Talos Principle - so this one lands closer to home than it looks.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Lets You Command the Battlefield With a Joy-Con 2 Mouse
Nintendo has confirmed that Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave supports Joy-Con 2 mouse controls - a series first. You can slide a Joy-Con to move units and pull up info, and switch back to buttons whenever you want.
Take-Two's CEO Bets on Streaming in 3 Years. Latency Says Not Yet
Strauss Zelnick says the industry hits commercial streaming mode within three years and multiplies its install base tenfold. He's right about where hardware prices are heading - but 'low-latency' is doing an enormous amount of work in that sentence.
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Review - Brilliant Fighter, Ugly Launch
Arc System Works built one of the best-feeling tag fighters in years, then it got wrapped in a stuttering PC port, a PlayStation account gate and a 69.99 euro price. Score: 7/10.
Capcom Isn't Worried About the Death of Discs - We Should Be
Around 90% of Capcom's unit sales are already digital, so the publisher shrugs at Sony ending disc production in 2028. That number gets read as preference, but for players in our region it was never really a free choice - and resale, lending and the used market go with it.
Nintendo Just Put Bond, Call of Duty and a FromSoft Exclusive on One Switch 2 Slide
Nintendo's latest financial update spent time on third-party games coming to Switch 2 in the second half of 2026 and beyond - and the list would have looked like fan fiction a few years ago.
Quake Turns 30 With a Free 19-Map Episode - and Half of id Software Isn't There for It
MachineGames and id dropped Dawn of the Machine at QuakeCon: 19 new maps, a rune-gated looping campaign and an archival vault, free for Quake owners. It lands weeks after Microsoft cut roughly half the studio.