Issue #308

NEWS Link to heading

Xbox Will Not Mandate the Use of AI, Confirms Phil Spencer

Halo: Campaign Evolved Announced, Out in 2026 for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC

Free Xbox Cloud Gaming Plan With Ads Is Officially In Testing, Microsoft Confirms

How much did you play Brain Training? A new study proves the age-defying benefits

RV There Yet Is Steam’s Latest Out-Of-Nowhere Smash Hit

Netlix Making A Crash Bandicoot Series, It’s Claimed

Hideo Kojima Could Have Made a Matrix Game, But Konami Shut It Down

EA staff are struggling with management urging them to use AI for ‘just about everything’, report claims

Stop Killing Games offshoot “confident” EU petition will progress to legislative phase, with almost half of signatures now verified

Free-To-Play Battle Royale Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt Is Shutting Down Next April

Amazon making ‘significant’ cuts to games business, moving away from MMOs

What Do I Look For When Buying Board Games?

ID@Xbox Showcase October 2025: Everything Announced

New World Ends Development Following Amazon Layoffs

Microsoft On Its Gaming Business Going Forward: “We Want To Be Everywhere”

PlayStation Plus Free Monthly Games Revealed for November 2025

YouTube Is Changing Its Guidelines For “Graphic Violence” In Gaming

Nintendo has had some patents initially rejected by Japan Patent Office in Palworld case

Xbox Revenue Falls $113M Year Over Year

Amazon have reportedly cancelled their Lord Of The Rings MMO, again

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Getting Free Update And Nintendo Switch 2 Edition

RuneScape players vote on scrapping microtransactions from MMO

Mojang is finally revealing all of Minecraft: Java Edition’s code after 16 years to “make it quicker and easier for modders to create and improve mods”

REVIEWS Link to heading

8BitDo Pro 3

Full Metal Schoolgirl

NASCAR 25

Blue Protocol: Star Resonance

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection

Football Manager 26

FEATURES Link to heading

After three years in early access, Farthest Frontier is the city builder that’s tearing me away from Manor Lords

25 years of making history: Europa Universalis lead Johan Andersson talks grey hair, running out of ideas for DLC, and only hiring a menus guy after 3 games

Halo Campaign Evolved remake preview: A tricky balancing act for Halo Studios

How Halo 2’s E3 demo changed everything

The Outer Worlds 2’s toothless satire of capitalism should be a disappointment to everyone, except Microsoft

What Is Crimson Desert? This Fantasy-Steampunk Open World Isn’t As Strange as You May Think

“Everything’s changing in the industry and we need to change as well”: inside the new-look GDC

30 years later, I’ve finally played a Simon the Sorcerer game - was it always this naff?

How A Combination Of Old Text Adventures And Wolfenstein 3D Inspired Randy Pitchford To Create Borderlands

Arc Raiders Made Me Feel Like The Main Character

After 40 hours and counting, Arc Raiders has me convinced: extraction shooters are brilliant

No half-assed performance: how playing with a live crowd turns video games into performance art

Where did all the money go? The state of games investment

Escape from Duckov is not what I was expecting at all, and it’s another startling reminder that perhaps we’re going about this whole making games business all wrong

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

If you had the money, what video game would you pay to get remade?

Building a “Once in a lifetime” game list of single player to play

VIDEOS Link to heading

Halo: Campaign Evolved | The Silent Cartographer – 13 Minute Gameplay Demo

Why Is Everyone Making Extraction Shooters?

Battlefield REDSEC Official Gameplay Trailer

Darkwood 2 - Announcement Trailer | Survival Horror Game

CINDER CITY | RTX On Cinematic Trailer - Seoul GeForce Gamer Festival

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 - Everything To Know

How ZSNES Changed SNES Emulation Forever | Interview with the Creator

FUNNY Link to heading

Online game is my safe space. the online game:

Blizzard being blizzard And players being players