Xbox Series X News

The PS5 Pro went on sale this week. If you didn’t know, you won’t be alone. I’ve seen no advertising, no sprawl of articles convincing me to overcome my skepticism and lay down the best part of £1,000 on a console, a stand and a disc drive. It’s the most muted console release I’ve ever seen. And as naturally happens on the internet, I’ve been told it’s either a sign that it’s overperforming or underperforming. On the one hand, it’s…

Death Stranding has shadow dropped on Xbox today at the immensely affordable price of £17.50.  Buy it. It’s awesome. It’s also an interesting look at things to come. The biggest PlayStation fans are going to quickly point out that this isn’t a big deal. It’s five years old, they’ll say. Besides, Kojima has bought the rights back, so Death Stranding isn’t even owned by PlayStation. This new release is published by 505 Games too, just like the version that ended…

Its been a really great year for Square Enix. Let’s talk about it! Earlier this year, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth came out. I didn’t get a chance to play that since I don’t have a PS5. That said, the game looked amazing. Then Visions of Mana came out in August, Romancing Saga 2 remake, and pretty soon Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D. Its been great year for Square Enix. The publisher/developer is at the top of their game, producing massive and…

Metal Slug Tactics is out today on all consoles and PC. Yesterday, we received a review code of the game for the Xbox Series. Our review isn’t ready yet but here our first impressions of the game. Metal Slug Tactics is out now for the Xbox Series X/S. The game is available on Game Pass, however we got to check it out a day early. Usually, Metal Slug is an action game but this is a tactical take on the…

Bioware’s latest Dragon Age is out, and it’s good. Critics have called it a return to form for a series that’s lacked form for a long time. It won’t be getting DLC. Is this a good thing? I’ve seen all the celebrating that The Veilguard won’t get DLC. I’ve seen the five word paragraphs that celebrate the return to a day where a good game could exist in isolation. Buy it full price, finish it, move on. Gone are those…

Yakuza used to be pretty much exclusive to PlayStation. Now, with its release on Switch, the franchise is officially everywhere. See for yourself why it’s one of the best things in gaming. It’s the kind of success story this industry desperately needs to celebrate. It’s been around for 20 years, starting out on the PS2 and having pretty much a release a year since then. The mainline games are all worth playing, and will offer up hundreds of hours of…

Metal Slug Tactics takes the popular run-and-gun platformer into the strategy tactical arena. And the game now has a release date! Check out the release date trailer along with our thoughts on the game. Metal Slug Tactics will be out on November 5th, 2024 for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series, PS4/PS5, and STEAM. The game is a strategy tactical reimagining on the classic run-and-gun franchise. It looks absolutely fantastic too! The graphics are so very detailed. The…

We booted up the new version of Sonic Generations this morning, and it was a blast. In fact, it was exactly the same blast it was when we played it on PC 12 months ago. That’s not strictly true. There are some new bits, some re-recorded lines of dialogue. New things can be found. Places that had slowdown, even on a fairly beefy PC, don’t have slowdown in the newly released version of the game. All of these are pretty…

Age of Mythology: Retold might just be the best Age of Empires experience currently available on any platform. I'm loving it!

What’s the most innocent thing you’ve ever seen annoy the maximum amount of people? This is the internet, so I’m guessing we all have our examples. Here’s my latest find: the outpouring of grief over “Real Yakuza Use a Gamepad”. For those not in the know, that makes up most of a splash screen that shows at the start of every Yakuza game on PC. It’s a hint that if you try and play with a keyboard and mouse, you…