Boxed in and outfought by Sony’s all-conquering PlayStation, Microsoft is navigating Xbox beyond the traditional console landscape. After two decades of living and dying by its hardware, Microsoft is ...

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XP Game Summit returns to Toronto to champion Canadian talent and equip developers for global success.

Forspoken and the return of Dead Space lead this week’s lineup of new video game releases for the PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. Despite a fair degree of hype, Forspoken remains something of ...

Balatro picks up the top prize at the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards. Balatro was the big winner at the 25th annual GDC Awards. The roguelike deck builder developed by LocalThunk secured four ...

Kao the Kangaroo and Pac-Man are among the lineup of new Nintendo Switch releases this week. Kao the Kangaroo could be a perfect fit for Nintendo Switch. Nintendo’s platforms have always been the ...

Humanity and Lego 2K Drive lead this week’s lineup of new video game releases for the PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox. Humanity is a new abstract puzzle game from Enhance, the studio founded by ...

Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass Ultimate members can now play three more games for free. This week’s Xbox Free Play Days lineup feature a trio of pretty good games. Fallout 76 might not be the game fans ...

A Plague Tale: Requiem, follow-up to 2019’s Innocence, is bigger, flashier, and even more rat-filled than its predecessor. Our first order of business, with regard to A Plague Tale: Requiem, is to ...

Big changes and additions are soon to be among us. In werewolf/mafia format Among Us you seek as a group to deduce the identity of the killer imposters. Developer Innersloth is still facing much the ...

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom strikes a delicate balance between the familiar and the new. Smaller in scale but large in heart, it reaffirms why the series has endured for so long and points ...

Following the cancellation of GDC 2020, organisers have lined-up a week of talks and sessions to be live-streamed on Twitch, starting today. This year’s GDC was set to host hundreds of panels, talks, ...