The X TV app — teased earlier this year — is out in beta on Amazon Fire TVs, Google TVs and some LG sets. The short teaser video included in the beta app announcement shows a typical-looking streaming video interface sewn into what looks like Google’s …
Continue reading "The Morning After: The X TV app wobbles onto your big screen"Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 first appeared with an intriguing trailer as part of Microsoft's summer showcase, teasing a dream world where squads of adventurers fight in a bid to defeat “The Paintress” who is gradually shaving years off the maximum …
Continue reading "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based RPG with beautiful artistic flair"Nintendo sidestepped sharing the spotlight with all the other gaming companies at Summer Game Fest last week, promising its own Direct later in June. And that happened yesterday, teasing a lot of new games with Nintendo favorites. Mario games, yes. Zel…
Continue reading "The Morning After: The biggest announcements from Nintendo Direct"Black Myth: Wukong is gorgeous. It’s built up a lot of momentum, feeding trailer after gorgeous trailer, and at Summer Game Fest this year, I finally got to play it. Is it just a gorgeous tech demo with a heavy dose of Chinese mythology or your next ga…
Continue reading "Black Myth: Wukong is pretty, intriguing and as challenging as it looks"Marvel Rivals pits its greatest heroes against each other and it’s a lot of fun. It’s also a familiar kind of fun if you’ve ever played Overwatch. As Overwatch 2 fights to hold onto players (and attract new ones), there’s no shortage of new games…
Continue reading "The biggest threat to Marvel Rivals is all the other rival team shooters"Dragon Age: The Veilguard was given a proper unveiling at Summer Game Fest, with an Ocean’s 11-style intro to the gang of heroes and fantasy character tropes that will make up your cadre. Bioware also invited me to a hands-off demo of Veilguard, where …
Continue reading "Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a fantasy epic filled with big decisions"The long-running Assassin’s Creed video game industrial complex has finally reached Japan – and I’ve been waiting. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is set in feudal Japan, in the late 16th century, to be precise, at a time of political upheaval that birthed t…
Continue reading "Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a tale of two very different assassins"After all the delays, studio switches and confusion, and following plenty of updates on those spinoff Prince of Persia games, Ubisoft's SGF 2024 presentation included a release… year for its troubled Sands of Time remake. We're not really get…
Continue reading "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake is still happening and it’s coming out 2026"As the grand finale of Xbox’s Summer Game Fest showcase, after the new consoles, we were treated to the exclusive premiere of the latest addition to the Gears series, Gears of War: E-Day.
The trailer kicks off with a one-on-one brawl between the Gears…
The historical turn-based strategy series Civilization is getting another mainline sequel—and it's been a long time coming. Civilization VI came out back in 2016, and while we've seen a lot of DLC in the interim, there's been no word on se…
Continue reading "Civilization 7 is coming in 2025"
