It breaks our hearts to cut great games from the Top 100 list, but sacrifices must be made—these are some of the omissions that caused us psychic damage this year

There are a handful of equivalents in Skyrim, but not nearly as many. Instead, it earned its place on the Top 100 in previous ...
Windows Report

Xbox Free Play Days Brings F1 25, Hell Let Loose, and More with Discounts This Weekend

Xbox Free Play Days adds F1 25, Everspace, and Hell Let Loose from October 16–19, with time-limited trials and discounts.

Achilles: Survivor - Official Nintendo Switch Release Date Trailer

Take a look at the Nintendo Switch Release Date Trailer for Achilles: Survivor, an action-adventure roguelike bullet hell ...

It got a lot of love, but Arc Raiders 'was absolutely not ready' to release after its popular April playtest, says design director: 'There were some bad bugs'

That Arc playtest compared favorably to a parallel Marathon playtest, as Morgan pointed out at the time, and was praised for ...

We’re all about to be in wearable hell

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses ...

Gaming Is Gonna Suck a Whole Lot Less on Copilot+ PCs

Microsoft is finally making gaming on ARM-based PCs work like they should have a year ago.

Not Only Is the Next-Gen Xbox Not Dead, It Could Be the Console’s Redemption

A PC-like Xbox will need to compete against Sony's officially confirmed 'next-gen' console.
The Escapist

Scarface: The World is Yours PC remaster blunder was just the original game with two mods

What was released was apparently just the original game with two mods applied, SilentPatch and Fusion Fix, which attempt to ...

Nostalgic PC game from 2004 now available on PS5 for £16 at Argos

Veterans of the hobby might remember a game called Painkiller that launched on PC and Xbox systems back in 2004. It saw ...
The Escapist

Steam Next Fest’s Painkiller demo made me sad

I’m working my way through a fat chunk of Steam Next Fest, the PC gaming storefront’s thrice-yearly promotion of upcoming ...

Xbox Is Remaking ‘Halo.’ Will It Be More Than Just a Cash Grab?

For the last 25 years, Xbox and Halo have been inextricable. The first-person shooter game and its iconic green-armored protagonist, Master Chief, are household names even to non- ...