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My favorite console is starting to feel like home again. Two months since Asha Sharma took over as CEO, Microsoft Gaming as we knew it under Phil Spencer is no more. Xbox is back, as the new branding seen in a recent blogpost tells us, and with it comes promising rumblings.Last year’s extreme Game Pass Ultimate price hike has been rolled back, bringing the monthly charge down from $29.99US to a more reasonable $22.99 at the cost of day-one Call of Duty games. It’s a sigh of relief for anyone like me who had no choice but to drop a…
The Postal series is infamous for being riddled with bugs, and gross humor that makes South Park look tame. While critically it scores poorly, developer Running with Scissors wears that pee-covered badge with pride. Postal: Brain Damaged gives the series a new spin, with a different development team in control, and this Quake/Doom-style take isn’t just good – it’s an absolutely essential FPS game for your Steam library. Don’t believe me? Well, it’s just $1 / £1 right now, so you don’t really have an excuse. Postal 2 is a classic, in a weird way, while the sequel – Postal…
It seems like Todd Howard, executive producer and longtime developer at Bethesda, has a lot of admiration for Neil Druckmann, the head of Naughty Dog. According to a former dev from both studios, Howard was very inquisitive about Druckmann during their time at the home of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.Heather Cerlan, an artist who worked at Naughty Dog for a number of years before spending some time at Bethesda, speaks with Kiwi Talkz about socializing with Howard. “Me, my art director, our senior producer, and Todd, all went out to lunch after I’d been there for a week,” she…
From season 4 has debuted to a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, making it one of the best-rated shows of the decade, with each season receiving a score over 90%.The MGM Plus show stars Harold Perrineau (Yes, Mercutio from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet!) as Boyd Stevens, the sheriff of a small town in America that traps anyone who enters… and the unwilling residents are left to fight off nightmarish creatures as they desperately search to find a way out.Season 1 holds a 96%, with season 2 at 93%, and season 3 at 100%. Season 4 premiered on April 19,…
If you spent any time experimenting with emulation in the ’90s or ’00s, you probably have fond memories of ZSNES, the iconic Super Nintendo emulator. Now, nearly two decades after ZSNES’s final update, the original developers are back with a follow-up called Super ZSNES, which is offering a host of big new features to spice up how you enjoy Nintendo’s finest 16-bit titles here in 2026.Original creators zsKnight and _Demo_ have reunited to bring us Super ZSNES, which is available for download right now. Naturally, it still features the iconic chunky UI and falling snow animations that helped make the…
Wondering how to get through Shattered Rise in Saros and beat the level’s boss, Prophet? Well, this step-by-step guide to the area will tell you all you need to know.While Shattered Rise isn’t the first place you’ll explore in the game, thanks to the game’s prologue, it is the first main area and features the game’s first proper boss.This guide will explain the main mission you need to complete in Shattered Rise to unlock the boss, and then the best strategy for taking down the boss itself. It’s worth mentioning that the exact layout of the map in this area…
The updated Steam Controller from Valve costs $99 and will be released on Monday, May 4, the company announced today. This Monday is looking to be a busy one, as pre-orders have not opened and Valve says the controller won’t be available for purchase at all until launch day.The updated Steam Controller product page confirms the $99 price point. It’s a clean $99.00, for the record, not $99.99. Valve seems eager to avoid the dreaded third digit in $100. PC Gamer reports that the price converts to €99 for the EU, £85 for the UK, and $149 in Australian and…
Ancient Depths is the second zone in Saros. In this guide, we’ll explain how to complete the zone and beat the level’s boss, Bastion. This step-by-step guide will explain the mechanics to unlock the boss room, and what you’ll face in the battle with Bastion.Ancient Depths is directly connected to Shattered Rise, the first area in the game, however, if you’d like to travel to the Ancient Depths straight away, you can simply fast travel.Without further introduction, here’s everything you need to know about the Ancient Depths, the second major area in Saros.Saros Ancient Depths walkthroughWhen you enter the main…
Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro didn’t mean to become one of the most interesting game directors in history. The way he tells it, his career as a director came out of good luck, Capcom, and a lot of blabbing.Taro reflects on his time working at defunct developer Cavia on cult-y PS2 snake pit Drakengard, the 2003 action RPG published by Square Enix, and his directorial debut, in Archipel’s new book The Worlds of Yoko Taro. In the excerpt journalist Matt Leone published on his oral history website Design Room, Yoko – as told to writer Teppei Fujiwara – reflects on…
Wondering how to change the difficulty in Saros? Saros is a tough game, much like developer Housemarque’s previous game, Returnal.However, unlike Returnal, Saros has a few significant ways to change the difficulty of Saros. In this guide, I’ll explain the game’s Carcosan Modifiers system, how you can make the game significantly easier, as well as a hidden option buried in the game’s menu which can make the game even easier.Read on to find out how to change the difficulty in Saros.How to change the difficulty in SarosIn Saros, you can change the difficulty by activating Carcosan ModifiersCarcosan Modifiers are buffs…