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Microsoft's first wave of original Xbox games on PC via backwards compatibility skips the classics everyone actually wants in favour of Blinx, Fuzion Frenzy, and Crimson Skies.
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Microsoft's first wave of original Xbox games on PC via backwards compatibility skips the classics everyone actually wants in favour of Blinx, Fuzion Frenzy, and Crimson Skies.

IO Interactive's first major patch for 007 First Light fixes over 200 issues and adds new content, but PS5 players are staring down a 23.84GB download while Xbox owners breeze through at 1.39GB.

A fan-made Portal remake built with Valve's own source code is 100% complete and free. The only problem: Valve won't answer the phone.

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls launched its open beta on July 24th, and PSN promptly went down. PS5 players were locked out for hours while PC players got to enjoy the fighter uninterrupted.

Marvel's SDCC Hall H panel dropped a stacked lineup of announcements, but Ryan Gosling walking out as the MCU's Ghost Rider stole the entire show.

A premature Roll20 listing has revealed what appears to be a D&D 5th edition sourcebook set in World of Warcraft's Azeroth, just days before Gen Con kicks off.

A $70 early access launch for a single-player remake, and players can't even get past the login screen. Those who do are finding AI voice acting and unfinished features waiting on the other side.

Dan Houser thinks companies should sell discs if people want them. Thirty-seven million US sales in half a year suggest people still do.

Konami has confirmed Castlevania: Belmont's Curse will run at 30fps on Nintendo Switch, half the 60fps target on PS5, Xbox, and PC. No Switch 2 version is currently planned.

Microsoft's ad-supported cloud streaming test is live for Xbox Insiders, and the most interesting angle isn't the ads themselves. It's that Xbox One owners can now stream Series X games without buying new hardware.

Sega's president told Famitsu the company values physical media and won't abandon it. Fans are pointing out that almost every Sega game on Switch 2 ships as a key card, not a cartridge.

Xbox has started testing ad-supported cloud streaming with Insiders, offering one-hour sessions in exchange for pre-roll ads. The specific math behind the deal tells you whether this is a fair bargain or a slippery slope.

Amazon's gaming chief Jeffrey Gattis buried an one-year delay for Tomb Raider Catalyst inside a sprawling interview about cloud gaming. No press release, no announcement, just a passing mention.

A trademark filed with the EU's intellectual property office reveals the next Kingdom Come game's name and includes repeated references to online functionality, a first for the single-player series.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot is the first major publisher boss to weigh in on Sony's disc discontinuation, and he's firmly in Sony's corner.

OneBGS claims Bethesda Montreal workers received termination emails offering the legal minimum in severance on July 17, the same day the studio celebrated its Fallout and Elder Scrolls roadmap. The union has filed a legal complaint.

Microsoft's answer to its own $800 console price tag? Watch an ad and stream for an hour. The irony writes itself.

Cold Iron Studios' co-op shooter sequel bumps the squad count to four, adds cross-platform play, and launches next month at $49.99.

A legal filing reveals Xbox eliminated roughly 435 unionised employees out of 1,205 in just six months, while Bethesda Montreal workers say they were promised employment through September before receiving bare-minimum termination emails.

Bit Reactor's XCOM-style Star Wars tactics game gives you exactly one Jedi, and if she dies, she's gone for good. A new developer Q&A lays out what to expect from the 30-40 hour campaign.

Halo Campaign Evolved's early access is live, and buried inside its 39 collectible skulls is a secret: find just three to unlock a Remixed Mode that most players will walk right past.

Activision's latest anti-cheat update reveals that the clips players spend hours capturing and sharing are responsible for a tiny fraction of actual bans. The real enforcement is happening where you can't see it.

GSC Game World has publicly contradicted its own founder's claims that Microsoft paid more than Stalker 2's entire development cost for timed Xbox exclusivity, calling his statements inaccurate.

GSC Game World founder Sergiy Grygorovych says Microsoft's exclusivity deal covered more than the full development cost of Stalker 2, making the game profitable before launch day.