One of the first Xbox Play Anywhere games is back from the dead — ‘Gigantic’ has been officially resurrected, and we played it!

What you need to know Gigantic was a former Xbox and PC exclusive free-to-play third-person multiplayer shooter with heavy “MOBA” leanings, blending sensibilities of games like Team Fortress 2 and SMITE.  The game was one of the first native Windows 8.1 store “core” PC titles, complete with the earliest version of the “Xbox Play Anywhere” […]

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I finally played Control (Quantum Wake/ Alan Break?) and it was an epic adventure

I am late to the Alan Wake series. My first experience was with Alan Wake Remastered, and I played that last year. I followed up with Alan Wake: American Nightmare from the Xbox 360 shortly before Alan Wake 2 was released, but I made an executive decision that has prevented me from playing through what […]

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Palworld rockets onto Steam’s top 10 all-time most played games list, hot on Baldur’s Gate 3’s heels

What you need to know Just a few days after its launch, Pocketpair’s new “Pokémon with guns” open world survival creature capture game Palworld is already breaking Steam records. Specifically, it reached 730,000 concurrent players earlier this morning, making it the 10th most played game in Steam history. That number continued to soar until Palworld […]

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The first game I played on my shiny new RTX 4080 PC was … Spore (2008), and I LOVE it. Where are the sequels, EA?

I recently picked up a shiny new Razer Blade 16 (2023) model with RTX 4080 graphics and a QHD screen (thanks to Scan.co.uk for that). Naturally, to put what was probably last year’s best gaming laptop through its paces, I opted for 2008’s god game Spore, developed by EA’s Maxis studio.  A younger relative recently […]

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7 amazing 2023 hidden gem games I played (and loved) that you shouldn’t miss in 2024

Quick Menu If you’re looking to dive into the latest and greatest big-budget AAA titles from some of the biggest developers in the world, you’ll enjoy the feast that 2023 put on the table. The rich cinematic and narrative brilliance of Remedy’s Alan Wake 2; the unbelievable scale and depth of the RPG systems in […]

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Xbox Year in Review 2023: See your official total gaming hours, achievements, most played games, and other stats

Xbox has officially released its Xbox Year in Review stats so players can check out just how much time they’ve spent on Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S in 2023. This includes seeing things like how many total hours you’ve spent playing on Xbox this year, which games were your top-played titles, how many achievements […]

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Halo Infinite passes Destiny 2 on Xbox’s most played games list in the U.S.

What you need to know At the time of writing, Halo Infinite has passed Destiny 2 on the official list of most played Xbox games in the United States. Halo is now at $16, and Destiny is now #17. Even though Destiny 2 is experiencing a bit of a rough patch, this nevertheless indicates that […]

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Halo Infinite passes Destiny 2 on Xbox’s most played games list in the U.S.

What you need to know At the time of writing, Halo Infinite has passed Destiny 2 on the official list of most played Xbox games in the United States. Halo is now at $16, and Destiny is now #17. Even though Destiny 2 is experiencing a bit of a rough patch, this nevertheless indicates that […]

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Halo Infinite passes Destiny 2 on Xbox’s most played games list in the U.S.

What you need to know At the time of writing, Halo Infinite has passed Destiny 2 on the official list of most played Xbox games in the United States. Halo is now at $16, and Destiny is now #17. Even though Destiny 2 is experiencing a bit of a rough patch, this nevertheless indicates that […]

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Get two of the best indie games I’ve ever played for under $10 — I PROMISE you won’t regret it

Indie games are already quite affordable compared to the large AAA offerings from some of the industry’s biggest studios, but during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday season, you can get them for even lower prices. Such is currently the case for FAR: Lone Sails and FAR: Changing Tides, which are on sale for $3 […]

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This is the ONLY game I played throughout the pandemic and it single-handedly saved my sanity, and you can get it free with a Nintendo Switch Lite

Let’s start with the obvious, $200 is a pretty standard price for the Nintendo Switch Lite, but the real Tom Nook of this deal is that you’re getting Animal Crossing New Horizons for free. During the pandemic, I was sent home with no work and no facility to even work from home for weeks on […]

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I played a unique plant-based Xbox puzzle game — And it’s one worth buying

I just finished Starfield. Yeah, I know it took me a while, but I was interrupted by other games I had to play like Forza Motorsport (2023), and I simply couldn’t blitz through the main campaign without exploring as much of the side content as I could find. After 130 hours in Bethesda’s magnum opus, […]

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Remnant 2: The Awakened King proves to be one of the best DLCs I’ve played in years

Remnant 2 took the summer by storm this year when it released, peaking at a massive 110,000 players on Steam alone. What’s more, Gunfire Games has taken that to heart by hitting the ground running and releasing their first of 3 planned DLCs: The Awakened King. Formed as an area where players can naturally roll […]

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Remnant 2: The Awakened King proves to be one of the best DLCs I’ve played in years

Remnant 2 took the summer by storm this year when it released, peaking at a massive 110,000 players on Steam alone. What’s more, Gunfire Games has taken that to heart by hitting the ground running and releasing their first of 3 planned DLCs: The Awakened King. Formed as an area where players can naturally roll […]

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This beloved platformer joined Xbox Game Pass, and it’s one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever played

GRIS has been on my wishlist for a long time, now. I only had to see a few screenshots of the game and a brief clip of it in motion to know I needed to play it. When GRIS suddenly came to Xbox Game Pass earlier this year, it made a sudden surge up the […]

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How to get a Spotify receipt of your most played songs

If you’ve been enjoying various songs on Spotify, you might be wondering how to get a record of your stats or listening history. Thankfully, Receiptify offers a creative solution. It’s a user-friendly app that lets you create a stylish receipt featuring your most-played songs from Spotify. Let’s explore how to use Receiptify with Spotify in […]

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Starfield director Todd Howard has mostly played the game on Xbox Series S and it’s “great”

What you need to know Todd Howard is Bethesda’s director for the highly anticipated Starfield RPG.  He recently revealed that he’s been playing Starfield on the Xbox Series S since his kids have claimed the Series X for themselves.  According to him, the space adventure runs “great” on Series S. Only a few days ago […]

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Only 500,000 people have played one of the greatest Xbox Game Pass games

I play a lot of video games. It’s how I stay interested and up-to-date in the industry that fuels my career while still having fun on my own time. I simply don’t have time to write about every game I play. Once in a while, though, I’ll play a game that affects me to such […]

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PayPal Played Role in EU Antitrust Complaint About Apple Wallet

Apple Pay competitor PayPal played a role in the EU’s decision to target Apple with antitrust complaints about its mobile wallet, reports Bloomberg. PayPal was one of “multiple companies” that filed informal complaints about the way Apple restricts third-party apps from accessing the NFC capabilities of the iPhone, which in turn led to the European […]

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Samsung should have played a part in Google’s Android 12L for tablets

Samsung is the best Android tablet manufacturer around, but the sad reality is that, despite the powerful hardware, Android tablets lag massively behind Apple’s iPads in market share. Google, Android developers, and hardware manufacturers don’t seem to have cracked the tablet code entirely, but Android 12L could steer things in the right direction. Android 12L […]

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