When big news happens there’s an inevitable rush to put it in context and explain it. One approach is to take the news at face value and begin rationalizing it. Another approach is to assume there’s some hidden logic at work and unearth whatever that is. We’ve seen both of…

Amid the leadership shakeup at Xbox, news has broken that the brand’s controversial “This is an Xbox” campaign was also contentious internally. Microsoft’s gaming division has had an uneven few years, with the brand seeing great success as a game publisher but struggling to find its footing in the hardware…

Steam and Epic Games Store are both excellent sources for free games, with the former sporadically putting out limited-time deals for free games and the latter having a reliable, rotating system of free games every Thursday. Of course, the internet’s the internet, and a PC gamer can find plenty of…

The upcoming Shrouded Sky update for Arc Raiders ushers in the next evolution of the game, and that includes facial hair. Developer Embark Studios has announced that the update, which releases on February 24, allows players to “become feared with a beard,” as the studio put it.Players will be able…

Online-only live-service co-op game King of Meat launched last fall. About four months later, the game announced that its servers would be shutting off in April. This has become a very familiar story in the game industry. King of Meat launched on October 31, 2025, and cost $30. In the…

The newly-released Mario Tennis Fever has already seen a big drop-off in one particular region, falling five spots in the UK sales charts. The newest Mario sports game serves as a major release for Nintendo’s lineup, being the first new Mario sports game to release for the Nintendo Switch 2…