November 11, 2025

Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 9-10)

by on August 10, 2025 0

Heading to the front lines? penned by Ben Kerry Yesterday, 12pm We’ve reached another weekend, people! The week’s been packed, what with Microsoft sharing the latest Xbox Game Pass roundup just a couple of days back. While we’re still kicking our heels for August’s most sizeable Xbox and Game Pass arrivals, there’s already more than

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Feature: These 30+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (August 11-15)

by on August 10, 2025 0

Greetings to your Xbox games briefing spanning August 11-15! Across the coming days a handful of eye-catching independent debuts are inbound, featuring titles like Echoes of the End and Bendy: Lone Wolf, while Xbox Game Pass adds three more adventures to its roster—topped off by the “enhanced” edition of Hellblade 2! Below you’ll find every

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Here’s What Might Leave Xbox Game Pass In September 2025

by on August 10, 2025 0

What’s set to exit Xbox Game Pass in September 2025? Microsoft hasn’t issued any official statements so far, yet judging by the titles that landed on the service during the same month last year, we can still hazard some educated guesses. We’ve heard many Game Pass subscribers ask for earlier warnings about departures, but the

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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (9th August)

by on August 9, 2025 0

Image: Mossmouth Greetings, captains! The work-week has officially clocked out, so let’s prep that backlog and rewind the last seven days while we’re at it, shall we? We kicked things off with a stellar Indie World showcase bursting with surprises, shadow-rops and announcements. Elsewhere, the Big N revealed a fresh roster of Mario merch aimed

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Mini Review: Gradius Origins (PS5)

by on August 9, 2025 0

What path brought you all the way here? Edition Checked: PS5 (Standard) / European critique by Graham Banas Yesterday, 6pm Gradius Origins is an astonishingly complete bundle. Beyond bundling six legendary shoot ’em up releases — the original Gradius trilogy, a pair from Salamander, Life Force and their region-specific edits — it also debuts the

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Nintendo’s Share Price Is Now Double The Height Of The Wii Era

by on August 9, 2025 0

Tremendous surge Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Nintendo’s stock keeps climbing amid the Switch 2’s strong early momentum. Fresh numbers on Google Finance show the share trading at a jaw-dropping ¥14,355. To put that in context, the firm is now valued at twice its Wii-era peak. Back on 31 October 2007 the stock closed

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PSA: Shoot Some Hoops With Drag x Drive’s Dev Team This Weekend

by on August 9, 2025 0

The ‘Global Jam’ online demo gets underway Image: Nintendo The Drag x Drive ‘Global Jam’ demo event gets underway for Switch Online subscribers this weekend, and as part of this, Nintendo has announced the developers will be joining in on the fun. You’ll apparently be able to take them during this event, which runs between

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10 days after Sony sued over Tencent’s allegedly “slavish” Horizon Zero Dawn clone, its Steam page has been scrubbed of robot mastodons and Aloy lookalikes

by on August 9, 2025 0

(Image credit: Tencent/Polaris Quest) Last week, Sony sued over Light of Motiram, a survival game which the PlayStation parent calls a “slavish clone” of the Horizon series. The results of that lawsuit remain to be seen, but for now it seems to have been enough to convince the devs to scrub Light of Motiram’s Steam

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I have a new top anime to watch in 2026 as the adaptation for one of my favorite manga, with one of Shonen Jump’s best-ever female leads, already looks incredible and I’ve only seen 100 seconds

by on August 9, 2025 0

(Image credit: TV Asahi / Shonen Jump) I need to start aggressively wishing for world peace or something, because a lot of my anime wishes have been coming true lately. The latest beloved manga to score an anime adaptation is Akane-banashi, an offbeat Shonen Jump series about the art of rakugo, starring one of the

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