“Horrible”, “boring”, and “cheap”: Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
This year, generative AI seeped into mainstream gaming. Though it didn't so much shimmer, as smear. It mispronounced lines in Arc Raiders, "drew" a smudgy loading screen in Anno 117, voiced a sweary Darth Vader in Fortnite – perhaps its least subtle appearance was in Where Winds Meet, the wuxia-themed ...
After seven years well spent, Hollow Knight: Silksong is unforgiving, unmissable excellence
We reach the penultimate door, and good cripes has it been a long time coming. When was the last door? Like 2017? Ah well, surely everyone’s been completely normal about it. It’s Hollow Knight: Silksong! Read more ...
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds NiGHTS DLC Pack Launches For Free This Week
Get it downloaded.Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds fans will have a very Merry Christmas this year, as Sega will be launching the free 'NiGHTS DLC Pack' this week on Christmas Eve – that's 24th December 2025, just to make it crystal clear.The pack will include NiGHTS as a playable character, the Dream ...
Call of Duty co-creator, Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment co-founder, and Battlefield head Vince Zampella dies aged 55
Vince Zampella, the co-creator of Call of Duty, founder of Respawn Entertainment, and head of EA's Battlefield franchise died in a car crash on December 22nd. He was 55 years old. "We're heartbroken by the passing of our founder and dear friend Vince Zampella," Respawn Entertainment said in a statement ...
Censored Dispatch Artwork Spotted On Nintendo’s Digital Storefront
Cover up.When the Switch generation was in full swing, there were stories about games being censored in some way or form, and even blocked from being published on the eShop.With this in mind, it seems fans of the "superhero comedy" Dispatch have spotted a potential cover up on Nintendo's digital ...
Horror Dev Bloober Team On Its New Exclusive: “This Is A Vision That Could Only Exist On Nintendo Hardware.”
Fans of Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil and more will "feel at home".Bloober Team has recently been busy with the Switch 2 versions of Cronos: The New Dawn and Layers of Fear: The Final Masterpiece Edition, but did you know it's got one other mysterious Nintendo release in the pipeline?In case ...
Nintendo Music Revives A Wii Banger In Final Update Of 2025
Wii like, wii like to party.We're nearly done with 2025, and in the final update for 2025, Nintendo Music has this week added the Wii Party soundtrack.This party game originally debuted on the Wii in 2010 and the soundtrack comes loaded with 105 tracks and has a run time of ...
Take a tour of Fallout 76’s Burning Springs with our recently defrosted Ohioan historian
Greetings traveller, and welcome to Burning Springs! You may know it as the latest location in the newly updated Fallout 76, but to me, a recently defrosted Ohioan historian from the ancient past of 2025, it's home. The tour will start shortly. I just need a moment to get my ...
Vince Zampella, Call Of Duty Co-Creator And Respawn Head, Has Died
He was 55.Infinity Ward co-founder and Respawn Entertainment head Vince Zampella has died in a fatal car crash, NBC4 Los Angeles reports. He was 55 years old.The crash was reported to have happened yesterday, 21st December 2025, in along Southern California's Angeles Crest Highway, at around 12:45pm local time.Read the ...
Call of Duty Co-Creator, Respawn Co-Founder, and EA Executive Vince Zampella Killed in Car Accident
Vince Zampella, best known as the co-creator of the Call of Duty franchise and co-founder of Infinity Ward who went on to co-found Titanfall, Apex Legends, and Star Wars Jedi developer Respawn Entertainment, died in a single-car accident in Los Angeles on Sunday, NBC Los Angeles reports.According to the NBC ...
