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Opinion

If Xbox Game Pass dies then we'll have lost one of gaming's best tools for discovery

The big names might make the headlines, but it's the selection of smaller games that make the service so important.

Oct. 2, 2025 Tom Orry

180 comments

Opinion

The Saudi Arabian takeover of fighting games' biggest tournament means players - and the wider community - have a choice to make: between its culture and a payout

The fighting game scene is desperate for financing - but that same financing might ultimately kill it.

Sept. 8, 2025 Connor Makar

88 comments

A sad face emoji with two Xbox X symbols for eyes, on an Xbox Green background

Opinion

Xbox's absent landlord execs are only part of a much bigger problem

Microsoft's continued job slashing reveals a troublesome disdain for creativity, expertise, and the human touch.

July 8, 2025 Chris Tapsell

280 comments

Opinion

Xbox finally cracks the Summer Game Fest special - the cost is them owning everything

Meanwhile, SGF's own kick-off show felt strangely narrow.

June 9, 2025 Chris Tapsell

145 comments

Opinion

Video games' soaring prices have a cost beyond your wallet - the concept of ownership itself

As the industry's big squeeze reaches consumers, a grim bargain emerges.

May 22, 2025 Chris Tapsell

324 comments

Opinion

GTA 6's second trailer flexes Rockstar's unparalleled ambition and sells players on two games in one

Jail birds?

May 12, 2025 Christian Donlan

85 comments

A grave with the words "Video Games, R.I.P. 1958 - 2025" written on it.

Opinion

GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead

Wasted.

May 6, 2025 Chris Tapsell

280 comments

Days Gone main character Deacon St. John sat on his bike.

Opinion

As Days Gone gets its PS5 remaster, it's only right that it gets a critical reevaluation too

Why didn't this game have a sequel, again?

April 29, 2025 Jeremy Peel

146 comments

A mocked up image of a gun being aimed in GTA 6.

Opinion

Rockstar could choose to ditch auto-aim with GTA 6, but I hope it doesn't

The publisher is no longer reliant on assisted aiming, but clearly pretty fond of it.

April 25, 2025 Jeremy Peel

77 comments

Opinion

Do I play Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Switch 2 or should I wait for Switch 3?

At some point you've just got to jump in or you'll forever miss out.

April 10, 2025 Tom Orry

112 comments

Opinion

Switch 2's magic C Button shows Nintendo is still in the business of doing things its own way

W in the chat.

April 2, 2025 Christian Donlan

68 comments

A soldier in an open-faced silver helmet stands on a wooden bridge looking at the camera.

Opinion

Remake Morrowind, not Oblivion, you cowards

Make my Daedra.

April 1, 2025 Jim Trinca

88 comments

Splicing of two screenshots, on the left one of a flat muddy area in Scarlet and Violet. Right, a screenshot of low-spec environments in Legends Z-A.

Opinion

Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't

Honest Feebas.

March 3, 2025 Chris Tapsell

68 comments

Opinion

Warner Bros. Games' hellish decade offers a valuable lesson to gaming's power brokers: sometimes, you've nobody to blame but yourselves

Comics con.

Feb. 27, 2025 Chris Tapsell

76 comments

Opinion

Obsidian's modest ambition with Avowed is just what Game Pass, Xbox, and the wider industry needs - but will Microsoft let them stick to it?

Keeping Grounded.

Feb. 20, 2025 Chris Tapsell

126 comments

Collage of three images from left to right: Higgs Monaghan of Death Stranding 2; Ghost of Yotei's Protagonist; and a big PlayStation themed question mark.

Opinion

Is Sony beginning to coast? With PS5 sales up and first-party releases down, gaming's eerie new normal takes shape

State of just-okay.

Feb. 14, 2025 Chris Tapsell

282 comments

Opinion

It's taken eight years, but finally Game Pass is positioned to save the Xbox console business and give Xbox a point

Amongst the doom and gloom around Xbox consoles, there is still reason to be hopeful.

Jan. 31, 2025 Tom Orry

352 comments

Collage of screenshots from Death Stranding 2, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ghost of Yotei, and GTA 6, behind a big number 2025

Opinion

2025 will be a make-or-break year for triple-A video games as we know them

It might even be a good thing.

Jan. 6, 2025 Chris Tapsell

131 comments

Image showing an equasion: a copy of Forspoken plus a PS5 Pro equals question mark

Opinion

The PS5 Pro's major missing feature and a £5 copy of Forspoken has shown me a future I really don't want

I'm sorry, disc drives, I didn't realise how much I needed you until you were gone.

Nov. 28, 2024 Tom Orry

366 comments

PS5 Pro reveal screenshot showing the cost of the console on the left and image of it standing on the right.

Opinion

A £700 PS5 Pro is an argument against "Pro" consoles altogether

Too poor for it? Maybe you should drive an Uber!

Sept. 11, 2024 Chris Tapsell

328 comments

Cropped screenshot of the PlayStation State of Play trailer showing Astro Bot wearing a PSVR 1 headset in a casino level.

Opinion

It's hard to stay excited about the PlayStation VR2 if even Astro Bot won't wear one

Sony's headset desperately needs a rescue mission.

May 31, 2024 Ian Higton

227 comments

Image showing Xbox + Bethesda as the title, along with a montage of Dishonored, Wolfenstein, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Starfield, The Evil Within, and Prey, above a list of Bethesda studio brands.

Opinion

What is the point of Xbox?

The platform holder has repeated the same terrible mistakes for over a decade. The reason is simple: its priorities are back-to-front.

May 9, 2024 Chris Tapsell

579 comments

A bright and colourful piece of cartoon-style artwork for OlliOlli World, showing a young skateboarder with a wrist in plaster cast standing atop a huge wooden ramp.

Opinion

Goodbye Roll7, you deserved so much better

A cherished font of bright new ideas, closed for good.

May 2, 2024 Robert Purchese

92 comments

Opinion

The Game Awards will never represent our industry in the way it needs, so what next?

"Please wrap it up."

Dec. 8, 2023 Chris Tapsell

119 comments

Cyberpunk's Johnny Silverhand addresses the player in a sunny basketball court.

Opinion

Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient

Performance art.

Oct. 5, 2023 Tom Senior

512 comments