Wuthering Waves Comes to Xbox: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started

Wuthering Waves arrived on Xbox Series X|S and Game Pass on July 10, giving console players a free way into one of the more demanding free-to-play RPGs around. It is a big, fast game with a lot of systems layered on top of each other. This guide covers what actually matters in your first several … Read more

DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations Review: A Grounded Return to Hell

Scene from Doom

DOOM: The Dark Ages just got its first major expansion, and the question for anyone who finished the base game last year is simple. Is Revelations worth coming back for? The short answer is yes, if you liked the shield-and-melee combat the first time. If you did not, this will not change your mind. Revelations … Read more

Halo: Campaign Evolved Launches on PlayStation for the First Time — Here’s What to Know

Halo: Campaign Evolved launches July 28, 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, ending 25 years as a Microsoft platform exclusive and placing the franchise on Sony hardware for the first time in its history. The game is a full remake of Halo: Combat Evolved (2001), built by Halo Studios (the rebranded 343 … Read more

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 Review: The Best It Has Played, With Caveats

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The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series defined a particular kind of early-2000s gaming — fast, musical, technically rewarding, and broadly accessible. The 2020 remake of Pro Skater 1 + 2, handled by Vicarious Visions, was received well enough that a follow-up felt inevitable. That follow-up arrived in July 2025, developed this time by Iron Galaxy … Read more

What the Xbox Leadership Change Means for Players

Xbox Controller in Shadow

Xbox has had a turbulent twelve months. Phil Spencer, who led Microsoft Gaming since 2014 and defined Xbox’s strategy through two console generations, the Activision Blizzard acquisition, and the pivot to Game Pass, retired as Microsoft Gaming CEO in February 2026. Xbox president Sarah Bond stepped down alongside him. Their replacement, Asha Sharma, came not … Read more