Something for the Weekend – 21/02/26

After a number of weeks of main showcases, this week introduced with it some massive business adjustments. What is going to the long run maintain for Xbox with Phil Spencer departing and a brand new CEO coming in who has little to no expertise of the gaming market? It’s been a downward development for Xbox via this era as a platform, and we’ll must see if Microsoft is intent to speed up this for his or her broader gaming strategy, or in the event that they’ll flip issues round.

Within the Information This Week

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Video games in Assessment & Featured Articles

One other fairly heavy evaluations week is behind us, however there was little that managed to face out, sadly.

We additionally had some scored {hardware} evaluations for the Corsair Vanguard Pro 96 keyboard and the improved Gamesir G7 Pro Wuchang Edition gamepad, earlier than I delved again into the highs, lows and weirdness of 90s VR with the Digital Boy for Nintendo Change.

For upcoming video games, I had the prospect to checkout Milestone’s anime racer revival, Screamer, in addition to the newest tycoon sim, Transport Fever 3, and Dom opined that Battle Vision Network would be the end result of Capybara’s puzzle sport craft, and referred to as Arkheron the battle royale lovechild of Diablo and Hades. Intriguing!

We additionally had an interview with the builders of Abide, to speak about its new type of horror expertise

Rounding out the week, What We Played featured Sons of Sparta, Planet of Lana 2 & Overwatch.

Trailer Park

Slay the Spire 2 is dropping into Early Entry in March

Battle Robo-Betty within the newest Mouse PI for Rent trailer

Surprise! Xenoblade Chronicles X just got a Switch 2 upgrade with up to 4K 60fps performance

Your Achievements

Checking in together with your gaming, Andrewww has obtained a number of extra runs into Blue Prince, however is but to have it actually “click on”.

That’s all for the spherical up this week. Benefit from the weekend and we’ll keep on carrying on on Monday.