What We Carry

In a grim week for the games industry where Microsoft laid off 1,600 people (with 1,600 further job cuts hanging over the heads of Xbox employees) one decision stood out as especially egregious. Id Software, developer of Doom and Quake, was forced to lay off 136 people – more than half of its workforce. Read more

Xbox is in the process of a reset, with multiple studios reportedly in danger of closure. What does this mean for the games they're making? We look at which Xbox games could be cancelled, and which are safe.

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Victoria perseveres and finally sees the end of Split Fiction, and is delighted she has done so; Bertie seems a little obsessed about mating, which is a sentence I thought I'd never write; and Sherif doesn't seem terribly convinced about the new Onimusha after playing a demo for it. Read more

There are a lot of questions about what the next iteration of GTA Online will look like, how much extra it will cost (if anything), and when we’ll be able to play it. Let's look into it.