What's the Dog Doing?

Despite Xbox living in its nostalgia era, its showcase failed to give Halo a promising future.

Sony's best first-party studio hasn't published a new game for almost a decade, and that's a problem.

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie plays with the Greek gods again; Victoria dies "a lot-lot"; Connor has a relentless need for bones; and Chris is talking in riddles. Read more

N++ is an absolutely stellar game. I even like the unconventional name and appreciate developer Metanet Software's continued embrace of the N name first used for its original Flash creation more than two decades ago. But it's also a name that comes with some issues, perhaps best demonstrated by the game's name on Steam being followed by "(NPLUSPLUS)." So what do you do when you're making a multiplayer follow-up and need to come up with a name? "It's always been hard for us to name these things," Metanet's Raigan Burns said when asked about the name of the newly announced N+ Infinity Times Two.

It's once again time for Sony's PlayStation Plus library to shed some of its titles, meaning you have just a few weeks left if you're thinking of playing Risk of Rain 2, Tropico 6 or Roki a go.