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When something is 20 years old it's easy for memories to focus on the best things. The Xbox 360, Microsoft's best attempt at shaking up the games industry, wasn't perfect (hello RROD, hello a pivot to Kinect), but it's a console that for many is remembered as their console - the one that arrived at just the right time and offered exactly the right experiences.

Brendan Greene, the creator of PUBG, better known by his alias PlayerUnknown, has said he's "heartened" to see people rally against the use of generative AI when used to make games.

In the grand tradition of playing the latest Obsidian game and thinking about how Bethesda would have done it worse, or better, The Outer Worlds 2 has got me thinking a lot about its same-publisher cousin Starfield which, for reasons, has left a lot to be desired.

Wow, it's hard to believe it's been 20 years since the Xbox 360 released and gave the games industry a proper shake-up. With SEGA gone as a platform holder and Nintendo floundering as Sony seized power, Xbox took its opportunity to get the jump on PlayStation, releasing the Xbox 360 as the first console of that generation a year before the PS3 (and in some territories, that gap was even bigger). And it worked. Xbox 360 got off to a flying start, backed by some brilliant exclusive games and an industry leading online multiplayer offering.

Microsoft has announced its next Xbox Partner Preview showcase will take place later this week, focused on third-party games.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been out for a few days, and has enjoyed its first weekend released into the hands of eager players. However, current concurrent player counts have many fans asking: Is Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 underperforming?

Paradox Interactive has parted ways with Cities: Skylines developer Colossal Order in a mutual decision "made thoughtfully and in the interest of both teams".

Later this week marks 20 years since the release of the Xbox 360, and with it comes a slew of related gaming anniversaries of varying importance.

Just this very moment, the first official photos from The Legend of Zelda live-action film were shown on the Nintendo today app.

Capcom is working to ensure Resident Evil Requiem will perform well on PC, following a multitude of technical issues this year with Monster Hunter Wilds.

It has been reported that PlayStation's Horizon series, which began in 2017 with Zero Dawn, has now passed 40m sales.

Arc Raiders has blown past its concurrent player count on Steam yet again, hitting close to half a million PC players online at the same time over the weekend.

Sales of the Xbox ROG Ally X have exceeded Asus's expectations, as production ramps up to meet demand.

US Congressman Ro Khanna has responded to Activision Blizzard's AI use in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, highlighting the need for AI regulations in the United States of America.

Shams Jorjani, the CEO of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead, has spoken more about GTA 6's recent delay, and what it means for the studio.

November 2005. I'd just turned 23 - not long out of university and about to push forward with my career in games media properly by moving into a house/office in an attempt to make something out of what was to become VideoGamer.com (don't visit it now, I warn you). This was, it's not hyperbolic to say, one of the most important moments in my life. It was also about to be the first major new console launch of my career. What could go wrong?

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has had a bumpy start, accruing an 'Overwhelming Dislike' verdict on Metacritic on its opening weekend, making it the most unpopular Call of Duty game ever by Metacritic user score.

The producer of the next highly-anticipated instalment of Resident Evil, Resident Evil Requiem, has teased that the upcoming horror retains "some" elements of its prior life as an online multiplayer open-world game, but wouldn't tell us what, exactly, they are.

Sony has issued a number of DMCA notices against a fan project working to bring Concord back to life.

When I travel, I always bring a pair of noise-cancelling headphones. I pretty much have to. To listen to music and to block out as much of the outside world as possible. I'm quite fortunate in the job that I do that allows me to basically take a different pair of headphones or earbuds every time I go, and I think I've found the pair that'll be sticking with me in the meantime.

Ubisoft has told Anno 117: Pax Romana fans that it will be replacing an AI-generated loading screen image, insisting it had "slipped through" and had only meant to be used as a placeholder.

Usually, I'd start one of these retrospective things with a wiggly line transition to the past for a bit of the old nostalgia-tickling scene-setting. The trouble is, my one overriding memory of Skies of Arcadia is so powerful I can barely remember anything else about the game at all. I can't, for instance, recall where I was when I played it, or even when; and I'm certainly not going to be able to tell you what it was about in anything but the broadest strokes without a trip to Wikipedia. What I do know, though, is Sega's beloved RPG - set in a vibrant world of swashbuckling skybound pirates - was brilliant. And I can say this with absolute certainty.

It's fair to say that upon its initial release, Sid Meier's Civilization 7 rather split opinion. I don't think anybody would argue that it was the best-ever Civ game out of the gate. Nobody sane would, anyway. But for a breadth of opinion you only need look at my review on VG247 when compared to the verdict here on Eurogamer. On release, those two opinions were two stars and worlds apart. One considered the game to have a fundamental problem, being too boring. The other considered the base release a creaky but firm-enough foundation for a new generation of Civ.

If there's one area of tech that's exploded in recent times. It's wireless earbuds with noise-cancelling powers. We've seen all sorts of options emerge up and down the price ladder from both established audio players and newcomers, and here I thought I'd put a few premium pairs I've looked at to the test and come to a conclusion of whether any of them are much different and worth your time.

Escape from Tarkov is sitting on a Mostly Negative rating today after yesterday's eagerly-awaited Steam debuted to stability and performance issues that prevent players even logging in, let alone play.

Our first look at the cast of the live-action Legend of Zelda movie has leaked online.

Over the last few years, we've seen a real explosion in true mass market Android phones that match flagship phones spec-for-spec without too many apparent sacrifices. Indeed, for a while now, when someone has come to ask for a phone recommendation, I've suggested they buy a budget to mid-range headset with a good OLED screen, a decent set of cameras and long battery life. At the end of the day, that's what's important to most folks.

Bungie has settled a copyright lawsuit with writer Matthew Martineau after he alleged the studio had used elements of his work in Destiny 2, including its Red War plot and the Curse of Osiris expansion.

Capcom's Pragamata has popped up on the South Korean classification board's website.

It's safe to say that Irish video game maker Brendan Greene, known by the alias "PlayerUnknown", is an ideas man. He's credited with creating and popularising the battle royale genre, initially experimenting with it in an Arma 2 mod, then building it into zombie game H1Z1, before making the extraordinarily successful multiplayer shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - or PUBG as we know it now. Big ideas are irresistible to Brendan Greene, and few ideas come bigger than the one he currently has, to remake the internet.