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[Hello and welcome to the final Hit Points of 2021. There’s something I’d like your help with today, so please do stick around to the end for details. Thank you!] First up, apologies for the lack of an update on Friday. While I had minimal side effects from
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Did you get the Red Ring Of Death? I think we all did, didn’t we. It was sort of a rite of passage in the Xbox 360 era, and I remember all too painfully the day my launch-wave console finally bit the dust. To be fair to Microsoft, the
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It is often said that all games are miracles. How else to describe this magical collision of art and science? Phenomenally talented artists, doing things in days or weeks I could never do in a thousand lifetimes. Brilliantly creative designers and genius animators. Writers weaving a story throughout millions of
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Premiere /ˈprɛmɪɛː/ noun the first performance of a musical or theatrical work or the first showing of a film. Sorry, just thought that might be helpful to some of you today. I do not want to spend today shitting on The Game Awards. I really don’t! For one thing,
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Happy Halo Infinite day! Sort of! What a distinctly weird release for one of the biggest games of 2021. Delayed by a year, then arriving in tranches — its brilliant multiplayer beta, with its absent modes and miserable Battle Pass, landing weeks ahead of the singleplayer campaign, itself shorn of expected
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Think Sony's going to 'take on' Game Pass? Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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It's the most wonderful time — and possibly the very worst idea — of the year.
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Digging into The Sandbox, the latest play-to-earn flavour of the month, so you don’t have to.
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Before we get started: you can get 10% off a 12-month Hit Points subscription right now, and all weekend. (This applies to both monthly and annual subs, btw.) Just in time for the second installment of Max HP, the subscriber-exclusive interview series, which lands tomorrow! Here you go: Subscribe now
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An update from the development team.
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Under attack from all angles, starved for product and with their relevance diminishing by the day, is the writing on the wall for the industry's biggest publishers?