Even though the political and social context remains very fragile worldwide, let alone the video games industry itself, as it has been suffering greatly for a few years now, let us resort to a form of comforting optimism to wish you the best for 2025, in your personal, professional, and of course, virtual life. This new year should be very interesting in terms of games, so we should be able to provide you with regular quality content, and with the "incoming" release of the new Nintendo console, we'll soon all be able to get our hands on new hardware, which is always very exciting. We will do our best to cover as many games and machines as possible since we are lucky enough to be able to continue the -yde adventure by your side. Once again, we want to warmly thank the small community of loyal followers who still give us the courage to achieve all this on our free time. We will not lie to you by telling you that the task is easy, or by denying the moments when we sometimes feel a hint of discouragement, but as long as we are passionate enough to continue, we will keep doing what we do best, which is to give you access to free HQ videos. Feel free to share your desires regarding the content that we could offer you in the future, don't hesitate to talk about the website around you as we could use a bit more traffic, but above all, stay true to who you are, the most respectable and open-minded community on the web. Keep respecting others and their opinions and never stop sharing with others around you what has brought us together here for more than twenty years: the fun of playing video games of all sorts. Happy New Year 2025 and be well and healthy!

Well, unless you're not home alone for Christmas that is... Alien: Rogue Incursion came out on December 19 but because of the holiday season, we haven't been able to propose any video coverage until now. Inside, you will find a video showing the very beginning of the adventure on Playstation VR2, but don't be fooled by the scarce presence of xenomorphs in the opening section of the game. They will indeed become more and more visible as you progress into the story, so it is clearly more action-oriented than Isolation was. It's still a very immersive experience and though the graphics aren't the best out there, the lighting and smoke effects make the visuals pretty atmospheric and the game faithful to the movie franchise. As far as we can tell, there are no visual enhancements on Playstation 5 Pro, which is a shame when you consider that a game like Subside (developed by one person only) does take advantage of the new hardware, but who knows if Survios will propose a Pro update in the future.

It is thankfully rare but sometimes we get games long after their original release. That's what happened with Sonic X Shadow Generations that we were sent more than a month after it came out, at a time when we had so many games to take care of it was just impossible to give SEGA's new Sonic title some video coverage. Now we're finally on a short break for the Christmas holiday, we can finally give you a glimpse of this remaster X DLC.

It may be December 25th but there is no rest for Kunos Simulazioni and 505 games as they sent us a new video for the upcoming Assetto Corsa Evo, the third installment in the now famous sim-racing franchise. The game will hit early access on January 16 2025 so PC players must be looking forward to its release.

Because we're going to take a short break this holiday season, we wanted to wish you all a merry Christmas with your family and/or friends. Enjoy your time with your loved ones as it is without a doubt the most precious gift of all. Be reasonable with what you eat and drink this week, so you're in good shape for 2025 and all the promising games that are coming.

We were never able to get a copy of Slitter head, which is why we didn't cover the gale back when it was released in November. Since a demo came on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, we decided to take the Pro version for a spin, even though we're not exactly sure what enhancements this version benefit from. Indeed, all the other versions seem to run just as well (most of the time at least) and image quality does not seem to be degraded that much on the base consoles. The reviews for the game have been quite polarizing so the release of a trial version is a good thing if you couldn't make up your mind about a potential purchase. Don't hesitate to share your thoughts if you get a chance to give it a go.

Zenless Zone Zero came out last July but it was recently updated on PlayStation 5 Pro. As we'd never played the console version before, we were only able to capture the beginning of the adventure, which may explain why we haven't seen many areas where the ray tracing option seems especially impactful on the visuals. RTGI seems to be in place though, so direct comparison can show improvements more visibly. It's a shale however that we spotted a few frame rate issues caused by RT, but to be fair, they seem rather minor overall, to the point we didn't even notice them during combat. That said, they are present and it should be noted. Image quality is a bit too soft to our liking and it doesn't seem to have been improved over base PS5, but we might be wrong as we didn't pixel count.

When we first started playing Go Home Annie, we thought it would be just another horror game set in a house, but since we had not read anything about it before, we were pretty surprised by the little twist that took place after what can be considered as the prologue. Not that the game is the absolute best in its category, but its eerie atmosphere, engaging voice acting, excellent sound design and soundtrack and its solid puzzles actually make it worth checking out. It remains a rather short experience though, around four to five hours, but if you're into paranormal events you might find something quite interesting here, especially for such a price tag (€19.50/$19.50).

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 may have come out a month ago exactly, it hasn't managed to solve all the launch issues quite yet. Two weeks ago, when we recorded the following video, we were able to play immediately, so it was a good start, but then we ran into some bugs while playing: environment glitches and low frame rates over Los Angeles in a Photograph mission, the disappearance of our score and sections passed in a low flight mission and some oddities with the trees to name but a few. Our fiber connection may not be the fastest out there but it's still solid (1 Gbits) so it was a shame. Today, we tried to play the game again but got stuck on the initial loading screen three times and then the game froze while we were flying over Melbourne, that also had some problems with some of the trees. Our last attempt went well though, no weird glitches or anything and we were able to reach the main screen rapidly. Aside from those issues, this second episode developed by Asobo is without a doubt a nice improvement over the first, with more content, more game modes and impressive visuals, even on console.

HITMAN World of Assassination includes all the content released by IO Interactive between 2016 and now, which means the three campaigns from Hitman 1, 2 and 3 and the extra content if you go for the Deluxe Edition. The Standard Edition is almost as packed but it's cheaper. Jean-Claude Van Damme was recently featured in the game as an Elusive Target so the franchise is alive and kicking despite the fact that the studio has been actively working on a James Bond title. That said, today we're giving you a chance to take a look at the PlayStation 5 Pro version since it was granted a free update last week.