What on earth is Xbox's new chief of strategy playing at?

Picking through the many entrails of not-E3 2026.

At fate's decree, Geralt Of Rivia returns.

Destiny 2, 2017-2026.

On Phil Spencer's sudden, yet overdue, retirement.

Xbox's new big boss unveils her new big plan.

Xbox's new boss hits the interview circuit. Sort of.

Valve admits it's a bad time to launch a console. Is anyone at Microsoft listening?

Microsoft fires the starting gun on next gen (sorta).

Thoughts on (grits teeth) a very good book.

On the heinous, nightmarish, unspeakably vile DLSS 5.

And there goes Bluepoint.

Did you beat the PS5 price rise? If so, come on in.

Step inside the party, tidy up the whole scene.

Dispatches from 30-odd hours in Slay The Spire 2.

Hello! Hit Points has been a bit quiet of late; my humble apologies for that. I am finally emerging, bedraggled and frayed, from the busiest few weeks of all my years in game consulting. There has simply been no time for newsletters. There has been very little time for anything, to be honest, apart from hammering my way through a bunch of unfinished games and writing several thousand largely…