The DayOne Show | A Video Games Podcast

The excellent toy-like arcade racing foundations of the Hot Wheels Unleashed series by Milestone are now being brought into four bright, acrobatic and exciting open world islands for players to explore. Is it any good? Let's find out with our Hot Wheels Infinite Rush Review!

Exodus is the Mass Effect-style Sci-fi RPG I have been waiting for. Wizards of the Coast flew us out to Austin, Texas, a few weeks ago to play a 90-ish-minute hands-on demo. Through microgravity, with ‘alien’ powers on his side, I controlled Jun Aslan in a mission on a space station full of Awoken frogs, and I loved it.Our Exodus hands-on Preview!

Speedrunners 2: King of Speed is something I’ve been looking foward to for a while. The original is one of my friendship group’s top couch co-op/LAN Party games, so the idea of a bigger, prettier sequel with more players and more ways to troll each other should have been an easy win. Unfortunately, while the core Speedrunners experience remains every bit as brilliant as the original, much of what has been built around it feels unnecessary.

Or Speedrunners 2 Review!

If you’re an old grey-beard like me, you’ll probably remember flash games. One of the more popular ones was N from the team at Metanet Software, which led us to N+ in 2008 and then N++in 2015. I played them all a fair bit and now, the team at Metanet are back with a new instalment. I went hands-on at Gamescom, and I thought we could all take a nice trip down memory lane together. Our N+∞X2 hands-on preview.

We got roughly 20 minutes of playtime with Alien Deathstorm at Gamescom 2026. Rebellion, most famous for its Sniper Elite franchise, has put its spin on an Aliens-inspired game, with a fun shooter that made a solid first impression.