Michael Hoglund
Michael has been gaming since he was five when his mother first bought a Super Nintendo from Blockbuster. Having written for a now-defunct website in the past, he's joined Windows Central as a contributor to spreading his 30+ years of love for gaming with everyone he can. His favorites include Red Dead Redemption, all the way to the controversial Dark Souls 2.
Latest articles by Michael Hoglund

Kingdom Come developer blasts Unreal Engine 5 and Witcher 4
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming Co-founder of Warhorse Studios, Daniel Vávra, says using Unreal Engine for open-world games is a bad idea.

Unreal Engine 5 engineers look to solve developer problems
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming Failure to "precache" is catching up with game developers who don't follow basic Unreal Engine development principles.

More people need to be talking about this Xbox exclusive
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming Mecha BREAK is like Armored Core at a much faster pace, packaged as a free-to-play multiplayer mech shooter.

Helldivers 2 and all PlayStation network games are currently down
By Michael Hoglund last updated
Gaming Any game that utilizes the PlayStation Network is currently offline.

EA is predictably learning the wrong lessons from Dragon Age: The Veilguard's failure
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming EA blames the failures of Dragon Age on a lack of shared-world experiences.

NZXT Lift Elite review: A new competitor has arrived
By Michael Hoglund published
Review Lightweight gaming mice are dominating the field. NZXT just dropped a competitor that manages to undercut the competition ever so slightly.

NZXT Function Elite MiniTKL Keyboard review: A magnetic dream
By Michael Hoglund published
Review After experiencing the benefits of these switches, I won't go back to traditional mechanical or optical keyboards ever again.

Game Pass carried Xbox with record revenue and huge subscriber gains last quarter
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming The effect of Black Ops 6 resonates across platform services with record growth.

BioWare is under the gun as the studio undergoes restructuring
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming BioWare studio members split into other teams within EA as development continues on Mass Effect 5.

MLB The Show 25 is skipping Game Pass for the first time since coming to Xbox
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming After four years of coming to Game Pass, Sony decides Xbox players will need to pay separately.

The Havok Physics engine is making a pitch to developers in 2025; my bingo card was way off
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming Not only was I wrong to think this tech had long since been forgotten, but it's continuously improving.

TeamSpeak is back and ready to fight Discord for the crown
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming TeamSpeak overhauls experience with a better pricing model to boot.

Will GTA 6 open up a world of $100 video games?
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming With the rumors swirling that Take-Two could charge even more than the new $70 price point for GTA 6, apparently, publishers are hoping they do.

Dynasty Warriors: Origins is the best debut of its series
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming It's also the second-biggest launch for any Koei Tecmo game on Steam.

PC has been overtaking consoles for a while now, but it's not all bad for Xbox and PlayStation players
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming A new report claims PCs have overtaken consoles in-game content spending, rising 65% from 2011 to 2024 to $30B, whereas consoles only saw an $18B increase.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard director has left the studio after 18 years
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming Corinne Busche leaves BioWare and EA after an 18-year career in development on titles that included Sim 3, Sims 4, Tiger Woods, and more

Unless they had Game Pass, it would have taken over 6 years to unlock all champions
By Michael Hoglund published
What is happening with League of Legends at the moment? Players are downright pissed.

Doom, Quake, and Turok remaster studio ask what fan-favorite game they should work on next
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming These guys are royalty when it comes to remasters. Whatever they make next will rock.

Microsoft employees are hit once more by layoffs in multiple sectors, including gaming
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming Layoffs hit security, sales, gaming, and more across Microsoft.

Kerbal Space Program 2 hasn't had any new content for over a year
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming Even though it was recently revealed that former Annapurna employees will be taking over development, that doesn't forgive the last 13 months without any substantial updates.

Dynasty Warriors: Origins review
By Michael Hoglund published
Review Even without the ability to play as some of my favorite characters, the new formula feeds my soul in ways I never thought possible.

'Starfield' once had a gore system similar to Fallout — a former Bethesda developer explains why it was removed
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming Alongside the technical debt it would require to implement, it just didn't make sense given the vision the game had.

PlayStation says PC is not a "major risk", probably because simultaneous PC launches is coming sooner than you think
By Michael Hoglund published
Gaming Are you ready for the latest strategies Sony and Xbox are or will be pushing?
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