After a week off I’ve had to spend the morning catching up on my email, which means deleting 99% of my email. “Utilize AI to engage your website visitors!” Delete. “Which influencers made the most money in 2024?” Delete. “Holiday pics from Mom & Dad!” Delete. “Important information about your tenuous employment status at PC…
2024 was full of great games, with some bangers like Path of Exile 2 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle coming in hot in December. The first month of 2025 is comparatively quiet, but the calm won’t last long, as February is absurdly stacked with big games. And quiet is of course relative—lots of…
Eternal Strands, the new game from Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw’s Yellow Brick Games, is set to launch on January 28—and today Laidlaw announced that a week before that happens, a playable demo will be released to give curious gamers a taste of what it’s all about. “It’s January, so I’m pleased we can…
Pre-orders open this week. Super Rare Games has announced that the foundations are set for a SteamWorld Build physical edition on Switch. What’s more, this one will be springing up quickly, with pre-orders opening on 9th January and shipping expected in March 2025. This is a Super Rare Games joint, so naturally, there are a…
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Fire at Will. As a mischievous omnipotent being once said, Star Trek isn’t about mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. The voyages of the starships Enterprise et al. are journeys of self-discovery. It’s about the people we meet on those strange new worlds and what they teach us about…
Captchas have been making me want to spoon my eyes out for years, so praise be to Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch who’s just yeeted a Doom captcha into virtual existence (via Hackaday). Since it was made open source, the 1992 shooter has been designated a veritable “can you run it” of potato hardware, finding its…
Do Kwon, the South Korean crypto baron and fugitive, has been extradited to the United States after going on the run in late 2022. Kwon was the man behind the company Terraform, which ran the cryptocurrencies TerraUSD and Luna, both of which collapsed in 2022. That sparked a contagion in the wider crypto market, and…
Less than a year after being shuttered by Microsoft, Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango Gameworks is officially back from the dead. The resurrected developer, now owned by Krafton and operating under a very-slightly-changed name, announced “a new start” in its first post on X since revealing its surprise closure in May 2024. “Tango Gameworks studio has…
I’ve only just finished the second season of Squid Game, but it looks like I won’t have to wait until season three for my next fix of twisted gameshows and gunmen in pink suits, as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s upcoming collaboration has that covered. The Squid Game crossover in Black Ops 6 begins…