January 2025

The world’s fastest nuke-simulating supercomputer is now online, boasting peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second and other numbers my pea-sized brain can’t comprehend

3 weeks ago04 mins

All hail the new king. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced that the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, has been officially launched, which strikes me as a hell of a nervy first boot. You always hold your breath the first few times you fire up a freshly-built gaming PC, don’t you? However,…

Hyte Y40 review

3 weeks ago017 mins

Hyte kinda blew up in early 2021; its Y60 chassis changed the game in the world of PC cases in a wild way. As soon as you could blink an eye, every media outlet, influencer, and PC enthusiast had one of those shiny fishbowls strapped to their Instagram page, complete with the latest hardware. And…

Astral Chain Director Seemingly Forms New Studio After Leaving PlatinumGames

3 weeks ago01 mins

NieR, far, wherever you are. Late last year, it was reported that several PlatinumGames veterans had seemingly left the studio. While only Bayonetta Origins‘ Abebe Tinari confirmed this news, it looks increasingly likely that Astral Chain director Takahisa Taura has followed suit, potentially forming a new company in the process (thanks, Nintendo Everything). Initial rumours…

Logitech and iFixit team up in repairability collab to make your mice, keyboards and headphones last longer

3 weeks ago04 mins

Peripherals specialist Logitech and the repair gurus at iFixit are ganging up to deliver that most noble of pursuits, making your devices last longer. The basic gist is to sell genuine Logitech parts on iFixit along with listing step-by-step repair guides. A quick tally of the guides on the Logitech Repair Hub on iFixit suggests…

Tim Sweeney says Epic is spending billions fighting Apple and Google because it can, jokes that ‘we might run into serious financial problems after a couple more decades’

3 weeks ago013 mins

Epic Games has for several years now been engaged in a legal war with Apple and Google, centered around the closed ecosystems of iOS and Android: Where developers have no choice but to pay a 30% store fee on all revenue. The massive success of Fortnite seems to have brought this into sharp relief for…

Donkey Kong Country: RARE’s Gorilla Turns 30

The Fridge3 weeks ago08 mins

Donkey Kong is an iconic Nintendo character with a storied history, transforming from villain to hero over the course of his existence. Though he made his menacing debut in arcades, Donkey Kong has since become a goofy character prime for comedic relief, so much so that Seth Rogen recently voiced DK in the Super Mario…

Dataminers turn up potential details on WoW’s upcoming player housing feature—from the Cataclysm Classic PTR, of all places

3 weeks ago05 mins

The dataminers appear to have struck some hypothetical gold while panning for details in, bemusingly, Cataclysm Classic’s public test realm (PTR) of all places. In case you aren’t in the know, player housing—an oft-requested feature of the 20 year old MMO—is absolutely coming to World of Warcraft in the game’s next expansion, Midnight. The only…

Palworld studio’s first move as a publisher is to save a struggling indie dev: ‘This is the energy I want to see driving games in 2025’

3 weeks ago07 mins

Pocketpair, the developers behind Palworld, has announced its first project as a publisher—a new horror game alongside Surgent Studios. This comes a few months after the studio responsible for Tales of Kenzera: Zau put its team on notice for redundancy. “We noticed a pattern in the entertainment industry, and Pocketpair has given us the opportunity…

Become A Travelling Salesman In ‘Merchant 64’ – A Cozy N64-Inspired Adventure For PC

3 weeks ago02 mins

From low-poly animator and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie artist suitNtie. A new N64-inspired adventure has just been announced for PC that will let players become a travelling salesman and embark on a cozy adventure across several towns to build their fledgling business. Merchant 64 is the work of the low-poly animator suitNtie, who recently…

Doom: The Dark Ages’ ‘iron tank’ gameplay takes things back to the very beginning: ‘It feels more like classic Doom than any game we’ve made up to this point’

3 weeks ago05 mins

In a press Q&A ahead of today’s Xbox developer direct, id Software creative director Hugo Martin and executive producer Marty Stratton expanded on some of the gameplay changes coming to Doom: The Dark Ages. In particular, they outlined how some of the criticisms of 2020’s Doom Eternal led the team to look for inspiration in…

Twisted Metal Season 2 teases a character from the games so ridiculous I can’t wait to see how they’re gonna pull it off

A black hole just annihilated a beloved Helldivers 2 planet, and now it’s on a direct course for Super Earth

Introducing Call of Duty: Mobile Season 2 — Digital Dawn

Random: Takaya Imamura Wants To See Star Fox: Assault On Switch 2

Avowed’s low frame rates but smooth-feeling gameplay makes me wonder if we PC gamers worry too much about the numbers

Avowed fooled us all into thinking you have to commit to playing in first or third person, but you can actually swap on the fly like in Fallout or The Elder Scrolls

The world’s fastest nuke-simulating supercomputer is now online, boasting peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second and other numbers my pea-sized brain can’t comprehend

Hyte Y40 review

Astral Chain Director Seemingly Forms New Studio After Leaving PlatinumGames

Logitech and iFixit team up in repairability collab to make your mice, keyboards and headphones last longer

Tim Sweeney says Epic is spending billions fighting Apple and Google because it can, jokes that ‘we might run into serious financial problems after a couple more decades’

Donkey Kong Country: RARE’s Gorilla Turns 30

Dataminers turn up potential details on WoW’s upcoming player housing feature—from the Cataclysm Classic PTR, of all places

Palworld studio’s first move as a publisher is to save a struggling indie dev: ‘This is the energy I want to see driving games in 2025’

Become A Travelling Salesman In ‘Merchant 64’ – A Cozy N64-Inspired Adventure For PC

Doom: The Dark Ages’ ‘iron tank’ gameplay takes things back to the very beginning: ‘It feels more like classic Doom than any game we’ve made up to this point’