Just a month after Warner Bros. Games chief David Haddad announced that he’s stepping down after 12 years in the role, the company is closing its Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego studios, and cancelling the Wonder Woman game first revealed in 2021. The closures, first reported by Bloomberg, were confirmed by…
I enjoy The Sims most when it’s ruining my day with random events and today The Sims 4 is bringing back one of the greats: the burglar. After a not-so-sneaky teaser this week The Sims 4 has dropped a base game update which, among a list of bug fixes, also adds a unique new thief…
What’s in an inch? We’ve already got the great Framework 13 laptop, so why does the company believe the world needs a Framework 12 laptop as well? Well, it’s not just a smaller version of its current machine, this is a new touchscreen convertible notebook, but one that’s been specifically created to be an entry…
I’m not sure which I’m most excited about, the idea of a whole new kind of Framework machine, or the fact the company is actually going to make available a Strix Halo motherboard for us to tinker with. On the one hand, a small form factor Framework Desktop is a cute idea, though it is…
Keepie uppies. With Switch entering its ninth year on 3rd March 2025, and with over 150 million units sold and more million-selling games than we’ve had hot dinners, it’s hard to remember a time when Nintendo pooling its portable and home console software teams behind a single system felt like a risky move. As Wii…
Gnarly! Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 has been teased for a good number of months on the trot now, but it finally seems like the skating sequels will be dropping in on Switch soon enough after the as-yet-unannounced title received a rating in Singapore (thanks, VGC). It’s exciting news, no doubt, made all…
Category: Announcements February 25, 2025 Xbox February Update: Send Invite Links, Cloud Gaming Updates, and More Dean Shimabukuro, Product Marketing Manager, Xbox Services Marketing Xbox updates are rolling out with great new features. Starting today, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members can easily invite friends to join their Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) sessions with a single…
Krafton has confirmed another round of layoffs at Callisto Protocol developer Striking Distance Studios, but says it remains operational and that the cuts will not impact any projects currently in the works. The layoffs were first reported late last week by multiple former employees on LinkedIn: One said “most of the devs were laid off,”…
Now that The Sims 2 is kinda-sorta playable again on modern machines, you might expect it to be perfect right out of the digital box; its rich simulation of the modern day-to-day (circa 2004, anyway) is among the best you can find. But let’s just lay it out there: these sims are a bunch of…
Just last week, it was discovered that Nvidia’s shiny new RTX 50 series cards had axed support entirely for 32-bit software, which hit old-school physics engine software PhysX. Now, in order to run some games better, gamers are taking to installing secondary graphics cards to get a healthy fps boost (and in one case, just…