Category: Announcements May 15, 2025 Xbox Celebrates Global Accessibility Awareness Day Xbox Accessibility Team Global Accessibility Awareness Day, celebrated annually on the third Thursday of May, is dedicated to recognizing and raising awareness about the importance of accessibility. With billions of people playing video games in the world, including nearly 450 million players with some…
This time last summer, AMD’s venerable Ryzen 7 7800X3D was selling for about £320 here in the UK. Fast forward one year of events that—well, let’s not even get into them, we’ll only depress ourselves—but fast forward one year, and the same chip sells for £380. And that’s just here in the UK—over in the…
They call it the one-two punch. Yesterday, GSC popped its head up to say, hey, next week it’s gonna put out those original Stalker remasters it promised last year. Today, it’s popped its head up to say if that doesn’t satisfy you then it’s also got over 700 fixes for Stalker 2. Crucially, it has…
When everything is on fire—or at least distracting you by insisting it’s on fire—it’s hard to focus on any single blaze, but Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah has added to the list of worries for US citizens using the internet. Lee wants to criminalize online pornography, and while that’s alarming enough as is, his…
While all eyes are fixed on the entry-level and mid-range GPU market right now, thanks to impending announcements and launches, some folks in China are busy looking to the future. Namely, towards an RTX 5080 Super or RTX 5080 Ti. A moderator on Chinese site Baidu claims (via X user and prolific tech leaker harukaze5719)…
Counting the weeks until launch. Famitsu is back with another look at the Japanese gaming charts, and, with Switch 2 edging ever closer, the quiet spell continues. Konami’s new Japanese visual novel, Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You Emotional, made the most of the sales slump and came out on top in its debut week with…
The creator of NaturalVision, the renowned GTA 5 visual overhaul mod series, reckons the crime sim’s Enhanced iteration on PC marks an “amazing opportunity” to further blur the lines between video games and realism. With NaturalVision Enhanced set to land today, May 15, Razed and his team are pushing GTA 5 further than they’ve ever…
Super Mario 64 is perhaps one of the most well-understood, picked-apart games in existence—a storied speedrun community with years of experience and inquisitions into the game’s code means that, every so often, you stumble across a piece of eldritch knowledge that has no impact on the world whatsoever, but is nonetheless true. For example, did…
On June 11, the PC version of Stellar Blade will be released*. The PC version of Stellar Blade will support several new features and introduce exciting additional content. This additional content will also be available on the PS5 console version, This additional content will also be available on the PS5® console version. PS5 users will…
The hosts for Future Games Show’s summer showcase have been revealed, and this year we can expect to see Laura Bailey and Matthew Mercer take the stage to guide us through a plethora of video game trailers, interviews, and news. Over 40 games will be featured in this year’s showcase too, so if you’ve been…