Julian LeFay, a programmer and engineer with a storied games industry career, has died at the age of 59 years old. The news was announced by OnceLost Games, a company LeFay co-founded, following last week’s news that he would be retiring “to live his final moments surrounded by his loved ones.” LeFay had such a…
Dan Marshall was 24 when he picked up C++ for Dummies. “I’ve left this too late,” he thought. “I’m too past-it to be learning a new skill like programming. Damn it, why didn’t I learn this in school?” Two decades on, Marshall has led the development of no fewer than three games with 80+% review…
Battlefield 6 is seeming pretty close to fully brewed, judging by recent stirrings, but if you’re a bit of a techy tinkerer you might be disappointed to hear that it seems the game will require you have Secure Boot enabled to play. As brought to my attention by an X post from Pirat_Nation, an EA…
Ah, you know how it is. Once you go on a GPU buying spree, it’s difficult to stop yourself from adding a few thousand more to the pile. I’d imagine, anyway. The Wall Street Journal reports that xAI is working with private equity firms to secure up to $12 billion in order to lease a…
Grounded 2 is on its way, with early access kicking off later this month—which, if you’ve been slighted by sequels before, might have you wringing your keyboards over what’s going to happen to Grounded 1. Well, don’t tear up your mechanicals just yet. Executive producer Marcus Morgan at Obsidian wants to put your fears at…
New gameplay modes detailed as the wait continues. Nitrome’s Mouse Work made a bit of a splash when it was revealed back around the Switch 2’s launch, looking very much, as it does, a sort of Snipperclips for Switch 2 that utilises the console’s neat mouse mode function. Now, Nitrome has released a second trailer…
Category: Games July 23, 2025 Top Tips to Land in the Winner’s Circle in Wheel World Mark Essen, Creative Director, Messhof I love working on my bike—whether it’s making repairs or swapping out parts just for fun. Riding a bike means joining your body with a machine that changes how you move through the world….
Following on from Microsoft’s warning earlier this week that “active attacks” were targeting its SharePoint Server customers through a known exploit, the company has now released a blog post revealing more details about the breach. According to MS, on-premises SharePoint servers were determined to have been attacked by three allegedly Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon,…
The new console sole 1.6 million units in June. We already know the Switch 2 has broken sales records in the US — just last month, Nintendo’s upgraded hybrid console reportedly hit an “all-time launch week unit sales record for video game hardware”. And now, Circana’s Mat Piscatella has more data to back up that…
Just one week ago, I reported that we might have to wait until next year to see custom Arm processors from Nvidia. Now, we’re hearing not only more sources saying the same and that a first-quarter 2026 initial roll-out is the goal, but also that this delay might be at least in part due to…