August 2025

We’re a couple years into Konami remembering it owns this weird licence the kids are calling ‘Metal Gear Solid’. It kicked off with the release (and subsequent repair) of the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1, and it continues in a matter of days with the release of Metal Gear Solid Delta—Konami’s glitzy UE5-ification…

Unpacking is one of my favourite videogames, where you grab things out of boxes and neatly pop them around an isometric home. It’s pretty linear though—not a complaint, it needs to be to serve its excellent narrative—but I’ve longed for a similar game with fewer shackles ever since. Whisper of the House is that exact…

Bigger is always better in computing. Just maybe don’t try and tell that to the SFF guys with their Fractal Terras and neat cable routing. But in these terms the 18-inch gaming laptop is a desktop replacement beast; it’s the largest form of laptop and a crazy idea that pushes against the idea of a…

I’m always astonished at the ingenuity players can wield when given a solid house-building system. Heck, even when I was playing City of Heroes: Homecoming, fans were wrangling a decades-old base builder to make some true works of art out of scraps. World of Warcraft, however, appears to be making a proper effort to do…

According to a recent Forbes report, Elon Musk’s xAI has made hundreds of thousands of Grok chatbot conversations searchable on a variety of search engines, including Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, without warning its users their chats were subject to publication. The report says that more than 370,000 user conversations are now readable online, and that…

I was going to start this article by writing about how I feel like there’s a new Tropico entry every time I return my attention to the series. I was going to write about how it wasn’t that long ago I was pouring many hours into Tropico 3, and now there’s apparently a seventh game…

I look at the time where we all collectively thirsted over Lady Dimitrescu through my fingers with mild embarrassment. It was Covid, we were all losing our minds… it made sense at that moment, alright? I wouldn’t say we’ve stopped going googly-eyed for horror waifus, but we’ve certainly become more conservative about it. Perhaps not…