How magical. Simon the Sorcerer Origins, ININ and Smallthing Studios’ prequel to the classic 1993 point and click adventure, is finally and thankfully up and available for pre-order on Nintendo Switch. Priced at £22.49 / $24.99 for the standard edition or £31.99 / $34.99 for a digital deluxe version (which nets you a digital art…
In July this year, Phil Spencer said Microsoft’s gaming business has “never looked stronger” as he simultaneously announced an absolutely brutal round of layoffs. Several studios were closed outright, games were cancelled, and almost everything in Microsoft’s portfolio was touched in some way, with the aftershocks still coming. One of the developers heavily affected was…
Old School RuneScape (OSRS) has a cancer, and that cancer is crime. Or, well, it’s repeated violations of Jagex’s terms of service, anyway. The game is beset by perfidious players who buy in-game gold and items off black market sellers using real-world money, a process called Real World Trading (RWT). Okay, yes, some version of…
Quality-of-life improvements aplenty. Sega and Atlus have released a new update for RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army on Switch and Switch 2, bringing the game up to version 1.10. The update brings a whole bunch of quality-of-life improvements to game alongside some standard bug fixes. The remaster launched on 19th June 2025,…
It’s often surprising to me how different engineering samples can be from the end product that reaches the shelves. As a case in point, redditor Substantial-Mark-959 reports they’ve come into possession of an early engineering sample of the RTX 2080 Ti, and it looks to be of a significantly higher spec than the release card….
Switching to an open world, Borderlands 4 is massive and packed full of sidequests and activities to complete, though these generally don’t give you tons of experience to level up. Completing it all once is all well and good, but you won’t want to trudge through every single quest again on an alternate character. That’s…
A collective of 15 ransomware gangs including Scattered Spider, IntelBroker and Lapsus$ have announced a mass retirement from their nefarious activities. They claim their “objectives” have been fulfilled, so it’s time to enjoy their “millions” in “silence”. As spotted by El Reg, the collective posted a message on Breachforums announcing their supposed retirement. “Silence will…
Skiff it a chance. I’m starting to feel nervous about Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Let me explain. During the most recent Nintendo Direct, the long-gestating game finally received a release date for 4th December 2025 on Switch and Switch 2. That’s not all, though; the accompanying trailer also revealed that Samus would now be rocking…
Category: Games September 16, 2025 Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II – A Sequel That Builds in All the Right Ways Danielle Partis It’s often tough to build on a formula that largely works as-is, but a short hands-off preview of Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II last week showed us that even small tweaks can feel monumental. Mechanicus…
Somewhat surprisingly, Nvidia doesn’t have much of a track record when it comes to using cutting-edge silicon. But a new report claims that’s about to change dramatically, with Nvidia planning to be the very first to use TSMC’s next-next gen A16 node. Taiwanese outlet CTEE claims that Nvidia will be the first to adopt TSMC’s…