Intel’s woes the last decade or so are well-enough documented. So, it’s not a huge surprise to find a former senior Intel manager describing morale as being “in the toilet.” But it hits hard, all the same. A new feature on Fortune.com outlines Intel’s current problems and provides a glimpse of the huge effort it’s…
If you’re in the western half of Canada or the USA, reportedly you’ve been treated to quite the evening light show of late. What has looked like shooting stars or meteorites entering the Earth’s atmosphere has in fact been Starlink satellites burning up in ever greater numbers. According to retired Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell (via…
The best games ask big questions. Planescape: Torment asked what could change the nature of a man. Disco Elysium asked if, in dark times, the stars should also go out. Today, Mala Petaka asks: what if Doom was a gumdrop-sweet game they made in Japan in 1992? Created in actual GZDoom, the open-source Doom engine…
The Nintendo DS and the 3DS sadly did not feature a single hockey game. The last time EA made a mobile hockey game on a Nintendo console goes way back to the GBA, when they released a pretty awesome version of NHL 2002. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t have been done. It just wasn’t….
Category: Events October 6, 2025 Special Olympics and Xbox Unite for Inclusive Gaming Team Xbox Summary Tune in to the Xbox Twitch channel on October 14 at 10am Pacific for the 2025 Gaming for Inclusion Celebrity Showcase. Xbox Game Camp hosts 9 Special Olympics athletes for an Immersive Learning Experience featuring studio tours, leadership lunches,…
Coming early next year. Revolution Software is working on a “faithful reimagining” of its 1997 adventure game sequel to Broken Sword, Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, it announced today. This new reimagining, which is called Broken Sword – The Smoking Mirror ReForged, was briefly teased as a possibility back in December 2024, in a…
A new old age. Koei Tecmo has shared some new info about some of Zelda’s companions in the upcoming Musou prequel, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. Earlier today, the game’s developer shared five new profiles, and a bunch of new screenshots, of the cast on the official website (via Nintendo Everything). So we now know…
“We never dreamt developers would create so many great Playdate games”. Panic’s Playdate handheld continues to gain momentum with its latest OS update, which introduces a feature that has been on many people’s wish lists for a while. Playdate OS 3.0 finally adds folders to the device, which organises your games into “logical, easy-to-manage groups.”…
Monster Hunter Wilds recently added a new raid boss from Final Fantasy 14, but all this seems to have done is brought some long-running player grievances to the surface. The game’s Steam reviews have been absolutely tanking and the reason will surprise no-one who’s played it: performance. I’m a Monster Hunter megafan and, when it…
We are just days away from the floodgates opening and everyone finally getting to jump into Battlefield 6’s full release. But as the excitement builds, there’s also a fair amount of dread, though not about anything too sinister; instead, players can’t decide if they like the quickturn mechanic that sort of turns you into an…