I think we can all agree that an always-on minimap is bad. Like the TV in a bar, you find your eyes drawn to it even when there are other things you should be looking at. You stare at a corner of your monitor while ignoring the fancy grandeur of whatever expensive open world is…
SpongeBob and friends join the race. Following character leaks earlier this month, Sega has now officially confirmed SpongeBob SquarePants and other Nickelodeon characters will be racing alongside Sonic and friends in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds when it arrives this September. This news was shared during the 2025 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. SpongeBob (and Patrick Star) will…
The answer to today’s Wordle is only a little trip down the page if you need a hand. You can save it in case you get stuck, go for an easy win and unleash it on your first row, or… not use it at all if you prefer. Don’t worry, we can still help. Our…
In our Hypnospace Outlaw review, Andy Kelly called it “a cyber-detective adventure set within a fictional computer operating system”, with an alternate 1999 setting let you explore a nostalgic pocket internet full of music, animations, and screensavers. “This garish low-res internet, inspired by the digital shanty towns of GeoCities, is fully realised. There are hundreds…
You can now listen to the entire soundtrack for grand strategy game Europa Universalis 5, as it’s been posted to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music. Composed by Håkan Glänte, the music spans a lot of history and a lot of Europe in an impressive 26 tracks lasting nearly two hours. As you might imagine, it’s…
Free-to-play survival adventure shooter Once Human now has custom, dedicated servers available. The independent server infrastructure is officially supported by developer NetEase games, which said in a press release that it hopes players will use private servers to “push the boundaries of the Once Human experience, such as transforming it into a cozy building experience…
Back in 2014, an established Chinese game development studio called Shanda Interactive Entertainment started work on Borderlands Online, a Chinese-market-only MMO version of the two-games-deep Borderlands series. Gearbox was trying to get a jump on the growing Chinese PC gaming market, clearly, but the game didn’t happen: It was cancelled in 2015 when Shanda left…
“We can make it work for you”. It’s fair to say that Switch 2 Game-Key Cards haven’t gone down all that well with consumers. While Japanese video game consultancy firm Kyos Inc insists that publishers are “thanking Nintendo” for the move following rising production costs of physical media, others are less keen on them; almost…
A new action-adventure game set in medieval China, Blood Message, has been revealed with a suitably epic trailer for its epic historical journey. Developed by NetEase’s 24 Entertainment Lin’an Studio, Blood Message will be a “cinematic, singleplayer, linear story-driven action-adventure” powered by Unreal Engine 5 and released for PC and consoles. NetEase said in a…
Denmark is switching to Linux, says its Ministry of Digital Affairs, in a move that exchanges Windows and Office 365 for Linux and LibreOffice. Yes, that Danish government. The government of a nation of roughly 6 million people, which is the southernmost Scandinavian nation and/or the northernmost part of Central Europe, comprised of the Jutland…