Gaze at the mountain of multiplayer shooters and tremble. I’ve long maintained that we’re in a multiplayer golden age—there have never been more and better shooters to choose from than we have right now, and most of them can be enjoyed entirely for free. If only anyone had the time. If I had to describe…
Games are only ever getting more expensive to make. It’s a truth noted by game developers, called a “death sentence” by former publishing chairmen, and conveniently cited by studio executives as they explain why they need to lay off another 200 employees. Despite the universal agreement that game development costs are rising, we rarely see…
Mark Zuckerberg says social media platforms Facebook and Instagram are going to “get back to our roots” by removing fact checkers and replacing them with a “Community Notes” system modelled after the one used by Elon Musk’s X. Facebook has implemented a variety of “complex systems” over the years to address the spread of harmful…
Someone decided to drop a live hand grenade in the Path of Exile subreddit yesterday when they posted a screenshot of one of the most incredible collections ever amassed in gaming. Somehow, some way, user Present-Plankton-734 has put together a complete set of every discontinued or altered item that’s ever been released in the game,…
I’ve been patrolling the halls of CES 2025 on the lookout for anything weird and wonderful. Lo and behold, a keyboard inspired by a loaf of bread. Perfect. Job done, I can go home now. It’s the ‘Bun Wonderland’ from Monsgeek, which isn’t a company I’m too familiar with but turns out it’s actually Akko,…
It may have been one of the worst kept secrets in gaming hardware, but Lenovo’s new Legion Go S is still real exciting. That’s not only because this plucky handheld gaming PC packs one of AMD’s new Z2 Series processors but also because it’s available with SteamOS installed. The Legion Go S and Legion Go…
Xbox Insiders can now join the preview for Belly Bumpers! Use your belly to knockout other players in this 2-8 online and local party game. Eat juicy burgers to increase the size of your belly or force-feed opponents until they burst. Bump it out in a world of food-themed stages. About Belly Bumpers Local and…
It wasn’t long after the first series of Squid Game aired that we started to see its unsubtle anti-capitalist message twisted by the very types of people it attempted to skewer, and just as quickly came the takes mocking the executives, marketers and corporations for their lack of self-awareness. But as ever, the joke is…
The 6v6 vs 5v5 debate has been going on in Overwatch 2’s community ever since the FPS changed format a couple of years ago. The loud minority of the fanbase has been calling for Overwatch 2 to return to its 6v6 roots, a cry that was ignored for over a year until the game director…
Chances are that, like me, you’ve been unable to escape the chorus of ‘This is an Xbox.’ This insistent marketing campaign touts the cloud-based future Microsoft is striving for with Xbox, moving away from the console-based core of yore towards a platform that can play with almost any stage. Well, it’s time to add one…