Following last year’s walk-out. Last year saw the entire Annapurna Interactive workforce resign following a dispute with owner Megan Ellison. Four months on, Bloomberg has reported that the former staff members have formed a new company and have picked up the entire Private Division portfolio (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz). The as-yet-unnamed company reportedly acquired all games under…
The Kell’s Fall organ puzzle is one of the more mysterious parts of Destiny 2‘s new exotic mission. You discover this elaborate piano not long after entering the Kell’s fortress, but you won’t be able to enter any melodies until you finish the mission and grab the Slayer’s Fang exotic. Once that’s done, you’ll be…
While Final Fantasy 14 is often praised for its story, it’s the endgame where players spend most of their time. With dungeons, trials, savage raids, and more casual endeavours, FF14 has something for everyone. The latest expansion, Dawntrail, has the best endgame yet, and I wanted to know how the team fine-tunes the challenge across…
Undoubtedly the biggest news from CES 2025, at least for us PC gamers, has been the Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics cards. There’s a big jump up from the RTX 5080 to the RTX 5090, though—a $999 to $1,999 kind of jump—and we’re now seeing that all that apparent top-end grunt is pushing some AIB manufacturers…
League of Legends is getting its first in-game season of 2025 soon and, as is Riot’s tradition, there’s a big and flashy new trailer with some gorgeous animation to accompany it. Namely, it has collaborated once again with Fortiche, the studio Riot threw $250 million at to make Arcane, a bet which I’m pretty happy…
The OEM desktop PC market is a tough one to stand out in and erstwhile PC mega manufacturer MSI has been trying for years with all kinds of designs, to little success. But at CES 2025, it showcased what it claims to be the ultimate desktop PC—sorry, Ultimate AI Gaming Desktop—in the form of the…
Image 1 of 3 (Image credit: Future) Image 2 of 3 (Image credit: Future) Image 3 of 3 (Image credit: Future) At this year’s CES, one of the biggest tech conferences in the world, tech company GDP has brought along a curious laptop with two OLED screens, powered by Ryzen’s AI CPU and it all…
“Everything is legal, legit and squared away this time”. If you cast your mind back to 2021, you may remember the retro enthusiast and artist Philip Summers starting a campaign on Kickstarter for a series of hand-drawn game guides for a bunch of NES classics like The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Contra, and Ninja Gaiden….
Arriving next month. The Pokémon Europe International Championships return to London next month (20th-23rd Feb), and while we are, of course, very excited to see the cream of the competitive crop go head to head across a range of disciplines, the big selling point for many will be the pop-up Pokémon Center. Reservations for this…
Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yoko even make a cameo! Scrolling through Twitter today can often be a bit of a miserable experience today thanks to the countless ads for scam products and the abundance of AI-generated slop that tends to populate the newsfeed. But every so often, it’s still possible to come across something truly…