2025 finally brought us Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2, but whether you liked or loathed The Chinese Room’s follow-up to Troika’s wildly ambitious and deeply flawed RPG, it’s safe to say that it wasn’t the follow-up most fans expected. On a personal level, what I wanted from Bloodlines 2 was basically ‘Bloodlines 1, but fixed’, an…
Sigh. We were so close, y’all. For a moment, I was sure that videogame movies were finally capable of being not terrible—then I remembered that 2023 cursed us with that Gran Turismo movie, but you know. Unfortunately, the last 12 months seems to have thrown us straight back to the ’90s with terrible silver screen…
EVE Online developer CCP Games just released its end-of-year statistics for its ruthless space sandbox, in celebration of what has been a big year for the veteran Icelandic MMO. The game received two new expansions which introduced player-created freelance missions and an overhauled mining experience, as five new ships. CCP’s stats suggest these expansions went…
Celebrating the small(er). 2025 has been a bit of a loud, bonkers year for video games. Big title after big title, a brand new console in the Switch 2, and a new GOTY contender almost every other week. It’s been breathless, but not without industry struggles, mass layoffs, cancellations, and closures. Which is why now,…
Users have discovered a registry tweak that can improve NVMe SSD performance on Windows 11, namely those all-important random 4k speeds. Windows treats most drives as SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), which has been used for decades now and largely intended for hard drives. As such, NVMe drives that offer higher parallel performance than a…
2025 was a pretty incredible year for NetEase’s Marvel Rivals. Since dropping right at the end of 2024, it’s gone through five themed seasons, increased its collection of heroes and villains by 12, and experimented with PvE with its rough-around-the-edges Marvel Zombies mode. But the team is just getting started. “2025 was more of a…
The strange case of the gamer’s lawsuit against Aspyr was resolved earlier this month. The suit, which saw a fan upset at the studio’s “false advertising” after DLC based on KOTOR 2’s Restored Content Mod failed to materialise as part of its Nintendo Switch port, culminated in a settlement between Aspyr and the gamers who…
Paves the way for native ports to other platforms. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has been decompiled to its source code, as highlighted by Video Game Esoterica. Decompilation is the process of translating an executable file back into high-level source code, and it paves the way for recompiled, native ports to other systems –…
Reviews should always start with the most important piece of information, so here it is: you can’t store your prized collection of lightly used cricket balls on top of the Acer Predator Orion 3000. Why not? Because it slopes backward, and they’ll end up on the floor. The front support foot is slightly taller than…
Reviews should always start with the most important piece of information, so here it is: you can’t store your prized collection of lightly used cricket balls on top of the Acer Predator Orion 3000. Why not? Because it slopes backward, and they’ll end up on the floor. The front support foot is slightly taller than…