The decades-old Shiren the Wanderer series is famous for being bluntly unforgiving, and The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is no exception to that intimidating rule. I’m dumped into a randomised dungeon and expected to fend for myself using nothing more than whatever I find lying around on the floor, the stairs to the next…
Two of our favourite gaming laptops have been upgraded for 2025. There’s the new Zephyrus G16, which comes with Intel’s Core Ultra 9 processor 285H and choice of RTX 50-series GPU, up to an RTX 5090. And the Zephyrus G14, my pick of the two, which keeps the same Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 as…
Take-Two Interactive said in November 2024 that it had sold Private Division, the “high-end indie” publishing label it launched in 2017, to an undisclosed buyer, along with “substantially all of Private Division’s live and unreleased titles.” The identity of the buyer was not revealed, but a new Bloomberg report (via Game Developer) says the division’s…
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…