2025
The new Splinter Cell: Deathwatch trailer is action-packed, but there’s a Michael Ironside-shaped hole
A trailer dropped today for Netflix’s animated Splinter Cell show, and it’s all guns and glory. Bloody fistfights, car chases, a diving tackle through a window—all to unravel a mystery that hits awful close to home for our grizzled protagonist. “Sam Fisher is back and this time, the mission is personal.” Again! It hits all…
Diablo 4’s new ‘Chaos armor’ is a card game-inspired response to criticisms over boring seasonal powers
For the first time in a while, a Diablo 4 season won’t just be about fancy new powers for your build. In season 10, or the Season of Infernal Chaos, the best loot in the game can drop as “Chaos armor”, allowing you to use items in ways you never could before. Several Unique items…
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar Achieves 500,000 Sales In less Than A Month
Well that’s just grand. Marvelous Europe has announced that Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar has sold over 500,000 copies since its launch on 27th August 2025. Specific figures across Switch, Switch 2, and PC have not been confirmed, but we’ve reached out and will update this article when we hear more. Nevertheless, it’s a solid…
One of the most beloved hardcore board games of all time is getting a Steam version
There’s a class of board game so complex that even successfully completing a game becomes a heroic accomplishment of logistics and human endurance. Among the most revered of those offerings is Twilight Imperium, the legendary sci-fi strategy game of galactic conquest, commerce, and political scheming that’s earned its place as the 6th highest rated game…
Pre-Orders For ‘Simon The Sorcerer Origins’ Open, Featuring Chris Barrie & Rick Astley
How magical. Simon the Sorcerer Origins, ININ and Smallthing Studios’ prequel to the classic 1993 point and click adventure, is finally and thankfully up and available for pre-order on Nintendo Switch. Priced at £22.49 / $24.99 for the standard edition or £31.99 / $34.99 for a digital deluxe version (which nets you a digital art…
The Elder Scrolls Online studio head says Microsoft’s brutal cuts were ‘super emotional… it was awful’
In July this year, Phil Spencer said Microsoft’s gaming business has “never looked stronger” as he simultaneously announced an absolutely brutal round of layoffs. Several studios were closed outright, games were cancelled, and almost everything in Microsoft’s portfolio was touched in some way, with the aftershocks still coming. One of the developers heavily affected was…
Old School RuneScape says no more Mr Nice Guy, it’s time for permabans and confiscations if you’re caught buying black market gold
Old School RuneScape (OSRS) has a cancer, and that cancer is crime. Or, well, it’s repeated violations of Jagex’s terms of service, anyway. The game is beset by perfidious players who buy in-game gold and items off black market sellers using real-world money, a process called Real World Trading (RWT). Okay, yes, some version of…
Raidou Remastered Updated On Switch And Switch 2, Here Are The Patch Notes
Quality-of-life improvements aplenty. Sega and Atlus have released a new update for RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army on Switch and Switch 2, bringing the game up to version 1.10. The update brings a whole bunch of quality-of-life improvements to game alongside some standard bug fixes. The remaster launched on 19th June 2025,…
This redditor has discovered a higher-specced engineering sample of the RTX 2080 Ti, with more shaders, ROPS, TMUs, and VRAM than the release version
It’s often surprising to me how different engineering samples can be from the end product that reaches the shelves. As a case in point, redditor Substantial-Mark-959 reports they’ve come into possession of an early engineering sample of the RTX 2080 Ti, and it looks to be of a significantly higher spec than the release card….