2025

Mega-mod Skyblivion—the one that remakes The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in the swish new Skyrim: Special Edition engine—is set to release in a matter of months after over a decade of work. The news around this has been, on the whole, quite positive. The trailers look good, its dungeons are meant to be better, and…

I didn’t expect the sparkle to last quite so long with this desk, but it has. I’m not talking about a physical sparkle, of course, I mean that ‘freshly impressed with new furniture’ feeling. I’ve been using the Grovemade standing desk system—AKA the Grovemade desk—for a few months now, and I’m still a little in…

Borderlands introduced Shift codes to the series formula ages ago, and we’ve seen no indication from Gearbox that it plans to end the tradition. Historically, vault hunters found new additions on official X accounts, but with a new game just around the corner we’re already speculating on where (and how) we’ll find Shift codes in…

Sean Martin, Senior Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: experiencing Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater for the first time. This week I’ve been: getting murdered by swarms of cave bugs in Helldivers 2 because I forgot to bring a flashlight. It’s easy to forget, but Helldivers 2 is supposed to be…

The industry is still feeling the aftershocks of Microsoft’s decision to lay off thousands of staff in July, which came alongside multiple game cancellations. One of the most high-profile was the Perfect Dark reboot being co-developed by The Initiative, a studio that has now been closed, and Crystal Dynamics. It turns out that, per a…

Once the hotbed of chip development and manufacturing, Japan has been surpassed by the likes of Taiwan, South Korea, and the US. In a move to bring it back to the forefront of semiconductors, a new consortium has been launched, comprising 27 different firms, that will focus entirely on developing a key component in the…

Battery startup BMX (Better Mobile Xperience) claims that some airlines are now banning standard lithium-ion batteries due to safety concerns. Whether that’s true, more on which in a sec’, its new solid-state USB-C charging pack does look interesting, especially once you’ve seen BMX drive a nail through it and have it allegedly keep on working….