2025

Should you wish to emulate the achievements of the great Katy Perry, William Shatner and others by taking a trip on one of Blue Origin’s rockets beyond the Kármán line, I have excellent news—you can now pay for the experience with cryptocurrency. Shift4 Payments, a self-described “leader in integrated payments and commerce technology”, has announced…

If you recall, yesterday we mentioned that the Trump administration was considering a 10% stake in poor old, beleaguered Intel. Now it turns out that the mooted investment won’t strictly be in return for new money. Instead, Trump wants the 10% stake as part of the CHIPS Act deal inked under the previous Biden administration….

I’m all for a simple, no-nonsense set of instructions on how to participate in a videogame. Perhaps in Final Fantasy 14’s case, though, it could have popped a little clause underneath its two-step guide to its upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds collab to note that there’s, well, a healthy dose of triple-digit hours between them. How…

Going hands on with Silksong for the first time is oddly nerve-wracking. After six years of anticipation, hype, and desperate occult rituals, the question is: can it possibly live up to expectations? What ends up surprising me most, then, is how much the game puts me at ease. From the first moment I take control…

Here’s a simple conundrum for you. When is an ergonomic keyboard not an ergonomic keyboard? There’s probably a host of different answers that could be said in response, but for me, it’s when the keyboard is an Asus ROG Falcata. It looks like an ergonomic keyboard, and it even has many of the usual features…

Whenever you’re shown a map for a game, you probably start scouring it for any areas that could hint towards updates in the future. No? Just me? Okay. Well, I definitely did this with Cult of the Lamb when I first played back in 2022, and the haunting mountain in the background seemed like the…