Five new heroes are coming next week. Big changes are coming to Overwatch 2 very soon, with a brand new season dropping on 10th February. But the biggest change comes in the form of a new name. Announced today during the Overwatch 2026 spotlight, the game’s director Aaron Keller announced that Overwatch 2 is ditching…
I use the word “catastrophic” quite a lot—it’s one of those things that just happens when you write about videogames for a living—but there are few games more deserving of the term than MindsEye, one of 2025’s biggest flops. A rough pre-release led into an even worse launch: Player counts on Steam were microscopic, layoffs…
“I think there are people who have trouble connecting with cute characters”. There are plenty of notable things about 4PGP, which launches on Switch and Switch 2 today – the iconic (but unlicensed) 1990s F1 cars, the 120Hz visuals (on Switch 2) and the four-player split-screen mode – but I have to admit that, as…
Category: Games Overwatch: The New Year-Long Narrative, Explained Miranda MoyerOverwatch Narrative Lead Published February 4, 2026 Summary Overwatch narrative lead Miranda Moyer tells us more about The Reign of Talon: the first complete, year-long story arc for Overwatch. The new narrative launches with immediate global conflict as Talon challenges Overwatch, and will introduce 10 new heroes, each woven directly into the unfolding story. Get ready for an Overwatch…
The last thing I expected Blizzard to do was to change the name of Overwatch 2 back to just “Overwatch” four years after it came out. But as announced during the recent Spotlight video, that is exactly what Blizzard’s doing. Most of the sequel’s life has been about earning that 2, so why change it…
When I flew down to Blizzard HQ last week to see what the Overwatch 2 team had been cooking for the last few years, I expected a couple of new heroes and an animated cinematic. What I saw was way more than I ever could’ve imagined, to the point the words “soft reboot” came to…
Ace! Nintendo is gearing up for its next Switch 2 release of the year in Mario Tennis Fever, which will serve up tons of multiplayer fun and expensive adventure mode on 12th February 2026. So, it’s no surprise we’ve got a brand new commercial to prepare us for some time on the courts with our…
Documents detailing technical aspects of what’s thought to be its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs have been posted on AMD’s website. The most significant covers AMD’s adoption of Intel’s so-called ‘FRED’ interrupt handling. It’s a change that implies that Zen 6 could be a major architectural overhaul as opposed to a relatively minor revision. FRED stands…
The port is now in its “experimental” stages. A standalone VR port is currently being developed for the N64 first-person shooter Perfect Dark. The unofficial project is being developed by Alex Le Tux, who posted a video of their project over on YouTube a couple of days ago, and, according to the Twitter/X user Flat2VR,…