February 2026

One week after we gave its latest release—Styx: Blades of Greed—a healthy 82% review, French publisher Nacon has filed for insolvency. In a notice earlier today, Nacon declared that it will “as of today, file for insolvency with the Court and request the opening of judicial reorganisation proceedings.” That is to say, it cannot service…

Here’s another dubious milestone notched up by the memory crisis. The proportion that RAM and storage makes up of the cost of producing an HP PC has doubled this year to 35%. Specifically, HP’s CFO Karen Parkhill was speaking to the usual gathering of highly remunerated bean counters on the company’s quarterly earnings call yesterday…

I love it when a developer takes another swing at an idea they didn’t nail the first time. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has a barren and boring sky to explore, likely because it was made for the humble old Wii. Twelve years and a few hardware upgrades later, Nintendo knocked that same idea…

Like Water Pumps, the humble Camera Lens is so useless in Arc Raiders that you’ve likely never paid it any attention. Now, though, thanks to the new Weather Monitor project, you suddenly need to find three of the blighters, and you’re understandably stumped trying to remember where you’ve run into them. The good news is…