A Game-Key Card release has been scrapped. Developer IKINAGAMES is dipping its toe into the RPG genre later this spring with Starbites, a sci-fi inspired adventure with turn-based mech combat, which comes to Switch 1 and Switch 2 on 21st May 2026. There aren’t enough RPGs with mechs in our eyes, and Starbites is filling…
When you see three turnstile mechanisms and an elaborate mural in the Trembling Woods puzzle in Crimson Desert, it’s easy to panic. It’s a rather clunky trial and a bit confusing to figure out what you need to do, but once you’ve got the hang of things, it’s actually really simple. You’ll find the Trembling…
“We used every card we had”. In the realm of retro gaming news in 2026, the announcement that 70’s Robot Anime Geppy-X is getting a re-release certainly ranks pretty high on the ‘shock-o-meter’, not least because the game is considered to be a cult classic even in Japan, but also because it’s getting a Western…
Not so long ago, I was primarily a console gamer. One thing I definitely don’t miss about those bad old days is that, unlike with a gaming PC, when things went wrong, cracking the console open myself was rarely a real option. Well, thanks to the EU’s right to repair bill, some significant repairability hoops…
Puzzling out each riddle in Crimson Desert‘s Spire of Insight is key if you want to reach the top and access yet another Abyss Gate, leading to a different part of the skylocked region. Once you’ve worked out how to get inside, which I can help with below, you’ll have three riddles to solve, each…
The Duskwood Hill Ruins puzzle might just be the most cumbersome Mysterious Energy trial I’ve come across so far in Crimson Desert. Found in the hills in northern Witchwoods, this puzzle is far from intuitive, and you’ll be wrestling with the controls while trying to get all the pillars in the perfect position. Frankly, it’s…
There is a specific audience who’ll be over the moon about this keyboard, and happy to pay the $260/£240 Corsair’s asking for it. The thing is, it really is a specific audience. While some of its best assets can be universally enjoyed, like the creamy-smooth key actuation and Corsair’s trademark construction quality, a lot of…
Minecraft‘s second drop of 2026 has been revealed, and if you’re the type of player to spend most of your time underground, it’s certainly an update you should be keeping an eye on. The Chaos Cubed update will focus on bringing more depth to the cave systems we already know and love, including new blocks,…
The Slime has come. Over the weekend, Square Enix announced a collaboration with Google which will see a generative AI-powered “companion” added to Dragon Quest X. As highlighted in an article by news outlet Sankei Shimbun (thanks, NintendoEverything), Google’s Gemini will be integrated into the Japan-only MMORPG and power a conversational companion known as “Chatty…
First, the good news: Peter Molyneux has learnt (one of) his lesson(s). Masters of Albion will not try to flog you NFTs, no one said the words “play to earn” in the entirety of its hands-off demo, and I didn’t see a single unfathomable cube in the 40ish minutes I watched Molyneux walk me and…