April 2026

The vast majority of web users click and swipe away at their preferred browser, with nary a thought behind the sheer amount of work that goes on behind the scenes in today’s websites. Web coders do, though, and often have to juggle performance considerations against having everything correctly rendered. But there’s one inspired bit of…

Disney Dreamlight Valley is set to roll out its second update of the year on April 8, Whispers of the Wind. While the main appeal of this update will be the addition of Pocahontas, there’s another feature tucked away in the patch notes which is equally as exciting for any player who actively works through…

If you’re currently playing Crimson Desert on an AMD graphics card, you should hopefully find that the performance has improved with the latest patch. That’s because the game now implements FSR SDK 2.2, which should offer better and more consistent upscaling and frame generation. As shared on April 4, this is part of update 1.02.00,…

It’s been a long and painfully close Race to World First for Team Liquid and Team Echo as both have gone head-to-head on the isle of Quel’Danas for two weeks, to ultimately defeat the World of Warcraft: Midnight’s Season 1 mythic L’ura. Team Echo led the charge with a best-in-world pull of 4.07% at one…

By the year 2072, Atlus will have released Persona 4 and 5 upwards of 58 times in genres as far-ranging as musou, rhythm, fighting, dating sim, shop-management, grand strategy, and fishing. Approximately 86% of videogame characters will be Chie. If current trends continue, we’ll all be killed by Exponential Persona long before biodiversity collapse gets…

Two months ago, Valve released a beta version of Steam that had an option to send anonymised frame rate data, with the general idea being that the information would help improve compatibility and performance on devices using SteamOS. However, one sharp-eyed Steam user has noticed some additions to the latest beta, and these suggest that…

Modular laptop specialist Framework has published its latest update on the memory crisis. Seemingly in response to the recent narrative around falling prices, Framework CEO Nirav Patel has a more sobering take. This is a temporary blip. More price rises are in the pipeline. Specifically, Patel says, “we have seen costs stabilize in some areas,…

Following the reveal of Anran’s in-game model in Overwatch Reign of Talon Season 1, there were calls from both fans and her voice actress for her model to be redesigned. Simply put, she looked too young and inexperienced compared to her brother Wuyang and her early appearance in his comic. The Overwatch team responded by…

If you are on Linux and are the type to play a game arguably hours too long just to finish off the achievements list, I’ve found the perfect thing for you / your worst nightmare. Sentinel is a new tool you can download on GitHub that will add an achievements system to your games, even…