April 2026
Nintendo Switch 2 System Update 22.1.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
A small but stable update. Following a major system update for the Switch 1 and 2 last month, Nintendo has now released a much small firmware update for both hybrid platforms. Version 22.1.0 includes “system stability improvements” following the rollout of Version 22.0.0, which introduced a lot of improvements and adjustments, so this is likely…
Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 7, 2026)
Best of the best (Image credit: Rockstar) 2026 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard…
11 years after launch, Pillars of Eternity’s new turn-based mode feels like the way it’s meant to be played
Pillars of Eternity turned 11 years old last month, but Obsidian just put out a transformative update for the venerable CRPG: A full turn-based mode alongside the game’s original real-time with pause (RTWP) mechanics. The mode had previously been available via a Steam beta branch since last November. There’s a whole list of patch notes…
I watched the first TV show ever based on a game and it made me realize: we’ve really got it good these days
Not every TV series based on a game can be a real corker like Fallout or Arcane. The Halo TV show was a disappointment. The Witcher series on Netflix started strong but fans found more and more to dislike as time went on. Critics and viewers both gave a pretty strong thumbs down to the…
OpenAI reportedly kicked around an ‘insane’ plan to pit world leaders against each other like a Call of Duty villain
The New Yorker has published an enormous feature about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his disputed trustworthiness, citing more than one person who has accused the generative AI mogul of habitual dishonesty. The 16,000 word article (available online or in The New Yorker’s latest print edition) adds new context to a number of widely-reported episodes…
28 years after the final Intel 486 desktop CPUs rolled off assembly lines, Linux is finally dropping support for it
It’s a given that the question “What’s the oldest computer you can run modern Linux on?” would produce a more gratifying answer than “What’s the oldest computer you can run modern Windows on?” given Windows 11’s draconian hardware requirements. But I have to say I had no idea the answer to the former question dated…
Bleak Survival City-Builder ‘Frostpunk’ Is Coming To The Switch
Manage society’s survival. The city-building survival series Frostpunk recently held a special broadcast about “all things Frostpunk”, and during this event, the developer 11 bit studios announced a Switch version of the original title. This was announced alongside Frostpunk 1886 – a definitive version of the original 2018 release featuring “substantial new content” that’s arriving…
I kept hearing that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie had a ‘record-breaking weekend,’ but then I looked at the actual records
As the saying goes, records were made to be broken—and that’s especially true if you invent a bunch of records just so you can say they’ve been broken. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie came out last week and, despite it kinda sucking, predictably had a monster of a weekend at the box office. But after…