Intel has just announced the Arc G3 and G3 Extreme, new Panther Lake-based chips for handheld gaming PCs that promise “seamless gaming experiences on the go.” A year or two ago, new handheld chips would have properly tickled my anticipation bone. But with the way 2026 is going, I’m not so sure. Will anyone be…
Once more, with feeling. The latest Japanese charts are in from Famitsu, and before we get to another week of huge Switch 2 sales, it’s time to see how Nintendo’s latest fared on the software side of things. Yes, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book flutter jumped into the top 10 this week with almost 40,000…
Computex 2026 hasn’t even begun yet, and Intel is already rolling out the big guns. Its long-awaited Panther Lake-based handheld gaming PC processors have just been officially announced, and they’re called the Intel Arc G3 and the Intel Arc G3 Extreme. We’ve long mooted the idea that Panther Lake‘s efficiency and overall performance seem perfectly…
According to reports, LG has flatly denied a report claiming that it plans to sell its TV business to China’s Hisense, much as Sony recently sold its own TV division to TCL. The original report was posted on South Korean website EBN and titled, “LG Electronics to shut down its ‘problematic’ TV business? Discusses sale…
Fangs of Asterkarn was already shaping up to be Grim Dawn’s biggest expansion last time I wrote about it, with designer Kamil ‘Zantai’ Marczewski boasting it would have “54 new bosses” and “cover approximately 3.55sq. km, which makes it roughly 110% as big as Ashes of Malmouth.” That had grown to “up to 170% as…
Category: Games May 28, 2026 A Deeper Look Inside Planet Zoo 2’s Announce Trailer Gareth Hughes, Game Director, Frontier Developments This October, we’ll be welcoming Zookeepers back with the sequel to the critically acclaimed Planet Zoo. Over six years ago, when we first launched Planet Zoo, we couldn’t have foreseen just how passionate you, our…
Shareholders vote for ‘re-domiciliation’ from France to Luxembourg. Atari Group CEO Wade Rosen and original founder Nolan Bushnell Atari’s shareholders have approved to redomicile the company from France to Luxembourg. Read the full article on timeextension.com Shareholders vote for ‘re-domiciliation’ from France to Luxembourg. Atari Group CEO Wade Rosen and original founder Nolan Bushnell Atari’s…
Sometimes someone does something that makes you think, ‘Why the hell had no one tried this before?’ That’s the question that crossed my mind when I learned about ‘Noah Doe’, a (presumably) placeholder name for a man who is trying to get the New York courts to officially recognise him (and the other plantiff companies)…
There’s a reason that we’re in 2026 and still see so few life sims on the market: they’re incredibly freakin’ hard to make. That’s not just me spouting my opinion, it’s something that the developers behind games like The Sims, Inzoi, and prematurely cancelled Life by You have said in the past. There are so…
As much as I enjoy a gacha pull as a little treat, I’m not overly jazzed about how inescapable gambling mechanics have become in games—or anywhere else, for that matter. So-called prediction markets are also becoming increasingly popular, and one Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly leveraging insider information to place bets on Polymarket,…