If you’ve got an Amazon account, then you likely already realise Steve Bezos’ corporate empire is hoovering up your data so it can better sell to you. What’s surprising is when Amazon actually offers a peek behind that vast curtain of data, revealing what it’s learnt about you and potentially reading you for filth in…
Summary Knowledge based metroidvania. Creators discuss the challenges of building a new genre. Out now on XBOX Series X|S, PC, and Day One with Game Pass. “This is the best demo I’ve ever played.” Two years ago, a demo from a three-person team in northwest North America hit my email and I wasn’t really prepared…
FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Welcome back to another special community tournament edition of FOV 90, the only FPS column…
More big news out of Xbox today: A new division called Xbox XP will take the lead on “film and television, consumer products, strategic partnerships, and live experiences,” with a focus “on how people experience our franchises beyond the games themselves.” As detailed on today’s announcement, here’s what that breaks down to: XBOX PICTURES: Bringing…
You could say Pimax is copying Valve’s homework with its new mini PC, the Spation. Though the Steam Machine is merely a black box, so you could say it also copied any number of other miscellaneous black rectangles itself; the Xbox Series X among them. Nevertheless, this is one similar-looking living room machine, and Pimax…
Known for its many variants of VR headset, Pimax is back with yet more new products. This time, it seems to be following Valve’s recent example, with a wireless VR headset, foveated streaming, ringfree VR controllers, and a very long Steam Machine. Let’s start with the VR headset, as Pimax isn’t playing around when it…
Overall physical media spending increased 5%. Circana’s Mat Piscatella has posted a breakdown of the firm’s latest sales report for the U.S., providing an interesting statistic for Game-Key Cards on the Switch 2. According to Piscatella, spending on Game-Key Cards has risen by a whopping 631% in the region during 2026. This figure is so…
Key deets ⚡Climb onto one of the drones the frigate spits out and interact to disrupt it. ⚡Ride it up to the Arc Frigate. ⚡Damage a Rocketeer, Vaporizer, and Hydra turret to complete the quest. Arc Raiders‘ new Boarding the Frigate quest is about finding a way up onto the giant flying Arc fortress during…
Microsoft has just unveiled what it’s calling the “most powerful Surface devices ever.” Both powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark SOC, the Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box are both available to pre-order now. Both Surface devices are slated for an October 16 release, the same day as a suite of other RTX…
With three ‘Chase Decks’. The Pokémon Company is teaming up with skateboard brand Santa Cruz again this month on a new range of ‘Blind Bag’ decks to celebrate the series’ 30th anniversary. The Trading Card Game is being put in the limelight this time, with all decks in the blind bag collection featuring one of…