Maybe it’s a coincidence and maybe it’s not, but as the Artemis 2 spacecraft comes rolling around the moon like Jimmy Kirk and co. heading off to save the whales, the aging reach-for-the-stars simulator Kerbal Space Program is seeing a major uptick in players on Steam—according to SteamDB, achieving the highest concurrent player count the…
Marathon just completed its second full week since the rollout of its Ranked competitive mode, and despite the mind-boggling complexity of its holotag system, its players have been confronting a simple problem: When a game has ranks, players will cheat to climb them. Since its launch, reports of Ranked cheaters have become so prevalent that…
Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the creator of the Double Dragon and Kunio-kun (River City) series, has died at the age of 64. The news was announced by Kishimoto’s son Ryūbō on Facebook, who wrote (via machine translation) “I am sorry to inform you that my father has passed to rest on 2nd April 2026. Thank you very…
Last week, Valve rolled out a refresh for the Steam storefront that made the whole thing look quite a bit nicer than it used to. This week, the Steam Workshop is getting a similar treatment: An update to the UI designed to make browsing Workshop content quicker and easier. “The Steam Workshop remains a heavily…
The used game market has changed a lot in recent years. Prices for classic cartridges and consoles keep climbing, yet plenty of people are jumping into the hobby anyway. Starting a retro gaming collection in 2026 is still very possible on a budget – you just need to know where to look and what to…
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Keith David has some big-time sci-fi videogame credits to his name, like Fallout, Halo, Mass Effect, and Destiny 2. But this may be his most impressive role yet: Making me think that Starfield sounds pretty damn cool. David’s dramatic reading in the new “This is Starfield” trailer, marking the long-awaited release of the Free Lanes…
The reveal of DLSS 5 was pretty much the biggest thing to happen in PC gaming last month, and also one of the most contentious. Indeed, our own team reacted with a whole heap of different emotions, from general antipathy to vitriolic ranting. In fact only a few of us were in any way measured…
Galaxy gallery. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has been out in the wild for nearly a week now, so we thought it was only right to take a look at its new faces and see how they match up to their game counterparts. Those with a really good memory might remember that we did something…
There’s been a decent level of buzz around Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite chip for a while now. That’s for good reason. It popped up on Geekbench last month, beating its x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance, and early tests beat out AMD, Intel, and Apple in power. Now we’ve finally seen it…