2026

Just days after signalling that large-scale layoffs at Xbox are imminent as part of its ongoing overhaul, Microsoft’s gaming division is reportedly planning to shutter Compulsion Games, the award-winning studio behind South of Midnight and We Happy Few (via Kotaku). Neither Xbox or Compulsion Games have yet made an official statement regarding the studio’s closure…

Overwatch’s next hero might carry twin pistols and has a quick dash, but she’s no Tracer. Tomorrow, when Shion makes her debut, Overwatch will have a hero who fights like a Devil May Cry character. In fact, the character action game series was so much of an inspiration that Blizzard originally gave Shion a Devil…

The latest entry in the wonderful genre of friendslop, Meccha Chameleon, launched onto the scene with an impressive 1,000,000 copies sold in just four days. The hype for this multiplayer game has been growing exponentially, and after watching countless videos of artistic skill I was eager to try it myself, even if I have zero…

E-waste is a massive environmental problem. So are current data center plans, if recent reports are to be believed. However, a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have come up with an intriguing idea: They plan to use 2,000 Google Pixel smartphones to build a cloud computing data center with already-existing…

SteamOS, once the purview of the Steam Deck alone, eventually opened itself to other handhelds. Officially that extends only to the the Legion Go S, but beta versions of the operating system have since supported the Asus ROG Xbox Ally and “Other AMD powered handhelds.” The key term there being ‘AMD’, because until very recently,…

2026 seems to be the time of the open-back gaming headset. After years of not seeing much in this sector (bar the Corsair Virtuoso Pro), we’ve seen a return to form for this admittedly niche sector that I’m all for. First, it was the turn of Asus with the Hifiman-collab Asus ROG Kithara with its…