2026

I sometimes forget about the existence of Nvidia’s Shield devices, in all their various iterations. Shield TV, however, has been with us now for over a decade in some form or another—and according to Nvidia, the Android-powered set-top box is far from done yet. In an interview with Ars Technica, Nvidia’s senior VP of hardware…

The only thing I really know about manga is that there’s lots of it. But now there’s a fair bit less of it online, at least that’s available for, erm, ‘free’, in less than legal terms, on bato.to. But this and many related sites, such as xbato.com, are now dead, thanks to a Chinese criminal…

Through the years of Bethesda games suffering from rocky launches, spectacular bugs, and erratic physics, there’s been a common refrain from the fans: ditch the engine. Originally Gamebryo, nowadays the Creation Engine, Bethesda’s in-house platform, has been seen as the root of all evils in The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, the supposed cause of everything…

Just a few days ago I reported that a bunch of different Linux gaming distros have teamed up to ‘improve the open source gaming ecosystem’. One distro that is noticeably absent from the Open Gaming Collective (OCG) collaboration, though, is CachyOS, and Peter Jung, founder and developer of CachyOS, has explained why (via GamingOnLinux). Replying…

The Trophy Display project is a small part of Arc Raiders‘ latest Headwinds update. It’s just another avenue for players to commit resources and get, well, better resources. It’s nothing revolutionary, but hey, it’s something to do. But some players feel rather misled by its naming. “So, there is no Trophy Display at the end…

Custom computer provider Puget Systems has released its Most Reliable Hardware of 2025 report, and it makes for some interesting reading. While the most reliable consumer processor category seems to have been a tough one to call, the company says that the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K was the most reliable individual chip overall, with…