2026

I’d have bet money that the Harlem Globetrotters were founded in the 1960s or maybe the ’70s, but nope: today I learned the madcap basketball exhibition team has been around for a solid century, formed in 1926 as The Savoy Big Five (and in Chicago, not New York). To celebrate 100 years of baffling basketball…

To recap for those who’ve been recently resting under a cool, mossy rock, Phil Spencer has now retired from his role as CEO of Microsoft Gaming. His replacement is Asha Sharma, who joined Microsoft in 2024—as president of its CoreAI product. This has resulted in a wave of doomsaying for Xbox that leadership has since…

In the world of gaming monitors, it’s quite hard to stand out in the crowd if you’re trying to tempt gamers to part with their money. But if you’re Samsung, then the solution seems to be ‘go big’—not in size, but in terms of refresh rate and pixels, with one new model running at 1040…

Six months after the successful release of Battlefield 6, which sold more than seven million copies in just three days and was among the top-selling games of 2025, Electronic Arts has confirmed that an unknown number of employees have been laid off from the studios that made the game, including Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and…

Mode, a high-end keyboard maker that allows you to customise caps, add a stabiliser, swap switches, plate material, PCB type, and more at checkout, has just announced a refresh to its Encore keyboard. Made in collaboration with YouTuber and creator Matthew Encina, the 2026 Encore has a neat new crown mounting system and some lovely…

Great news: here, at the long end of its redemption arc, Cyberpunk 2077 is finally, totally fixed. Its last remaining flaw has been repaired. The last gap in the edifice has been covered: You can now shit yourself to death. Apologies for the blue language. That’s usually against our style guide, but I feel that…

Marvel Rivals has been going through something of a rough patch, what with the frustrating lack of good balance patches and now a whole website dedicated to basically making the game worse for everyone involved. Named ‘incentivised throwing’, this phenomenon saw a website and Discord being used to place bounties on people’s heads. Players would…

These days, it’s hard to talk about Destiny without inevitably touching on its hated content vault. Whole chunks of the game, including the base story, some expansions, and seasonal content, were wiped from Destiny 2 and thrown into the abyss, lovingly called the Destiny Content Vault. The Final Shape’s story wrapped up a decade-long story…