The first time Windows users started looking for an alternative OS en masse it was 2012, and Microsoft had just released a desktop UI so bad it would be almost entirely purged from existence within just three years. Windows 8 was all about big, square icons designed for a new wave of touchscreen-enabled laptops and…
In a game called Cozy Caravan, I’d have expected more focus to be on the actual driving. Buzzing around in my giant bee-drawn wagon is pretty adorable, and many of the chores I’ve got do encourage me to develop a little route of regulars around the map, but the cooking minigames are really where it’s…
It might have taken a decade of development, cancellation, and miraculous project revival, but Hytale, the Minecraft-esque voxel sandbox RPG, has finally launched in early access. As a metric for just how much hype Hytale has built up, its first announcement trailer has amassed an absurd 62 million views since it was uploaded in 2018….
Nineteen months after joining Unity as its director of community and advocacy, Larry Hryb, who spent much of a 20 year career at Microsoft as Xbox hype man Major Nelson, has been laid off. Hryb shared the news in a message on LinkedIn, writing, “I’ve always been transparent with this community, so I wanted to…
EA is delaying Battlefield 6 Season 2 by a month, and its reasons for doing so are unnecessarily vague. “During our ongoing development, we’ve continued to review community feedback and, in order to keep our promise, determined that our best path forward is to extend Season 1 and give ourselves extra time to further polish…
How much Switch 1 & 2 have you played? At last! Those of you wondering just how much time you’ve lost to your Nintendo Switch 2 (and your Switch), you needn’t wait any longer. Nintendo’s Year In Review is out right now. This now-annual tradition — which usually drops in December but was pushed back…
A Scottish employment tribunal has denied a request for interim relief for Grand Theft Auto 6 developers fired by Rockstar in October 2025, saying they did not adequately demonstrate a likelihood that the final ruling on the matter will find that the former employees were fired because of their union membership or activities. “The Glasgow…
Hytale‘s multiplayer is much less complicated than it looks, though the lack of an option to invite friends right from the main menu doesn’t make things obvious when starting out. Nevertheless, you can play the entire game alongside a group of friends, which makes all the difference when you’re exploring a fresh world. Below, I’ll…
“Windows sucks” feels like one of the most uncontroversial statements you can make online these days. Between AI guff, constant upselling (would you like to purchase an Office 365 subscription? No? Okay I’ll ask again tomorrow), and myriad other reasons to be sick to the back teeth of Microsoft, it kind of feels like we’re…
I remember the days of other children on the playground telling me I could 360 in a zombies map to get the ray gun. These sorts of ‘hacks’ never worked, unfortunately. That’s why I felt a twinge of scepticism in me today when I spotted this report from IGN pointing out players on the Arc…