Valve is a relatively small company that punches well above its weight. Perhaps it’s the low staff numbers—or maybe just a general libertarian lilt—that makes its approach to content moderation on Steam a hearty “Can’t someone else do it?” Its freewheeling approach has drawn criticism for what it allows to proliferate and, of course, has…
iOS and Android app gets a host of other improvements, too. Epilogue’s Retrace app allows you to check the authenticity of your Game Boy cartridges when used in conjunction with the GB Operator, and it has now been updated to support the company’s new SN Operator device. “Retrace works with SN Operator now,” says the…
Asus might be sticking 24 carat gold into its mice to celebrate its 20th anniversary and Gigabyte is slapping satellite-grade metals onto its motherboards for its own anniversary, but it’s a diamond anniversary for MSI as it’s jamming smooshed up diamonds into its next-gen GPU cooling solutions. The next-gen graphics card cooler MSI had on-show…
Intel plans to build a semiconductor substrate manufacturing facility in India. The company is partnering with 3D Glass Solutions, Inc. (3DGS) to construct a facility in the eastern state of Odisha. The facility will take about six years to build and will cost $3.3 billion in joint investments from the two companies. Once built, the…
Subnautica 2 got into a bit of hot water (get it?) recently over some Discord comments that bluntly stated it wasn’t a “killing game”. Now, I didn’t exactly buy into the critique of the game centered around that—I think it’s perfectly fine for videogames to be about different things—but I do appreciate that being hounded…
“It was impossible for Tecmo to release hardware”. Nearly two years before the release of the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989, the Ninja Gaiden and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile director Hideo Yoshizawa came up with his own pitch for what the future of handheld gaming might look like, and it’s pretty remarkable how closely it…
In this episode of ‘I wonder what they’ll attach to a liquid cooler next’, we’re looking at one I spotted at Computex 2026 from Tryx that offers a holographic effect. It’s called the Tryx Holo. The radiator isn’t anything special; it’s sleek with three fans and some subtle RGB lighting. Though peer into the window…
Crimson Desert DLC is on its way, because you can never have enough Crimson Desert apparently. Pearl Abyss teased the news in its June-September 2026 preview, where it also detailed a bunch of tantalising improvements, but it hasn’t given much away so far. “We are also hard at work on an upcoming DLC for Crimson…
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has just released its June-September preview, teasing some of the big updates heading to the gargantuan open-world romp this summer, and a couple of them are things players have been desperate for since launch. One of the headline attractions is Pearl Abyss’s mission to improve the story. There are lots…
After being shown off in prototype form at CES earlier this year, and even before then, MSI’s flagship Maestro 900R chassis is just a few months away from release. So, er, get saving because when it does release in Q3 it’s going to cost a hefty $699. But it is a lot of case, and…