Not your average farm sim. If you’re a horror fan and you own a Switch 2, you should play Reanimal. From the moment it pulls you into its bleak, nightmarish world, it’s clear that developer Tarsier Studios is building on everything it learned from the Little Nightmares series while pushing its signature horror sensibilities to…
Category: Announcements February 11, 2026 Celebrating the 2025 Xbox Excellence Awards Daniel Lingen, Game Dev Advocacy, Xbox 2025 was an incredible year for gaming and, before we run full-tilt into 2026, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate the titles that Xbox players made a part of their year, across all devices – from…
Ron Gilbert & David Fox already on board, alongside other ex-Lucasfilm staff. A new documentary is in the works that aims to tell the story of SCUMM, the legendary game engine that powered some of the greatest point-and-click classics of all time. Passport To Adventure: The SCUMM Story is the latest project from the team…
Arc Raiders has had a ton of bugs that break the item economy; perhaps most infamous is the recent item duplication glitch that will see Embark dishing out bans, but we’ve had similar bugs in the past. Just as this game-breaking issue is being patched up, another hole in the hull has ruptured: it turns…
The three biggest players in computer memory are all tooling up major new factories, but the main impact of that won’t come until 2028 and even then it may not be enough to normalise spiralling memory prices. This analysis comes from IEEE Spectrum, which has published an overview of the current memory market and insights…
Much to like. Last week, Square Enix had us all scrambling to wrap up Remake as quickly as we could, as it announced that it’ll be bringing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth to Switch 2 in just a few months on 3rd June. We only caught a brief glimpse at how the ambitious follow-up will fare…
Category: Games February 11, 2026 Crafting Speed: The Technology, Creativity, and Art Behind Ride 6’s Track Design Paolo Bertoni, Game Director, Ride 6 Hello to all bikers out there! The wait is finally over: Ride 6 is out tomorrow, and it’s time to rev up and start a new adventure. Over the past two years,…
The first hotly-anticipated farm sim of this year is here and it’s a scorcher. Starsand Island is a crafting-forward life and farming sim where you’ll return to the sunny island of your youth to reconnect with old friends, meet new love interests, and help turn the town into an even bigger tourist destination by—you guessed…
Every couple years we get one: that farm sim game that everyone talks about. In 2024 it was Fields of Mistria and in 2026 I think we’re already looking at this year’s belle of the ball with Starsand Island. It’s taken me 25 hours just to complete my first season in Starsand and I fear…
Intel’s past few series of desktop processors have somewhat of a bad reputation for being power-hungry beasts. Its current range of Arrow Lake chips has reversed this trend, fortunately, but with one top leaker claiming that the next generation, Nova Lake, will hit the 700 W mark, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Intel has…