Oh, a new city builder? I know exactly how to get started. I’ll drag a bunch of long roads across the map, slam in a ton of residential and commercial zones, slap down a fire house, a cop shop, and a few schools, then sit back and watch the virtual bucks roll in. That approach…
Coming 2026. Revolution Software has unveiled Broken Sword – The Smoking Mirror: Reforged, an enhanced rerelease of the second game in the Broken Sword series. And it’s coming to Switch, alongside other platforms, in early 2026. Originally teased much earlier this year, The Smoking Mirror appropriately follows on from the excellent 2024 enhanced release of…
Sonic boom. SEGA and the International Olympic Committee have today announced that they are teaming up on a new “co-branded merchandising programme” featuring none other than Sonic the Hedgehog. The multi-year deal will see the blue blur cropping up alongside the Olympic rings in a whole range of merch planned for release next year. According…
Beloved bundle? Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 is out now for the Nintendo Switch, boasting some rather lovely little upgrades for those playing on Switch 2. The release, which comes either as a bundle or separately via the eShop, has garnered a fair bit of attention for its price over the last…
Ten years after it was founded, Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders is closing. The news was delivered by studio founder and creative director David Goldfarb, who said in a message posted to Bluesky that the studio has fallen victim to the Funcom layoffs announced last week. “I have not had much time to process the…
But why? Accessory manufacturer Hori has introduced another budget-friendly alternative to the official Switch 2 Pro Controller, with a new pad coming in at roughly $54 when converted from Japanese yen (thanks, The Verge). This means it’s priced significantly lower than the $89.99 Nintendo itself is asking for with its official offering, but a few…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is currently in an early access beta period, with the full release slated for 14 November. Activision’s annualised treadmill is such a feature of the landscape now you forget it ever had serious competition, though this year EA’s taking yet another crack at it with Battlefield 6. The game…
I know, I know, it’s a lot of cash. But the truth is, it’s difficult to find many RTX 50-series laptops for anything less than silly money right now, and this one’s got the big boi RTX 5080 for a just about reasonable sum. Our Dave has reviewed a very similar model and likes the…
Intel’s woes the last decade or so are well-enough documented. So, it’s not a huge surprise to find a former senior Intel manager describing morale as being “in the toilet.” But it hits hard, all the same. A new feature on Fortune.com outlines Intel’s current problems and provides a glimpse of the huge effort it’s…
If you’re in the western half of Canada or the USA, reportedly you’ve been treated to quite the evening light show of late. What has looked like shooting stars or meteorites entering the Earth’s atmosphere has in fact been Starlink satellites burning up in ever greater numbers. According to retired Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell (via…