‘Arkanoid’ & ‘MagMax’ are this week’s “Archives” releases. Taito’s 1986 brick-breaking arcade classic Arkanoid is coming to PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, and Xbox Series X|S later this week, on May 7th, 2026, as part of Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2. Designed by Akira Fujita and Hiroshi “ONIJUST” Tsujino, Arkanoid builds on the…
Adding Crude Gold Bars to Crimson Desert is one way that Pearl Abyss is trying to make the game’s treasure a bit more exciting. Before, you’d often find a hoard of glittering gold bars, coins, and trinkets, but none of it was actually treasure, just part of the set dressing. Sure, you could find proper…
The legal fight between OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman has seen much internal documentation from the firm’s earliest years released to the public. One minor revelation has been the serious involvement of Gabe Newell from the start, who gave the company over $20 million and was the sole member of its “informal advisory…
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has confirmed that services are back up and running following a major DDoS attack that left some of its infrastructure, including websites and repos, unavailable for five days. DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, attacks are intended to disrupt the everyday operation of servers and networks. They’re often quite effective,…
22 Lickitung-twisters. After 30 years and well over 1000 Pokémon in the National Dex, coming up with snappy names for Pocket Monsters is tough. Add in all the languages the games are localised into, and potential issues around certain words and puns which don’t translate well, and it’s no wonder that people have different ways…
I’ve always been an advocate of keeping your personal data as private as you can to stave off the creeping hand of digital tyranny, but for gaming? Nah, no chance. I’m a (wannabe) competitive gamer and I need my latency as low as possible, and VPNs are a no-go. At least, that’s what I thought…
The console was scheduled to release on June 16th, 2026. Retro Games Ltd has revealed that the A1200 — its upcoming plug-and-play system based on the original Amiga 1200 — has been delayed again. Originally teased back in 2023, the “full-size Amiga replica” was scheduled to launch in 2024 but was delayed due to a…
Resolution? Never heard of it! If you regularly used the YouTube app on your Switch 1, then you might have noticed that no such option exists on Switch 2. Yep, for the best part of a year, Switch 2 has been YouTube-less. While we wait for Google to introduce another official application for the console,…
What makes The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind one of the greatest games of all time? Is it the complex imperial politics of its setting? The piquant mythopoeia? Fargoth? It’s none of these. It’s the fact it’s a right ballache to actually play. I… kid? Sort of? I’ll admit it: Morrowboomers can lean a little too…
We’re all pretty aware that crypto probably isn’t, erm, what you’d call a safe investment for the future. Especially since, as of earlier this year, it’s apparently in a “collateral death spiral”. Which doesn’t sound great. But if you made a different bet—say, by purchasing Old School RuneScape bonds, converting them into gp, and then…