When I retire (who am I kidding), I’d like to have a proper workshop. I’ve always been a tinkerer, someone who likes to take apart bits of engineering to see exactly how they work. Which is why I feel a certain kinship with David Schütz, who’s been cracking open Tesla Model 3 computers on their…
Category: Xbox Partner Preview March 26, 2026 The Expanse: Osiris Reborn – Learn More About Gameplay, New Companions, the Closed Beta, and the Release Window Gala Dolgikh, Community Manager, Owlcat Games Summary The release of The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is planned for spring 2027, and the game will be available on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate…
Category: Xbox Partner Preview March 26, 2026 How You’ll Go From Prey to Predator in Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor Summary Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish is an upcoming action-RPG about contemporary monster hunters, based on the horror TTRPG from White Wolf’s iconic World of Darkness setting. In a new…
Base game, meet DLC. Super Evil Megacorp has been pretty consistent with its Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate support over the past three years, and today, the company has announced a brand-new addition for those hoping to pick up the base game and all of its DLC in one swoop. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:…
Building a giant. It’s time for the weekly physical Japanese charts, published by Famitsu. And for the third week in a row, Pokémon Pokopia sits proudly at the top. It isn’t exactly close, either — the fantastic block-based cosy adventure sold another 114,515 boxed copies during the week of 16th March to 22nd March 2026….
Personally, I’ve yet to see significant evidence of burn-in on any OLED panel I’ve used, be that desktop, laptop or phone. But I can’t quite shift the notion that it’s a long-term risk. But not enough of a risk, it seems, to stop the market for OLED monitors taking off last year, with sales nearly…
The world of AI boffins really is baffling, sometimes. I’m finally used to the idea that I can chat to a non-sentient, very knowledgeable and occasionally hallucinatory machine, and already we’re talking about AI models interacting with AI models. It’s only in such a world that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang could think to utter the…
Completing the Sanctum of Temperance puzzle in Crimson Desert first requires you to unlock the Witch faction questline in Chapter 3’s main quest. These vendors let you slot Abyss Gears, but they also unlock all of the sanctum puzzles across Hernand, letting you actually engage with them versus it just giving you a message that…
If you’ve never heard of Q-Day, the moment when quantum computers become capable of breaking traditional encryption methods and exposing vast amounts of data, often referred to as the ‘quantum apocalypse‘, then Google’s latest announcement might come as something of a shock. The company is giving itself a 2029 timeline to “secure the quantum era”…
The term “K-shaped economy” is one that economists and finance writers came up with to avoid having to say “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”* It goes like this: as the economy recovers from shocks like the Covid-19 pandemic, the recovery is uneven across sectors and income levels. The already-affluent at the…