AMD is rumoured to be in talks with Samsung with a view to producing chips on a new 2 nm silicon production node. A new report from SEDaily claims, “the two companies plan to finalize the contract around January of next year after evaluating whether the process can actually achieve the performance level AMD demands.”…
From the outside looking in, Metal: Hellsinger looks like a success story. Developer The Outsiders released its diabolical rhythm FPS in 2022, and it immediately inspired a string of positive reviews. We gave it a respectable 78%, though other critics went a lot higher. On Steam, its overall user rating is Overwhelmingly Positive. A more…
“around Christmas”. We’re halfway through December, and Fantasy Life i fans may have been wondering “hey, where is that DLC that Level-5 revealed would be coming out this month?”. Well, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has spoken up to put fan concern to bed. Yes, The Sinister Broker Bazario’s Schemes is still coming this December on…
No mice, no dice? I’m not sure how many times I’ve played through the opening hours of Divinity: Original Sin 2, but it’s a lot, and it’s been across a long period of time via various platforms. What I’m saying is that I’ve experienced this all-timer during phases of janky performance, and whilst it’s a…
Industry veteran Mike Fischer runs us through his years at Sega, Namco, & Xbox. The marketing expert and former video game exec Mike Fischer may not exactly be a household name in the world of gaming, but we’d argue he has had a more exciting career than most working in his respective field. Over the…
Category: Announcements December 16, 2025 Xbox December Update: Xbox Mobile App Updates, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio Support, and More Dean Shimabukuro, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Xbox Services Marketing Contents Here’s What’s New: A new store tab on the Xbox mobile app and Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio support for the Xbox Wireless Headset In…
Category: Announcements December 16, 2025 Xbox December Update: Xbox Mobile App Updates, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio Support, and More Dean Shimabukuro, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Xbox Services Marketing Contents Here’s What’s New: A new store tab on the Xbox mobile app and Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio support for the Xbox Wireless Headset In…
In a move likely unsurprising to regular readers of this fine publication, Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is ‘Slop’ (via The Associated Press). In a blog post, the dictionary and reference book company stresses the fact this word was in fact chosen by its “human editors.” Merriam-Webster defines ‘slop’ in the context of 2025 as…
Sad times. We’re sad to report that Google has discontinued support for the Dreamcast’s PlanetWeb 3.0 web browser. While Sega shut down Dreamcast’s servers many years ago, resourceful fans have been getting consoles online for some time now – and even creating private servers for many of the machine’s games in the process. Read the…
Another day, another reminder that the memory market is screwed, yippee. The storage market as well, actually, although the effects of the HBM and DRAM shortage have certainly been more visible than the effects of the NAND shortage so far. Now, new analyst commentary on Goldman Sachs research predicts—drumroll—a pretty bleak outlook on both memory…