After more than 30 years of running Activision, from 1991 to 2023, you might think that Bobby Kotick knows a thing or two about what it takes to run a successful videogame company. He’s a controversial figure, but Kotick also bought a failing company for $500,000 and turned it into a publisher that Microsoft spent…
Airflow and aesthetics don’t often mix in the world of PC cases. Thermaltake, however, has done a pretty good job of it here. The Thermaltake View 390 Air swaps a top panel for tempered glass to excellent effect, leaving plenty of options for direct airflow over your components. I received the View 390 Air in…
Over a decade ago, when Minecraft studio Mojang was still a plucky independent outfit enjoying the fruits of developing one of the most successful games of all time, it unsurprisingly had a bunch of suitors. And one of them was Bobby Kotick. Chatting on the Rushmore podcast, host Ari Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor, asked the…
School’s out for the apocalypse. Demonschool is a tactical RPG that follows a demon hunter named Faye and her collected companions as members of the Black Magic Club at a poorly-ranked university on a peculiar island by the same name. The school element of Demonschool should be taken with a big grain of salt, as…
There are some corners that cannot be unturned, some scientific experiments that cannot be un-experimented, some contraptions that cannot be unseen. There are those too, of course, that are glorious. And then there are those, like this one from Speedrunner and X, TikTok, and Twitch user veegeea, that sit in the curious valley between the…
Our hybrid side-scroller and gallery-shooter Neon Inferno launches on PS5 & PS4 this Thursday, November 20. Rendered in beautiful pixel art and backed by an evocative soundtrack, Neon Inferno is a stylish, modern 2D action experience with cyberpunk flair. As you play either as Angelo Morano or Mariana Vitti, you’ll battle through the streets, blasting,…
Need to Know What is it? A hellish tactics RPG that’s a little Buffy, a little Shin Megami Tensei.Release date [November 19, 2025]Expect to pay $25/£20Developer Necrosoft GamesPublisher Ysbryd GamesReviewed on Nvidia GeForce RTX3070, AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, 32GB RAMSteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site Inside me there are two wolves—Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Persona—so…
Worth its wait in Gold(enEye 007). It’s been quite the wait for Analogue’s FPGA-based N64 clone. Announced all the way back in 2023, the Analogue 3D has been delayed multiple times, leading some sceptics to claim it was slowly but surely entering the realm of vapourware. Read the full article on timeextension.com Worth its wait…
Overwatch 2 has finally confirmed who Hero 45 is going to be, and the statue in Stadium’s Colosseo map was right: the next hero will be a female gladiator called Vendetta who goes by the name of La Lupa, The Wolf. Revealed in the Vendetta hero trailer, La Lupa shows off a couple of cool…
Desmond Miles? Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Assassin’s Creed‘s original protagonist stood at the centre of the series’ story from the 2007 original to Assassin’s Creed 3. I remember him being pretty roundly mocked at the time, and wasn’t much of a fan myself. This was partly because players…