Framework cancels custom low profile keyboard module for its laptops: ‘We weren’t able to bring costs to a place where the product economics worked’

It’s easier than ever to make a gaming desktop feel all your own. The same is arguably much less true of gaming laptops, though Framework is one company hoping to expand the horizons of gaming-on-the-go through modular upgrades. However, sometimes even Framework has to call it quits when a design idea simply does not come…

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Sony reportedly dropped Hideo Kojima’s next game because it kept missing deadlines, was over budget, and would eventually come to other platforms

Earlier this week, it broke that Sony had dropped Physint, a videogame being developed by Hideo Kojima. Which is weird, given that Kojima’s a bit of an auteur—his games are weird and ambitious in scope, but they’re often viewed fondly, and the man made Metal Gear Solid, for crying out loud. Physint was meant to…

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‘Defying common wisdom’, people have been buying more high-end graphics cards despite rising prices, with 12.5 million shipped last quarter alone

If you’ve been keeping up with the headlines, then you know gaming hasn’t been Nvidia’s main priority for some time now. Given that its data centre segment made $89 billion in Q2 of 2026—an eye-watering 93% of the company’s total revenue that quarter—it’s not super surprising that Nvidia is all-in on AI. What may be…

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Ex-Blizzard employee has ‘vibe’ coded a new game engine with backing from AMD: ‘We’re developing 93x faster than we ever did before with Unreal’

An ex-Blizzard employee claims to have “vibe” coded an engine for their new game. The game is Em-8er and is “entirely ‘vibe’ coded” in the Kun-Zhi Engine. “I spent 6 months using AI to replace Unreal Engine from under our game Em-8ER. Now we’re developing 93x faster than we ever did before with Unreal. Because…

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Zach Cregger had to dial down the jokes in his upcoming Resident Evil film because test screeners ‘thought it was too funny’

Zach Cregger has a brilliant track record of directing horror films that are both horrifying and hilarious (at times). Weapons and Barbarian had moments of levity which made each respective film so much more bearable to sit through. Cregger is trying to do the same with his upcoming survival horror film, Resident Evil, the only…

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director defends its physical disk still needing a download: ‘We didn’t want to make any compromises for the game’

The games industry’s been in an (understandable) fuss lately about the prophesied death of physical media from Sony, which has announced it’ll be going discless for the foreseeable future. Players are really angry because it’s not exactly great if the one place you can buy your games also controls the entirety of the pricing—as Sony…

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