The Monster Hunter Wilds update added a big, beautiful bird who gives you free stuff, and players are already worshipping it as a benevolent god

They might eagerly go toe-to-toe with a tyrannosaur just to turn its hide into a hat, but even hunters love free stuff. It’s no surprise, then, that it’s taken only hours for Monster Hunter Wilds players to turn a newly-added bird benefactor into an object of worship. Wilds’ first big update adds the Grand Hub:…

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13 years after it was first teased, the official Mewgenics trailer is here with live-action sexual dysfunction, brutal violence, a divine grudge, and more than 100 truly awful cats

2012 was quite a year. Barack Obama was re-elected, PC Gamer selected Mass Effect 3 as Game of the Year, and Binding of Isaac studio teased its next game, an “adorably horrible” kitty-cat mutation simulator called Mew-Genics. Now it’s 2025: Donald Trump is somehow sort of in charge, BioWare seems pretty much cooked, and Mewgenics—now…

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Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: ‘There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved’

As countless industries reel from the news of major new US trade tariffs, you may not realise that one particularly close to our heart is likely to be among the worst affected: tabletop games. Over the last 15 years, give or take, tabletop RPGs, wargames, and particularly board games have enjoyed a huge boom. Factors…

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Nintendo has delayed Switch 2 pre-orders in the US ‘to assess the potential impact of tariffs’ and it feels like a straight warning of the hardware price rises to come

After months of back-and-forth and delays, Trump’s tariffs have finally hit a major piece of gaming hardware: the Nintendo Switch 2, which is due to launch June 5, 2025. It’s only a delay on the pre-order not release date, but this is the first major delay of its kind in the wake of recent tariffs…

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Keychron’s M5 wireless ergonomic mouse has an 8K polling rate for ‘ultimate control in gaming scenarios’ making it a gaming mouse with a, err, twist

I’ve never been able to get on with vertical mice, although as I understand it they’re much better for your wrists over the course of a long day. Keychron’s M5 ergonomic mouse reckons it’s not just for comfort, however, as it’s got an 8K polling rate for “ultimate control in gaming scenarios.” Keychron makes one…

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