InKonbini, the first-person Japanese convenience store sim, changed my perspective on customer service, and you can join me stacking shelves in the free demo

The convenience store—konbini—is at the centre of daily life in Japan; it’s not just a place you just leg it down the road to in an emergency when you’ve run out of milk. They have everything you could possibly need to get through the day, from some of the best snacks you never knew you…

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AMD confirms next-gen Zen 6 CPUs to launch in 2026 and ‘Medusa’ APUs to launch in 2027

AMD’s Ryzen CPUs currently dominate the market for gaming—seriously, all our current recommendations, whatever your budget, are AMD chips. And we’ve long suspected the company’s next generation of processors will arrive in 2026, but we’ve now had confirmation of this thanks to a CPU core roadmap that AMD has just released for its Financial Analyst…

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Monster Hunter Wilds’ first Elder Dragon is finally landing in December along with some much-needed optimisation focused on reducing the game’s ridiculous load on our poor CPUs

Capcom has revealed when we’ll finally be able to take on our first Elder Dragon in Monster Hunter Wilds during this week’s State of Play Japan, though I’m more interested in the mysterious performance improvements the developer is promising will arrive along with it. Gogmazios was teased back during September’s Tokyo Game Show, in what’s…

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Sony’s new ‘PlayStation’ gaming monitor is a relatively unexciting 27-inch 1440p model but it does have a DualSense charging hook

Sony has announced a new “PlayStation” branded gaming monitor, due out in 2026. It’s a 27-inch model running at 1440p and features a swing-down charging hook for DualSense Playstation controllers. Specs wise, the information Sony has released places the new panel towards the lower end of the mid-tier in a PC gaming monitor context with…

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My new, new favorite deep Windows lore: in 2004 Microsoft got caught shipping Windows XP with audio files made using cracked software

Last week I shared some delightful trivia about Windows’ Bluetooth drivers, which really don’t seem like they should be compatible with the words “delightful trivia.” But they are! Microsoft had to make a carveout in its Bluetooth driver code for a specific mouse—its own Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000, released in 2006—because someone stuck a…

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FromSoft has finally plundered its work from 2012 to put the best Dark Souls boss in Elden Ring Nightreign

We’ve been patiently waiting for FromSoftware to say a single word about its plans for Elden Ring Nightreign’s DLC, which was meant to include new bosses as well as playable characters. Now we’ve seen it: in a surprise trailer during Sony’s Japan-focused State of Play livestream on Tuesday, the studio debuted The Forsaken Hollows, its…

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