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Jonathan Blow—that fellow who made Braid and The Witness—revealed his new game at last year’s Game Awards. Order of the Sinking Star, in the making for nine years, is pitched as a “game design supercollider” that mashes together four separate puzzle games into an enormous puzzle chimaera, throbbing with 500 hours of hot solving content….

I’m not going to lie to you, SSD pricing is pretty dire right now due to the memory apocalypse. As such, the end of 2025 was all doom and gloom about how we may not see sensibly priced storage for who knows how long—even Micron killed off its own Crucial brand, which had provided some…

CES 2026 is here, and with it comes dozens of devices with AI that you didn’t think would ever get AI. In an effort I can only assume is to differentiate itself from its competition, electronics manufacturer LG says its AI is actually ‘affectionate intelligence’. If you’re wondering what that means or how LG aim…

With the memory crisis being, well, a crisis, and the potential of the RTX 3060 making a comeback, the temporary solution may be further optimising older generation graphics cards. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks that’s “a good idea”. In a Q&A attended by Tom’s Hardware, Huang was asked if spinning up production on older GPUs on…

AI! It’s changing the world, you know. Pretty soon, there’ll be no poverty, no hunger, no fear, and no doubt. The chiliasts were right: just over the horizon is a sweet eternity, brought about—somehow—by feeding a vast quantity of stolen art into a spellcheck machine and generating oceans of non-consensual deepfake pornography. I’m sceptical. So…

Regardless of how players feel about the technology, AI is increasingly encroaching on both the behind-the-scenes game development and the final product that lands in players’ hands. Just recently, Sony patented an AI-powered ‘ghost’ to guide you through games, Razer has made a holographic AI assistant in a test tube, golden child Larian is using…

Human beings are incredible at recognising patterns—which is an evolutionary reflex. See, we’re hunter-gatherers, so being able to recognise the pattern of an edible plant against the pattern of an inedible one could mean the difference between life and death. Well, at least, it used to. Now we sit around and play videogames. But those…

CES 2026 (Image credit: Future) Catch up with CES 2026: We’re on the ground in sunny Las Vegas covering all the latest announcements from some of the biggest names in tech, including Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Asus, Razer, MSI and more. Ask anyone here in the PC gamer hardware den: I know how to rattle on…

Big tech loves the cyberpunk idea of brain-computer interfaces (or BCI), though I’m personally not super enthused about letting big tech anywhere near my grey matter. EEG-like devices that can scan brain waves are becoming more accessible to consumers though, resulting in a novel control scheme for Elden Ring: Nightreign if not much else. But…