Marvel Cosmic Invasion review

Need to Know What is it? An old-fashioned side-scrolling beat ’em up starring a cast of iconic Marvel superheroes.Release date December 1, 2025Expect to pay $30 / £25Developer Tribute Games IncPublisher Dotemu, Gamirror GamesReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAMSteam Deck PlayableLink Official site That this beat ’em up has…

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Avowed says sorry gang, no fall update this year, but to make up for it the devs are rolling together a bunch of features into a ball and putting them out in February

In what I am increasingly coming to regard as an accident of chronomancy, Avowed—Obsidian’s first-person fantasy RPG in the Pillars of Eternity universe—somehow came out last February. Since then, it’s been gradually working its way through its post-release roadmap. There’s been the update that overhauled fighters and rangers, the one that gave you six more…

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‘I expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit’: Sam Altman calls for a ‘code red’ alert at OpenAI as Google’s Gemini 3 gives it a scare

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called for a “code red” effort to improve ChatGPT in the face of stiff competition, according to an internal memo viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Google’s competing Gemini AI has made progress in great leaps and bounds since the summer—and Altman looks to have called for an all hands…

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Cloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year’s count and at points there’s been about one attempt every second

If you thought the AI industry deals with big numbers—millions of tokens, giga-zigga-exa-flexa-FLOPs (a very real metric, I tell you)—wait until you hear about the internet. That thing has been taking an absolute beating over the last year. We’ve seen very visible effects of this with various memorable outages, but now we’ve also got some…

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Hypixel Studios releases the PC system requirements for its Minecraft-lookalike Hytale, and it’s the most comprehensive breakdown I’ve seen in a long time

The vast majority of new games released for the humble PC are published with a list of what hardware is required to run it and another list of ‘recommended’ specs. However, the breadth and depth of this information vary enormously, but not so in the case of the forthcoming voxel-based sandbox Hytale. Its system requirements…

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Google’s toying with nonsense AI-made headlines on articles like ours in the Discover feed, so please don’t blame me for clickbait like ‘BG3 players exploit children’

Pop quiz, hotshot: what was the headline on this article when you clicked on it? Was it classic PC Gamer style—witty, insightful, with the rare power of capturing the essence of a story with neither artifice nor evasion, and unintentionally but unmistakably implying the incredible mental powers and physical beauty of the writer? Or did…

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