The Splinter Cell-ish game where you’re a North Korean soldier guarding a K-Pop star has gone dark: Its YouTube channel is silent and we haven’t seen the director since September

Concerns are mounting for Mudang: Two Hearts—the notionally upcoming Splinter-Cell-esque shooter that ginned up some hype during last year’s Xbox Games Showcase. Developer Evr Studio’s website has disappeared, its YouTube channel hasn’t posted an update in months, and the devs have gone silent on its Discord, leaving only a community moderator to repeatedly inform worried…

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Hacker, dressed as the pink Power Ranger, takes down 3 white supremacist sites live on stage after scraping details with AI: ‘Maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination’

2025 was a rough year—industry layoffs, chaotic tariffs, promising games dropping like flies, and a whole zoo of AI nonsense. And while none of that’s given me much in the way of hope for 2026, I have, at least, had a smile put on my face by today’s news: A hacker, dressed as the pink…

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CyberPower PC unveils ‘elegant’ new case with three dedicated knobs on the side purely to adjust colours and I think I’m a bit smitten

Head-turning cases at CES are hardly unusual, yet this year has already seen a couple of belters. CyberPowerPC has helped kick off this year’s show with a bang, flaunting a majestic mid-tower case that could fit into either an office space or a gamer den with ease. The case in question is the MA-01, which…

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CyberPower PC unveils ‘elegant’ new case with three dedicated knobs on the side purely to adjust colours and I think I’m a bit smitten

Head-turning cases at CES are hardly unusual, yet this year has already seen a couple of belters. CyberPowerPC has helped kick off this year’s show with a bang, flaunting a majestic mid-tower case that could fit into either an office space or a gamer den with ease. The case in question is the MA-01, which…

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Lego’s smart new 2×4 Smart Brick packs a custom ASIC, speaker, and synthesiser created by ‘an expert team from the worlds of video gaming, computing… and more’

Lego “assembled an expert team from the worlds of video gaming, electronic engineering, industrial design, user experience, architecture, computing, sound… and much more” to create a tiny brick with a speaker and custom ASIC smaller than a single Lego stud. The Danish toy giant calls the new Smart Brick its “biggest innovation since the first…

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Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt corrects player who thought he’d griped about Magicka being review bombed, says ‘we got so-so reviews’ in 2011 because of bugs—also, it was ‘released without our knowledge’

Helldivers 2 is—look, we all know this game is stuck in an eternal ‘it’s so over/we’re so back’ patch cycle at this point, and if I say it’s going through a rough period one more time, I’m going to lose it. There are problems and bugs again, Arrowhead’s dedicated to fixing them again, the game…

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Someone has done the unthinkable and essentially turned Red Dead Redemption 2 into Katamari Damacy, but you can’t argue with their reasoning: ‘Because why not’

Red Dead Redemption 2 mods make me feel like I’ve never had an original thought. The second I’ve had the fleeting idea of “it would be cool if someone could add this”, a quick search online has pulled up evidence that multiple people have already thought and actioned the same thing. But, never in my…

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