MSI is celebrating 10 years of Godlike extravagance with a gold-trimmed AMD motherboard—to go with your golden graphics card and RAM, naturally

Godlike, that’s the name MSI gives to its very best gaming motherboards. It has released a number of models over the years, going back to the MSI X99A Godlike Gaming for Intel’s high-end desktop chips. I even reviewed one back in 2019, the MSI MEG X570 Godlike. That over-the-top tradition is still going strong today,…

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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime studio Qzil.la lands in the hotseat after suspected AI usage—though whether it’s generative or not is still up in the air

The Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime, announced at Gamescom 2025, has found itself landing squarely in the hotseat—as it turns out, the studio brought in by Crunchyroll to produce it, named Qzil.la, might just be using generative AI in their work. Well. Potentially. Here’s the evidence for: As pointed out on Bluesky, Qzil.la‘s website, when…

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Samsung says you’ll soon be able to see Stellar Blade in, err, all its glory on its glasses-free 3D monitor, which I’m sure absolutely no-one will be weird about

I have yet to play Stellar Blade, a game our Mollie says is about “a scantily-clad woman fighting to reclaim the planet”, and one that’s popped up in the headlines many times since its release for its incredible number of adult mods and overall… well, let’s face it, thirstiness. Now Samsung says it’s due to…

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‘To put it bluntly, it was copying others’: Former Dragon Quest producer says he left Square Enix because the developer was too focused on making ‘safe’ games

Former Dragon Quest producer Ryutaro Ichimura says he left Square Enix because the developer and publisher was too focused on making “safe” games. In a recent episode of ReHacQ (translated by Automaton), Ichimura says he had always planned to go independent eventually, but Square Enix’s way of handling things sped that process up significantly. According…

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A free chicken nugget hack helped uncover multiple McDonald’s cybersecurity fails: ‘All I had to do was change login to register in the URL’ to access ‘highly confidential and proprietary information’

McDonald’s has once again hit the headlines with a series of cybersecurity fails, this time discovered by security researcher BobDaHacker. After alerting the company to the possibility of free chicken nuggets by taking advantage of its client-side only reward point validation system, only to be told by a software engineer they were “too busy” to…

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Looks like AI could be the new Metaverse as CEO Mark Zuckerberg will reportedly ‘downsize’ Meta Superintelligence Labs and buy in third-party AI models

After blowing tens of billions of dollars to apparently no avail on the Metaverse, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been funnelling yet more billions into AI. But according to a new report in the New York Times, Meta is going to tighten the screw on the money tap. Meta’s AI division will be “downsized.” First…

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World of Warcraft: Midnight will introduce a ‘Prey’ system, and by jove, I think Blizzard might be close to fixing the MMO’s open-world difficulty problem

World of Warcraft: Midnight’s coming—the hour, nearly upon us—and while player housing is the marquee feature, I’m actually super hyped about another system Blizzard’s cooking up, as well, dubbed “Prey”, revealed this year at Gamescom 2025. We’ve all been there. You need to do your dailies. You log on. You start flying around, and a…

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