SteelSeries has updated its longstanding Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2 rodent for 2026 as it seeks to bring a veteran of the ultralight rodent world up to date. The changes are mostly inside, with a shiny new sensor, higher wireless polling and major improvements to battery life. The £100/$100 price tag is enticing, although we’ve…
What came before the iPad baby? Well, with both parents working various IT systems jobs throughout my youth, in my case I was always destined to become a desktop gremlin. Hastening that descent were a number of games, but the accessibility of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet was the one that probably annoyed…
“Video games are arguably the greatest teaching tool ever invented”. Jack Thompson, an activist with a long history of fighting against sex and violence in video games, has said that interactive entertainment is “arguably the greatest teaching tool ever invented.” Speaking on Simon Parkin’s My Perfect Console podcast, the 72-year-old former attorney – who famously…
It’s strange to think that first-person shooters—and arguably the PC’s arrival as a major gaming platform—emerged from an attempt to create the PC’s equivalent of Super Mario Bros 3. John Carmack’s reproduction of the smooth scrolling effect seen in Nintendo’s platformer ultimately led to the founding of id Software and the creation of Commander Keen….
All eyes may currently be fixed upon Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Creative Assembly’s ferociously ambitious foray into the 40k universe. But it’s worth remembering that the more traditional side of Total War is looking pretty exciting too, as CA is returning to one of Total War’s best settings in Medieval 3. Medieval 3 is much…
Europe’s fastest supercomputer is now operational, and boy howdy does it have an impressive specs sheet. The JUPITER project (which stands for Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research, apparently) had its official ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this week at the Forschungszentrum Jülich campus in Germany, attended by the great and the good of…
The Steam Machine might have turned out to be a disappointment (mostly down to its price), but the Steam Controller remains a very useful thing. Should you be the tinkering sort, the OpenPuck project doubles down on the Steam Controller’s Swiss Army Knife-like tendencies, allowing it to emulate Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation controllers. The…
Katsuhiro Harada may have departed Bandai Namco at the end of 2025—it seems, unfortunately, in favour of opening up a Saudi-funded studio of his own—but he can’t shake his 30-year history with Tekken that easily. During a visit to Atlanta for an appearance at Momocon, Harada made sure to stop by and document his visit…
Welcome to my portable world, insect. Nightdive Studios is bringing its awesome System Shock remake to the Switch and Switch 2, and we can now exclusively reveal that it’ll be available to play from 18th December 2025. Originally released in 2023, System Shock is a comprehensive yet faithful remake of the 1994 FPS from Looking…
Pick any third-party graphics card manufacturer and visit its website. If you browse through all the models it produces, you’ll notice something very quickly: they’re all very similar to each other. Some of the reasons behind this are all to do with saving manufacturing costs, but according to one company’s PR representative, it turns out…