At 12:08 pm Pacific on Friday, Discord announced that it was investigating errors preventing some users to connect to the chat application. After confirming that it had identified the issue, Discord issued an update at 1:16 pm Pacific saying that it was “seeing significant recovery” and was continuing to restore services. In a follow-up at…
CD Projekt wrapped up 2025 by selling off GOG, its famously DRM-free digital storefront, to Michal Kiciński , a co-founder of both CD Projekt and GOG. In the years since it launched, GOG has expanded beyond ‘good old games’ to carry a selection of newer releases, but it remains relatively niche, and has never been…
And how to make your own! Now that Kirby Air Riders is out in the wild (and really very good), players have been creating all manner of unofficial air-riding fun in the game’s surprisingly decent machine customisation mode. Within this mode, you can select any of your unlocked vehicles (so make sure to check out…
If you think FLAC is the audiophile’s friend when it comes to lossless music files, a large language model (LLM) has news for you, as it’s now laying claim to compression as part of AI’s growing realm of influence, too. A study titled “Language Modeling Is Compression” (via ArsTechnica) discusses a finding about an LLM…
I’ve fully entered my raiding era in Final Fantasy 14—I finally cleared my first full savage tier with the latest Arcadion raids, and I’m in the throes of progging my first ultimate (we do Looper, and then we do Looper etc). It’s been a learning process of not only what my job does, but what…
Mech my day. Marvelous has shown off more footage of Titanic Scion, a new entry in the Daemon X Machina series, during today’s Nintendo Direct. Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion sees players taking to battle in their customisable ‘Arsenal’ mech and engaging in “fast-paced combat” as they “freely explore a deadly and dangerous open world…
Google just launched its most impressive (and unsettling) addition to AI Overview yet, a new feature called “Audio Overview” that generates audio summaries of search results, narrated in the style of two life-like, yet not quite human podcast hosts. Audio Overview is currently an opt-in Search Labs feature, meaning you won’t see the option for…
What X Timing. Well, we didn’t have to wait long for that! The acclaimed brick-breaking roguelite mashup BALL x PIT will be getting a Switch 2 version on 28th October 2025. For those of you who couldn’t wait and grabbed it on the Switch 1 — like, uh, a lot of us here at NL…
Last August I came before you to announce, gleefully, that Wreckfest 2 was on the way. Now I say to you that Wreckfest 2 is here. In early access, at least, you can take developer Bugbear’s sequel to the beloved car-smashing destruction derby/battle race game for a spin. The launch includes single and multiplayer racing…
Hello, Binding of Isaac fans! I’ve got some awesome news. The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is just about ready to launch on PS4. In fact, it’s going to be out on May 10 for $10.99. If you haven’t heard, Afterbirth is the extremely extensive add-on for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth delivering 100+ hours of…