Once upon a time, choosing when to release your videogame was simple. If you were a major publisher, you put your game on shelves between one and three months before Christmas. If you were a midsize or indie developer, by contrast, you released your game anywhere that wasn’t the holiday season. Anywhere except for summer,…
Genki advertised its products well before the official reveal. At the start of the year, as the hype around Switch 2 was beginning to reach fever pitch, accessory manufacturer Genki began to prematurely advertise its products for the then-upcoming console. Perhaps most notably, it showcased 3D-printed mockups of the Switch 2 during CES 2025 before…
Uber wants help running over bugs Ride-sharing service Uber now has an official bug bounty program, one that will pay security researchers up to $10,000 per qualifying vulnerability. Previous to this, Uber’s bug bounty was in beta and a private affair. Launched last year, 200 security researchers unearthed nearly 100 bugs for Uber, all of…
A release date will be announced next month. In case you missed the news, the free-to-play title Warframe is on its way to the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026. Digital Extremes held its first Devstream of the year this week, and the team has now narrowed down the launch window of this version to “later”…
Choices, choices… What’s the most important part of a Pokémon game? The roster of ‘mons? The setting? The story? Well, sort of the first, but tangential — it’s the starter Pokémon. We now know just who the starter trio of Pokémon Legends: Z-A will be. And, similarly to Legends: Arceus, it’s a triple threat of…
Nintendo has decided to give the classic Splatfests in Splatoon 2 another go as the company has announced a new Splatfest for next month. The theme is set to revisit the classic conundrum of which came first: the chicken or the egg? You can either join Team Chicken or Team Egg on 21st August at…
Is the worm finally turning for the poor beleaguered PC gamer, pummelled by painful component pricing? Yesterday, we covered a report claiming that spending cuts at OpenAI had “hit” memory chip prices. Now market analyst Trendforce says that retail DDR5 kit pricing is falling “sharply” in the US, Europe and China. “Recent sharp price corrections…
You can always count on InWin to bring its most head-turning A-game to every Computex. To celebrate its 40th birthday this year, the company presented a commemorative blue PC chassis that certainly has my attention—though I don’t think I quite share InWin’s creative vision. The special edition case in question has been dubbed ChronoMancy, and…
There are currently three Silent Hill games we know about in the works. There’s Bloober Team’s remake of Silent Hill 2, a prequel set in Japan called Silent Hill F, and No Code’s Silent Hill: Townfall. But there’s also a game-adjacent project called Silent Hill: Ascension being made by Genvid Entertainment, an interactive streaming series…
The medieval MMO Gloria Victis shut down in 2023, “mostly due to financial reasons,” developer Black Eye Games said at the time, but also because of burnout. The game had been in full release for less than a year when the studio threw in the towel, which was disappointing, but there was six years of…