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You’ll remember, of course, the drift events in classic Need for Speed. During that noughties era when the games were soundtracked by crunk songs, told quasi-Fast and Furious tales, and reached Christmas number one in the charts with the certainty of an X Factor winner, NFS introduced drifting as a sort of side-show. There was…

Top Deal: Back in the old days, building a PC was a bloody affair. Literally. Those old beige cases had sharp corners that would jump out at you like a cougar high on catnip. These days? Health insurance is no longer required, and long gone are the boring designs of yesteryear replaced by all kinds…

Time changes many things, not least expectations and what is and isn’t acceptable. This is especially true of Nintendo’s original Switch handheld console, which teardown specialists iFixit gave an 80% repairability score in 2017, but then halved the rating last week to reflect the standards of 2025. Now it’s torn open the new Switch 2,…

So far we’ve been thoroughly spoiled in Two Point Museum, treated with an abundance of free updates—from staff memorials to the ever-expanding Digiverse expedition map—and its first major paid DLC Fantasy Finds. Having recently completed Fantasy Finds, I was impressed at the sheer breadth of content and the incorporation of light RPG mechanics that let…

Fuji TV’s series Where Did That Money Go? interviews people who had it all and lost it, like game designer Yoshiki Okamoto (Sponichi Annex via Automaton). During his years at Capcom he was producer on Final Fight and Street Fighter 2, as well as racking up credits on Darkstalkers and Resident Evil games, among others….

SWAT sim Ready or Not’s recent Steam reviews cratered to Mostly Negative recently, in the wake of changes to the game’s content to meet console standards that were—if not widely, then vocally—perceived to be censorship by a number of fans. What kind of changes? Well, mostly stuff regarding nudity and violence: among other things, some…

Fill her up! Some lucky motorists in Toledo, Ohio were able to purchase gas for less than 20 cents per gallon over the weekend due to a computer glitch. Most of the motorists who benefited paid around 17 cents to 19 cents per gallon of gas, though in some instances, the price dropped all the…

TikTok is currently testing a new feature that will let users request to “see less” AI generated content in their feeds, in an expansion to its AI control features which have thus far identified 1.3 billion AI generated videos posted to the platform. The social media giant announced the new tools at its annual European…

The Borderlands movie was bad in a way videogame movies rarely are these days. In an era when Hollywood hears the phrase “existing fandom” and their eyes roll around and come up dollar signs, the idea of an adaptation casually disrespecting the original seems almost nostalgic. But that’s exactly what the 2024 Borderlands movie did….