The first episode of Fallout season 2 solves the 15-year-old New Vegas mystery of the missing  Vault 24

In an amazing live mash-up, composer Austin Wintory turned Ben Starr’s Clair Obscur monologue into a Balatro gag

Composer Austin Wintory returned to the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to conduct his third annual concert of game music, this one paying homage to some of his favorite pieces of music from across the medium’s history while also nodding to 2025’s biggest hits. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, unsurprisingly, had several songs…

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Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker who was given an indefinite sentence in 2023 because he wouldn’t stop hacking is now out of hospital and awaiting retrial

A man who was found liable for multiple high-profile hacks including a major leak of Grand Theft Auto 6 footage in 2022 has reportedly been released from the secure hospital where he’d been held since 2023, and is now in prison awaiting a retrial. Arion Kurtaj, who was 18 at the time, was found by…

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Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they ‘may allow unintended access to system memory’

Security warnings and updates for PCs, their components, and the software they run are everyday occurrences. So much so that we never really give them much attention: We just download the patch and carry on as normal. However, Asus has warned that many of its Intel motherboards are vulnerable and can allow access to system…

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Seriously people, it’s fine the Steam Machine has just 8 GB of VRAM, but Valve ought to chill out on the ‘play every game at 4K60’ chat

Valve’s Steam Machine has been received generally quite well so far. Judging by online commentary, there’s plenty of excitement for it, although pretty much everything of course rests on its pricing. But apart from the over-abundance of still-somehow-funny ‘GabeCube’ comments, what I’ve seen perhaps the most is people questioning why the Steam Machine has just…

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If the rumour that AMD’s RDNA 4 GPU is 45% faster in ray tracing than a 7900 XTX and on par with an RTX 4080 Super in raster is true I’m buying six of ’em

If there’s one area where AMD’s graphics cards need to improve, it’s ray tracing. Now the latest rumour suggests a big boost in ray tracing performance is exactly what AMD’s next gen RDNA 4 GPUs are going to get. More specifically, it’s claimed by well-established Chiphell forum user zhangzhonghao (via Sweclockers) that the upcoming Radeon…

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