Spending time with Samus. It’s the weekend! That means it’s time to sit back, relax, and enjoy some games. Before we do so, however, let’s take a look back at what’s been going on this week. One of the biggest stories was actually in relation to the massive leak suffered by Xbox in which Phil…
Oracle is looking beyond Nvidia for the chips it needs to power its AI datacenters. In what could be described as a warning shot to Jensen Huang’s business, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison said: “We are now committed to a policy of chip neutrality where we work closely with all our CPU and GPU suppliers.” In…
Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and a videogame failing to meet Square Enix’s sales targets. Last year saw Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 falling short of whatever number the publisher cooked up in suited-up boardrooms, and before that it said Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy undershot expectations, and called…
Since the launch of the original PlayStation console on December 3, 1994, PlayStation has redefined the gaming experience year after year, bringing three generations of lasting memories for players. To celebrate this milestone with our community, and look back at another momentous year for gaming, we’re launching PlayStation 2024 Wrap-Up today – featuring a retro…
We human beings are a miraculous accident; Forces of improbability, on an unimaginable scale, created the correct conditions for our life on planet Earth. We’ve survived ice ages, plagues, and the threat of nuclear annihilation to get here. All we’ve got is each other. I tell you this because I need you to understand: Our…
If you’ve been wandering around the Serkis Estate in Crimson Desert, then you’ve no doubt stumbled across the Halssius Conflux statue puzzle in the southeast. It’s a mysterious grove full of statues hiding some kind of treasure, and you’re not given much in the way of a clue as to what to do, except for…
Helldiver—bad news, Super Earth is officially under attack. As theorised in a leak last week, the big weapon customisation update wasn’t the last we’d see out of Shams Jorjani and his team of professional trouser-browners. An official title update for Helldivers 2, Heart of Democracy, is now here. With it come fully-urban city maps. These…
It’s been a while since Subnautica 2 first pinged the radar back in 2022, but we know there’s a return voyage from developer Unknown Worlds in the works, and it’s out sometime this year. We’ve seen a slow and steady trickle of details on the next dive—teasers from showcases, Discord updates, and even screenshots hidden…
After spending my life with a vague fear of fightsticks and button combos, I now have more reason than ever to finally learn how to play a fighting game: so I can someday be even a tenth as cool as Hisako Sakai, the 92-year-old Japanese woman who won the title of Tekken 8 champion during…
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford is making friends and influencing people on social media, which is to say that he’s repeatedly insisting the studio does not use generative AI in a professional capacity (and occasionally calling people names) after a gen AI image he posted over the weekend drew a pretty negative reaction from followers. The…