New SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated footage

Today’s Dune: Awakening patch notes are as long as a sandworm, with more than 300 changes, bug fixes, and squashed exploits

Dune: Awakening has only been out for about a month, but Funcom’s survival MMO is already the target of some big changes. Today’s patch, version 1.1.10.0, brings a bulleted list of changes so long it’ll make your finger ache just scrolling through it. Which is great! Funcom is clearly listening to player feedback and quickly…

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Arcane is officially canon, and from now on League of Legends lore is going to stop contradicting itself all over the place, say Riot

Riot’s approach to League of Legends lore has always been a bit… flexible. Champion backstories have been repeatedly retconned, and the entire premise of the game has changed a couple of times since launch (remember when it was a literal sport?). More recently, as the Runeterra universe has expanded with books, spin-off games, and the…

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You can now view the Computer History Museum’s collection from the comfort of your own home, and it’s full of retro blasts from the past

I love a good museum, and I also love me some antique hardware. So, I was overjoyed this morning to discover the Computer History Museum has launched a digital portal (via Hackaday), which means you can enjoy its collection from the comfort of your own home. The museum is based near Mountain View, California, which…

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Anime action RPG studio Pahdo Labs shuts down despite accruing $17.5M in funding: ‘We believed making a demo of a familiar but new game would be our best shot’

In November, just three months after it launched into early access, Starlight Re:Volver halted updates. Despite a demo that did well during Steam Next Fest, the anime action RPG underperformed at launch. Pahdo Labs laid off half its team, halted updates, and said it was going “back to the drawing board”, with a follow-up announcement…

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