Square Enix Wants To Further Promote Its Multi-Platform Strategy, Especially On Switch 2

Truly the dumbest timeline: Mexican president formally requests Google Maps does not re-name the Gulf of Mexico, jokes about renaming North America ‘América Mexicana’

It is one of life’s truisms that, whenever you see something and think “this couldn’t possibly get any dumber”, it will then proceed to astound and amaze you with just how god damn dumb it can get. Today’s exhibit A is US President Donald Trump’s idea that the Gulf of Mexico, an enormous body of…

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AMD just revealed that its current RDNA 4 GPUs have a clever ‘modular’ architecture—here’s hoping it signals a broader range of next-gen graphics cards

AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs, including the Radeon RX 9070 XT, have been out since February. But only now has AMD revealed that they are based on a clever modular architecture. AMD held a deep dive into its RDNA 4 graphics tech at the Hot Chips 2025 conference yesterday. And perhaps the most intriguing new disclosure…

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Quake modders banded together to release the third Brutalist Map Jam, with two campaigns’ worth of FPS goodness in ‘a megalithic community project more than a year in the making’

At some point, fan retoolings of classic games are just whole new games in their own right. In 1996, Quake released with 32 levels and 6 deathmatch maps. Today, Quake Brutalist Jam 3 released with a ludicrous 77 maps tributing both id’s classic shooter and brutalism, an architectural style defined by moody harshness and concrete….

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Nvidia’s GTC keynote inevitably went all in on AI but I’m definitely here for the Isaac GR00T robots

Yesterday, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang addressed the crowd at the company’s global artificial intelligence conference. Naturally, the keynote had a strong focus on Nvidia’s future delving into AI technologies, including the current Blackwell processing architecture and beyond. Huang even touched on things like the use of AI in robotics, but with Nvidia stock prices continuing…

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PC finally has its own Breath of the Wild killer, and it’s indistinguishable from the Nintendo game except that you are a boy who is also a tire

Beneath my television sits a small, underpowered rectangle. It’s called the ‘Nintendo Switch’ and I purchased it—in its advanced, glowing OLED form—to play Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. That is its sole purpose—filling that single hole in my PC’s gaming library (yes, yes, I know you can black-magic your way to…

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