The Minish Night Cap. In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have pages on…
Like a cut episode of Black Mirror, a ransomware has been spotted that prompts AI to cause havoc in machines. Naturally, it’s called PromptLock, and it reportedly uses OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b, which means it doesn’t need a constant connection to the internet to operate. According to Eset Research (via Tom’s Hardware), this new ransomware uses “the…
Developer and tech enthusiast Thomasnet_mc has informed Nintendo fans on Twitter that the company is in the process of updating its NEX multiplayer server system, which the company has been using for the past eighteen years. The NEX system is going to be switched over to the newer NPLN system. He notes that it is…
The official Nintendo site has revealed that the Neo Geo Pocket Color game, The Last Blade: Beyond the Destiny, is now available for consumers to purchase on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The game originally launched on the Neo Geo Pocket Color in March 2000. It is available to purchase now for $7.99. Here’s the details…
A new Nintendo Switch trailer has been unveiled to celebrate the recent launch of Alien: Isolation, which is available now on the Nintendo eShop. The Switch version of the game comes with all seven DLCs from the original, including Last Survivor, a recreation of Ellen Ripley’s final mission on board the Nostromo. To see some…
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story, “The Tale of Orpheo’s Curse.” For kids who grew up in the 1990s, “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” was practically a right of passage. Along with R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books (the television series wouldn’t begin until 1996) and Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories…
Category: Playtests July 9, 2026 Wreck Runners – Join the XBOX Insider Playtest! Tim, Xbox Program Manager The Bermuda Triangle is calling, and we need more Runners. We’re excited to welcome XBOX Insiders to the first Wreck Runners XBOX Insider Playtest. Grab up to three friends, climb aboard the ORCA, and head into a world…
Space Invaders! Pritto Prisoner! Bundles!? The latest Nintendo Download update for North America arrived yesterday, and today we’re combining it with the Christmas Day download we missed last week. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Switch 2 eShop –…
Last weekend, I was pleasantly surprised by how well the Battlefield 6 open beta was holding up. The series has repeatedly fallen into the trap of launching in an unoptimised state, only getting tidied up months or even a year later. Battlefield 6 has, seemingly, bucked this trend, as I was getting silky smooth FPS…
“The classic masterpiece Xevious reborn in polygons!”. Over 30 years after its original release in the arcades, Hamster is bringing Xevious 3D/G, Namco’s divisive 3D revival of its 1983 shoot ’em up classic Xevious, to modern consoles this week, as part of Arcade Archives 2. Developed for Namco’s System 11 arcade board, Xevious 3D/G featured…