The Covid pandemic was a stark reminder as to just how fragile the global supply chain is, and now we have a new one to worry over. Two weeks after China applied an export restriction to the US on any metals critical to the semiconductor industry, prices for the likes of gallium have shot up…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
No, not THOSE ones. For decades now, Nintendo has fostered a family-friendly image that has made the brand a firm favourite with gamers both young and young at heart. It would be hard to argue that Switch isn’t the family console to own, given its colourful library of top-tier software and the convenient way the…
Last week, we asked you to equip Control’s new Photo Mode and take daring and surreal shares using #PS4share and #PSBlog. From heroic poses to mind-bending environments, here are this week’s highlights: Jesse stares down the Ashtray Maze in this share by Baby_Boyyyyy. Ceythian found some unique lighting in their mesmerizing share. Chy_Visual_Arts caught some…
Hey, Mikael from Housemarque here. A few months after the release of Resogun we bumped into Eugene Jarvis at DICE Summit 2014, where he received a Pioneer award for his contribution to the gaming industry. Eugene, creator of arcade cult classics such as Defender, Robotron, and Smash TV, has always been one of our major…
I’m not even a Borderlands guy and I have to admit this latest Borderlands 4 trailer looks fun. Randy and Randy (that’s Varnell and Pitchford, respectively) appeared at Sony’s State of Play stream to show off more of Borderlands 4’s acrobatic gun antics. But the biggest news is a release date: Borderlands 4 is out…
Being stingy with storage Microsoft’s already getting into the holiday spirit, I just wish it picked a different character to portray than Ebenezer Scrooge. I’m talking about the version that comes off as a miserable tightwad rather than the merry character that emerges after a visit with various ghosts. Prompting the comparison are changes Microsoft’s…
There are all sorts of Lies of P weapons to put in the hands of Neowiz’s Pinocchio, as you dismember deadly puppets on the mean streets of Krat. Whether it’s grinding their gears to dust with a giant wrench, or slashing away at them with a flaming dagger—there are options for every kind of playstyle….
Mario’s Wii adventure is back. Modders are always evolving games in new ways and the latest effort is touted as the “biggest” Super Mario Odyssey mod yet. If you haven’t already seen it, it’s called Super Mario Odyssey – A Galaxy Story and is a “mod by Slycer and many more”. It brings the universe…
According to a new report from game industry research firm Newzoo, interest in the battle royale genre is on a downward slope. That might seem like a counterintuitive observation when Fortnite, Warzone, PUBG, and Apex Legends are still huge games, but it probably has more to do with their competitors calling it quits. According to…