Doctor, heal thyself. Or, in this case, malware, self-destruct. A joint press release from the US Justice Department and the FBI has announced a multi-month law enforcement operation involving multiple international partners that has succeeded in removing malware from over 4,000 US computers—by telling it to delete itself. The malware in question is known as…
Nintendo will be just fine. In the leak-filled weeks prior to the Switch 2 reveal, we saw increasing incredulity from die-hard Nintendo fans on social media. We won’t link specific examples, but you don’t have to scroll far before seeing takes along these lines: All these leaks are ruining the reveal! Why isn’t Nintendo getting…
Say hello to the Koei PasoGo. Back in 1996, Koei—a company famous for its historical strategy games—released the PasoGo in Japan. Boasting a massive monochrome display and giving you 20 hours of play from six AA batteries, the PasoGo—a combination of “Pasocon” (personal computer) and the strategy board game Go—was much bigger than the Game…
Original story: Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s game director, Corinne Busche, is said to be leaving BioWare after almost two decades at the company, according to multiple sources. The first confirmation comes from journalist Jeff Grubb, who wrote in a post to X that “Corrine Busche, director of Dragon Age, really is leaving BioWare. But I…
Horror games don’t have to be action-packed thrillers to be fun. Some of my favourites (or least favourite, depending on how you look at it) have been quiet journeys full of tension and anticipation with minimal fights—games like Amnesia: The Bunker or Little Nightmares. But there is a line between a psychological horror game and…
Up to now, anyone wanting to build a new gaming PC with an Intel Core Ultra 200S processor has been forced to choose a Z890 motherboard, and the cheapest of those is only just under $300. Intel’s new B860 motherboard chipset, aimed at the mainstream market, is supposed to address this by offering fewer features…
The Super Mario Bros. speedrunner Niftski has achieved a new world record for the classic Nintendo title on a PC emulator, setting a time of 4:54.565 in the “any%” category. You may well be wondering why I’m bothering to include the hundredths of a second: So many talented players attempt to do something with Super…
The Crucial X9 surprised me a little. I’ve spent so much time with 20 Gbps external drives that I forgot the simple unassuming pleasure of a solid 10 Gbps external SSD such as the Crucial X9. Which is a shame, really, because the best USB ports on most motherboards and laptops tend to offer speeds…
Well, that was a blast. Several of our illustrious hardware team were on the ground at CES 2025 in Las Vegas this year, and now the jet lag has abated and the dust has settled it’s time to round up all of the winners of our Best of CES 2025 awards for your perusal. CES…
Coming Q1 2025. The homebrew developer Reboot Games has revealed via a trailer that it will be bringing out a physical version of the unreleased Atari Jaguar shooter Livewire, under the title “Livewire: Archival Project”. Livewire is a top-down shooter that was in development at the UK studio Black Scorpion Software around 1996-1997 and was…