On an almost daily basis, a terminally tech-brained individual insists that AI will determine the future of human creativity if we simply believe hard enough. Today, that soothsayer is Matt Shumer, an investor who offered a demonstration of his vision for AI’s videogame development potential—and was quickly blasted for it, because the vision sucks to…
Heya PlayStation fans. It’s time to grab your Glider and hop off the Battle Bus as Fortnite OG Chapter 1 Season 2 is now here. This Season brings back some of your favorite OG POIs like Shifty Shafts, Junk Junction, and of course, Tilted Towers. Unleash your inner Fort Knight as Fortnite’s new OG Season…
Good news! I’ve found something for you to do this December. It’s, uh, the same thing I found for you to do in September. Humble has brought back its CRPG megabundle of Owlcat and Beamdog games, offering up over 650 hours of crunchy, stat-based antics across eight banger RPGs. I could, probably, just repaste the…
The whole external graphics card thing is one of those technologies that sounds super appealing, but tends to fall down on practicalities like price and performance. But I gotta admit, this new Kickstarter-funded eGPU dock based on Thunderbolt 5 is incredibly slick and has enough features that you could almost view the eGPU bit as…
Available now. As we enter February, Nintendo has today announced two more title for the Switch Online’s Game Boy library. Today, it’s the 1990/91 platformer Balloon Kid and along with this is the 1991/92 puzzle title Yoshi. Here’s the official Nintendo description of both games and you can check out the trailer above. Read the…
Innocent, dew-eyed babe that I am, I had no idea that the heavily tatted criminal who makes a brief appearance in the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer looked like a real guy. But he does, and now I will live with that knowledge until my last days. He resembles Florida Joker—real name Lawrence Sullivan—a resident…
I use the word “catastrophic” quite a lot—it’s one of those things that just happens when you write about videogames for a living—but there are few games more deserving of the term than MindsEye, one of 2025’s biggest flops. A rough pre-release led into an even worse launch: Player counts on Steam were microscopic, layoffs…
I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but one fateful day in the recent past videogames collectively decided that instead of compiling shaders while we were playing a game, it’d compile them before we started playing the game. Gripes Week (Image credit: Future) We’re spending the week airing all our grievances with gaming and computing…
Xbox Game Studios and Moon Studios released the terrific 2D platformer Ori and the Blind Forest on the Nintendo Switch late last year and many of you are possibly wondering how it fared on the platform. Speaking to USGamer the team says it did well on the sysrtem, possibly paving the way for the sequel…
If you’re looking to build a Mini-ITX PC using one of AMD’s Ryzen 7000- or 9000-series CPUs then there’s quite a range of Mini-ITX motherboards to choose from, bolstered relatively recently by the launch of the B850 chipset that mostly brings lower price points than X870 and X870E. One of these is the ASRock Phantom…