Classic point & click adventure Darkestville Castle comes to PS4 tomorrow

UK gov fobs off a 10,000-strong request to stop payment processors nuking NSFW Steam games, says it’s a matter for the free market, baby

Furore erupted a couple of months ago when Valve confirmed that payment processors—citing a Mastercard rule—had pressured it to stop selling a number of adult games. Angry Steam users, and people who weren’t keen on payment processors deciding what adults are allowed to buy more generally, began hammering customer service lines with complaints and enlisting…

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A simple check with a magnet was the final clue that made Thermal Grizzly realise it had been hit by a 40,000 euro metal scam

Last month, we reported on how the rapidly increasing cost of copper was potentially going to impact the PC industry, as explained by Thermal Grizzly’s Roman ‘Der8auer’ Hartung. Now he’s back again on the subject of copper, but this time highlighting a more alarming and depressing side of the current market: industrial-scale material fraud. Hartung…

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The Jurassic World Evolution 3 trailer disappointingly doesn’t show anyone being bitten in half by a T-Rex, but it does have Jeff Goldblum’s dulcet tones and a release date

Life finds a way, and so does Frontier Developments: at Summer Game Fest today, strategy sim Jurassic World Evolution 3 was unveiled with a trailer you can see above. And it wasn’t just a dino-tease: an release date was announced, too. Jurassic World Evolution 3 is coming on October 21, 2025. Once again you can…

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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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