A new social media ban takes effect in Australia from today, preventing—or in theory, preventing—teenagers and children under 16 years of age from holding accounts on 10 popular platforms. These include Twitch and TikTok, who will now have to take “reasonable steps” to keep Australian under-16s off their platforms. If they don’t, they could face…
Stalker 2 captured the Sprit of the PC this year—its vibrancy, inventiveness (and, yes, occasional jank). For more awards, visit our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Joshua Wolens, News Writer: This might sound odd, but what I most love about Stalker 2 is how Stalker it is: how far it goes—even in dolled-up 2024…
Microsoft’s Copilot feature is rolling out to users worldwide. You’d expect something like giving an AI assistant to a couple of hundred million users to have a glitch or two, and that’s what’s happening if you’re an AMD user with customized Adrenalin software settings. Over at the Windows 11 22H2 Moment 4 update thread on…
No longer an age away. Koei Tecmo has revealed its line-up for this year’s Tokyo Game Show, which takes place between 25th – 28th September 2025. And its upcoming collaboration with Nintendo, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, will be there — and it’ll be playable. Sharing its line-up on a newly-opened website (via Gematsu), the…
PC gaming is, unfortunately, a relatively expensive hobby. But if there’s one component these days that draws the most ire in regards to cost, it’s the GPU, particularly if you’re looking to buy a high-end card. While many of us lust after the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 graphics cards of our dreams, the serious…
Hot off the news that the long-running plan to merge with Kioxia has ground to a halt yet again, Western Digital’s board of directors has approved a plan to split the company up. Its NAND flash and hard drive divisions will become entirely independent public companies, pending final board approval and other regulations. Western Digital,…
Crimson Desert is one of those games that keeps falling out of the videogame filing cabinet in my brain, and then every so often I’ll remember it exists and say to myself “Hmm, I wonder what’s going on with that?” Turns out the answer to that right now is: another delay. Unfortunate. As reported by…
Slope’s Game Room delivers the goods. They might not be household names today, but once upon a time, the Choplifter and Paperboy brands attracted a lot of attention in the world of gaming. Dan Gorlin’s 1982 title Choplifter was one of the first scrolling shooters to pull together a movie-like story and solid objectives for…
Directed by Studio Alex’s Kazunari Tomi. Nihon Falcom’s 1990 dungeon crawler Dinosaur is the next game to join the EGGCONSOLE series on Nintendo Switch, we can reveal (thanks, @gamesasylum). Released on the PC-88, PC-98 and FM Towns (the version we’re getting on Switch is an emulation of the PC-88 version), Dinosaur doesn’t feature any dinosaurs…
The 1980s were a decade of big hair, neon colors, and weekends that felt like they ran on pocket change. Entertainment was simple, affordable, and packed with charm in a way that feels almost mythical today. Whether you were dropping quarters at the arcade or renting movies that came in clamshell cases bigger than your…