Yakuza 5: Inside a World of Organized Crime on PS3

Major Japanese studios and publishers were having a great time in 2025, right up until the weekend because of the (you guessed it) ‘insultingly dumb’ US tariffs

In an industry already tanking a bunch of hits, full of layoffs and studio closures, the Japanese games industry seemed to be an exception in 2025—as noted by an analyst last month, five out of eight major publishers and studios hit all-time share price highs at the start of this year, with their only real…

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Nvidia’s CEO says attempts to control chip exports to China are a failure: ‘If they don’t have enough Nvidia, they will use their own.’

Attempts by the US government to put a cap on China’s development of AI technologies by limiting exports of GPUs has been a “failure”. So says no less an authority on the subject than Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang. The New York Times quotes Huang at the ongoing Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan denouncing GPU export…

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Check out this brilliant video breaking open a bricked Nintendo Switch 2 chip to see what makes it tick, and why we’re looking at around Steam Deck GPU performance from the new console

A new video from the ever effusive Geekerwan has broken down the details of the silicon at the heart of the Nintendo Switch 2. He picked up a bricked console motherboard for 1,000 Yuan (approx. $140) from a Chinese eBay analogue, Xianyu, and has absolutely gone to town on the chip. Like, above and beyond….

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God of War: First Hands-on Report

The new God of War hits like a freight train, with crushing combat that will put any skeptic’s mind at ease. But underneath its hardened, intimidating exterior lies a pulsing heart. If what I played is anything to go by, God of War is going to land like an asteroid impact this April, wiping away…

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