The soft response to Call of Duty’s latest release, Black Ops 7, continues to affect change in the long-running series. As announced on the official CoD blog today, Activision will no longer make back-to-back Call of Duty games in the same series. The news comes off the back of a weaker than usual year for…
Anthropic and the US government have not been on the best of terms in recent months, as the US Department of Defense deemed the company a “supply chain risk” after its refusal to remove safeguards designed to prevent its products being used for autonomous weapon and mass surveillance purposes. The company has since sued, but…
I don’t remember the last time I was as excited for a game as I am for Tekken 8. I’ve had the pleasure of playing it four times this year—twice at public gaming events, once for October’s closed beta test and, finally, a closed invitation to try the completed game in late November—and every single…
The history of gaming is a story of constant innovation, adapting to new technologies while keeping elements of nostalgia alive. From the flashing lights of 80s arcades to the seamless integration of digital platforms today, mechanics have always been at the heart of the player experience. For those who grew up with joystick battles and…
If you’ve recently been informed that a death certificate is being used to get into your LastPass account, you have fallen victim to bad actors. LastPass, one of the most popular password manager providers, has recently posted a blog detailing a deceptive new scam that claims a death certificate has been uploaded on your behalf…
Space, man! You have to wonder if, when he conceived the seminal Space Invaders all the way back in 1978, Tomohiro Nishikado had even the slightest inkling that his creation would inspire so much money-spinning merchandise over the subsequent decades. Those pixellated invaders have been immortalised in numerous ways over the years, from toys to…
Turtle Beach’s budget gaming headsets fuelled my childhood years of yelling at friends on Call of Duty, but there’s a reason I haven’t touched them in a while. In my experience, poor audio quality, flimsy builds, and mediocre microphones proved to me (or more so, my mum) that putting just a little extra cash in…
Hey, remember that time a onesie wearing robot gave Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang a leather jacket? No? I’ll remind you—the robot in question was the Neo Gamma, a humanoid bot built by 1X Technologies for helping out around the home. Now, you can pre-order the Gamma’s successor, simply called ‘Neo’…for $20,000. CEO and founder of…
Porting Doom to inappropriate platforms is one of the internet’s favourite hobbies. Devices compatible with id Software’s definitive FPS now include Lego bricks, pregnancy tests, and player-pianos. One ingenious PhD student even displayed Doom on gut bacteria cells, making the shooter a literal cultural phenomenon. Now, an enterprising high schooler has further extended Doom’s platform…
Elden Ring Nightreign is now in the wild, and my experience thus far can be summed up as “wow this game is hard.” I had a few runs over the weekend and, masochist that I am, went in fairly blind. Bad idea: Every single one ended when a party member picked a fight they shouldn’t…