I check for SteamOS update announcements almost every day, and I can’t remember the last time there’s been one as expansive as this. The September 9 Steam Deck client update—the most recent SteamOS update to release via the stable channel—lists 31 general changes, the majority of these being fixes. That’s not even including the bunch…
Mid-tower case at a premium price Our apologies if you spit a swig of coffee on your monitor after reading our headline. That’s not a typo, folks — Lian Li is asking $399 for its latest mid-tower computer case, the PC-X510. How does it attempt to justify the premium price tag? The primary selling point…
It’s not uncommon to sugarcoat things in a job interview. Perhaps you’ve even told a little white lie about how much you love what the company does—it’s not like it ever comes back to bite you in the arse, right? Wrong. Well, it will if you ever want to work at Pocketpair at least, the…
Put your arms around the world, it’s Switchmas time. Season’s Greetings to one and all! The 25th of December has crept up on us once more with its promise of sugary treats, hot and cold meats, papery hats and glittery tat… and, of course, video games. It’s been a slow but steady year for Nintendo…
After about a year’s work on our end, it’s great to see the launch of Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star just around the corner. If you’re seeing the game for the first time in this blog, it’s a battlefield action game set in the Fate universe, where the spirits of historical and mythical figures come together…
In September last year I reported that Microsoft had started testing a virtual keyboard layout for controllers. This controller-oriented keyboard layout is now out of beta and launching in the latest Insider Release Preview build on Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.3613. Microsoft says: “We have enabled the Gamepad keyboard layout for the touch keyboard in…
Marvel Rivals and Overwatch 2 have been intertwined ever since the former’s beginning. At first, players dunked on Rivals, saying that it was a poor copy of Overwatch 2. Then, as Rivals’ open beta progressed and we closed in on its official release date, many claimed that its arrival would mark the death of Overwatch…
Battlefield 6 fans have spotted what they believe to AI-generated art in a winter-themed cosmetics pack for the hugely successful multiplayer shooter. In a Reddit post titled “Remove this AI shit from the store”, user Willcario uploaded an image of a player card sticker named “Winter Warning”, which comes as part of Battlefield 6’s Windchill…
They do look mighty similar to the old ones, mind. Well, it doesn’t take people long, does it? The Switch 2 has only just been released (heck, this writer hasn’t even got one yet) and early adopters are already taking apart their brand new Joy-Con controllers to see just what’s in there. Read the full…
Most units from Vietnam are apparently being shipped to America. A new report from Bloomberg states that Nintendo has the potential to build up “a stockpile of millions of consoles” from Vietnam ahead of the Switch 2’s launch on 5th June 2025. The article (paywalled) states that Hosiden Corp., which is one of the three…