Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview releasing to the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring today. It’s important we note that some updates made to these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We will continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable…
Jess Kinghorn, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Taking to Discord to sell my favourite weirdoes on my current cozy games of choice: Starsand Island, Potionomics, and Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale. Currently, I can’t check my Bluesky direct messages until I’ve allowed the Epic Games-owned KWS to look at either my…
Discover the Best Games That Pay and Turn Your Downtime Into Real Earnings Play and Get Paid There’s something oddly comforting about scrolling through game lists at midnight, wondering which ones are legit, which ones are scams, and which ones might actually put a little extra cash in your pocket. Most people want the same…
Like a diabolical shopkeeper awaiting his first victim—sorry—customer of the day, I’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of Strange Antiquities since it was announced last year. The follow-up to 2022’s Strange Horticulture lets players get their Needful Things on, selling eldritch antiques to an array of weird townsfolk. And it turns out the Lake District’s…
The memory crisis seems to have put the squeeze on basically everyone, other than those creating the memory. Even well-known gaming brand MSI appears to be struggling and plans on increasing its prices to offset ongoing problems. According to the United Daily News (machine translated), MSI is reportedly planning to increase the prices of its…
EA has beaten Take-Two and is set to acquire British racing game studio Codemasters in a deal worth $1.2 billion. Take-Two were originally planning to purchase the developer behind F1 games, Dirt and Grid but Electronic Arts have trumped them. Codemasters said in a statement that EA’s offer was superior to Take-Two’s cash-and-stock buyout offer…
My Very Distracting 15,000+ GIF PC from r/pcmasterrace The inside of your gaming PC can be a place of creativity. You can choose to hide it, locking away your rig’s internals from the outside world to let them do their work in mystery. Or, you can pick a windowed case with a dash of RGB…
Here are the transfer restrictions. The Pokémon Company this week announced connectivity between Pokémon Legends: Z-A and Pokémon HOME is scheduled for 2026. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Looking for a gaming laptop and only the best will do? Then you should be looking at MSI. The company, famous for its high-performance PC gear from motherboards to laptops, has refreshed its gaming portable range with new models sporting NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 50 Series Laptop graphics chips, bringing innovative features and unparalleled performance. And…
“The Americans took to this like you wouldn’t believe”. The following is an edited extract from the book Curious Video Game Machines by Lewis Packwood, which explores the stories behind rare and unusual consoles, computers and coin-ops. In this chapter, Lewis focuses on the history of the 1990s company Virtuality, which pioneered virtual reality arcade…