April Fool’s Day is back again, offering a slate of jokes, gags, knee-slappers, and occasional bouts of confusion as those of us who have to wrangle this stuff are forced to expend way too much mental energy debating whether an announcement is real, or just not very funny. It’s rough out there, folks. Each year…
Thief: The Dark Project is 25 years old, but it’s still one of the best stealth games around, with an active community making fan missions for both it and The Dark Mod, a standalone recreation made with the Doom 3 engine of all things. The Black Parade is for Thief Gold rather than the Dark…
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Kogado Studio Released: 1991 PCs: PC-98, X68000 (Image credit: Kogado Studio) The mysterious snack-hoovering gap between holiday celebrations and getting back to normal is a great…
Category: Games Bounty Star is a Cozy, Post-Apocalyptic Mech Brawler Brimming with Charm Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published June 20, 2025 As I drifted my large Desert Raptor MKII mech through an expansive desert canyon, crowded full of rocket-wielding hover bots and gun-toting bandits, I got the sense that Bounty Star might be onto…
Old School RuneScape (OSRS) recently made a tweak to its economy, with developer Jagex announcing an increased Grand Exchange (GE) tax. The GE is RuneScape’s trading hub and Jagex acknowledges that “any update involving your hard-earned gold can be sensitive,” so the developer went into some detail on why it was making the change: the…
32-bit implementations of PhysX, Nvidia’s physics engine, will finally lose support in RTX 50 series cards, in a move to remove 32-bit CUDA application support on its latest graphics cards. Removing PhysX support means that some games from the 2000s and early 2010s will lose part of the way they implement particle and clothing effects….
Stepping into a new world in Valheim is an exhilarating feeling: a massive realm surrounds you, wild and untamed in all directions, just waiting for you to grab your hammer and start shaping it. But—and hear me out on this—what if the world was already shaped, just for you? What if a couple of modders…
Fairy Tale RPG has been updated to version 1.04 on the Switch and Playstation 4. On Steam, the update puts the game at version 1.05. The update changed only a few things, with most of the focus being put towards polishing the game. You can see the official patch notes for yourself down below. Character…
You saw it in the Steam Machine reveal, and now it’s finally happening: E-Ink faceplates. The twist in this tale though is that Valve isn’t the one making it. Instead, that honour goes to Shenzhen-based peripherals and accessories brand Jsaux. If you want to be near the front of the queue for Color E-Ink, Mono…
The things people will do for Nvidia’s extremely limited Blackwell chips; besides surrounding tech stores by waiting in line for hours, or behaving in ways that demonstrate why in-person lottery systems are not always the best idea, some are now turning to alleged smuggling. Earlier this month, three men were arrested by Singaporean authorities for…