Children of June. We’re on the cusp of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, although it looks like Nintendo and co. are giving Switch 2 owners plenty of excuses to stay inside and avoid the heatwaves. Square Enix is serving up a double helping with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and The Adventures of Elliot before Nintendo…
“I want fans who remember Utopia to feel like we’ve done it justice”. 33 Games is a new boutique publisher which aims to create physical collector’s editions of classic games – and it has already announced its first project, a re-release of Zool on the Mega Drive / Genesis. We can now exclusively reveal the…
I’m not exactly jazzed about our current AI moment, where machine learning major players seem to want to inject LLMs into everything. Well, during this year’s Computex, MSI unveiled the MEG Vision X2 AI⁺, a gaming desktop that features “a first-of-its-kind AI Holostage” built in. Excuse me while I attempt to contain my excitement. In…
The saga of TurtleWoW was perhaps inevitable—operating pretty brazenly under the nose of Blizzard, the World of Warcraft private server featured bespoke content for its own vision of the game, and advertised itself as an actual game might. It also featured in-game microtransactions, and while some private servers for other MMOs (like City of Heroes)…
With Computex 2026 in full swing, we’ve already been hit by many stark reminders that the memory crisis is upon us. None more so than AMD announcing the RX 9070 GRE, a less powerful (previously China-exclusive) version of the RX 9070 for the 9070’s original MSRP (the 9070 moves up to $619 after launch) The…
Mind games. May 2026 is now a thing of the past, which means this year’s Mental Health Awareness Month has come to a close. Which obviously means that everyone is now fully clued up and cognisant of their own mental health and the importance of a fit and unfettered mind to accompany the body, right?…
“You were the driving force behind the formation of IDSA and the E3 Show.”. Those of you who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s will likely remember the heated marketing wars that took place between Nintendo and Sega, with both companies vying publicly for control of the video game market while trading barbs in…
At this year’s Computex event, Nvidia announced something that many PC enthusiasts have been waiting for. No, not its Arm-powered RTX Spark laptop chip, but a forthcoming update for DLSS Ray Reconstruction, one that brings it on par with the rest of the DLSS 4.5 package. Back in January, Nvidia launched DLSS 4.5, with a…
Minecraft has shared the first features of its third game drop of 2026 at TwitchCon, and while we still have a lot to learn, we do know it’ll feature an entirely new forest biome: the dappled forest. After the Chaos Cubed update focused on bringing a new and exciting biome to the underground, I for…
Last year at Gamescom, I got to feast my greedy little eyes on a 540 Hz monitor from Asus ROG (pictured above) and was mighty impressed. That one is a 26.5-inch 1440p/720p dual-mode deal, though, so not necessarily for esports. As I’ve argued before, 720p is a bit low even for esports. And 26.5 inches…