If you’ve ever felt anxious about the security of your machine while you wait for a solution to some vulnerability, a proposed change to the Linux kernel may interest you. Pitched by Nvidia staff Sasha Levin, it’s effectively a killswitch that could shut down some functions while waiting for a more official solution. As spotted…
Is it a day ending in ‘y’? Well then that makes it just about time for Cloudflare to announce it’s mitigated yet another record-breaking DDoS attack—this time to the tune of 11.5 Tbps (that’s terabits per second) at its peak. Might as well add ‘hyper-volumetric DDoS attack’ to my list of sleep paralysis nightmares. Anyway,…
As reported by All About AI, in 2025 Sony was granted a patent for an AI-generated ghost player that can help you out when you’re stuck. (Sony applied for the patent in 2023; these things take time.) The patent proposes an in-game interface that accepts “natural language queries” to identify which bit of the game…
Ready for another bleak application of generative AI? I’m not sure I am, but here we are with Gemini’s ‘Nano Banana’. Alright, alright, get it out of your system and let me explain. The aforementioned fun-size fruit is in fact the name of a major update to Gemini’s AI image generation capabilities. The update is…
Devs started thinking about moving to Switch 2 in 2021. In a recent interview, developers Kenta Motokura and director Kazuya Takahashi from Nintendo confirmed that Donkey Kong Bananza was originally intended for the Switch 1. In a new Ask the Developer feature, fresh screenshots have been shared that shows the visual difference between Switch 1…
As a teenager of the 1990s I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Mortal Kombat, despite its frequent ups and downs, so when the 2021 movie reboot was a bit of a letdown, I shrugged. No worries, there would be another one, almost certainly, and in a pre-Mortal Kombat 1 world I…
There was, I am sure, a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth when Take-Two delayed Grand Theft Auto 6 from its planned release this year to May 26, 2026—if you’re on console, anyway. Expectations are very high, after all, and new GTA games don’t come around very often. But just how certain are…
Coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, and Xbox consoles. Since its original release back in 1997, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has gone on to inspire countless indie games that have sought to capture the same satisfying blend of exploration, gothic storytelling, and action-packed combat. Just last month, for instance, we told you about…
DIP switches, AES mode and more. The Evercade family of systems has received its first firmware update of 2026, with the Neo Geo and Atari 2600 collections benefiting from a host of new features. First up are Neo Geo DIP switch settings, which allow players to change options such as time limit, lives, difficulty level,…
Bringing together a “broad spectrum of sectors”. In some industry news, the Entertainment Software Association (which operated E3) has this week announced it will be returning with a new event known as the Interactive Innovation Conference. This will apparently be a “first-of-its-kind” event taking place in Las Vegas between April 27th – April 30th, 2026…