Let’s twist again. While it presents itself as a chilled-out ode to Legend of Zelda–style adventuring and the Game Boy aesthetic, Cassette Boy is more than meets the eye. It opens with an ominous dream in which your protagonist is told, “If it can’t be seen, it does not exist.” From there, the game drops…
The soft crackle of a fire in the fireplace. Snow gently falling outside your window. The twinkling of festive lights throughout the neighborhood. The only thing that could complete this image is the glow of your PC’s RGB lights and a cup of hot cocoa. The holidays are typically seen as an opportunity to reconnect…
Thanks to the memory demands of AI and key manufacturers reducing production, DDR4 RAM prices have been steadily rising over the past few months. However, this rapid rise has now turned into an overwhelming surge, and in the space of just one week, DDR4 modules have almost doubled in price. We were shocked to see…
Hmm, we’re not sure about that. Last week, we saw what appeared to be the very first ‘Switch 2’ accessories appearing on the market in China. Ever keen to one-up itself, the ‘Switch 2’ rumour mill has today thrown up something even juicier: the first ‘picture’ of the console… if you really, really squint. All…
Little-known, underground indie videogame platform Steam sure is doing well for itself. The service recently hit a new historical high of 41,666,455 players online at once, per the stoic record-keepers over at SteamDB. That’s just a little over the population of Canada and a whole lot higher than the last time it graced our pages…
For a brief period of time earlier today, it looked very much like Ubisoft’s open-world heist game Star Wars Outlaws would be out sometime near the end of 2024. The word came by way of a Disney Parks blog post, and while it’s not quite a specific date, it’s definitely more precise than what we…
Get ready to Rewind. After a decade of playing with Mario Kart 8‘s driving mechanics, we’ve all got pretty used to the techniques required to nab a win. However, it looks like Mario Kart World is taking us back to school with a new roster of cool moves. Today’s Direct presentation introduced us to the…
Category: Announcements March 11, 2026 From GDC: Building the Next Generation of Xbox Jason Ronald, Vice President of Next Generation, Xbox This is a summary of my Xbox Developer Summit keynote address, delivered March 11 at the 2026 Game Developer Conference Summary Our team is deep in development on our next generation Xbox console, Project Helix. We are pushing…
I sometimes have trouble keeping track of all the different Starship Troopers games out there, but the upcoming Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War stands out for a couple reasons. One, it’s being made by Auroch Digital, developer of the very excellent Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, and two, there’s now a demo on Steam so you can…
Despite the fact that AMD’s next-gen desktop CPU architecture, Zen 6, isn’t expected to appear until towards the end of this year, we were expecting at least two new desktop chips to arrive at CES this month. But no, all we got was a single Ryzen 7 9850X3D announcement and no mention whatsoever of the…