There’s something timeless about pirate adventures. Whether you’re steering a creaky ship across an endless blue horizon or chasing down a chest overflowing with cursed gold, pirate games tap into that old-school spirit of exploration that never gets old. And while modern gaming keeps pushing visuals and mechanics, many of the most memorable pirate titles…
Category: Games December 18, 2025 Free Play Days – Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, NBA 2K26, Fallout 76, Ark: Survival Ascended and More Kyle OceanMarketing Manager, Xbox Before the end of the year, you’ve got some gaming to do with Free Play Days! NBA 2K26, WWE 2K25, PGA Tour 2K25, Ark: Survival Ascended and…
Security warnings and updates for PCs, their components, and the software they run are everyday occurrences. So much so that we never really give them much attention: We just download the patch and carry on as normal. However, Asus has warned that many of its Intel motherboards are vulnerable and can allow access to system…
Security warnings and updates for PCs, their components, and the software they run are everyday occurrences. So much so that we never really give them much attention: We just download the patch and carry on as normal. However, Asus has warned that many of its Intel motherboards are vulnerable and can allow access to system…
Absolumely Fabulous. Dotemu, Crush Guard Games, and Supamonks have today announced that big things are coming to their fantasy ‘rouge ’em up’, Absolum, next year, starting with the game’s first major update. The ver. 1.1 update, ‘The Threads of Fate’, will launch at some point in “Early 2026” (the studios haven’t been more precise than…
Even with the hardware-hungry AI industry causing component shortages and sending memory prices soaring, there’s perhaps one thing I wouldn’t have thought to blame on the datacentres: massive font licensing fees for game developers. Let me hit the backspace for a spell. At the end of November, commercial font service Fontworks ended its most affordable…
Today, we reveal how your votes shaped the PlayStation Blog Game of the Year awards for 2025. This year’s voting saw nearly 1.5 million votes cast across the awards’ 19 categories, with your choices, and your choices only, deciding which games would earn the coveted top spots and accompanying trophies. As with every year, the…
Games! Games! Games! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch 2 eShop – Highlights The Rogue…
I like the new Dune movies. They’re good. I also like that Funcom’s survival MMO Dune: Awakening is based, stylistically and aesthetically, on the new Dune movies. That’s great. But I do miss some of the sheer weirdness of the original Dune film. Lynch’s Dune film. And if I had to narrow it down to…
Funcom has begun revealing details of the Chapter 3 update coming soon to survival MMO Dune: Awakening, and it sounds like a pretty substantial one. Speaking with game director Joel Bylos last week, he told me the update is aimed at giving endgame players more to do, and will include a ‘completely revamped Landsraad system,’…