"Red line of death" - Steam Machine encounters its first major hardware fault and it's already got a fitting Xbox-inspired nickname

Valve's Steam Machine has encountered its first major hardware fault, and people have already given it a fitting nickname. Read more

Clair Obscur is flawed on purpose, says director: 'Games that try to be perfect, that try to fix all their flaws—they're usually just really boring'

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, in my humble opinion, deserves the laurels it got—it's a gorgeous, inventive, personality-filled romp with an ending that rips your heart out and stomps it into a pulp fine enough for use in paint. But I'd hesitate to call it 'perfect', mostly because I don't believe in perfection as a conc...

Suicide Squad Developers Had Their Passion Destroyed By Warner Bros

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was an incredibly unpopular game, a microtransaction-laden, feature-incomplete attempt at a live-service game from a well-regarded team that had never done one before.

Nuclear reactor start-up targeting AI energy demands showcases its tech with an Nvidia DGX Spark, though the website demo needs its own power plant

Names poached from Tolkien's works. Glossy websites, packed with animations and all kinds of promises. Slightly ludicrous tech demonstration. All the hallmarks of today's tech companies, one might think. But in the case of one nuclear power start-up, the super-slick marketing is actually a good reminder that AI's rampa...

Japan Has Officially Chosen Its Best Shonen Of 2026 Over One Piece

With anime and manga more mainstream than ever before, it is no surprise to know that competition among the top manga and anime series has been more heated than ever before this year. In Japan, fans have been doing all they can to support their favorite series and see it rank high in the monthly Oricon sales chart, wit...

Absolum Art Team Is Sticking Around To Work On The Game And Series

In an all-too-rare bit of good news in the gaming industry, the Supamonks team behind Absolum's art is being moved to another organisation to keep working on the series.

Netflix’s Shonen Gem Is Officially Demon Slayer Meets Dragon Ball

Netflix has become a global platform for anime, diversifying its anime content every year. It has introduced millions of viewers globally to anime beyond traditional fan communities. While blockbuster action titles such as Dragon Ball, Naruto, My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba often d...

Relic announce a new Company of Heroes RTS, a wave defence roguelite for strategy buffs who don't have time to fight a whole World War

Very good World War RTS Company of Heroes 3 is getting a standalone wave defence roguelite spin-off, Company of Heroes 3: Final Stand, in which you have to outlast 12 rounds of attackers while steadily expanding and upgrading a custom battlegroup. It's pitched as a snackable, newbie-friendly version of the big-bellied...

French Politician Argues For Legislation After PlayStation Announces End To Discs

French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon—of the left-wing party La France Insoumise—is pushing for new legislation on digital purchases amid Sony's announcement that it will cease physical game disc production in 2028.

'Something has gone completely wrong': Palantir CEO rants on live television about his problems with the AI business model: 'Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?'

Palantir CEO Alex Karp was recently interviewed by CNBC, where he gave an impassioned decry that the current AI market is not working, urged other panellists to call up CEOs and test his hypothesis, and made clear that his nervous energy was not in any way related to any substance usage. Yeah, it's a strange one, alrig...

Slay the Spire 2 just got 15 new cards out of nowhere, including some big co-op heavy hitters

A new Slay the Spire 2 patch has just hit the beta branch, and this is a big one. In fact, you might want to pay attention even if you aren't one to toy around with the testing side of the roguelike deckbuilder, because there's a whole heap of additional cards that are designed to enhance co-op play, and some of them s...

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