After months of leaks and building expectations, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a surprisingly clumsy remake, with bugs and parkour missteps marring my three-hour preview
Remakes are very much in vogue these days, providing developers the opportunity to return to an old favourite and enhance, expand, and correct the wrongs of the past. Some of the best, such as Mafia: Definitive Edition, redraw the edges of an old story, elevating and embellishing what was there in…
Nvidia continues to make astronomical amounts of money from AI, with the first quarter of 2026 being its biggest to date
They still make GPUs too, ya know.
An Overwatch player has come up with an ingenious plan to remind others how to actually play the game: 'A little ego check never hurt anyone'
Imagine the spawn door telling you to uninstall the game.
Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games: "it gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe"
Finally, a game developer who agrees with my fervently held view that new technology makes everything worse. Celebrated designer Clint Hocking – him wot worked on Far Cry 2, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Watch Dogs Legion, and the forthcoming Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe – has publicly opined…
Samsung has swerved a planned South Korean factory strike with a last-minute deal, so the memory machine rumbles on
The deal is currently undergoing an internal union vote.
Dragon Age: Inquisition's lead narrative designer is making an adventure game world "where the ordinary starts to feel like it is hiding something"
Efforts to start a blaze by huffing on the embers of BioWare's legacy continue with the announcement of Studio Reset - a new Canadian independent whose members include veterans of Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Anthem. The key personalities are Kaelin Lavallée, lead narrative designer on Dragon Age:…
Witcher 3's heaviest scene stunned its devs into silence, but Cyberpunk 2's associate director says it was crucial for 'understanding the craft' of quest design
It sure stunned me.
Stop Killing Games petition on game server switch offs will get a reply "before the summer", European Commission promise during latest debate
Following a public hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels last month, European politicians have debated the Stop Killing Games campaign's petition to put more consumer protections around online game server shutdowns into law again today, May 21st. This latest debate took place during…
'Every single frontier model company will jump on Vera Rubin from the get go': Nvidia CEO insists the future looks bright
"It will surely be more successful than even Grace Blackwell."
It's the year 2026, and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani will be streaming regularly on Twitch starting today
Does this come under "just chatting?"
Another quarter, another quarterly update from Nvidia that doesn't mention gaming
Womp womp, but I suppose what do we expect?
Squabble over Disco Elysium's legacy continues as Hopetown studio recruit another ex-ZA/UM dev while dropping a new trailer on Zero Parades' release day
Today, May 21st, marks the release of ZA/UM's Zero Parades, the studio's Disco Elysium follow-up arriving following years of drama and turmoil surrounding the original game and the people who made it. So, naturally, one of numerous Disco-like games which have sprung up over the past few years has…
The new Bubsy is better than I expected, but its hackneyed '90s nostalgia is exhausting
This cat has too many lives.
I've played 1000s of hours of Overwatch but it wasn't until its new Anniversary game mode that I discovered I have no clue what the hell I'm doing
That there Dragonblade is tricky.
AMD announces production ramp of first 2 nm CPUs as Intel teases 10A and 7A chip roadmap
Moore's Law alive and kinda kicking…
SpaceX has listed Grok's 'spicy' mode as a risk in its initial public offering: 'These modes may be more irreverent and harsher than our standard offerings'
When rockets and AI collide.
Prophet Margin is a holy city-builder that combines the joy of trade routes with the terror of God
Many fantasy games deal in the prospect of sacrificing things to gods, but few dramatise the associated exciting logistical pressures. Say you want to chuck a bunch of virgins into a volcano at regular intervals, to stop the regional Vulcan pulling a Pompei. Well, how are you going to procure an…
Security researcher describes freshly uncovered Windows 11 vulnerability as 'one of the most insane discoveries I ever found.'
The king in yellow.
Nvidia says 'demand for AI infrastructure continues to expand at an unprecedented pace' but after speaking to experts about it, I'm not so sure
The future of the AI industry isn't as certain as Nvidia seems to make out.
WoW: Midnight's hardcore raiders are on a gold treadmill, with a first-time clear of Mythic Midnight Falls costing around 87,750 gold in repairs alone
And that's before consumables, which ramps that bill up to 340,692 if you're going full tryhard.