Factory Making PlayStation Discs Prepares For Massive Pivot

According to Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation’s (DADC) CEO, the PlayStation owner is already hard at work repurposing and restructuring at least one of its disc manufacturing facilities in Austria, following the announcement on July 1st that Sony is set to end the production of both first-party and third-party physical PlayStation discs by January, 2028….

Epic reaches lawsuit settlement with former contractor who was also a notorious Fortnite leaker

Epic Games has reached a proposed settlement with a former contractor who it accused in March of being notorious Fortnite leaker AdiraFN. The agreement will see the defendant permanently barred from “possessing, accessing, using, or disclosing any of Epic’s confidential or trade secret information,” or helping anyone else do the same. Epic filed the action…

Minecraft shaders 2026 – Java and Bedrock graphics packs

How a game looks is one of its most important factors, especially in an age of photo-realism and ray tracing. So, even if you’re playing one of the most aesthetically uncomplicated video games to come out of recent years, you’re still entitled to want it to look its very best. With Minecraft shaders, you can…

PS Store Drops Pair of Fun Free PS5 Games, Trophies Included

The PS Store has dropped two relaxing free PS5 games that come with straightforward trophies. If you’re looking for something zen without forking out any money, then The Legend of Fireball (PS5, PS4) and Splash of Color (PS5) are worth a few hours of your time. Free PS5 games The Legend of Fireball and Splash…

The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – July 3, 2026

Originally released in 2025, Wanderstop is from the mind of Davey Wreden, best known for The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide. Those games, in summary, are a little bit about the process of playing and appreciating a video game and what it means to have and give player choice. There is a lot more…

Diablo music soundtracks are all about the guitar, but Blizzard is changing that

When you think about the music in Diablo games — in fact, when you just think about Diablo games — you hear one thing in your mind: a steel-string guitar, echoing with heavy reverb, playing slowly strummed chords and picked arpeggios over a moody backdrop. This is one of the most distinctive and powerfully evocative…

Man, I Miss Big Bargain Bins Of Used Video Games

There’s this funny little Nintendo DS RPG called Contact, developed by Grasshopper and inspired heavily by Earthbound. Its Metacritic score is hmm, and most people I speak to have never heard of it. But I have profoundly fond memories of this silly little game, and it’s all thanks to a jumbled-up used video game bargain…

Which player-made build do you want to see in A Minecraft Movie Squared? It’s time to pick.

Minecraft is all about community. Sharing your favorite creations with friends, family, and the wider world is one of the true joys of the sandbox game, and that’s something that Mojang is embracing for its upcoming sequel, A Minecraft Movie: Squared. The developer announced during Minecraft Live that it was going to be including a…

Biped 2 Update Promises “Significant Improvements” On Switch 2

Image: META Publishing Meta Publishing has just released a new ‘2.0 Update’ for the cute co-op puzzler Biped 2; one that promises some “significant improvements” on the Switch 2. First launched in November 2025, Biped 2 has now supposedly reached its “ultimate form”, with the new update bringing new puzzles to all 17 levels. Each…

Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold more than 40 million copies, ‘a testament to what CD Projekt does best’

It’s hard to imagine now, but Cyberpunk 2077 was an unmitigated disaster when it launched back in 2020. The PC version wasn’t too bad, relatively speaking, but the console version was so wretched that Sony literally kicked it off the PlayStation Store. It was so far gone that several months after launch, with CD Projekt…