Could 2027 see the beginning of an end to the PC pricing crisis?

If you’ve been looking to build or buy a gaming PC recently, 2026 hasn’t been a kind year. AI server farms have continued to buy up hardware at staggering rates. As such, memory makers have shifted much of their production capacity towards high bandwidth memory destined for AI accelerators, rather than for consumer products. That…

Splatoon Raiders Dev Team Apparently Has No Plans For DLC

Image: Nintendo If you’ve been wondering about Splatoon Raiders getting any DLC in the future, there’s supposedly nothing on the menu right now. Speaking to Famitsu recently, the game’s producer Seita Inoue says there are currently no plans for DLC, or updates related to game balance, as this title is designed to be a complete…

Kojima Loves Sony Despite Being Blindsided by Physint Decision

In his first interview since Physint‘s publisher change, Hideo Kojima said he still respects Sony despite its decision to pull funding for the project. The Kojima Productions boss also dismissed recent reports of Death Stranding‘s commercial performance, insisting the studio is in “a healthy, profitable state.” Kojima can’t say if Physint will release on Sony…

The latest co-op indie game to take over the internet is like one of my favourite board games, just with bombs

They say if you give a monkey an infinite amount of time to randomly hit keys on a typewriter it will almost surely write Shakespeare’s complete works, word for word. But what happens when you give three monkeys with restricted access to their senses a limited amount of time to defuse a bomb? It explodes,…

Jared Kushner Reportedly Likes Playing Video Games With The Saudi Crown Prince

In 2018, Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, reportedly had journalist Jamal Khashoggi assassinated; his body was cut into pieces with a bone saw. According to The New Yorker, Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, likes playing video games with MBS, and that was even before they went into business together to…

Total War Warhammer 40k learns from CA’s fantasy trilogy to craft “a single experience” that will just keep growing

Ken coolly serves the hottest news stories and has played, we think, every game ever made. Published: September 20, 2026 Total War Warhammer 40k is escalating the grandiosity of Creative Assembly’s longstanding strategy games with the brutal bombast of Games Workshop’s grimdark sci-fi setting. Warhammer 40k fans might boast an above-average willingness to study a…

8 Years Ago, Critical Role Changed Forever with Its Most Shocking Character Death

The cast of Critical Role has brought plenty of laughter and joy throughout their many Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, one-shots, and miniseries adventures. We’ve had shopping episodes going wrong, pretending to film a pornographic movie to get out of a fight, and one instance where Travis Willingham rolled three natural 1s in a row. However,…

Konami Releasing Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Demo Next Month

Good move, Konami! I’m very much on the fence with this one, so a demo should be all I need to help me make a decision, one way or another. I wish more companies were confident enough to release demos, though it does seem it has gotten more popular to do so in recent years….

PlayStation Exclusive Inspired by Nintendo’s Animal Crossing in the Works

A new and exclusive PlayStation game inspired by Nintendo‘s Animal Crossing is reportedly in the works. Insiders close to the untitled work also unveiled a potential release date. According to MP1st, Media Molecule is developing a new game in the social-simulation genre, inspired by Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon. Moreover, it was reported that the…

Over 10 years later, Gabe Newell’s advice to devs still holds up

In 2013, Valve head honcho Gabe Newell spoke to students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin about “Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions & The Future of Corporations.” It was a much more interesting topic than that makes it sounds, and has been doing the rounds again thanks to being sliced up into shorts…