The ‘world’s first’ water-cooled Steam Machine is a Frankenstein’s monster of neon pink tubing and external hardware

Although I criticised the Steam Machine for its hefty price tag upon release, part of me hoped the creator community might do something interesting with it. Lo and behold, we now have the first example of a water-cooled version—and I can’t help but be impressed. The Not-so-steamy Machine (as I shall call it) is the…

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Character Tier List

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is rather unique in that it’s a 4v4 fighting game. However, it’s a little more complicated than 3v3 fighters of the past, as the order in which you select your character fixes them into specific roles: Leader, Shooter, Vertical, and Assault. As a result, the Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls roster needs…

Genshin Impact 7.0 release time in your time zone

Genshin Impact patch 7.0 is coming soon, finally taking us to the icy region of Snezhnaya and introducing us to a whole new batch of characters from the new area. Below, we explain when Genshin Impact maintenance starts and ends, alongside the release time of version 7.0. We’ve also added some details about what to…

No Man’s Sky Studio Boss Says He’s Content To Wait On GenAI

When No Man’s Sky was just coming out, one of the big selling points was how it used advanced algorithms to produce more worlds than any one player could ever hope to visit, even in a billion lifetimes. Ten years later, some companies are promising that distinct, new technologies like large language models and generative…

No Man’s Sky is now ten years old, and the best reminder that games deserve time to grow

“I feel surprisingly emotional today,” Hello Games Founder Sean Murray remarks. It’s a full decade since No Man’s Sky first launched players into the open-ended sandbox of its procedurally generated universe. That big day didn’t go the way the team might have wished; we could sit here for hours litigating whether Hello Games overpromised to…

Uniqlo’s Sweet Mario Kart World T-Shirts Are Now Available

Image: Nintendo Life Earlier this Summer, Uniqlo revealed its first Switch 2 clothing range by lifting the lid on a Mario Kart World collection. It was only announced for Japan at the time, but surprise, it has arrived in Europe today and is coming to North America “soon”. The Japanese clothing brand is no stranger…

Netflix’s Final Season Of The Witcher Reportedly Delayed To 2027

Kicking off in 2019, the live action path of Geralt of Rivia has been a tangled one. An adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s book series, though sharing visual sensibilities with CD Projekt’s incredibly popular video games, Netflix spearheaded The Witcher with Henry Cavill in tow. Now it appears that the finale, originally slated for 2026, has…

Dominus Automa is a new MMORPG “for busy adults who don’t have endless hours to play”

One of the most frustrating aspects of growing up is having the money to buy the games you want, but no longer enough time to play them. That’s doubly true when it comes to the vast worlds and endless grinds of MMORPGs. If you look back fondly on those many evenings and weekends poured into…

Australians must now prove their age to buy R18+ games on the Xbox store

If you use the Xbox store to buy either Xbox or PC games—and yes, the latter is possible—you may be prompted to verify your age the next time you try to buy an R18+ game. Microsoft confirmed as much via emails sent to users over the weekend, which I received. “Starting August 2026, to comply…

In One Line, ‘House of the Dragon’ Just Quietly Retconned the Entire Plot of ‘Game of Thrones’

Rhaenyra Targaryen is just about fed up. The castle she finally conquered at the start of House of the Dragon season 3 has become more like a prison where she’s forced to babysit her political rivals, hide from her enemies, and field complaints from the local commonfolk while they insult her behind her back. But…