League of Legends needs “the right amount of frustration” to survive

League of Legends and frustration have gone hand in hand since day one. Such is the way of all multiplayer games, whether it’s at yourself after making mistakes, at your team for not coordinating well, or at the game itself over some perceived imbalance. But should developers work to iron out every agonizing crease? In…

Lae’zel actor Devora Wilde didn’t know she was in Space Marine 2 until players told her

Devora Wilde Revisits Her Greatest Video Game Performances – YouTube Watch On Devora Wilde has been in loads of videogames. While she’s most famous for playing Lae’zel, everyone’s hot gith girlfriend in Baldur’s Gate 3, she’s also been in games like Solasta 2, Clair Obscur, Crimson Desert, Split Fiction, and Red Solstice 2. She’s in…

5 Anime Endings That Fans Still Argue About (I’m Still Mad About #3)

Endings can be hard to pull off. A perfectly serviceable anime might ruin its well-earned goodwill with a particularly disappointing or shocking ending. Death Note suffers from this problem, as its brilliant cat-and-mouse build-up feels upended by a rushed resolution that is significantly different from the manga. At other times, abstract or confusing endings can…

Trump’s New E-Waste Policy Puts Vintage Tech In The Crossfire

It’s the deepest nightmare of many distinguished dorks. They’ve finally sourced that rare, elusive vintage dream item. They’ve secured the order. It flies halfway around the globe. Only to be intercepted, even annihilated, by someone at the border. It’s a terror made real a few times in the past, but now collectors are concerned the…

Company of Heroes Definitive Edition is a serious upgrade on an RTS classic

I think it’s fairly easy to say that Company of Heroes is one of the best RTS games of all time. Anyone disagree? You, there, in the back? No? Okay, good. Now that’s settled, let’s talk about its lovely-looking Definitive Edition, what that actually means, and just how old I felt when I found out…

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Will Allow You To Strategise With Mouse Controls

I was already skipping this when I didn’t see mention of mouse mode in the direct, but now it’s day 1. I can’t live without the mouse mode. The Joy-con mouse works so beautifully in sofa, and its rumble features and gaming buttons and analog stick working as 2-axis mouse wheel combined with it’s second…

The GTA 3D trilogy fanpatch has its biggest update, with over 100 new fixes including restored dialogue for San Andreas

Modders Are Still Fixing San Andreas in 2026 – YouTube Watch On It’s well-known that the PC ports of GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas were a shemozzle, thanks in part to re-used code across the trio of games, but also a general lack of care that used to be the norm when it…

Who Gets Left Behind In Sony’s All-Digital Future?

When Sony dropped the announcement that it was going to be ending physical disc production for PlayStation 5 in early 2028, I saw many posts on social media lamenting how this decision would have an outsized impact on certain groups and institutions. People without reliable internet, lending libraries, gaming tournament organizers, gamers in developing countries–how…

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Samurai Alternative To Odyssey’s Omens

It wasn’t my intention to see Nolan’s blockbuster Odyssey side by side with an advance screening of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Samurai and the Prisoner. Still, they complimented. Two historical epics that convey the fear and awe that comes from watching your era come to a violent end, and how it weighs on the crowns of…

GTA Online will still be supported alongside GTA 6, but don’t expect to hear about a new version soon

As the looming shadow of Grand Theft Auto 6 grows ever larger, and Rockstar Games prepares to show off an “extended look” at gameplay that will debut first via a Netflix-exclusive special, one big question remains. What happens to GTA Online, the series’ money-printing juggernaut, when a new game finally arrives after 13 years of…