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Watch out, Palworld. While the Palworld case continues to tick away in the background, The Pokémon Company has recently won another lawsuit against a Chinese mobile app on the grounds of copyright infringement and acts of unfair competition (thanks, Eurogamer). TPC's case against 'Pocket Monster: Remake' (or, sometimes, 'Pocket Monster: Issue/Reissue') has been running for years. Starting back in 2022, the Pokémon studio announced that it was seeking damages of around £60 million / $70 million, ...

The open source and cross-platform evolution sim Thrive has added in some even more advanced gameplay elements, making it a whole lot more interesting to attempt survival.

Such processes, he says, are "constraining their ability to execute on the product roadmap with the boldness it requires'."

Corporate gaming giant NetEase are hunting for more jobs to slash among their overseas studios, according to insiders who spoke to Bloomberg and Game File last week. The parent company recently cut a bunch of US jobs among their Marvels Rivals developers despite the game raking in a big profit. And it now looks like that was just the start of a larger mauling which may hit up to 20 of the company's non-Chinese studios.

First off, a huge thank you to everyone who has been playing LEGO Horizon Adventures — seeing the community share their stories and experiences with the game has been incredible! If you’ve played LEGO Horizon Adventures, you know that everything in the game is made entirely out of LEGO elements. Now that same creativity and...

Apple plans to eventually integrate the modem component in its devices into the main processor, making the electronics more power-efficient and less costly to produce, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. "I'd expect this in 2028 at the earliest," said the reporter in his Power On newsletter. Funnily enough, that's the same year that Apple could begin building its own custom modem into cellular MacBook models, as previously reported by Gurman. However, in his latest report, Gurman did not menti...

A former boss of Amazon Games has detailed why the company couldn't compete with Valve's Steam platform for PC sales.

Former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive says he still frequently asks himself "What would Steve do?" – despite Jobs specifically requesting that he shouldn't. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Ive shared that Jobs had directly told him before his death in 2011: "I really don't want you to be thinking 'Well, what would Steve do?'" The legendary designer, who helped craft iconic products like the iMac, iPhone, and Apple Watch, spoke warmly of his collaboration with Jobs, defending the ...

Steam Next Fest is back again, and that means we're going to be swimming in new demos for some time. With more games coming to Valve's platform every year, though, it's getting harder and harder to find exactly what you want. This is a good problem to have, to be clear, but it still means that trying out as many games as possible is more difficult than ever. That's why I'm here. If you love Diablo, Vampire Survivors, roguelikes, and watching your character get stronger, you need to try the Tower...

"Johnny's fine, honey, Johnny's just fine". A new trailer for Mortal Kombat 1 has been released that showcases the T-1000 playable character in the Khaos Reigns expansion. Available from 18th March 2025, the T-1000 is yet another classic movie villain getting the MK treatment and, judging from the short teaser, it seems NetherRealm Studios has done a wonderful job at staying faithful to the character's appearance in the 1991 classic Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

Blackwell is rapidly becoming Lackwell, if you ask me.

Bossa Games, the London-based company behind indie hits Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread, has announced a second wave of job losses - just a year after it previously shed a third of its staff.

AI this, AI that - you can't go anywhere without something trying to force AI on you. Usually a company trying to get you to buy into what they've wasted billions on. So indie devs have begun fighting back with their No Gen AI Seal.

Apple's next-generation C2 modem is expected to arrive in 2026, debuting in Apple's iPhone 18 Pro models, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said that Apple is already testing the so-called C2 modem as well as its successor, the C3, which is expected to arrive in 2027, by which time Apple hopes it will "outdo Qualcomm's modem capabilities." MacRumors has previously reported that Apple is testing a C2 modem. Apple's C1 modem debuted in the iPho...

Look, I'll just be happy to get another isometric game even half as good as Deadfire.

If you act fast, you could take advantage of this Acer gaming laptop deal and get yourself a powerful gaming rig at a bargain price. Packed with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 gaming GPU and a powerful Intel Core i7 processor, this 15.6-inch Acer Nitro V gaming laptop could be yours for just $749.99, saving you $350 on Best Buy’s list price right now. This Acer laptop design is a firm favorite of ours, scoring a mention in our best gaming laptop guide as a great budget option for 1080p gaming. The m...

After reports circulated over the weekend that NetEase is allegedly pulling back on its international game investments by "actively shopping around more of its non-Chinese studios", NetEase-owned Rebel Wolves has reached out to assuage fears, reiterating that NetEase is a minority shareholder.

Apple has announced plans to invest $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, including a significant expansion of its domestic manufacturing and research capabilities, according to Bloomberg. The commitment comes following a recent meeting between CEO Tim Cook and President Donald Trump. The tech giant's plans include the construction of a new server manufacturing facility in Houston, where Apple and Foxconn will produce servers for Apple's Private Cloud Compute system. The 25...

Due Process from developer Giant Enemy Crab uses Easy Anti-Cheat that previously blocked Linux (and so Steam Deck too), but they've now enabled Linux players to jump in.

Obsidian's fun and colourful Avowed doesn't sound like a one-and-done effort by the developer behind The Outer Worlds and Fallout: New Vegas.

With Half-Life 3 still just a potential twinkle in Gabe Newell’s eye, the return of Valve’s epochal PC shooter feels more like a pipe dream every day. The Steam maker did give us the excellent Half-Life: Alyx not long ago, but locking it behind VR headsets meant many of us didn’t have the money, space, or hardware to make it work. That’s why the Half-Life: Alyx NoVR project was such a godsend, because it means all you need to do is buy the game to play it as you would any other FPS. Now, the tea...

Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, so today would have marked his 70th birthday if he hadn't passed away in 2011 at the age of 56. In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer Company to market Wozniak's Apple I, a pioneering personal computer. Their collaboration led to the introduction of the Apple II in 1977, which significantly influenced the personal computing industry. In 1984, Apple launched the Macintosh, notable for its graphical...

A former Nintendo employee has predicted the Switch 2 will launch in June, with a release date announcement due in the forthcoming Direct in April.

The “A Dazzling Aria” Masterwork Research is your opportunity to get a shiny Meloetta in Pokémon Go. Debuting alongside Go Tour: Unova, you have between Monday, Feb. 24 at 10 a.m. and Sunday, March 2, at 8 p.m. local time to purchase a ticket for $5 (or the local currency equivalent.) You can then find...

Do you love deck-builders? Hungry Horrors is quite an inventive take on the genre where instead of fighting them, you cook for them!

"The cat is the fragrance, Nic," Ollie once told me when I asked the RPS Slack channel for alternatives to my essential oil diffuser, which I can no longer use for fear of my cat getting vanilla scurvy or lavender botulism or whatever else. I contemplated those words last night when she pounced into bed with me, curled up, and serenaded me to slumber with a briney fart. I remembered them again this morning when I learned of the ASUS Fragrance Mouse (thanks, Percy Gamer.) The mouse is ergonomic, ...

A new CAD render of all the devices in Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 lineup has been shared online by leaker Majin Bu, specifically showing the allegedly different rear camera system designs of the standard iPhone 17, all-new ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air, and the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max models. The leaker Majin Bu has had some hits in the past, but some of his information has been wrong, including a rumor about an iPad 11 being imminent in 2023. What's different in this particular case is that Weibo-...

Terminator's T-1000 is coming to Mortal Kombat 1 next month.

One to keep an eye on if you liked the classic Dungeon Keeper or the modern Dungeons series from Kalypso Media is the freshly announced Cthulhu Keeper.

Currently in the Release Candidate stage, Morrowind open source game engine OpenMW is getting ready for a huge new release.

Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza has found its sea legs on Steam, where it launched to the series' second-biggest concurrent player haul to date.

Sometimes I really do miss the 90s, especially for the games. While I started my gaming journey on 2D platformers, I really grew up on the 3D platformers of the N64 era. The mind-blowing explorable worlds of Super Mario 64 compared to the Game Boy levels in my hand. The daft inventiveness of Banjo Kazooie. The (supposedly) mature comedy and film references of Conker's Bad Fur Day.

The popular game manager / launcher Lutris has a new release out, which brings with it various improvements to how it handles launching games with Proton.

Seasoned leaker Sonny Dickson shared rendered images over the weekend depicting what the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro Max could look like when housed in a transparent MagSafe case, based on the latest rumors. The main difference we're expecting in Apple's largest premium model is the redesigned camera system on the rear. Rather than a square bump, Apple could adopt a larger rectangular camera bump that's made from aluminum instead of glass. The first significant rumor regarding design updates for the ...

Actor Yuri Lowenthal, the voice behind Peter Parker in Insomanic's games, has confirmed the original Spider-Man won't be sidelined in the series' third chapter.