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One of my favourite things in the entire world is the brash poetry inherent in the word 'skyscraper', and the many writing and language lessons gleaned from considering how utterly mundane that word actually feels to use. This week, the Cities: Skylines community join me in the "probably thinking too much about skyscrapers" club. Paradox's city builder has turned ten. To celebrate, they've constructed a towering roadmap of freebies for it and Cities: Skylines 2, including new radio stations, new...

"There was a little bit of salt". In a recent episode of their podcast, former Nintendo of America staffers Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang discussed details about what they called the "adversarial relationship" between NOA and the US arm of The Pokémon Company. The pair discussed tensions between the US teams while looking back on the origins of the first Pokémon Day in 2016 on episode 159 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast (thanks, NintendoEverything).

One of my Foundational Video Games is Mazeworld, an elder Apple Macintosh first-personifier in which you explore a Carollian landscape of blue-walled darkness and rainbow-shelled snails. I was a young slip of a boy when Mazeworld released, and prone to daymares about crocodiles floating through the ceiling. Imagine my reaction to a game in which you are immediately confronted by a slathering, bodiless Cheshire Cat, its face a grinning smear that is only visible when it's charging right at you. I...

Apple has pulled an ad for the iPhone 16 that depicted a "more personal Siri," following the company's admission last week that it is delaying some of the Apple Intelligence Siri features that it originally expected to release in iOS 18. English actor Isabella Ramsey starred in the now-private YouTube video, one of a trio published in September ahead of iPhone 16 pre-orders, in which they are shown asking Siri the name of a person they had a meeting with at a particular restaurant the previous m...

JBL just announced a pair of portable speakers that take advantage of the company’s AI Sound Boost technology. This software analyzes the signal and maxes out the driver while minimizing distortion. The company says this creates a boost in sound quality. The Flip 7 features an interchangeable strap and carabiner and an updated control placement when compared to the previous generation. The Flip 6 easily made our list of the best portable Bluetooth speakers, so any improvement is just icing on th...

To commemorate the day celebrating the world’s favorite red plumber (March 10), Lego has just unveiled its largest Mario Kart set ever. This new set isn’t due to cross the finish line until May 15, but Lego Insiders can already pre-order the $169.99 set from Lego.com. Non-members will be able to reserve the set starting...

Today, 10th March (or Mar10) is Mario Day, and ahead of an official announcement an 18+ Lego Mario Kart set has leaked online.

Monster Hunter Wilds has today received its latest update, fixing a number of issues.

Union rules state I can only stay in your pit trap for 60 seconds.

YouTuber iDeviceHelp on Friday posted a video that shows off mockups of Apple's forthcoming iPhone 17 models that are purportedly based on "internal documents." We're sharing the video here since it was made in collaboration with leaker Majin Bu, who last month published similar iPhone 17 renders that were widely corroborated by separate leakers with links to Apple's Chinese supply chain. Apple plans to significantly revamp the camera design on its upcoming iPhone 17 Pro models, moving away from...

If your ever-growing game collection is quickly filling up your available disk space, then this Samsung gaming SSD deal could be the answer. The 1TB Samsung 990 Evo Plus is now on sale at Amazon right now for just $72.09, saving you a huge 34% on the list price. Samsung is a trusted brand in the PC storage page, known for producing high-quality drives for all kinds of budgets, with several of its SSDs seeing recommendations in our best gaming SSD shortlist. The Samsung 990 Evo Plus is an incredi...

Leaving Suikoden in the dust. When a new Monster Hunter appears, you'd expect it to stick around in the top spot for a few weeks, right? Well, not if Hazelight has anything to say about it. The studio's latest co-op adventure, Split Fiction, has arrived with a bang in the UK charts this week, claiming pole position and pushing Monster Hunter Wilds down into second. The latest Sims 4 expansion makes its debut in third and Suikoden I & II HD Remaster arrives in fourth.

Here's a fun one to start your week off right. Modder Carl Asami has combined the worlds of Fallout with DOOM for you to blast through.

Paradox Interactive is celebrating ten years of Cities Skylines with an absolute mountain of content for both games in the series. Throughout the rest of the month, you can expect creator packs and radio stations for each game, as well as updates and a free-to-play period for the original. Paradox is even planning a subscription service for CS1, helping new players dive in.

One of the co-creators of the popular Roll20 virtual tabletop Roll20 has revealed Wyld Land, a free to play bullet hell MMO.

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 doesn't have an easy task ahead of it, and that's mainly thanks to its price. At $549 it has the same MSRP as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, and the new AMD GPU largely wins out in this battle. But this graphics card's bigger problem isn't Nvidia so much as AMD itself, with the substantially more powerful 9070 XT costing just $50 more. At the time of writing, there were also stock problems, despite reports pointing to a much bigger supply of this new AMD graphics card than t...

Pole position on our wishlists. During the MAR10 Day celebrations last year, Nintendo dropped a teaser for an upcoming Mario Kart 'big build' set - with a silhouette that showcased a more detailed kart than we had previously seen from the child-friendly builds. A year of silence ensued, but we'd expect our first official look to arrive later on today after an official LEGO retailer site revealed a bunch of details about the upcoming set. Mamma mia! According to the Australian LEGO Certified Stor...

I am so unbelievable excited to play Death Stranding 2, and the new 10 minute trailer gives us a healthy dose of what to expect from it.

A new trailer for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has dropped. It puts a ten-minute dent into the upcoming open world game's enigma, but the most tantalising question still remains: is Kojima using that subtitle to deliberately remind everybody of the original's most infamous scene? Bold choice if so, although not the only one. Here's the trailer, complete with familiar mechs and very familiar bandanas. See Konami, this is what happens when you pop out for five minutes to re-release Suikoden.

Previous rumors have suggested Apple is working on a foldable iPad Pro, and a new rumor today claims that one of Apple's prototypes for the device features under-display Face ID technology. According to Weibo-based leaker Digital Chat Station, one of Apple's engineering prototypes features an 18.8-inch foldable screen with a "metal superstructure lens" that integrates the receiver and transmitter components of Face ID for under-display facial recognition. The leaker provided no other information...

Definitely a more handsome docking solution, but with some major flaws.

Over the weekend, hectic 1v1 shooter Straftat got yet more free maps in an update. The developers added eight new cramped deathzones alongside a further four maps for owners of the "maps 'n' hats" DLC, then threw in a new submachine gun and a music player for good measure. But over on the game's Discord server, amid the mine-laying mercenaries and bum-sliding shootscum, the developers also held a poll that revealed future plans. They asked players what they'd prefer: a 2v2 mode or a four-player ...

VoxeLibre the free and open source Minecraft-like game available via Luanti (formerly Minetest), just had another big release made available. The new v0.89 brings lots of improvements to gameplay and performance.

A new filing from the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has confirmed multiple Switch 2 features.

Featuring four new tracks. MAR10 Day is finally upon us, and Nintendo is wasting no time getting the show on the road as it has revealed a fresh Alarmo theme to celebrate the occasion. Super Mario Bros. has landed some Alarmo fame this time, with four tracks from the legendary NES platformer making the jump to the interactive clock later today. We don't know every song that will be arriving in this update, though the Japanese Nintendo website lets us hear a snippet of two new tracks: the Overwor...

New week, new PC games, new Maw liveblog, hungering for our headlines! But first, the obligatory paragraph of twaddle: lately I've been wondering whether we should put the Maw on a diet. The creature may be indiscriminate, but we news sentinels have noticed that stuffing the Gorging Chutes with certain story flavours can produce... eruptions. Our pataphysical nutritionists have accordingly devised a new regimen of no more than two Bethesda headlines a week, plus at least one game marketed as a "...

Paradox and Colossal Order have announced that to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Cities: Skylines that both the original and sequel are getting updates (and of course more DLC).

After its VR catalogue was removed from the Meta Store earlier this year, Insomniac has announced the affected games are now making a return.

The big and impressive Baldur's Gate 3 mod for Stardew Valley is out now bringing with it a bunch of new content for fans of both games.

Due Process the tactical FPS from Giant Enemy Crab is seeing a small resurgence thanks to the recent big discount and renewed development, and so their team have given it a permanent price drop now.

Back in August 2024, Microsoft donated (or offloaded if you wish) the Mono project to the Wine team, and now the first post-move release is out under the new name Framework Mono.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will be released on 26th June 2025.

For Corsair fans you should check out ckb-next, an open source driver with a full UI to let you properly configure you devices on Linux. A new version 0.6.1 is out now.

Back for second helpings.

It's time for us to again delve into the latest changes hitting the newest release of Dolphin Emulator. If you've been keeping tabs on development channels, you'll know there are some exciting bombshell features waiting for us just over the horizon. Unfortunately, given the close proximity to this release, we've decided to hold a lot of them off so they can get more widespread testing in the development builds before hitting a release. Think of the March 2025 release as an iterative improvement ...