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When it eventually drops. Back in December, Nintendo announced that the 2025 edition of its annual 'Year in Review' — where your play stats for the year are collected and displayed in a fun little round-up — wouldn't be arriving until January this time. We're still waiting for further word, although at this stage we'd imagine it'll be coming next week. One thing worth noting beforehand, however, is that you'll need to have the appropriate settings turned on for your Nintendo Account in order to ...

A fresh update on the upcoming game Hytale which will no doubt be quite popular, and it will have what they now say is "experimental" Linux support.

The very popular gaming-focused Bazzite Linux has a fresh release out that ended 2025 with a little spring cleaning, and I've finally joined the ranks.

According to a new report, both AMD and Nvidia will raise the prices of their consumer GPUs "significantly" this year. If this report is true, both companies will have pushed these price hikes by next month.

Elon Musk's Grok AI has been allowing users to transform photographs of woman and children into sexualized and compromising images, Bloomberg reported. The issue has created an uproar among users on X and prompted an "apology" from the bot itself. "I deeply regret an incident on Dec. 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an AI image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user's prompt," Grok said in a post. An X representative has yet to comment on the matter....

Another loss for game preservation and history, River City Ransom: Underground is being delisted from stores.

Space Invaders! Pritto Prisoner! Bundles!? The latest Nintendo Download update for North America arrived yesterday, and today we're combining it with the Christmas Day download we missed last week. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week.Switch 2 eShop - New ReleasesARCADE ARCHIVES 2 SPACE INVADERS (Hamster, 25th Dec) - "SPACE INVADERS" is a shooting game released by TAITO in 1978. The origin of the masterpiece that once captiva...

Another fresh release of the community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton, bringing fixes for some popular games and an issue with spatial audio.

Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025, bringing with it a fresh look at how Linux / SteamOS are doing on Steam.

The first bug fix release of 2026 for the open source graphics drivers Mesa is here with Mesa 25.3.3 out now.

After years of AMD's latest GPUs failing to make any significant dent on Valve's register of Steam-user hardware, their time has finally arrived.

Fender Audio, the consumer electronics arm of the instrument maker, will introduce two flagship audio products at this year's CES in Las Vegas. These products were made under a licensing agreement with Singapore-based company RiffSound. First up is a line of Bluetooth speakers dubbed the ELIE (Extremely Loud Infinitely Expressive). The lineup includes two models, the E6 and E12. The speakers leverage a combination of DSP and system-on-a-chip processing, which Fender says can deliver more volume ...

It's been known for months now that technology giant Lenovo is hosting its Tech World event at Sphere in Las Vegas during CES week. Like many other tech conglomerates, the world's largest PC manufacturer by units shipped will put its main focus on AI. Lenovo says it's a "Tech World experience unlike anything CES has seen before." We'll tell you where to livestream the event and what to expect so far. How to watch the Lenovo CES 2026 event live Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang will host the event on Tues...

Underrated 'slow life' role-playing game Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time - which stole a lot of my time last year on Switch 2 - has just received an exciting new year content drop.

With the Rust Naval update just one month out, Facepunch Studios discusses its 2026 plans, from new monuments and models to animal breeding.

Instagram’s top exec Adam Mosseri expects AI content to overtake non-AI imagery and discussed the implications for the platform and users. Mosseri shared his thoughts on broader trends he expects to shape Instagram in 2026. “Everything that made creators matter — the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn’t be faked — is now suddenly accessible to anyone with the right tools,” he wrote. “The feeds are starting to fill up with synthetic everything.” He added: “There is alread...

2026 is going to be an unpredictable year for video games, but there are a few big trends to watch out for.

CS Legacy was meant to be a Source 2013 remake of the original Counter-Strike experience, but it sounds like it won't get over the line.

Is there really going to be a new paid expansion released for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2026? Because that's the suggestion I've seen. That's the rumour that's been ricocheting around the internet while I've been trying to enjoy a leftover sandwich this holiday.

The price of an obscure PS4 game is skyrocketing on the second-hand market, thanks to its necessity in a new PS5 jailbreak. This game, of which 1,000 or less physical copies were produced, has suddenly become a hot commodity among jailbreak enthusiasts and resellers alike.

Naoki Yoshida’s New Year message offers some sly hints towards the FF14 8.0 expansion and “an especially significant” step for the MMORPG.

It's a big year for gaming anniversaries. There are five massive series that turn 40 years old in 2026 - The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Dragon Quest, Kid Icarus, and Castlevania - whilst Sonic the Hedgehog turns 35, and Persona and Pokémon both turn 30. There's probably a lot of celebratory stuff coming over the next 12 months, but let's start with a franchise we know is getting some attention this year before anything else: Persona.

The Swiss minimal phone pioneer Punkt is back with another model, the MC03. The new handset continues Punkt's focus on privacy, security and digital minimalism. If you've never seen Punkt's MP01 and MP02, the company's gorgeously minimal dumb phone line, they're something to behold. (The MP01 is quite literally a museum piece, in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.) Meanwhile, this new MC03 is the company's second stab at a more practical touchscreen smartphone, following 2023’s MC02. What you lose...

Build cities on massive trees, on steampunk trains, and even on the back of a cosmic whale.

We finally have the technology to present users with a chronological list of content. They said it couldn't be done.

Better late than never. If you're a fan of pixel art RPGs with a hint of Pokémon in its gameplay, then you'll want to keep an eye out for Navinosuke – The Yo-kai Buster – on the Switch. Originally developed in the early 2000s but never officially released, it's now been updated with improved UI and gameplay for modern audiences. Developer KOHACHI STUDIO announced the revival back in June 2025, but renewed interest online in recent days has compelled us to highlight it (and the release of a certa...

Elias Toufexis, the voice actor behind robotic employee of the year and Deus Ex main character Adam Jensen, has assured fans that a new entry in the sci-fi series will not be coming in 2026, as the people in charge are "psychopaths".

Plus, Dispatch, Deadlock, Resident Evil Requiem, Pathologic 3, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy, Cultic, Tides of Tomorrow, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, and much more, too

ESRB rating for 'Enchanted Wonderland' sighted. Konami has been making a bit of a comeback recently, with the studio diving back into the world of 'AAA' game development with titles such as Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill f, and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. It also launched Survival Kids as a launch title for the Switch 2, though we suspect that one didn't make much of a splash, sadly. Now, Konami appears to be preparing a new game for the Switch titled Enchanted Wonderland, as an ESRB rating...

Giant franchises like Star Wars, Toy Story, Avengers: Doomsday, go toe to toe with new horror movies and Dune 3.

Grab the latest Primogems for the Luna 4 special program.

One of these things is more controversial than the other.

Starlink will lower the orbits of roughly 4,400 satellites this year as a safety measure, according to engineering VP, Michael Nicolls. In a post on X, Nicolls wrote that the company is "beginning a significant reconfiguration of its satellite constellation," in which all satellites orbiting at around 550 kilometers (342 miles) will be lowered to around 480 km (298 miles). The move is intended to reduce the risk of collisions, putting the satellites in a region that's less cluttered and will all...

Persona celebrates 30 years in 2026. Imagineer, the developer behind Fitness Boxing, appears to be teasing a new collab with the Persona series. An official post on the Fitness Boxing social media account has shared some dialogue, and it's displayed with a Persona 5-style user interface. Here's what it says, according to a translation (via Gematsu):

Samsung has upgraded its Freestyle portable projector for 2026. The company announced a new model, the Freestyle+, ahead of CES, touting twice the brightness of its predecessor at 430 ISO lumens, and AI-powered screen optimization features. As with Freestyles past, the Freestyle+ offers 180-degree rotation and 360-degree audio. This one also supports Q-Symphony so it'll work with some Samsung soundbars. Samsung hasn't revealed much else in the way of specs or pricing, but it'll be showing off th...