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Beyond Words is part of Steam Next Fest.

Gordon Gekko would approve...

Samsung’s ready to launch its first new devices of 2026, and it’s got an Unpacked event in San Francisco to stream everything. The keynote starts at 10AM PT (1PM ET) and will be livestreamed on YouTube. The announcement on February 10 also said this launch will mark “a new phase in the era of AI as intelligence becomes truly personal and adaptive.” What are we expecting? Based on leaked images of the new lineup, the company is not likely to have radically reinvented the look of the Galaxy S26, G...

Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors has a demo out now for Steam Next Fest, and I've given it a run through to see the chaos

Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, is reportedly under criminal investigation by Russian authorities for “abetting terrorist activities.” According to the Financial Times, state-run publications are accusing Durov of enabling attacks on Russia and Telegram of becoming an intelligence tool for Ukraine and the west. Telegram was one of the apps that Russia blocked in the country just a few days ago, along with WhatsApp, in what seemed to be an effort to push local users towards the unencrypted ...

Crack open the safe in Stella Montis.

Apple CEO Tim Cook was among a handful of top tech executives who attended a classified CIA briefing warning that China could attack Taiwan by 2027, according to a sweeping investigative report by The New York Times ($). The previously unreported briefing was apparently held in a secure room in Silicon Valley in July 2023. The meeting is said to have been arranged at the request of the then-commerce secretary Gina Raimondo, who had grown frustrated with the tech industry's reluctance to move chi...

In response to exciting claims that a standalone Call of Duty Zombies game could be in the works, Activision tells fans "this ain't it."

All active Garden Horizons codes for Shillings and seed packs.

Let me slash the tendons of that strutting headline with some immediate caveats. Most obviously, you will not like Cicamadata” if you have an overpowering hatred of feisty punctuation in game titles. You will not like it if you're averse to abstract and ostentatiously computerised, 'product design' art direction that is somehow both bright and foggy, crisp and distorted. You won’t like it if you really dislike artisanal glitches and general HUD palaver – cockroach text scuttling across the view;...

I think I'll skip this particular patch.

A new interview with Roblox's head of parental advocacy Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov has touched on the subject of children's safety on the platform, as well how easy it is for children to be exposed to unregulated content. This, according to Milovidov, is a "challenge".

King of Meat's reign is ending. The game will end service on April 9, less than a year after its October 2025 debut. The Amazon Games-published title will be playable until that date, but will then be taken entirely offline.  "Despite the creativity and innovation Glowmade brought to King of Meat, the game has unfortunately not found the audience we hoped for," the announcement read.  Developer Glowmade had high hopes for King of Meat, its debut game, but it fell starkly short of expectations. T...

Ends Meat. Despite being announced for Switch back in 2024 and even being given an "early 2026" release window last year, Amazon Games and Glowmade have today announced that the party platformer King of Meat will be shutting up shop before it could make the jump to Nintendo systems. While the game has now been removed from all storefronts to prevent any new purchases, the King of Meat servers will be sticking around on all currently available platforms (Steam, Xbox Series and PS5) until 9th Apri...

Google's Pokémon minigame was originally introduced in 2025, but with the franchise's 30th anniversary approaching, it's become much more prominent.

The surprising appointment of Microsoft's CoreAI president Asha Sharma as head of Microsoft Gaming at the weekend - in conjunction with Microsoft Gaming boss Phil Spencer retiring and former Xbox president Sarah Bond suddenly departing - may actually be a genuine attempt by the company to turn Xbox's fortunes around. This slightly different read on the events of the past few days comes from The Verge, and a report compiled by long-time Microsoft reporter Tom Warren who spoke to "multiple" source...

Apple shipped 36.9 million iPhones in Europe in 2025, a 6% year-over-year growth which allowed the company to claim a record 27% share of the region's smartphone market, according to new research from analytics firm Omdia. The gains came even as the broader European smartphone market declined by 1% to 134.2 million units, which Omdia says was weighed down by softer demand and new regulations around eco-design requirements and mandatory USB-C ports. Apple's performance was driven by the iPhone 16...

The US Department of Defense has reportedly reached a deal to use Elon Musk's Grok in its classified systems, according to Axios. That follows news that the Pentagon is currently in a dispute with another AI company, Anthropic, over limits on its technology for things like mass surveillance. Last year, the White ordered Grok, along with ChatGPT, Gemini and Anthropic's Claude to be approved for government use. Up until now, though, only Anthropic's model has been allowed for the military's most s...

Excitement around Marathon's launch next week seems to finally be a thing, and this weekend's "server slam" aims to convince extraction shooter enjoyers on the fence. Ahead of it, Bungie has outlined a frankly impressive effort regarding networking and security features that will be implemented from the get-go.

Daniel Vávra, who has courted controversy throughout his reign as creative director at Warhorse, has stepped down, reports Czech media.

Across the Unknown is a gift for diehard fans of the series, but I’m struggling to see what this offers newcomers, and that’s a shame.

Where to catch 'em all. The annual Pokémon Day Presents showcase is rolling around once again this year, though there's a big birthday to celebrate this time as the series turns 30. Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen have already been revealed for Switch, but there's every chance that this year's event still has a surprise or two in store — and with 30 years of series history at its disposal, TPC has more than enough nostalgia to pull from.

Not long after changing their project's name from Fallout: Revelation Blues to Fallout: The New West, the developers behind a New Vegas mod remaking a cancelled Fallout game have settled on a release date for their second demo. The second publicly playable taste of this attempt to resurrect Van Buren - the version of Fallout 3 which was in development at Black Isle Studios before being cancelled in 2003 - is slated to arrive late next week.

Starting later this year, Apple will start manufacturing Mac minis meant for sale in the US within the country. The company took The Wall Street Journal on a tour of its Houston facility, where Foxconn is also building servers for Apple Intelligence, and was shown an empty warehouse. Apple says it will turn the space into a 220,000 square feet plant where it will produce the compact desktop computers. The decision to produce Mac minis for local sales within the US is part of the company’s effort...

In case you missed it, Friday saw news arrive of a substantial corporate reshuffle at the top of Microsoft's gaming division. CEO Phil Spencer was revealed to be retiring at the same time Xbox president Sarah Bond was revealed to have resigned, leaving new boss and former president of Microsoft CoreAI Asha Sharma to don the crown of green plastic. A report from The Verge has now offered a bit more detail as to how all this chair-switching went down, and unsurprisingly, it reads like an account f...

WhatsApp developers are working to bring scheduled messages to the Meta-owned platform, reports WABetaInfo. A scheduled message allows users to type a message and choose a specific date and time for it to be sent automatically. Telegram already has the feature, while Apple has offered a similar Send Later option in its Messages app since iOS 18. While the feature is yet to be functioning in the latest WhatsApp beta on TestFlight, WABetaInfo shared an image showing a new Scheduled Messages option...

Tesla is suing California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to reverse a ruling that prevented the automaker from using the terms "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving" to sell cars, CNBC reported. That follows a December ruling by a California administrative law judge that forced Tesla to clean up its marketing language or risk a suspension of its sales license. Last week, the DMV determined that Tesla had made the necessary changes, including changing the name to "Full Self-Driving (Supervised...

Crimson Desert is one of my most anticipated games of 2026, and you could get it and two other titles for just $5 in the new Fanatical VIP Mystery Bundle.

No lollipop for you. In some other game delay news this week, Dragami Games has announced Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP - Switch 2 Edition (and its upgrade pack) will no longer arrive on 26th March 2026. In a post on social media, the team has revealed how significant updates for both the Switch 2 and Switch release have led to this delay. A new release date will be announced when the team has completed these preparations.

FireRed leads in the top spot. Following a surprise announcement at the end of last week, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen from the Game Boy Advance generation are making a grand return on 27th February 2026.

Apple today announced that Foxconn will begin assembling some Mac mini computers at a factory in Houston, Texas later this year. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple's operations chief Sabih Khan said U.S. assembly of some Mac mini units is part of the company's previously-announced commitment to invest $600 billion in the U.S. by August 2029. Mac mini units assembled in the U.S. will primarily serve the U.S. market, while production will continue in Asia for orders abroad, accord...

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April is the new March. The noir-style cartoon detective FPS Mouse: P.I. for Hire was scheduled to arrive on Switch 2 next month, but it seems there's been a slight delay. Instead of its 19th March 2026 release, this title will launch on 16th April 2026. In a notice on social media, the development team said it wanted to deliver the best game possible, and just needs a few more weeks:

It's time to blast "Mario Land" and other bangers. After the surprise release of the Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Game Boy Advance album last week, Nintendo Music is seemingly back to its regular schedule in terms of weekly updates. With this in mind, today it's added an absolute banger, it's the soundtrack for the 1992 Game Boy title Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins starring Mario and Wario! This album features tracks such as "Mario Land" and "Star Course". In total, it offers 35 tracks and...

The Battle Brothers makers have done it again, this time with a platoon-scale wargame.