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Classic Pokémon games like FireRed and LeafGreen are much more grindy than recent installments like Pokémon Legends Z-A.

There is so much to love about Dell's new XPS 14, it's hard for me to discuss it without sounding like a total fanboy. Its new design makes it incredibly thin and light. And Intel's Panther Lake chips give it a ton of power, even when it comes to games. After reviving the XPS brand from last year's ignominious rebranding, it's as if Dell was laser-focused on fixing all the issues we've had with the XPS 14 so far.  Unfortunately, a shallow, unresponsive and hilariously error-prone keyboard kept m...

Redemption is here. 2015 marked a low point for the Tales series. Tales of Zestiria was an underwhelming entry despite its exciting battle system. With a boring plot and mostly unimpressive characters, it wasn’t exactly an entry to write home about, at least for me. However, the follow-up entry, 2017’s Tales of Berseria, was nothing short of a redemption story. As a prequel set a thousand years prior to Zestiria, Berseria’s revenge plot and ragtag gang of scoundrels made for a tempting adventure...

Yesterday, Julian wrote about the possibility of changing inheritance laws in Total War: Medieval 3, and thereby revealed to me that Creative Assembly have been sneakily talking in depth about the forthcoming strategy game on their forums. The audacity of those people! In other posts, we learn about their plans for standing armies, which I think are probably what interests me most about TwarMed3, in that each campaign will be an exercise in getting to the point where standing armies are a thing.

The pace of levelling in Diablo 4 is going to change when Blizzard releases the Lord of Hatred expansion on 28th April.

Fresh-faced Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has confirmed that Project Helix will “lead in performance” and run both your console and PC games.

The Pokémon Company has released a statement objecting the use of a Pokémon Pokopia meme by the Trump administration.

The Pokémon Company has issued a statement addressing the White House's use of Pokémon Pokopia branding to promote the MAGA slogan

Marathon sprinted out of the blocks yesterday, so naturally some folks have already seen its credits. One of people listed in those credits is an especially noteworthy inclusion, with Antireal (or 4nt1r34l) - an artist whose work Bungie were caught using in the shooter without permission - having been credited as a consultant on the game.

Right off the back of the iPhone 17e, new iPads and MacBook Airs, Apple also announced a keenly priced new laptop. The MacBook Neo is a multi-colored low-cost Mac ($599), running on an iPhone chipset with most but not all of the hardware features you find on the MacBook Air and Pro. All models of the MacBook Neo ship with an extremely scant 8GB of RAM, which might be the main productivity bottleneck for demanding tasks. The Neo has a 13-inch Retina display, a 1080p webcam, two USB-C ports, a hea...

Mega Crit have a massive success on their hands with the Early Access release of Slay the Spire 2, smashing records across the Steam store

It will be investing $30 billion, though. Pocket change for Nvidia, surely.

Now's the time to stock up on your chrono tokens.

Bungie's Marathon reboot released yesterday, but you might not get that impression from the developer's coverage embargo guidelines, which request that critics delay their "full review and impressions" until the launch of a "pinnacle endgame zone and experience" later in March. It's a "request/suggestion", not a demand, but it rubs me up the wrong way regardless. The Marathon reboot is not an early access launch that is marketed to buyers as unfinished.

The UK government is working on a controversial data bill that would allow AI companies like Google and OpenAI to train their models on copyrighted materials without consent. However, following a two month consultation, it looks like passage of the law will be delayed. "Copyright is going to be kicked down the road," a person with knowledge of the matter told The Financial Times.  Responses by stakeholders during the consultation period weren't favorable to any of the government's proposed ideas...

There are more characters in Slay the Spire 2 than in the previous game, here’s who they are, and how you can go about unlocking them all.

Gambonanza is easily one of the top games demos I played during Steam Next Fest, and now we know it's going to release on May 1st

Microsoft have moved quickly to shut down the speculation that Asha Sharma's recent appointment as Xbox boss might be a harbinger of the company moving out of the console hardware for good. Sharma has announced that Xbox's next-gen console is codenamed Project Helix and, much more intriguingly, will play PC games as well as Xbox ones.

Just let me buy the exact amount, I beg you.

A rundown of everything announced, reported, leaked, and rumored about the next-gen Xbox, including, release date, price, and specs

"no permission was granted". Ahead of the release of Pokémon Pokopia for Switch 2, fans have been passing the time by posting memes via a font generator from Pixel Frame, recreating the Pokopia logo with custom text. Someone on The White House's social media team apparently caught wind of this and created its own image using the Pokopia font generator. The resulting image was posted on X on 5th March 2026, containing the words "make america great again", imitating the Pokopia logo with the game'...

The entanglement of war with simulation continues with the discovery that a video of a US battleship shooting down an Iranian fighter jet is very likely a clip from videogame War Thunder, depicting ordnance from the World War 2 era. The clip in question has circulated on social media to the tune of millions of views. It has also been shared around by at least one sitting US Republican statesman, Texas governor Greg Abbott, who reposted it with the caption "Bye bye". The tweet in question has sin...

Marathon, the sci-fi extraction shooter from Bungie, released yesterday on PC and consoles and, while still the same core experience as the popular Server Slam, a few bugs have crept into the full launch. The most bizarre of those: a glitch that allows Deluxe Edition owners to max out the season one reward pass in a matter of minutes.

Reikon Games are doing a follow-up to the popular RUINER from 2017, with RUINER 2 set to return to the brutal world but this time with optional co-op

Nintendo Switch 2 owners will soon be able to get their hands on award-winning indie game, Kena: Bridge of Spirits. The game, which initially made its debut in 2021 on PlayStation and PC before arriving on Xbox in 2024, is slated for a Nintendo debut this spring.

Xbox has shared a brief but key update about its next generation console.

Pragmata - the long-in-the-works sci-fi game from Capcom - has a new release date. This time though, it isn't delayed.

Valve have announced major changes for Steam developer and publisher pages, allowing devs to customize them a lot more to their liking

The new CEO of of Microsoft Gaming, Asha Sharma, confirmed something that has been widely speculated for a while that could be bad news for the Steam Machine

We've already covered how California has a new operating system age-checking law coming into force next year - but many more US states also have plans

The Lord of the Rings Gollum is one of the worst things to happen to me since I had a vasectomy, and it’s under $5 right now with this bundle.

In a new blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has admitted that it received a letter from the Defense Department, officially labeling it a supply chain risk. He said he doesn’t “believe this action is legally sound,” and that his company sees “no choice” but to challenge it in court. Hours before Amodei published the post, the Pentagon announced that it notified the company that its “products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately.” If you’ll recall, the Defense Department (calle...

Casual, Ranked and much more! In its latest Spotlight broadcast, Mega Man series producer Shingo Izumi detailed the online mode in Mega Man Star Force: Legacy Collection for the Switch.

Apple and the Sydney Opera House today announced a yearlong collaboration to help inspire the next generation of creatives in Australia. The effort will expand access to initiatives that support art, design, and culture in the country. Through this collaboration, Apple and the Opera House will focus on interactive programming and experiences for young people in Australia. Apple said it will be the founding partner of a new international children's festival being presented later this year. Apple ...

The game was rigged from the start.