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Newly-appointed Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma, has now spent over 100 days in her new role. Speaking recently at Bloomberg Tech Live, the executive was asked yet again about the company's stance on exclusivity for first-party games, and whether or not this can even be managed when Microsoft is also one of the largest third-party publishers in the world.

The company said this week it would comply with President Trump's voluntary AI executive order.

Marathon seems to have fallen upon controversy yet again, as a discounted deluxe edition version of the game bought by many PlayStation users does not actually include the full game.

Vertigo Games, known for its VR work, is closing its Amsterdam studio.

Just under 1000 days ago, or about two and a half years ago if you measure time like a normal person, Microsoft completed their acquisition of Activision Blizzard following a lengthy legal process. It cost $68.7 billion and meant Xbox's parent company now lorded over the likes of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch. Not a small thing for the corporate behemoth to have done, then. Looking back in 2026, was it a shrewd move? Well, amid some bigging up of the series I just mentioned, cur...

The Dota 2 7.41d patch notes bring Arc Warden and Nature’s Prophet buffs, and a Phoenix nerf, but it’s all about Axe’s Sense of Foreboding.

Nintendo has released 12 games on Switch 2 in its first year. We've ranked all Nintendo first-party games on Switch 2 from worst to best.

Big and beautiful.

Arm CPU cores, a powerful GPU and gobs of unified RAM? That sounds familiar!

Steam Deck / Big Picture Mode users rejoice, the newer Steam Store home page has been fully upgraded and rolled out to everyone now

NVIDIA launches a powerful AI-ready notebook chip, NASA ends a Mars mission and Meta's still looking into glasses-based facial recognition.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has published his WWDC preview ahead of Monday's keynote, and while almost all of the iOS 27 features he covers have already made the rounds, there are a couple of details worth highlighting. As we've covered previously, Apple is turning Siri into a full chatbot that users can interact with, similar to Claude or ChatGPT. The Siri chatbot will be integrated into Apple's operating systems at the system level, and there will also be a Siri app for back-and-forth conversation...

Great vegetables.

Capcom has said why it is using generative AI in its business, stating its policy is "to improve the efficiency of routine operations so that our developers can devote more time to essential value creation".

Valorant’s latest patch has been buggy to say the least, but among all of its foibles, some players are gaming the shooter’s servers.

Swiss Army Man is a great comedy fantasy from the Everything Everywhere All at Once directors that hasn't quite hit cult status yet.

The centre-piece show of Summer Game Fest - the literal Summer Game Fest showcase - takes place tonight at 9pm UK time (10pm CEST / 5pm EDT / 2pm PDT), and we'll be covering all the news and announcements from it, live, right here in this article.

Mists of Pandaria Classic comes to a close with Siege of Orgrimmar, one of the most iconic raids in World of Warcraft's extensive history.

Switch 2 365. 5th June 2026 marks the first anniversary of Switch 2, the console we had known was coming for many months — years, even — before Nintendo officially unveiled it in January 2025. With US tariffs, global economic uncertainty, RAM-ageddon, and rising prices affecting all the platform holders, it's been a challenging period for the games industry, not least for a company launching hardware. And not just any hardware - the follow-up to Nintendo's best-selling console of all time.

With a thermal target of 400 W in its sights, this cooler might just be planned for handling Intel's mega-core Nova Lake

Our annual Summer Game Fest liveblog returns this evening, June 5th, for another up-to-the-minute updatening of all the news, trailers, and announcements unveiled during the Summer of Geoff’s main showcase. And, since it follows straight after, we’re sticking around for the indie-focused Day of the Devs. That’s - hang on - two liveblogs in one. Unprecedented, except for those times we did it before.

Sony has successfully made its State of Play showcase series into a brand that brings in millions of views with each episode. The most recent showcase, which took place 2nd June ahead of Summer Game Fest 2026, was apparently its biggest-ever, no matter which way you measure it.

For a while after it launched, I never felt like the PlayStation 5 Pro ever actually came out. You could argue Sony hasn't been promoting it well. The initial Ghost of Yotei reveal took place in a September 2024 State of Play, yet its trailer didn't include Pro footage, and the accompanying PS Blog post makes no mention of whether or not the game would support it. At that point, the Pro was mere days old - but you'd think the first major first-party title to be announced after the Pro's reveal w...

Google seems to be testing a new feature that will take you to AI Mode by default when you do a search in Chrome.

It's just a pet project, I'm told.

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This October, KDE will turn 30 and they're celebrating with an extra funding drive to try and attract more regular donation support

Simple things please simple minds.

Don't spend all your yen in one place.

Pearl Abyss is on quite the Crimson Desert patch roll, and has just released another update for its popular single player RPG spin-off from hit Korean MMO Black Desert. Just last week, the developer added the ability to remap your controller, and now it is gone and added new minigames and more.

New Deadlock patch notes transform the Soul Urn deposit into a King of the Hill style capture point, and it even has a hard time limit.

Nintendo has handled the Switch 2 price well in the face of tariffs, the RAM crisis, and hikes for Xbox, PS5, and Steam Deck

Hey you! You're finally awake – oh, hang on, I'm thinking of the other fantasy RPG in which you start out as a shackled prisoner. Today is release day for Alkimia Interactive and THQ Nordic's remake of Gothic, the 2001 first-person RPG from Piranha Bytes. It'll be live on Steam in a matter of hours, with a demo still available as of writing. While much plumped up with expanded questlines, more NPC routines, new traversal abilities and "modernized" combat, it's still broadly the same tale of a bu...

The largest index in the world won't relax its rules to let SpaceX enter early.