ConnexionI don't know why everyone's suddenly making games inspired by Spore, but this roguelike twin-stick shooter might be the best attempt yet at realising the lost potential of the cell stage
You can play a free demo of Pathogenic on Steam right now.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 continues its awards sweep, getting 8 out of 9 nominations at the GDCA
As Britney said, "gimme more."
Audio devices that use Google's Fast Pair Bluetooth tech are vulnerable to hacks that could track location or listen to the mic, according to researchers
Google's still working on a complete fix, but a partial solution is available.
Arc Raiders has released its Cold Snap numbers, and only 8% of raiders managed to finish their Candleberry Banquet
Oh, also, 91 people got knocked out by snowballs.
With The Division 3 still in early development, series boss Julian Gerighty leaves Ubisoft to work on Battlefield instead
Gerighty hasn't said exactly what he's doing, but he'll be doing it at Battlefield Studios.
Pricing crisis, schmicing crisis: Here are 3 reasonably priced 1 TB SSDs that cost much less than $150 each
There is still sensibly priced system storage out there.
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain boils RPGs down into 9 different types of quests, but warns "more of one thing means less of another"
Developers only have a finite amount of time to code, so more quests can often mean more bugs.
SK Hynix's unique way of chopping cells in two is a big step in making PLC flash memory chips viable and could offer a solution to ballooning SSD prices
Though we're still some way off from seeing the light at the end of the AI-induced tunnel.
Sonic Racing: Crossworlds review
A robust kart racer to rival Nintendo's own, though one which comes with plenty of similar baggage.
Capcom shills a $2,175 watch by insisting that 'In Resident Evil Requiem, time is a main character'
"A rugged all-black timepiece with bullet-inspired pushers and a wing detail at 9 o'clock honoring fallen comrades."
Sony Inzone H9 II review
Great cans, let down by a substantial price tag.
Apple is no longer the apple of TSMC's eye, with Nvidia taking centre stage in the supply of wafers, according to one report
It essentially comes down to whoever is willing to pay the most and AI tops them all.
There are a surprising number of programs designed to randomly kill processes on your computer until it crashes—or you wimp out
Process roulette is the name of the game.
Asus and MSI have now both clarified the RTX 5070 Ti hasn't received an end-of-life status
Asus has officially echoed its response to us yesterday and MSI has confirmed it has "no plans to EoL anything."
Yakuza Kiwami 3 includes the first official emulation of 2 bizarro Sega arcade games, including one like Crazy Taxi but you're racing an ambulance to the hospital before a patient bleeds to death
Forget all that yakuza drama. Time to play some obscure arcade games.
Yakuza Kiwami 3's new expansion basically turns it into a breakneck roguelite dungeon crawl, complete with random drops and goofy sidekicks
It's like fight club, only you're Yakuza Batman.
Resident Evil Requiem was originally a tense, stealth-oriented horror starring only Leon, before the team went back to the drawing board: 'People wouldn't want to see a timid Leon'
Capcom is combining all the different intensities of Resi into one game.
Embark dev teases Arc Raiders 2026 roadmap with 'multiple maps coming this year' that span 'a spectrum of size'
The next roadmap is coming "sometime soon."
Dawn of War 4's combat director goes even further than the original game's sync-kill animations: 'I don't think any RTS has really done anything like this in the past'
If there's only going to be war in the far future, at least it'll look sick as hell.
The JRPG veteran responsible for Persona and Megami Tensei is working on a 'school life RPG' with the Neptunia series studio
Kouji Okada is joined by two other Atlus veterans.
