Here's how to watch Clair Obscur, KCD2 and others jostle for GOTY at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025

18 Nov 2025 17:40

Audentes fortuna iuvat, you know.

Stella Montis condenses everything I love about Arc Raiders by cramming it all into a cramped facility of pure chaos

18 Nov 2025 17:39

This might be my favorite map yet.

How to find and kill a Matriarch in Arc Raiders

18 Nov 2025 17:26

Even scarier than the Queen.

Mass Effect 3 redeemed to glory as modder puts its ME1-style elevator back in

18 Nov 2025 17:21

I wrote elevators in the headline for the benefit of my American brothers, but from this point on it's strictly lifts.

Anthropic reports the first 80-90% 'AI-orchestrated' cyber espionage campaign, but cybersecurity critics are sceptical

18 Nov 2025 17:20

"Why do the models give these attackers what they want 90% of the time but the rest of us have to deal with asskissing, stonewalling and acid trips?"

A UK trial scheme is attempting to cut heating costs for households with shed-sized mini data centres

18 Nov 2025 17:06

Getting a lot of heat—literally.

PC and smartphone markets forecast to shrink in 2026 due to higher prices as memory supply crisis escalates and threatens to spoil Black Friday for PC fans

18 Nov 2025 17:05

Get your PC purchases in ASAP, peeps.

Battlefield 6 is putting on a week-long free trial to celebrate the latest seasonal content, which brings the warzone to an affluent Californian neighbourhood

18 Nov 2025 17:05

It's a great chance to convert your non-Battlefield 6 playing friends.

The developer of 80 Days was once invited to pitch a Doctor Who game, but never heard back from the BBC afterward: 'Technically, we're still waiting for a reply'

18 Nov 2025 16:42

And that's how we ended up with Heaven's Vault.

Starting at $550, these two Alienware OLED ultrawide gaming monitor deals are making me hopeful for a bumper Black Friday

18 Nov 2025 16:30

It's nice to have options, isn't it?

'Elon [Musk] truly would be the best owner of any game company,' claims former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick with a completely straight face

18 Nov 2025 16:23

"I'm pretty good at videogames," said Musk.

Thermaltake View 390 Air review

18 Nov 2025 16:22

Let there be light!

Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick wanted to buy Minecraft until he found out Notch was leaving and Microsoft was offering a billion dollars more: 'I'll go airplane shopping with you, but you've gotta take that offer'

18 Nov 2025 16:15

And now Microsoft owns both of them.

This speedrunner has been making a glorious multi-handheld gaming PC body harness rig for IRL game streaming on the move

18 Nov 2025 16:06

And that's a sentence I'm glad I can now utter.

Demonschool review

18 Nov 2025 16:00

If the apocalypse comes, beep me.

Overwatch 2's newest hero has roots in one of the best PvE missions I played 7 years ago

18 Nov 2025 15:48

Looks like we're going with Hero 45.

When Assassin's Creed's infamously dull main character was finally killed off, voice actor Nolan North didn't find out until a fan told him about it on Twitter

18 Nov 2025 15:37

But there might be life in Desmond Miles yet.

Russia just added Stalker dev GSC to its no-no list of 'undesirable organisations', sobs that Stalker 2 promoted 'Ukrainian narratives' and 'aggressive Russophobic content'

18 Nov 2025 15:35

The Prosecutor General's Office accuses GSC of "promoting Ukrainian narratives."

Staring down the barrel of a rough 2026, Ubisoft's UK arm says we're less interested in 'one time purchase' games and all about that live service dripfeed

18 Nov 2025 15:18

I'm not sure about that one, chief—or at least I can be, for $9.99 a month.

I've already spotted an OLED RTX 5060 gaming laptop for under $1,000 in the early Black Friday sales and it's a bit of a peach

18 Nov 2025 15:07

It's a shame about the small SSD, but you can't have everything for this sort of cash.

You might want to crack open Armoury Crate as Asus has some 'BIG' updates for the ROG Xbox Ally X and non-X, plus some smaller ones for the older ROG handhelds

18 Nov 2025 15:07

BIG.little updates?

I might just play more News Tower instead of going to therapy

18 Nov 2025 15:00

This newspaper management sim may or may not be good for my health.

Arc Raiders' new Deadline mine is so effective that it can one-shot a Bastion, tear a Leaper apart, and help destroy a Queen arc in just 10 minutes

18 Nov 2025 14:34

Put a Deadline on an enemy that will leap towards you, and see what happens.

State-level crackdowns in the US threaten to 'break VPN access for the entire internet,' claims online privacy nonprofit

18 Nov 2025 14:33

In other news, my DMs remain unread.

OLED PC monitor sales are booming, up 65% on last year with Asus leading the charge

18 Nov 2025 13:55

Fancy an OLED monitor this Black Friday?

Cloudflare goes down, but a fix is in and ChatGPT and X are back online again

18 Nov 2025 13:41

This is just weeks after the AWS outage.

Super-fast gaming mice that weigh less than a feather are all well and good, but what the market really needs are more options for fit and feel, just like the Orbital Pathfinder

18 Nov 2025 13:05

Mousing it your way.