MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER(Image credit: Future)This week: Played loads of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 and realized he never really knew what he was doing in THUG 2 for the PS2.It's increasingly impossible to ignore how ugly Call of Duty has become. In the last few months alone, Black Ops 6 and Warzone have been infiltrated by cel-shaded Beavis and Butthead, American Dad, Jay and Silent Bob, and...

So long, pink checkerboards that represent missing textures! Adiós, pitch-black skies that signify an absent skybox! Don't let the door hit you on the way out, enormous 3D model that says ERROR where a car should be!Those have been common sights for users of Garry's Mod for, oh, let's see… 20 years or so? And one of the biggest culprits for those missing textures and models is that players didn't...

Sometimes the world delivers you a bit of proof that you've done a good job cultivating your online environment. For me, that proof was seeing RPG Site post on Bluesky about Ironwing Valiant: Record of Astera—a Valkyria Chronicles-inspired mecha action game from indie studio Tiger Team—and watching as a bunch of sickos near-instantly flooded my timeline with a unified, resounding "hell yeah."Looking at Ironwing Valiant's Steam page, it's not hard...

Following on from Microsoft's warning earlier this week that "active attacks" were targeting its SharePoint Server customers through a known exploit, the company has now released a blog post revealing more details about the breach. According to MS, on-premises SharePoint servers were determined to have been attacked by three allegedly Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and Storm-2603, via a known spoofing vulnerability and a remote code execution vulnerability.Reuters...

Just one week ago, I reported that we might have to wait until next year to see custom Arm processors from Nvidia. Now, we're hearing not only more sources saying the same and that a first-quarter 2026 initial roll-out is the goal, but also that this delay might be at least in part due to slow progress with Microsoft's "next-generation operating system."That's what "supply chain sources" say, as reported by...

Many PC hardware manufacturers were hit pretty hard by the announcement of Trump's sky-high tariffs on goods imported into the US from around the world back in April. Hyte among them. The case company delayed orders and diverted shipments to other regions, with some prices for stocked products increasing for US customers. Well, that's mostly going back to 'normal' now.Hyte has now announced many of its most popular cases will...

I'm at a bustling house party when I notice another guest standing completely still in a corner, not engaging with the crowd. I do what everyone does in a situation like this: I walk up behind them, point a revolver at the back of their head from a distance of roughly one millimeter, and pull the trigger.What happens next is what often happens in a situation like this: the guest,...

I feel a little stupid, reader. For the past five months, since Monster Hunter Wilds released, I've been keeping a weather eye on its event quests and grabbing up every unique time-gated cosmetic I could, including those from the Festival of Accord: Blossomdance.Altogether, it amounts to a whole heap of really good cosmetics, including a lifelike Palico head (that's not at all creepy), a Wudwud outfit for my Palico, and...

I love cool collaborations as it's often the key to delivering some of the funkiest looking tech and peripherals around. Or sometimes the worst ones. Razer is one brand known to deliver a little of each with stylish and cute collabs like the Kuromi collection and bright gloriously ugly ones like the gear themed after a Minecraft Creeper. The brand has recently announced its newest collaboration with a new Pokemon...

I have been on the wireless mouse bandwagon since I first felt the joys of gliding sans cable drag. As they've developed, latency is almost a thing of the past, and now the only real downside to a wireless mouse is remembering to charge it. Not for me, mind, as I'm a big fan of charging mouse mat solutions. Unfortunately, they need mice that work with them, which is why...