Playdate received an oddity called Blippo Plus earlier this year. It turns the handheld console into a strange little television, so that twisting the crank feels akin to switching channels on an old analog TV dial. Sometimes you'll find a cryptic animation, or else a live action musical performance. Some channels show a mysteriously static logo, whereas others might feature a full-blown variety show. It all plays out in real...

A megacorporation's research ship returns from a 65-year mission into deep space loaded with gooey alien specimens. But—and stop me if you've heard this one before—something goes wrong. The ship crashes on Earth, and just to complicate things, it crashes into a city run by a rival corporation.Now it's a mad dash to search the shipwreck (and the cyberpunk skyscraper it crashed into) and capture all that profitable yet slimy...

Capcom's efforts to make Monster Hunter Wilds better have, for some players, instead succeeded in making it worse. The studio says it's aware of a bug introduced in the new 1.021 update that's causing crashes, and it's now working on a fix.Reports of crashes began to surface on Reddit shortly after the 1.021 update rolled out, and sure enough, shortly after that Capcom admitted there's a problem."We are aware of...

While Nintendo might've found a way to bring Pocketpair to court over patents it arguably shouldn't have been awarded in the first place, it's telling that even its military-grade legal hit squad didn't try to nail Palworld for its Pokemon knockoffery. But while I'll defend Palworld's legal right to pretend Dinossom isn't just Lilligant's flower and Meganium's face stapled to a green Goodra body, that doesn't make it any less...

As you may already be aware, I have a penchant for all things cute in the hardware sphere—and that means mini PCs absolutely command my attention. All that power in such a small footprint? Delightful! But even more head turning is Framework's latest entrant into the space.The Framework Desktop has got it all: an appealingly itty bitty form factor, a convenient carry handle, and a surprising amount of technical oomph...

We've all been there, right? Thermal paste splattered all over the CPU socket? No? Just me and that guy from The Verge? Whatever, the prospect of replacing thermal paste with a neat, long-lasting pad is still intriguing. And that's exactly what cooling specialist Carbice and PC maker Cyberpower claim to have delivered thanks to the novel use of carbon nanotubes.Of course, carbon nanotubes are one of those wonder materials that...

Brian Hicks, former DayZ creative director, co-creator of the whole battle royale genre, and current creative director of 775 Interactive, wants players to have more control over their games.Chatting to us about his long career in survival games—including the time DayZ's creators got obsessed with a little educational game before becoming embroiled in a contentious presidential campaign—Hicks brought up his time working with Hinterland on Blackfrost: The Long Dark 2."When...

The actor behind Astarion, Neil Newbon, has gone on record as being keen to play Astarion again. Everyone's favourite spawn from Baldur's Gate 3 has stolen hearts (including mine), and you'd be forgiven for thinking Newbon would jump at the chance to play something similar—not so.In an interview with challenge runner Luality (who has personally impressed Swen Vincke), Newbon explained that while he'll always come back to a role, he...

Everyone loves a good rivalry, and Tekken fans have been eating good for a while thanks to Korean player (and long-time Tekken veteran) Knee, as well as Pakistani pro Arslan Ash, who bulldozed onto the scene in 2019 and has been dominating a whole host of fighting game tournaments since.Things between the two have been getting especially heated thanks to debate around Knee's main character, Bryan. Arslan Ash has been...