Do you own Ubisoft games on your Xbox console but wish you could play them on your PC—but not so much that you're willing to pay extra for it? If your answer to that oddly specific question is "yes," and the games in question are one of a list of 13 titles that we'll get to later, then this is your lucky day.Announced over on the Xbox Wire, Ubisoft is...

I've been watching Colorfire's cat-themed Meow product line with much interest over the years. While I've already got a kitty-eared headset, I'm sure a full feline-themed set-up would help me achieve my final form as a hardware writer. The Meow series' ME26A PC case may prove the perfect canvas towards realising that dream.In terms of styling, the ME26A is low-key compared to other entries in the Meow series. For starters,...

The moment you touch the new Framework 13 Pro laptop you know it's different to what's come before. Despite the bubblegum pink USB Type-C ports I've jammed in either side of the machine, this is a serious laptop for serious work. But it's also still instantly recognisable as one of the company's eminently upgradeable and repairable notebooks. This is the true beauty of Framework's new machine, a laptop that at...

The Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls beta has been and gone, and while I'm not usually a fighting game person, oh boy did this new superhero tag fighter have the sauce. It was only marred by the fact that PlayStation Network was down for almost the entire opening day, and its PC performance was terrible at best for many—I was one of the lucky few who didn't have any issues.The highlight...

Nintendo has announced the rollout of a facial recognition system and new entry and purchase rules for its Pokémon stores in Japan. It's not exactly a last-ditch effort, but it's yet another attempt at combating scalpers which have been plaguing the hobby ever since its inception. "In order to provide a safe and secure shopping environment for all customers, to prevent crime, and to ensure compliance with appropriate entry and...

On January 20, 2019, Pope Francis delivered his weekly Angelus to St Peter's Square from a window in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace. In it, he enjoined the faithful to join him on the Church's then-new Click To Pray app—helpfully modelled by a nearby priest, wielding a tablet. Hundreds of thousands of people signed up in the years that followed.But maybe they shouldn't have, because it turns out the Click To...

The flood of retail simulators on Steam is nothing new: the trend seemed to land with torrential force in late 2024. But it's fascinating, to me at least, how many of these things are still being released every week, and how many of them seem to actually reach an audience despite their rudimentary appearance.Last week, 14 retail sims were released on Steam. I'm being pretty picky with what I class...

The era when it seemed like every second game was about zombies and the one where I played a lot of Flash games because they were free had a lot of overlap. Which is why I have fond memories of the hours I lost playing games like The Last Stand and Rebuild 2. I've just had a flashback to that time thanks to Yet Another Zombie Defense HD, which has...

Before action RPGs relied on seasonal ladders and DLC treadmills there was Darkstone, a 1999 hack and slash where you clicked on things until they died and liked it. It had some interesting ideas, like the companion mode that lets you switch between two player-characters, the other controlled by the CPU while you took the lead, but it remained true to the basics of a genre I got into precisely...

New Blood's comic book golden age noir detective immersive sim shooter, Fallen Aces, just got a beefy new update: Its second episode, Shadow of Death, is playable right now, while the usually $15 game is on sale for $12 until August 8.I'm kind of allergic to playing games in early access, so I haven't touched Fallen Aces since I fell in love with its first few levels back in 2024....