I've been a very happy chappy ever since discovering the wonders of the Chinese 'clone' mouse market. Brands in this market attempt to deliver quality gaming mice that take after popular shapes by mainstream brands, but for a lot less money. I was sceptical at first, but my experience with Mchose mice has squashed my scepticism, and this K7 V2 Ultra+ is a fine example.It is, for all intents and...

Dungeons & Dragons announced it'd be doing a World of Warcraft crossover earlier this week—but it also, additionally, teased a Star Wars crossover at the end of its D&D Vision keynote. Further details can be found on the D&D Beyond site, revealing that the crossover will be coming in 2027 as part of a "Season of Rebellion"."We want to let our community know that D&D Universes Beyond is additive to...

Bad news for anyone holding out hope that some power-on-high would swoop in and put a halt to Saudi Arabia's takeover of Electronic Arts: A new Form 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission says the deal has green lights across the board, and will be done next week.More formally, "as of July 30, 2026, all regulatory approvals required to complete the Merger have been obtained," the filing...

I love the subreddit r/whatisit for a couple of reasons. It's a fun way to let people use their extremely niche knowledge to identify the unusual items people come across, but mainly it's chance to see paranoid parents and insecure partners snoop around in their loved ones' stuff and find what they always assume are drugs, drug-related accessories, or sex toys.Occasionally, the things they find are drugs or sex toys—but...

Remember when Battlefield 6 dropped in 2025 and it was a big hit, selling seven million copies in three days and becoming the first Battlefield game to outsell a competing Call of Duty? And then Electronic Arts rewarded the people who made it by laying off an undisclosed number of them? And also laid off the entire team working on an all-new, more story-focused game in the series?I remind you...

Former Warcraft general manager John Hight, who left Blizzard in 2024 and became president of Wizards of the Coast—a position that gave him oversight of "all publishing and development efforts for Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and Hasbro Digital Gaming"—is leaving the company after just two years.Hight's departure was revealed by a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing (via GamesIndustry) saying that he and Hasbro reached a "Transitional Advisory...

Less than one month after Xbox spun off Double Fine Productions as an independent studio, the developer has laid off 23 employees, a move it says was necessary to ensure "the survival of our studio.""Our transition to becoming an independent company means becoming a size that we can sustain," Double Fine said in a message shared on Bluesky. "The people we are losing were all important. They all made an...

Do me a favor and don't let Lunarium get lost in the sea of game releases on Steam. Tons of action RPGs show up in my inbox and it's sometimes hard to differentiate which one is which. Lunarium stood out mostly because of its art style, which sort of looks like it would fit on the cover of a Nier or Final Fantasy game.And then I played it and discovered...

Not only is Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey blowing up the box office, but it's also blowing up the career of one of the lesser-known actors in the film… lemme quickly check IMDB for his name… ah, here it is: Matt Damon.Just kidding, Matt Damon is in everything, everywhere, every movie, all the time. You know those little movies Facebook makes of your photographs without asking? I just watched mine and...

A few months ago, indie developer RetroSpecter noticed something unusual about Crashphalt, their first completed game that launched on Steam in 2018: Since their last check-in on the neglected platformer, Crashphalt had suddenly gained over 500 reviews. In its first four years, it had barely managed a dozen.And almost none of those new reviewers had anything to say about Crashphalt itself. Mostly, they just talked about Undertale.(Image credit: Cold Pressed...