X, formerly known (and still colloquially referred to) as Twitter, has recently moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Texas. This mirrors a 2021 move from California to Texas for one of Elon Musk’s other companies, Tesla, and has since resulted in Musk appearing in public in many different cowboy Continue Reading
A bag of treats is coming to PC Game Pass this Halloween
October is a peak time of year for gaming. No more guilt about evading the sunlight like a mole rat, no more large-scale summer social duties like weddings, while excursions into the ‘real’ world peter out in the face of the encroaching cold. Plus, longer nights mean earlier starts for Continue Reading
Meta takes ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ to its logical conclusion as iFixit finds the Meta Quest 3S is mostly the same as the Quest 2
Generally, when a new version of a product is announced, we expect it to have a vast number of upgraded specs and features over generations past. After all, this is the new model, and it can be tempting to expect the relentless march of progress to have rendered all the Continue Reading
Dave the Diver creator says ‘story DLC’ is coming, jokes about expanding into a ‘Dave cinematic universe’ with new games
One of last year’s best surprises was Mintrocket and Nexon’s Dave the Diver, a deeply charming and funny adventure that oscillates between deep sea exploration and being a sushi chef. The game proved a hit with critics and players alike: It scored a whopping 91% in our review, with Chris Continue Reading
Bethesda and Amazon are ploughing ahead with Fallout season 2: Shooting starts next month
I’m still processing the fact that the Fallout TV show was good. Not even good, it was kind of great, and all that in spite of the fact that it hews so closely to Bethesda’s wacky vision of the Wasteland, which I’m just a little bit tired of. I’m hardly Continue Reading
The curse of horde shooter balance: Fans take to Steam in protest as Space Marine 2 gets unpopular patch—devs promise course correction within the week
If covering Helldivers 2 this year has taught me anything, it’s that balancing a horde shooter is monstrously hard—starting with an unpopular major balance patch that dented the Railgun, it wasn’t until this month that, after a big overhaul, Arrowhead started hitting the mark again. So to see Space Marine Continue Reading
It’s alive! YouTuber shows how ZX Spectrum can be resurrected using only new parts
I built a ZX Spectrum Using All New Parts – YouTube Watch On Despite its reign ending decades past, the ZX Spectrum is still fondly remembered as a titan of British computing. Indeed, Sinclair superfans are still dreaming up weird and wonderful projects to this day, even implementing ray-tracing on Continue Reading
This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop
Having a healthy gut is no laughing matter and as someone with IBS, I get frequent reminders of how delicate our digestive system really is. This is probably why a health tech start-up Throne Science has decided that the best way to monitor the status of your food chute is Continue Reading
6 months after release, the studio behind Tales of Kenzera has put its team ‘on notice for redundancy’ as it scrambles to find funding
Surgent Studios was founded by actor Abubakar Salim, best known for roles as Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins and Alyn of Hull in House of the Dragon. It went on to make Tales of Kenzera: Zau, but times have been tough since the game’s release, and now the studio is Continue Reading
AMD’s spoiling Intel’s Arrow Lake party with Ryzen 9000-series price cuts and the promise of ‘next-gen gaming’ X3D chips arriving November 7
AMD is looking to play party pooper by today announcing an ‘early holiday promotion’ for its latest Zen 5 processors as well as a Ryzen 9000X3D tease, announcing the availability of its first 3D V-cache CPUs from November 7 this year. Intel is set to launch its brand new desktop Continue Reading