Connexion
Like a good ol' southern potluck, South of Midnight had me going back to play for seconds, and then thirds, thanks to all its little details
Lemme holler at your momma 'n' 'em about this one.
Vue lecture
The games industry pays tribute to the late Vince Zampella: 'Thank you, Vince—You were one of the good ones'
"The world lost a lot today and is suddenly less cool than it was yesterday."
007 First Light, IO Interactive's James Bond game, is delayed 'to ensure the experience meets the level of quality you players deserve on day one'
Instead of March, 007's new adventure is now set to arrive in May.
Microsoft's year of shame
Can't make a few trillion dollars without ditching game developers, going googoo gaga for AI and supplying tech to the military, I suppose!
'It's a pretty big deal for me as a human': One of the FGC's most popular commentators is stepping away from future EVO events following its Saudi buyout
Sajam called the choice "bad for me financially."
Grand Theft Auto could have been a globetrotting series like Assassin's Creed, according to former Rockstar technical director: 'We had ideas about GTA games in Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Istanbul' while 'Tokyo almost actually happened'
"Another studio in Japan were going to do it, take our code and do GTA: Tokyo."
Roadtrip RPG Keep Driving teaches you that a hitchhiker is just a friend you haven't met, and that friend might have weed
Impeccable vibes and great music make this one of my favorite games of 2025.
Fallout 4's lead designer reckons it is the 'most replayable' game in the series thanks to its interweaving quests, which I'm sure will go down swimmingly with New Vegas sickos
"At one point, I gave a talk about that, and the slide for the talk is just a big bowl of spaghetti."
Turns out that Fallout: New Vegas beta stuffed with cut content also contains early versions of the DLCs with some big differences
It also crashes a lot, which feels very New Vegas.
I almost learned something in RV There Yet? but I was too busy smoking cigarettes and driving over big rocks
Best played with friends. And cigs.
Avowed didn't rewrite the RPG rulebook in 2025, but it still gave me some of my biggest gaming 'wow' moments of the year
Call me shallow if you must. In fact, I encourage it.
This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it's only officially available for enterprise users
Random IOPS could increase by up to 80% for servers, says Microsoft.
Marvel Rivals wants to go big for 2026, and the team has 'already planned more than a year ahead'
"2025 was more of a warm-up."
The now-settled KOTOR 2 lawsuit saw accusations of demonic possession and the plaintiffs' lawyer hitting back at Aspyr with Lil Wayne lyrics: 'Okay you're a goon, but what's a goon to a Goblin? Nothin. Nothin. You ain't scaring nothing.'
Aspyr also had what it believed to be vital trade secrets redacted from documents.
Acer Predator Orion 3000 review
Pairing last-gen parts with current-gen GPUs is a recipe for more affordable gaming.
Acer Predator Orion 7000 review
Aesthetically it might be an acquired taste, but it's a big, bulky, and powerful PC.
