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Nintendo Says Switch 2 Owners Aren't Owed a Tariff Refund - and That Stings
The tariffs got struck down and Nintendo's in line for a refund. It's arguing in court that the players who paid inflated Switch 2 prices don't get a cent of it back.
MSI's Panther Lake Claw 8 Is the Best Handheld Yet - and You Probably Can't Justify It
The Claw 8 EX AI+ puts Intel's Arc G3 Extreme in your hands and outruns the AMD Z2 Extreme. Then the price tag shows up: $1,799 / €1,649. There's the catch you saw coming.
DLSS 5 Hands Devs Two Sliders and a Mask - And I'm Cautiously OK With It
Nvidia finally showed how developers steer DLSS 5's diffusion-transformer upscaler: two global sliders and per-object masking. It's less than I feared, more than the doomposters expected.
Xbox Says More Exclusives Are Coming - But Don't "Overly Fixate" on Single-Player
Two Xbox executives sat down to explain Microsoft's exclusivity plan. More exclusives are coming beyond Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution - but the single-player rule of thumb apparently isn't carved in stone.
GTA 6 launches without PC - and around here, PC is the whole audience
A former Rockstar producer explains the console-first plan for GTA 6. The reasoning holds up technically. It just happens to leave most players in our region sitting on the bench until further notice.
Eighteen Years Later, 2D Castlevania Is Finally Coming Back - And Early Impressions Are Good
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse ends an 18-year drought for proper 2D Castlevania. Evil Empire's take lands October 15 on Switch, PS5, Xbox Series and PC - all at once, no console left waiting.
A dead studio is doing what living publishers won't: Deceive Inc. is getting community servers
Sweet Bandits closed in 2024. Now the team is back to rebuild Deceive Inc.'s backend for community-hosted dedicated servers - and quietly demolish the industry's favourite excuse for shutdowns.
Black Flag Resynced is the biggest Assassin's Creed Steam launch ever. The people who made it are on strike.
Two million copies on day one, $35m on Steam alone - and Ubisoft Barcelona is still striking over layoffs. For us in the region, the sting is closer to home: the Belgrade studio is gone.
Star Ocean: The Second Story R Is On Switch 2 Now - And Square Enix Wants You To Buy It Again
A surprise Switch 2 release for one of the loveliest RPG remakes around, with no upgrade path and no save transfer. That's twice in one week from the same publisher.
Sony is killing the disc in 2028. GOG just reminded PC players we never needed one.
Sony discontinues physical media from January 2028, and GOG answered with the most GOG response possible: download the offline installer, burn it to a disc, and stop asking a storefront for permission to play what you bought.
Sony's War on Discs Just Hit a Legal Wall in Mexico
Sony plans to stop making PlayStation discs by 2028. Mexican lawmakers are calling it anti-consumer - and they might have a point.
Glen Schofield retires after 35 years, and that Callisto Protocol port still haunts me
The Dead Space creator is stepping away from games. Great atmosphere runs in his DNA - but so does one of the worst-stuttering PC launches I've ever benchmarked.