Just when I swear I'll never buy another Collector's Edition of a game, yer boy Ryo Hazuki turns up and reminds me about the day the snow turned to rain, and before I know it there's a QTE of me fighting my wallet

Listen, I've never bought a share in my life so I'm the last person to take advice from. But if I was ever to buy shares in a game company, it would be that small window between its big game getting underwhelming reviews, and it selling a shitload over the weekend anyway

A shiny nickel to the first developer who bucks the extraction shooter trend and instead releases an insertion shooter, where you have to plant trees and hand resources over to the locals while people shoot at you

Everyone shut up about DLSS 5, the true next generation of graphical enhancements has finally started. 1080p Smash in handheld? Let's fucking – and I cannot stress this enough – go

DLSS 5 is the cutting-edge equivalent of people who apply image smoothing filters to emulators to remove the pixelation. I have a 5090 but there’s no way I’ll be turning it on

I love every word he says in this article.

Apparently it just includes 16GB of RAM

Podcast: Did Nintendo underestimate Pokemon Pokopia? Join @jordanmiddler.bsky.social, @scully1888.bsky.social and Pete Donaldson as they chat about the week's gaming news. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5eV... Listen: lnk.to/VGC Plus, Pokopia's biggest threat comes to Switch 2.

How well does WWE 2K26 run on Switch 2? Watch our comparison video to see it alongside the Xbox Series X version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lnl...

Someone's already referred to this article as "ragebait". The guy's explaining the difference between how the English and Japanese language works. Calling English a "simple language" isn't an attempt to invoke rage – he's right. I even added that extra line in the post to clarify before the click.

Bloody wallet just started holding the A button between '2' and '1'

Fiiiiiinally. Been waiting for this for 10 years, played it briefly at BitSummit two years ago and loved it.

The Dreamcast Encyclopedia: Every Game Released for the Sega Dreamcast paperback is $18.76 on Amazon (280 pages) amzn.to/46Ko5Do #ad

UK's not pissing around with Eurovision this year. I'm into this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=niMK...

Was up to prick o'clock the other night putting this and the review together so please check them both out and share the piss out of them if you enjoy them. AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM YEET, CAUSE THAT'S NOT A THREAT THAT'S A BEST THERE EVER WILL BEHAUSEN (I'm tired)

I've had WWE 2K26 out of my eyeballs for the last week. Here's 3,000 words on the fella.

If the next Xbox can indeed run Steam games, then it makes sense that PlayStation would take this step to prevent a loophole killing all first-person console exclusivity

Saw a report saying if Disney still wants to go ahead and build a Disneyland in Abu Dhabi, it'll need to install missile defence systems because a US corporate landmark will be considered a "soft target" for aggressors who don't want to attack the US directly. That's Star Wars land guaranteed then

Highguard is officially shutting down, little over six weeks after its launch, developer Wildlight Entertainment has confirmed. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/3-month...

One thing I love about Scott Pilgrim EX is that it's packed with references to other games, but they're often subtle ones where if you get it, you'll smile and if you don't, there's no harm done.

As a big fan of the first Scott Pilgrim game I was hoping the sequel wouldn't drop the ball. It definitely doesn't.

Just a reminder that while this is undoubtedly a story – not every game becomes number 1 on this list – the fact that Cory in the House on DS is at number 4 means this is more a sign of the game's popularity online rather than its quality.

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Alright Cranky, Jesus

That's nearly an hour and a half of WWE 2K26 gameplay I've now posted over the past few days. Hope it's helped anyone interested in the series!

I've been spending some time with the G'AIM'E light gun, which lets you play Time Crisis on your modern telly. While it's pricey, and has its limitations, it's also packing an unadvertised secret that might appeal to PC players.

Parents’ night at the kid’s school today. She’ll have my job within the next 6 months

Video: Here's another 20-minute gameplay video for WWE 2K26, showing its new Inferno and I Quit match types in action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B70g...

Hey. Tell people when they do good job. When you like the stuff they make. When you like the characters they’ve created. The stories they’ve told. Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time. Trust. They don’t. Tell. Them.

Real recognise real, as I believe today's youth say.

I played WWE 2K26 for a few hours last week, so here's the first (and second in the reply) of a series of gameplay videos I'll be firing up over the next few days.

A pair of Olympic figure skaters celebrating a milestone victory performed a routine based on Mortal Kombat. Earlier in the week Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava won Georgia's first ever medal at any Winter Olympics. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/olympic...

Bandai Namco's seemingly added a bunch more Ridge Racer soundtracks to Spotify, so I've put together this big 17-hour playlist arranging them all in game release order. open.spotify.com/playlist/1qL...

Can't believe there's only a day left in this sale. You'd think they'd try to stirrup some more interest

Ooooft. Interesting that new MS Gaming CEO Asha Sharma – who was president of Microsoft's CoreAI – promises Xbox won't "flood [its] ecosystem with soulless AI slop" and that its games "always will be art, crafted by humans". That's a big day one claim that will be quoted a lot.

One for my fellow wrestling game fans - I was able to chat with the leads on WWE 2K's MyFaction mode to discuss the new features being added to 2K26, as well as the ever-present microtransaction debate.

This will get the usual reaction but I've been saying for a while that this is one of the directions I was hoping this tech would go. As long as he gives permission and is adequately compensated (IMPORTANT), of course he'd let Guy MowbrAI help him read 20,000 names in five different ways.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Every time I use an app I eventually get "Do you like this app? YES - Please write a review NO - Please write why" but I don't see the bit where I'm supposed to enter my freelance rates

As with my earlier warning about the Steam Deck, if you've had your eye on a ROG Xbox Ally X it might be seeing a price increase in the future too.

If you're in the UK, have had your eye on a Steam Deck for a while now and have been waiting to pull the trigger, this might be the time to go for it. It's still in stock in the UK but it looks like it's either about to be sold out everywhere for a while, or get more expensive.

Ach, that's Robert Duvall away. Will never forget sitting next to him at Raith Rovers vs Ayr United and trying to explain to him while offside works. (I know that sounds ridiculous but it's true - it was when he was prepping for A Shot at Glory) www.youtube.com/watch?v=49j3...

A lot of this is already known by sensible people but it's nice to have a director break down in such detail why developing for PC and scaling down is a perfectly normal way of making sure every version looks as good as it can without holding the others back.

Happy 12th anniversary to the most hard-hitting story in the history of UK journalism.

Absolutely love this old-school style advert. Had my eye on this game for a while, developer Grey Alien knows their Solitaire.

Bored of people defending Switch emulation – not least the creators of the emulators themselves, as in this article – by claiming it's needed for the "preservation of video games". I don't think you rescued Tears of the Kingdom from fading into obscurity by torrenting it, mate.

Sometimes the character just perfectly suits the song

This is a new one for me, I've got to admit

I regret to inform you the kid is hooked on Starsand Island