A new update for Civilization 7 aims to address “some player feedback” from the advanced access release of the game, and promises “larger, more substantive updates” on the way in the future. Civilization 7 doesn’t fully launch until February 11, but it’s been available since February 6 for players who ponied up for the Founders … Read more
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said in a recent interview with IGN that PC has become a “much more” important part of the gaming ecosphere than it was in the past—one that generates a significant portion of sales for multiplatform games. And if you think that means he’s ready to commit to a PC version … Read more
In a recent Bloomberg interview with Balatro creator LocalThunk, the notably private, anonymous developer opened up a little bit about the roguelike card game’s origins, including how he first realized he was on to something special with what had started as just another hobby project. LocalThunk worked in IT before making Balatro, and was apparently … Read more
Rainbow Six: Siege esports team M80’s head coach, Matheus ‘Budega’ Figueiredo, and team manager, Igor ‘Vivas‘ Vivas, have been “ejected” from the 2025 Six Invitational by Ubisoft, following an “altercation” that was partly caught on camera. The incident occurred after M80 had lost a match 2-1 to DarkZero Esports, and saw Budega shouting at members … Read more
Hearts of Iron IV: Graveyard of Empires | Story Trailer | Available March 4 – YouTube Watch On If history teaches us one thing, it’s this: it’s always a great idea to invade Central Asia. It just can’t go wrong. Honestly, if this games journalism thing doesn’t work out, I’m thinking I might head over … Read more
OpenAI boss Sam Altman has been merrily blogging away about his thoughts on AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, and there’s a lot of food for thought. A key takeaway, however, is his link between Moore’s Law, and what he perceives to be the AI equivalent. Point two of his “three observations” regarding the oncoming AGI … Read more
The next family of cards in the new RTX Blackwell series of Nvidia GeForce GPUs is going to be an interesting one. Theoretically, the lower we go down the RTX 50-series stack, the less exciting the graphics cards look to be on paper. The generational differences in silicon look slight, and there’s a general expectation … Read more
I like to think I’m pretty speedy when it comes to building a gaming PC, but my record is firmly in the mud. Two contestants at Newegg’s PC speed building contest at Megacon 2025 have finished with sub-five minute times, and that’s a mighty impressive feat, even if it does come with some caveats. And … Read more
If you’re one of the 23 people around the world who has managed to snag an RTX 5090, you might be tempted to splash out on a fancy set of power cables to make your new upgrade look the best it can. That got us thinking about what set would be best to use, so … Read more
Update 11/02/2025: Digital Extremes has gotten back to me with the numbers on this year’s TennoCon attendees. In total, the event sold through 3,000 tickets in about 30 minutes, which seems pretty believable to me. If you missed out, DE says “prospective attendees who were able to join [the] virtual queue will have tickets for … Read more