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SNL's Zelda Ocarina of Time vs GTA 6 sketch likely went down fine at Nintendo say ex-marketing leads
That's not to say the company would have loved everything about it, though
Burn With Me is a hand-drawn demon card game featuring the artist's own hand - and also, a refreshingly finite alternative to yer Balatro-likes
Burn With Me is a hand-drawn game in which the most prominent non-hand-drawn bit is artist Eva Manuilovich's own right hand . Excellent, no notes. Manuilovich's hand appears on the right throughout each match ritual, dealing cards with a flick of the index finger; when you beat the target score, it gives you a thumbs-up, then reaches languidly towards the card you've won. Read more
Valve have released the Steam Frame's CAD files, but there’s already a cottage industry of DIY wrist straps and lifesize skull stands
Last week, Valve chose their absolute most favourite announcement time – Friday evening, after we all go home – to release the Steam Frame ’s CAD files to the world. In short, this lets anyone with a 3D printer or a lathe or an injection moulder (etcetera) take the VR headset’s official blueprints and use them to make cool stuff for it. Non-commercially, of course. Even before this great declassifying, though, it seems some lucky first-wave Frame recipients were already putting their own headsets on the line to prototype homemade gadgets and accessories. Some are sensibly practical. Some look inventive, if janky. At least one of them is a melting skull. All of them, I salute, as standard bearers of this open, occasionally unhinged thing we call PC gaming. Read more
Digital Foundry Delivers Its Technical Analysis Of Dragon's Dogma 2 On Switch 2
"The game arrives in surprisingly good shape". Capcom returned to Switch 2 with yet another banger last week in the shape of Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen . We've been having a wonderful time with the game so far, but how will it hold up under the technical analysis of the experts at Digital Foundry ? It's time to find out. It's a slightly mixed bag, but DF seems optimistic about the port as a whole, describing it as arriving in "surprisingly good shape". Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Huss Valley codes (October 2026) and how to redeem them for free Gems, Boosts, and more
Codes for Huss Valley will give you Gems, Boosts, and cosmetics while you do your best to run away from or catch your opponents
WoW: Forever may take us to Northrend and Pandaria one day as "Azeroth is a big place"
"Nothing is off the table"
I was wary of D&D Star Wars, but it looking so much like Rogue One gives me hope
The more grounded nature of D&D Star Wars has taken me by surprise, and I've gone from being wary to excited about the crossover
Nvidia reportedly ends GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card production
Nvidia has reportedly stopped manufacturing the GeForce RTX 5090, including the D variants made for the Chinese market. Read more
Nvidia are abandoning their RTX 5090 graphics cards in order to focus on AI dev friendly RTX Pro ones, leaker claims
Nvidia, AI-obsessives to the point of yassifying basketballers , are shifting production away from their top of the range RTX 5090 consumer graphics cards in favour of RTX Pro ones. That's according to a leaker with a solid track record when it comes to the company. If accurate, the move's the latest instance of a gaming tech firm turning away from regular PC owners to chase the more plentiful cash offered by hawking gear to GenAI developers and datacenters . Read more
New March of Giants character Pandemos brings some serious toxicity to the MOBA's playtest
Pandemos has just joined the March of Giants playtest, and you can unlock this toxic character by taking part in Ubisoft’s ongoing event.
Aream & Co: Games industry M&A generates $57.8 bn in Q3, including EA's $55bn leveraged buyout
The number of games industry mergers and acquisitions stayed steady in the third quarter with 54 transactions totalling $57.8 billion, according to investment bank Aream & Co. Read more
People are being robbed of crypto by a tiny chip implanted in their hardware, with $100 million said to have been stolen already
Investigation of the "draining incident of Oct 9th" is ongoing.
Game Developer veteran Chris Kerr launches Vertical Slice, a games publication "giving workers a voice and holding power to account"
Chris Kerr, former Senior Editor of GDC sibling Game Developer (formerly Gamasutra) has launched a new subscription-funded publication to deliver "incisive, bold reporting for video game industry professionals" that "scrutinises with intensity and integrity without having to worry about conflicting commercial interests." Read more
Schrödinger's GPU set for an early 2027 release as the dead/alive 24 GB RTX 5080 Super box is shaken once more
"Hey, you still in there?"
WandaVision creator is bringing Stargate back to TV, but fans aren't happy after previous attempt was scrapped
Stargate is coming back
I am the controller now: MIT engineers have created a 'second skin' that could one day track whole bodies in VR
Riding the wave(guide).
NQ JPN Is A New Japan-Themed Arcade Bar Opening Soon In London's Soho District
Blast Night in Soho. NQ64 Arcade Bars Ltd., the entertainment company behind a chain of popular gaming bars across the UK , has announced it will open a Japan-centric bar in London's popular Soho district later in October. NQ JPN will offer a similar experience to the NQ64 venues , but focus more directly on Japanese import cabs. The official website currently offers little more than a mailing list sign-up page , but the NQ JPN Instagram page promises "Imported Japanese Arcades" along with "Japanese Inspired Cocktails" and "Electro Beats", along with several images of some radioactive-coded drinks. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Daily Red Is A ROM Hack That Forces You To Defeat Red Once A Day With Random Pokémon
🤝 Don't want to see ads? Become a premium member for $3 a month and support an independent publication today! Another day another Pokémon ROM Hack , and this is one that I just had to try myself because the inner Pokémon Master in
Former PlayStation boss apparently had a bold strategy for handling Sony execs – he ignored them
Kaz Hirai knew how to move around management
You need not hunger for that Zelda Ocarina of Time remake when we already have Indigo, a colossal N64 romhack featuring mushroom forests and bearded Link
The Legend of Zelda series is fond of stories about the inexorable and obliviating passage of time. Somebody should make one about growing so old, stupid and exhausted that you can't distinguish original Zelda games from romhacks of those games. Romhacks like Indigo, a "full game replacement" for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, set 15 years after the events of Majora's Mask. It's got a couple of public demos, and is playable on PC via static recompilation - the mechanical translation of the console code into C code that runs on other platforms, not to be conflated with genAI porting . Read more
Avengers: Endgame director Joe Russo says Tom Holland is "the last great movie star"
Joe Russo has high praise for Tom Holland
Street Fighter's Chun-Li star went above and beyond with her prep because she "didn't want to disappoint the fans"
Exclusive: Callina Liang explains why she put in the hours for her role as Chun-Li
Gears of War E-Day suffered connection issues after being hit by a DDoS attack, The Coalition says
Players were reporting disconnects and login issues on Sunday
Battlefield 6 goes back to its roots with Area 51, but the new Vegas Strip map feels too frenetic
Battlefield 6 aims to shine with Vegas and tantalize with Area 51, with Season 5 shaking up the meta, albeit with mixed results.