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Let’s kick off with some terminology: Blockchain. Bitcoin. NFT. Web3 gaming. Provided your eyes haven’t rolled so far into the back of your head you’re still able to read the rest of this article, I have some terrible news for you—two new handhelds are aiming to corner the market once more on blockchain-based gaming, only this time, it’s mobile.

First up we have the SuiPlay0X1, a handheld gaming device with “native Web3 capabilities”, or at least, a pretty render of one (via Ars Technica). Announced proudly as “the world’s first blockchain native handheld games console”, the SuiPlay 0X1 is integrated with the Sui blockchain, a Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform.

What that means for potential buyers is handheld “Web3 gaming”, which in basic terms is…

Newegg is offering a killer deal on an RTX 4060 Ti gaming desktop with a 13th Gen Core i5 CPU for just $1,125, a staggering $900 discount from its regular $2,000 price tag. This is perfect for anyone seeking a powerful entry-level 1080p gaming rig—just in time to play that Baldur’s Gate 3 game we’re all crazy about. 

The Ipason gaming desktop boasts a Core i5 13400F, 16GB DDR RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD, and an RTX 4060 Ti. This configuration ensures solid midrange 1080p gaming performance at a budget-friendly price.

The RTX 4060 Ti is a significant upgrade over the RTX 3060 Ti, which is already considered one of the ideal midrange GPUs available at an affordable price. What sets the RTX 40-series cards apart from last-gen RTX 30-series GPUs is their ability to fully utiliz…

It had to happen at some point but Valve’s much-loved Steam Deck has been falling down its weekly revenue charts for a little while now. For the past two weeks, though, it’s dropped outside of the top ten, suggesting that competition from ASUS, Ayaneo, OneXPlayer, and Aokzoe has taken a sizeable slice of the handheld PC market.

As reported by GamingOnLinux, sales of the Steam Deck have slowed to the point where it’s no longer in Valve’s top ten for weekly revenue. That in itself isn’t particularly surprising as the majority of people who really want one will have already bought it and the rise of the Air 1S, OneXFly, and ROG Ally will also have contributed to the decrease in shipments.

What is astonishing, though, is just how long the Steam Deck has dominated the charts. Val…

Squanch Games CEO and studio director Mike Fridley has announced the first DLC for the hugely popular High on Life, an OTT cartoon shooter where the guns talk and the humour is love it or hate it. It’s set two years after the original game ends and going for something of a vibe change to horror, with the name High on Knife. 

The DLC stars Knifey, a weapon voiced by Michael Cusack, and the trailer shows off various new characters, enemies and environments: with a notable shift in atmosphere and some pretty grotesque-looking creations, fleshy and bulbous.

“[We’re] getting a little spooky this time around,” said Fridley. “Not like, “I may never sleep again,” levels of terror, but definitely on the “My dreams are going to be broken for a while,” end of things. Think body ho…

Apple made a big splash with the announcement of its first VR/AR headset, the Apple Vision Pro. The thing is, it looks like Huawei may have beat it to the name, at least in China where the company operates from.

An application for a trademark on the phrase ‘Vision Pro’ was filed back in May, 2019, MyDrivers reports. That’s just over four years before Apple’s Vision Pro broke surface at WWDC. The trademark on the term goes into effect from 2021 until 2031, and you can see the documentation for yourself on the Trademark Office for China’s database.

There’s not much to the trademark, though there rarely ever is. Say what you like about the way in which companies trademark simple words and phrases but that’s the system. In this case, the phrase “Vision Pro” has been trademarked …

Enjoy Wordle in your own way, this weekend. It’s time to sit back, relax, and take a look at our general tips if you’d like to give your daily game a boost. Make sure you start on the right foot with a directed hint for the February 24 (980) game. Or guarantee yourself a win with a cheeky peek at today’s Wordle answer. It’s entirely up to you.

Wow, that was a close call. It took me a few rows to get started today, my yellows refusing to turn green no matter what I did with them. And after that? Greens with strange, stubborn, gaps. Even on the last row I wasn’t entirely sure if I was going to win today—I’m glad that’s over.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, February 24

According to legend, a pied one of these rid the tow…

Sharkmob, the developer of the World of Darkness battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt, unveiled its new game tonight at The Game Awards: Exoborne, a “tactical open-world extraction shooter” set in a devastated near-future world where the remnants of humanity use powerful “Exo-rigs” to survive, scavenge, and—of course—shoot at each other.

At first glance, Exoborne looks to me like a cross between Anthem and Far Cry 5. It takes place in a region of the southwestern US where the forces of nature run amok thanks to a supposed world-saving project that—whoops!—was actually not quite as altruistic as it appeared. That leaves you and other survivors, known as Reborn, to suit up in high-tech exoskeletons and venture out into the storm in…

Indie developer Steve Gaynor is running Gone Home developer Fullbright as a solo outfit from now on, having split with the team making the narrative driving adventure Open Roads.

As reported by PCGamesN, Gaynor published a blog post explaining the organisational change. “Last time I sent one of these we were just wrapping up the first round of press for Open Roads”, it begins. “Then there was some serious turmoil at the studio. I stepped away from the project. Not much was shared about what we were working on. I did my best to reflect and reconsider how I worked with people.”

The “serious turmoil” Gaynor refers to occurred in 2021, when a report by Polygon claimed that Gaynor was a “controlling” and “demeaning presence”, resulting in the departure of fifteen employees from F…

Mere days after the release of Apple’s Vision Pro headset, a user has been recording wearing the XR headset while driving a Tesla. The event has led US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg to remind diligent citizens that you must remain in control of your vehicle even if it offers some form of assisted driving—in other words, the ‘I swear I had autopilot activated, officer’ defence isn’t going to fly.

The viral video of a Tesla driver wearing the headset while seemingly interacting with some sort of app or game with their hands has been viewed over 25 million times on X.

Buttigieg said on Monday in a repost of the viral video: “Reminder—ALL advanced driver assistance systems available today require the human driver to be in control and fully engaged in the dr…