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You can now buy a trip to space on Jeff Bezos’ unfortunately-shaped rocket with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, bringing the finest human endeavours full circle

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Should you wish to emulate the achievements of the great Katy Perry, William Shatner and others by taking a trip on one of Blue Origin’s rockets beyond the Kármán line, I have excellent news—you can now pay for the experience with cryptocurrency. Shift4 Payments, a self-described “leader in integrated payments and commerce technology”, has announced … Read more

Apple’s upcoming Pro Mac Mini might just be a tiny gaming powerhouse, if rumours around the M5 chip are true

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Apple Macs and gaming have long been odd bedfellows. Compatibility issues and different hardware designs has often made gaming on these proprietary devices a bit tricky. Thankfully, most of these problems are set to live in the past, and gaming on Mac machines is becoming more commonplace. They’re still rather walled off by Apple’s ecosystem, … Read more

I’ve played a few hours of Dawn of War 4, and it might just be the true sequel to the original game that we’ve been waiting for

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A horde of howling orks comes charging across the wartorn wasteland, straight towards the men and women of the Astra Militarum, waiting with guns primed, hiding behind walls, readying themselves for death. Then angels fall from the heavens; heavily armoured saviours in drop pods that slam to the ground and annihilate any orks unlucky enough … Read more

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 braces for tidal wave of Beavis and Butthead as Activision announces Black Ops 6 skins will carry forward into the new game

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Those aren’t mountains, they’re waves. Among all the cool near-future operators and wall jumps seen in the big Black Ops 7 reveal today, one detail from Activision’s extensive blog post loomed large: Black Ops 7 will carry forward all weapons and cosmetics from last year’s game, setting the stage for a tidal wave of tacky … Read more

Outlaws is a quirky ’90s wild west FPS you probably never played, so naturally it’s getting the Nightdive remaster treatment later this year

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Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster – Announcement Trailer | Nightdive Studios – YouTube Watch On Though it doesn’t hold up particularly well, Star Wars: Dark Forces was a pretty big deal back in 1995. Outlaws, on the other hand, wasn’t: it was LucasArts’ second attempt at a first-person shooter using its own Jedi Engine, … Read more

Microsoft employees set up encampment at company headquarters to protest ongoing partnership with Israeli military in Gaza

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A group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as members of the Seattle community and pro-Palestinian protesters, set up a “Liberated Zone” encampment in Microsoft’s East Campus Plaza earlier today, which they renamed to “The Martyred Palestinian Children’s Plaza.” An announcement shared by No Azure for Apartheid, an organization calling for Microsoft to … Read more