If you’re looking for a solid PC build but don’t want to spend a fortune, you could do a lot worse than this iBuyPower option at Walmart.

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Xbox's handhelds have a confirmed release date, and yes, it's the one that leaked. As for how much the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X will cost you, Microsoft aren't sharing a price yet, because there are some macroeconomics to take into account, don't you know.

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This week, dozens of Microsoft employees occupied the company's east campus in Redmond, Washington in protest against the use of Azure and generative AI technologies by the Israeli military, during their on-going assault on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

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The best gaming keyboards are entirely subjective, but we always have our eyes peeled for deals on our personal favorites.

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Despite the grand sense of wanderlust dripping off its title, Lego Voyagers casts you and a pal not as minifig explorers (or even the tiny brickfolk of Lego Builder's Journey), but as humble 1x1 blocks. You’ll get one eye each, and be thankful for it. Nonetheless, Voyagers still wants you to venture out and roll your way through its plastic wilderness, with some light puzzling, Split Fiction-style cooperative mischief, and building – usually with your own heads as the cornerstones – along the way. Last week, ahead of its Gamescom showing, Mark and I channeled our inner construction materials to try it out.>

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I loaded up a recent Pragmata demo in blissful ignorance – or, at the very least, regular ignorance – of the depth of feeling surrounding its central hacking system. The need to shut down robotic baddies’ defences before giving them the ol’ semi-auto handshake is, it seems, widely enough perceived as a potential dealbreaker that Capcom have recreated it as a browser game. As if to whisper a reassuring "No, look, it’s not that> fiddly," into sceptical ears ahead of release next year.

I get it. Described in the abstract, it does sound like you can have a little third-person shooting, as a treat, but only after you finish your tile-colouring minigame. After actually playing Pragmata, though, I’m firmly on Team Hacking: besides being rich with upgrade potential, it doesn’t interrupt the action so much as conduct it, specifically to a tempo that feels refreshingly unique by over-the-shoulder standards.

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