PlayStation State of Play 2026 landed with that rare feeling of “oh… this is actually stacked”, but a few reveals hit me more than others.  Not necessarily because they were the biggest, or the most cinematic, or the most expensive-looking. More because they landed in that personal overlap where taste,…

Finding a backlit compact keyboard sounds easy until you try doing it for a raised-laptop lap tray setup, in the evening, with real work to get through. I know, this is a very niche review area, but I just wanted to share my thoughts to hopefully save others time in…

Batman Arkham Asylum remastered review time — and honestly, it’s a reminder that some games age better than you’d expect. I’ve just played it through to the end of the story on the Xbox Series X, and what surprised me most wasn’t some dramatic “it still holds up” revelation. It…

The AI and gaming future isn’t just about smarter NPCs — it’s about who gets to make games, how we play them, and what we value.  I’ve been thinking about AI an immense amount lately, and I’ve been trying to get beyond the headlines. It’s already baked into so much…

Stepping back from Game Pass wasn’t a dramatic statement — it was me reclaiming intentional play, and dropping the pressure to maximise a subscription.  The breaking point wasn’t one single feature or one rage moment. It was the slow creep. The way the costs stacked. The way the subscription became…

I’ve stopped calling it a backlog, because that word turns a hobby into a quiet little debt. Seeing my games as a library — something to dip into when life’s busy — makes it feel like choice again, not pressure.

Nearly a decade on, The Division is still one of gaming’s most immersive worlds: a snow-choked Manhattan at Christmas, collapsing in real time. Worth playing in 2026? 

The Retroid Pocket 6 is faster, more powerful, and technically impressive. So why am I not upgrading from my Pocket 5? This isn’t about specs — it’s about ownership, saturation, and learning to enjoy what we already have.

I genuinely thought a hacked PS3 would be the tidy answer for PS2 nostalgia. It wasn’t. Here’s the honest reason I went back to original hardware, and why it ended up being the better call.