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Legendary Sega hardware designer (and one-time acting President) Hideki Sato has died at the age of 77.

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega’s consoles, has died | VGC

Sato helmed design for consoles including Mega Drive, Saturn…

Video Games ChronicleAndy Robinson

Just four years after a LEGO game needed only 8GB of RAM on PC, the upcoming Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight--which originally said it would need 32GB--last week dropped that number to 16GB, just in time for RAM prices to continue going through the roof.

Lego Batman Slashes RAM Requirements On PC As Prices Spike

Lego Batman just cleaved its recommended RAM in half

KotakuEthan Gach

PlayStation announced some new games last week, then rounded them all up on the company blog. There's a new Castlevania in there!

State of Play February 2026: all announcements, trailers

Game reveals, new looks, and release date confirmations.

PlayStation.BlogGillen McAllister (he/him)

Discord's UK users have been told they "may be part of an experiment", which is very interesting wording for a user's age verification data now being sent to the third-party age-assurance vendor Persona instead of being processed on their phone locally as had originally been announced.

Discord advises UK users that they “may be part of an experiment” where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone

UK Discord users have raised concerns about the company’s new age verification processes, claiming that while it had or…

Eurogamer.netVikki Blake

The DICE awards were held last week, with winners including Clair Obscur, Blue Prince, Hades II and Ghost of Yōtei.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 rides high at 2026 DICE Awards

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Ghost of Yotei, and Blue Prince were among the big winners in a group of high-quality nominees.

Game DeveloperBryant Francis

Mewgenics creators Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel certainly made some choices when it came to the game's guest voice cast, then McMillen certainly tried to explain those choices in an interview with RPS.

Edmund McMillen on assembling Mewgenics’ meow cameo list: “the inclusion of people with clashing ideologies felt appropriate”

We spoke to Mewgenics co-developer Edmund McMillen about putting together the game’s list of internet celebrity meow cameos.

Rock Paper ShotgunMark Warren