Intel has unleashed yet another new driver for its Arc gaming GPUs claiming major performance boosts. There are 20 DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 games are on the list, with performance increased by up to 119%. The big winner from driver version 31.0.101.4885 is Deus Ex: Human Revolution running DX11 mode and 1080p High settings,…
In a series of events that future historians will point to as emblematic of our age, NATO— y’know, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, established in 1949 to wage Cold War against the Soviet Union—is “actively addressing incidents affecting some unclassified NATO websites” following an alleged intrusion by a group of “gay furry hackers”. That’s what…
NES and Game Boy titles included. A retro collection containing the original NES title A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia and its Game Boy sequel, The Rescue of Princess Blobette, is launching on the Nintendo Switch eShop on October 17th, 2023. While maintaining the essence of the original games, the new collection will…
“We were flying by the seat of our pants”. When it comes to the Nintendo 64 and first-person shooters, there are two titles that have become synonymous with the genre: GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark. While these classics rightfully deserve their place among the greats, the Turok series has largely fallen into obscurity, which is…
With the rising demands of today’s modern games, and the propensity for these games to demand speedy solid-state storage, the demand for 4TB NVMe SSDs is understandably soaring. I’ve got good news for you, as well. These 4TB drives aren’t all that expensive anymore, as proven by this excellent Lexar NM790, which will set you…
It won’t actually hit the markets for another couple of years, but Intel’s forthcoming Lunar Lake CPU architecture has made an early appearance in the SiSoft Sandra database. The entry has all kinds of confusing information and while it only covers the numbers from just one benchmark, they’re actually quite promising. Intel’s roadmaps for its…
A recent datamine of Baldur’s Gate 3‘s absurdly huge wealth of voice lines continues to deliver. Not just in helping us uncover dark, dark futures regarding Scratch—it’s also given us a peek behind the curtain at the game’s development. As spotted by Team_Purple on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit (thanks Gamesradar), Astarion’s final romance scene…
Premiering in Japan this month. The first trailer for the upcoming live-action Pokémon series has been released, giving fans a glimpse of what to expect when PokéTsume (or ‘Pocket Filled with Adventure‘ in English) premieres in Japan later this month on October 17th, 2023. The series will tell the story of Madoka Akagi, a young…
Thankfully, for fans of Star Trek there are now plenty of decent games to play on PC if you fancy yourself as a budding Picard or Kirk, such as 2023’s Star Trek: Resurgence, but back at the turn of the century this was far from the case. One of the biggest culprits? Star Trek: Starship…
Another way to play this classic shmup! Released in Japan five years after Sega officially pulled support for the Sega Dreamcast, G-rev’s Under Defeat (a port of the 2005 arcade game of the same name) is a vertically scrolling shooter where players assume control of a technologically advanced helicopter and fight in World War II-style…