The whole Arm-versus-x86 thing just got a lot more interesting. Qualcomm has announced its much anticipated new Snapdragon X Elite SoC. Designed specifically for laptop PCs, it’s the first significant output of Qualcomm’s Apple-influenced Nuvia subsidiary, debuts a brand new CPU core architecture known as Oryon and comes with performance claims that are fairly eye…
The Duriel boss is Diablo 4‘s most significant endgame challenge—besides pushing into high-tier Nightmare Dungeons, that is. The King of Maggots is the toughest of the new bosses that Blizzard added to the game as part of the Season of Blood, and that’s not just in terms of fighting him. While his summoning material farm…
“Creepy castles, unkind estates, and cursed digital architecture”. Fangamer and Lost in Cult have teamed up to create THE HORROR, a series of books which will examine “the foundational hits, cult classics, indie nightmares and obscure curiosities of gaming.” The first volume in the series is entitled MANSION, and is all about “creepy castles, unkind…
When Jacob reviewed the Intel Core i9 14900K last week he wasn’t particularly impressed with the lack of improvements over the previous generation, and one thing that seems to have remained the same is the tendency to run on the warmer side under heavy load. Of course if you’re in the market for Intel’s latest…
Excel is one of the programs that gets used in a multitude of sectors, from banking and finance, to engineering and medicine. In the case of the latter, geneticists routinely struggled with the program’s habit of converting text into a date, causing gene naming errors to crop up in research papers. Well, it’s taken years…
The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection is here, and that can only mean two things. One, that this series probably deserves stewardship from a company willing to spend any money at all on creating decent, modern PC ports for it, and two, that it’s time to pore over its various data files with a fine-tooth…
Starfield‘s big. Real big. Over 1,000 planets big. However that illusion of bigness really vanishes when the game reuses particular prefabs. You can only go through the exact same space base so many times before you start feeling like you’re on the Truman Show. As PC Gamer’s Fraser Brown pointed out a while back: “there’s…
Where does Mario Wonder rank? Updated with the excellent Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Remember: This is subject to change depending on each game’s User Rating on our database, so feel free to get rating the ones you’ve played with a score out of ten and potentially affect the order. If you’re interested in Team Nintendo…
“A sort of ‘all-in-one’ cosmos where you feel comfortable as a video gamer”. Retroplace co-founder Christian Corre Let’s not mince words here; classic games are serious business. A few years ago, it was possible to make real bargains when hunting for games from bygone eras; nowadays, everyone and their dog seems to think that their…
1989 Space Harrier rival hits Arcade Archives. Namco’s 1989 arcade title Burning Force has been confirmed as the next entry in Hamster’s Arcade Archives range. Boasting similar gameplay to Sega’s Space Harrier, Burning Force places you in the role of Space Force cadet Hiromi Tengenji, who is tasked with taking down enemies on her fancy…