It might be strange to recall after Hitman 3’s stonking success, but series developer IO Interactive was in a very precarious situation not so long ago. When 2016’s Hitman failed to please IOI’s owners at Square Enix, the corporation began scrabbling around looking for someone to take the studio of its hands. We know how…
Sorry, could you repeat that? The 1990s were famous for their edgy commercials, with Sega blazing a trailer at the start of the decade before its rivals got in on the action, too. Even the once squeaky-clean Nintendo itself wasn’t immune, as the following print advertisement for Pokémon Red & Blue proves. Read the full…
In week’s show, dive deep into the 1990s Italian Amiga scene with Paolo D’Urso. From his days as a demo coder and cloning Super Mario 64 with the late Amiga classic ‘Tales of Heaven’, to the publication of ‘Passione Amiga’ magazine. Now, Paolo’s reigniting his Amiga passion, collaborating with his childhood hero and music maestro,…
Best of the best (Image credit: Bandai Namco) 2023 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best MMOs: Massive worlds Best RPGs: Grand adventures It can be hard to find the best MMOs when there are so many of them, and so many different…
AMD owns about 20% of the desktop CPU market and nearly a quarter of servers according to new figures for the third quarter of 2023 from Mercury Research. That’s up by about 5% in both cases compared to AMD’s share this time last year. Mercury also says that for the market as a whole, both…
Let’s begin with the sordid matter of money. The cheapest you can currently acquire the new LG UltraGear 27GR93U for is $630. Youch. That’s quite a lot for a 27-inch gaming monitor, even if this new LG is the full 4K and knocks out 144Hz. It’s notable that the 32-inch version of this panel, the…
Valve has been adamant to talk up the new Steam Deck OLED as “the definitive first-generation Steam Deck” and definitely not anything like a sequel to its immensely popular inaugural handheld PC. But if you were under any illusions that it wasn’t coming Valve has confirmed “it’s definitely something we’re working on and planning for.”…
They put a Shrek in it. Given that he’s an internet icon these days and the star of countless memes, it’s a bit of a surprise that it’s taken this long – 12 full years, in fact – to find a way to get Shrek into another video game. The last title to feature the…
Modern Warfare 3 hasn’t had the smoothest of entries. This latest entry has caught some major flak for being a ‘glorified expansion‘ in the eyes of some fans, thanks to some confused initial messaging, carrying your guns over, and its speedy—some suggest rushed—development cycle. Now that it’s out, the campaign‘s been panned for both its…
Larian has followed up Baldur’s Gate 3’s hefty fourth patch with a wee hotfix that squashes a variety of bugs, one of which I wish I’d experienced before it was fixed. I knew I should have rolled a dwarf. If you’ve been playing as a dwarven Barbarian since the arrival of the last update, you…