“Getting Nintendo to sign off on game elements was difficult”. Out of all gaming genres, horror is the one that few would directly associate with Nintendo. After all, its flagship titles largely use brilliantly chirpy and loveable characters in settings that maintain a family-friendly approach and mass appeal. But throughout its history, Nintendo has never…
For a long time, no matter how hard I tried, and no matter how much of a performance hit my framerate took in Cyberpunk 2077, I just couldn’t bring myself to play without real-time ray tracing toggled on. It got even worse when Overdrive Mode arrived. What’s that?! Even more pretty lighting effects with an…
Solafite is a new kind of ore that you can find in Sons of the Forest. It was introduced with the latest update, along with the pickaxe which you’ll need to mine it. This ore is used to upgrade weapons and can be found in various locations across the island, but with that said, it…
Telltale Games has laid off an unknown portion of its staff, in an unfortunate deja vu moment for a handful of its employees. Word of the layoffs first began circulating when Jonah Huang, a former cinematic artist for the developer, published a series of tweets that claimed Telltale had let go “most” of its staff…
As with other Assassin’s Creeds, weapons and outfits are upgradable in Assassin’s Creed Mirage. There are three tiers to unlock per item, which improve the item’s perks as you go, and you can change their appearance. Dyes can be found and used to mix your outfits up if you get tired of boring old assassin…
CD Projekt is taking a victory lap in the release afterglow of Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC, and the newest stage of it means showing off every big number the company can find. With the CDP Investor Day behind us, CDP has thrown together a bunch of different graphics to brag about the number of…
Valve is well known for keeping any information about its hardware plans very tightly under wraps, to the point where you might as well hire the world’s best psychic to forecast when something new is on its way. But never underestimate the sheer diligence of tech enthusiasts, especially the likes of Brad Lynch, who’s spotted…
Is there a chameleon? Devolver Digital has announced KarmaZoo for the Switch, a co-op platformer for up to ten players, launching next month on November 14th, 2023. It boasts some rather lovely pixel-art visuals enhanced with lighting effects and flashes of bold colours, but the true draw here is the co=op gameplay itself. You’ll be…
Rtings is four months and about 2,000 hours into its OLED PC monitor burn-in testing and the results so far do not look good for monitors with Samsung’s QD-OLED panels. Admittedly, Rtings only has three monitors on test, two with Samsung QD-OLED tech and one with LG WOLED tech. But both of the Samsung-equipped monitors…
“Life is complicated and difficult”. Renowned video game historian and preservation advocate Kelsey Lewin has announced that she is leaving her role as Co-Director of The Video Game History Foundation. Lewin joined the organisation in 2017 and has been one of its most public-facing spokespeople since then, passionately spearheading campaigns to catalogue and preserve gaming’s…