2023

Sony has applied to patent systems that automatically fiddle with “parameters that change the difficulty of the game” based on your performance, a patent on the World Intellectual Property Organization‘s website reveals. (Actually, the patent reads “difficultly” at the time of writing, so Sony may in fact be referring to the implementation of dynamic cults….

Need to know What is it? A roguelike city builder about making the best of a doomed world. Expect to pay £25/$30 Release date Dec 8, 2023 Developer Eremite Games Publisher Hooded Horse Reviewed on Windows 10, Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 3080, 32GB RAM Steam Deck Verified Link Official site The basic idea baked into…

Forgive me, for I have well and truly let down PC gamers everywhere this year. I’ve come to discover a terrible fact about myself: I thought my favourite PC game of this year was way better on mobile. I know, I know. Why, when I have a great rig, a comfy gaming chair to plonk…

Since the release of Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update KB5033375 for December’s Patch Tuesday, there’s been a deluge of reports from unhappy users with Wi-Fi connectivity issues, according to Bleeping Computer. A quick search of Reddit reveals a large number of users who’ve installed the latest update complaining about dropped connections or an inability to…

It wouldn’t be a FromSoftware RPG if there weren’t a pre-launch phase where fans obsessed over every tiny shred of information they can find. Elden Ring fans have of course spent the last 10 months picking apart the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC announcement artwork, hoping to find clues about what might await us when…

Last week, a massive amount of data was stolen from Spider-Man developer Insomniac games. Now the hackers who stole that data have leaked it online, detailing internal plans of the studio that stretch across the next decade. On December 12, Cyber Daily reported that Insomniac had suffered a data breach committed by ransomware group Rhysida,…

Developer and writer Chris Avellone, formerly of Interplay and Obsidian Entertainment, has recently been musing on Twitter about some of the roads not travelled during his time at the latter studio. One of Avellone’s biggest credits is his work on Fallout: New Vegas, regarded by some as the finest 3D Fallout and the closest in…

NASA has demonstrated a successful transmission of a high-definition video from a probe over 30 million kilometres away in space. Instead of using the traditional method of radio waves, the system onboard asteroid-probe Psyche utilises a powerful near-infrared laser beam. Rather than showing us the unnerving splendour of the empty void, engineers chose a 15-second…