Cyberpunk 2077 may be the most successful flop of all time. Within weeks of launch, the RPG had sold 13 million copies, even accounting for dissatisfied players refunding the game. It made its eight year budget back in a single day. But those accomplishments couldn’t stop Cyberpunk from widely being seen as a disappointment. It…
It’s time to call it: the era of hard disks is over. While you might’ve been able to get away with storing games on an HDD in 2020, graphically-demanding games have become even more reliant on the faster load speeds of SSDs over the past few years. Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 both demanded SSDs…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Omega ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…
The irony has been pointed out many times: When game engine Unity revealed its new per-install fee last week, game developers were possibly the most united they’ve ever been—in disgust. Even developers who don’t use Unity expressed anger or criticized the unprecedented change of terms. Perhaps the best example of this game dev rallying occurred…
Omega 6: The Video Game is coming in 2024. Legendary Nintendo name Takaya Imamura’s debut manga is being turned into a video game — in case you missed that announcement last year — and the first trailer has just dropped at the Tokyo Game Show. Coming to Switch and Steam in 2024, Omega 6: The…
After all these years, Bethesda Game Studios has finally released one of its signature first-person RPGs with functional ladders. Glorified teleporters no more: Starfield’s ladders have proper interactive climbing animations, and since Starfield makes an attempt at somewhat realistic spacecraft designs, its ships naturally contain lots of them. Also naturally, because it’s just a law…
I Wonder what will happen…. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Kevin ponders if it’s even possible to spoil a game about a tubby plumber who jumps around a lot… Super Mario Bros. Wonder is right around the…
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One of the biggest DIY repair sites, iFixit, has revised its repairability score on the iPhone 14, explaining its software “now limits many basic iPhone repairs” because it requires would be repairers to have replacement parts remotely authenticated by Apple. iFixit originally gave the iPhone 14 a 7 out of 10 repairability score but…