More Mario? Surely not!? Welcome to the future. You, dear reader, are reading these words in the far-off, distant, sci-fi future year that is 2024. While the hoverboards, flying vehicles, and inside-out trousers have all apparently been delayed in this branch of the timeline due to some spacetime-related cock up, at least Skynet is coming…
Enhanced controls! Quick dash! Inventory customisation! The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is one of the best entries in the series, and has already benefitted from not one but two excellent updates – the Game Boy Color ‘DX‘ version and, more recently, the Switch remaster. However, there are some people who swear by the original…
CES 2024 is nearly upon us and the raft of long awaited products are starting to be teased at a considerable rate. Amongst the expected laptop refreshes and big screen bonanzas, however, there are always some more, shall we say, unusual products that steal the show for many. LG may have set the bar pretty…
You can’t swing a stick without someone bringing up AI these days. Generative AI is the hottest tech trend in 2023, but as awesome as it is to see Leonardo DaVinci’s Madonna busting out TikTok moves, it doesn’t exactly revolutionize my life. What really catches my interest is AI integrated into the tech I use…
While AI ethics continues to be the hot-button issue of the moment, and companies and world governments continue to wrangle with the moral implications of a technology that we often struggle to define let alone control, here comes some slightly disheartening news: AI chatbots are already being trained to jailbreak other chatbots, and they seem…
Play your way. The technical whizzes over at Analogue bestowed a early Christmas gift on us with the long-awaited Analogue Pocket Update 2.0. This update brought with it a new CRT screen filter, just like the one that shipped with the Analogue Duo. Furthermore, it allows OpenFPGA cores to use display mode filters. This was…
“By the end of the process, I’m almost hallucinating with jet lag”. Sony had a record-breaking year in 1998, raking in over $51 billion in sales and operating revenue. Profits from television sales had spiked in 1997 and continued climbing. Having recently released such notable flops as The Cable Guy and Striptease, Sony’s movie studios…
No longer content to reside on your desktops, consoles, phones, and tablets, videogames are now taking over movie theaters and streaming services. After some strong years on the backs of shows like The Witcher, Arcane, and Castlevania, plus movies like Sonic and Super Mario Bros, Hollywood is finally going all-in on adapting games. Will it…
While Dungeons & Dragons’ huge OGL stumble didn’t quite convert the game’s captive audience to the hundreds of other (very good) TTRPGs out there, it’s still caused a resurgence of people checking out other games. It also prompted several creators (like the minds behind The MCDM RPG) to start doing their own thing—both to capitalise…
“Q1 2024, on the Super Nintendo”. NES ROM hacker and port specialist @infidelity_nes has revealed his next project: bringing the original Mega Man to the SNES. This is the same hacker who ported Metroid from the NES to the SNES, with amazing results – so it bodes well for Mega Man fans. Read the full…