Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Nicholas Evanson) This month I’ve been testing: A small mountain of ergonomic keyboards. Some aren’t especially ergo at all, whereas others sit in a specialised niche all to themselves. I really love the weird and wonderful ones, even if it does feel like learning how to type all over…
Final Fantasy 14 feels like a safe place for gender expression and queerness in a way no other MMORPG really does. Despite that, the world—and its main story—don’t really acknowledge our existence in any meaningful way. The wider game has one instance of a confirmed queer couple I could find or remember. Ah, you might…
Includes taking a bath in an ultrasonic cleaner. Released in 1989, the Japan-only NEC SuperGrafx is one of gaming’s greatest follies. Rushed to market in order to compete with the Sega Mega Drive, it is part of the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 family but contains only modest enhancements to the original system, which had arrived…
Endless Space and Humankind studio Amplitude is marking its 13th birthday, and to celebrate it’s giving out free Steam copies of Endless Legend, its underrated fantasy 4X that apparently released all the way back in 2014. So there’s a Friday morning confrontation with mortality for you. You can pick the game up by heading over…
piAKchu. We have seen a good few Pokémon clones over the years, but very few have been quite as, ermm, out there as Palworld, the creature-collecting RPG… with guns. Well, it has launched into Early Access on Steam today. Originally revealed at Indie Live Expo 2021, Palworld has everything you would expect from a Pokémon…
Tracking down Ancient Civilization Parts in Palworld is a key step in constructing fancy Ancient Tech like the Egg Incubator in your base. You’ve probably just defeated Zoe and Grizzbolt at the Rayne Syndicate Tower—your first proper boss—but despite them giving you Ancient Technology Points, you’ve realised that you also need to find Ancient Civilization…
Player 2 can plug in and fire away! Matt Hughson, the creator of homebrew titles like From Below and Witch N’ Wiz, is currently working on a brand new Mario-Esque platformer for the Nintendo Entertainment System called Super Sunny World and has recently revealed on Twitter that it will include NES Zapper functionality. The NES…
Fighting game when? In an official confirmation on social media, Japanese fighting game specialist Arc System Works has revealed it was the developer behind the new Switch release Another Code: Recollection. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The cult classic DS and Wii adventures return. There are a few big releases out this week on the Nintendo Switch and one of them happens to be Another Code: Recollection, containing the original DS and Wii games in one package. If you’re wondering whether these titles are worth revisiting, you’ve come to the right…
There’s a helpful hint for today’s Wordle waiting below, just in case you’re struggling to find those key greens and yellows—it happens to all of us from time to time. Need something a little more direct? You’ve got it. The answer to the January 19 (944) Wordle is only a click away. Today turned out…