“It didn’t sound like Mario music”. While he perhaps hasn’t achieved the same degree of fame as Sonic and Mario, one-time PlayStation mascot Crash Bandicoot remains one of gaming’s most popular icons – and the composer behind the music in some of his earliest adventures has been speaking about the song that “locked in” the…
Cloud Nine is a relative newbie in the world of keyboards, as they’ve only been around since 2019. Its portfolio is also very small: Just two variants of the same C959 Ergo model, one ten keyless (the one being reviewed) and the other full-size. It’s an ergonomic keyboard and one with the main aspects required…
Welcome to 2024 and the second generation of OLED gaming monitors. Or should that be the third as Asus is claiming for this new panel? It depends how you measure, but the new Asus ROG Swift OLED PG34WCGM definitely moves the game on courtesy of the very latest LG OLED panel tech. We’ll come to…
Hey everyone, Foamstars Producer Kosuke Okatani here. We’ve kept all of you waiting since the announcement of Foamstars May of last year, but we’re happy to announce that Foamstars will release on February 6, 2024! Foamstars will be included as a game in the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup* for February and we’re ecstatic to…
Hold on tight, because 2024 is kicking off with a bang. I don’t remember another January that landed with four new graphics cards all launching within the same month, with this RTX 4070 Super being the first of Nvidia’s three Super GPUs to line up for their January spotlight. And it could be the finest…
Switch up. Despite trade-ins and pre-owned sales being one of the core pillars for the UK specialist retailer GAME for many years, recent reports have indicated that the firm will be ending physical trade-ins next month on February 16th, 2024. So far, GAME itself has kept schtum on the matter, while staff from multiple UK…
Category: Xbox Game PassJanuary 16, 2024 Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Palworld, Persona 3 Reload, F1 23, and More Megan Spurr, Community Lead, Xbox Game Pass Be it a big fancy car, a Brotato, a big ole boss, or a turnip (I couldn’t find a way to make that one start with a “B”) we’ve…
By the developers of last year’s incredible Lemmings port. The developers behind last year’s incredible fan ports of Lemmings and Empire Strikes Back to the Commodore Plus/4 have reunited to bring Sega’s arcade classic Turbo Outrun to the old home computer (as spotted by Commodore Blog & IndieRetroNews!). Originally released back in 1989, Turbo Outrun…
Look, we’ve all been dunking on the whole ‘metaverse’ concept for a while now. As Phil Iwaniuk wrote for us back in February of last year, anyone who has played video games knows that the metaverse’s promised digital wonderland has existed since the days of the CRT monitor. Second Life, Everquest, World of Warcraft. Heck:…
“Make the designs cool”. Masahiro Sakurai has released a new YouTube video looking into the concept of customisation in video games. It’s not the most groundbreaking stuff imaginable and it will likely only truly resonate with budding game developers. Still, since Sakurai has announced that he will be winding down his YouTube channel this year,…