“Kenta Cho?” I take a slow puff on my pipe as I stare into the distance. “Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…” Way back when I was obsessed with 2D schmups, I’d tell anyone with ears to check out Kenta Cho’s amazing games: often small, often built around a single…
Is throwing someone in at the deep end the best way to teach them to swim? Probably not, but it is the most fun. At least, for the observers. That’s what 1000xResist does, opening in medias res and trusting you’ll figure out how to float. It begins with one of the story’s most dramatic scenes…
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Home Alone star got something special from Arsenio Hall. In 1991, Macaulay Culkin was one of the most famous faces on the planet thanks to his starring role in the hugely popular Home Alone. While the film would get adaptions for a wide range of systems, they were all Sega and Nintendo platforms – and…
Fortnite added Peter Griffin from Family Guy recently, and if you can push past the existential dread that sentence may give you, it’s a no-brainer. Once a PvE co-op builder, Fortnite’s Battle Royale game mode has long outgrown its humble roots and become an ‘Oops! All Franchises’ monolith. But somehow, Seth MacFarlane had never heard…
Following the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16, NES, SNES, GameCube, and Game Boy & Virtual Boy Anthologies, Geeks-Line is now proud to present the PlayStation 2 Tetralogy! Six years after the PlayStation tidal wave, the end of the millennium was marked by the release of an extraordinary console with a monolithic aesthetic worthy…
CES is all wrapped up, and while AI fatigue has hit our hardware writers (as the term ‘AI’ has slipped into the realm of buzzword purgatory) I’m about to make things a hell of a lot worse for everybody. As spotted by TheVerge, there’s now an AI-powered sex toy that aims to treat people with…
Update: Fresh blood is coming in. Since this article was originally published back in November 2021, the Switch Online Expansion Pack offering has expanded with a decent spread of N64 classics — 26 in total at the time of writing. From the games on our initial wishlist, 1080 Snowboarding, Excitebike 64, GoldenEye 007, Jet Force…
Sources seem to disagree on its origin, so we decided to investigate! Who created Dreamcast’s logo? You’d think that would be a simple thing to answer. After all, Sega’s shop is still full of Dreamcast-associated merch emblazoned with the iconic coloured swirl and there have been countless interviews over the years with people involved in…
Like it or not, we’re very much in the world of generative AI now. Massively complex neural networks trained on vast quantities of data, all so we can use it to make pictures of donkeys riding space rockets or tell us which churro coating is the best. I jest, of course, because large language models…