Nintendo Download: 1st February (North America)

GRIME! Alisa! Project Downfall! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch eShop – Highlights GRIME Definitive…

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Japanese Saturn Fans Pick The Console’s Best Games

Over 4,000 votes entered. Japanese retro gaming ‘Mangaka’ (which means comic artist or cartoonist) KABU recently asked their followers to vote for the best Saturn games of all time, and, with more than 4,000 votes submitted, the results are now in (thanks @gosokkyu). What’s most surprising about the top ten is that, despite the console’s…

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Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: ‘reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast’

Ray tracing has been around a surprisingly long time in computer graphics. It was used to generate images in the 1960s, and by the ’80s new algorithms had been created including path tracing. Yet the “holy grail of rendering” remained a distant dream for early home machines like the ZX Spectrum. You need only look…

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