Working out the best Helldivers 2 loadout for your galactic warrior is a bit of a puzzle at first, as you gradually unlock new weapons and armour you can try. The sheer variety in terms of Stratagems alone makes it tough to know what to bring, especially when you only have four slots to work…
Video Games with a scoring system have been around for a very long time. In fact, Guinness World Records lists 1976’s Sea Wolf as the first video game to record scores. This means that the idea of a high score in a video game was around before I was even born, and about nine years…
Baldur’s Gate 3 has something called Honour Mode—an optional, permadeath difficulty that’s supposed to be the hardest challenge it has to offer. Naturally, a speedrunner just cleared it in under 20 minutes. While I was over here laboriously planning builds and tentatively shuffling my way through three acts of terrifying boss fights, Mae was studying…
You don’t need to be a professional content creator or an expert in data analysis to know that when it comes to GPUs for these roles, one manufacturer dominates the market: Nvidia. That’s almost entirely down to CUDA, a programming platform that’s been around for years. AMD has its own system called ROCm but it’s…
Roughly one year after Japan. After its initial release in Japan on 28 September, 2023, Ys X: Nordics will be heading to the Nintendo Switch in the West in Fall 2024, courtesy of NIS America. If it wasn’t obvious from the game’s title, this will be the tenth mainline game from the long-running Ys franchise,…
You’ll need a Philips head for this. You can’t move for retro-inspired games these days, to the extent that a developer saying “Hey, this looks like an old game!” has started to feel less like a selling point and more like a hop onto a crowded, pixelated bandwagon. If you’re after something that looks a…
Coming to Nintendo Switch in Japan on February 29th. Pixel Co. Ltd, the Japanese game developer, retro store, and event company, has just released a new Famicom-inspired vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up over on Steam (as spotted by @gosokkyu) The game, which is called Xelan Force, was first conceived as a special project to commemorate the…
Junior Jungle Japes. Ok, let’s see. The original Donkey Kong first released into arcades in 1981, where it became a smash hit that also happened to introduce us to two of Nintendo’s most enduring mascots in the form of a great big agitiated ape and some springy little plumber guy. The game, in this very…
“I finally tried Apple’s Vision Pro. I have to say before this I expected that Quest would be better value,” reveals Meta CEO and social media mega-magnate Mark Zuckerberg. “But after using it, I don’t just think that Quest is better value. It’s the better product, period.” Well, there’s a shock. In a video posted…
Playing Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor’s demo last year, I already felt like I’d discovered a promising vein of gold. Playing a preview of the game’s full Early Access build this week has been like digging through and finding a whole glittering cavern of riches. As a big fan of Vampire Survivors-inspired games, I think this…