Sony’s masterpiece of design, the Dualsense controller, is packed to the hilt with features: An awesome haptic feedback system, a touch-sensitive panel, and a sweet mini-speaker for added immersion in games. Naturally, one needs a PlayStation 5 to make the most of these but one thing that’s a bit of a pain on both PC…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for January 15 – 19 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published January 12, 2024 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Game Pass! Get more details…
Mesa is a long-running project that started life as an open-source driver, bringing the OpenGL graphics API to a host of different platforms. Today, developers from AMD, Google, Intel, and others all take part. One of the most well-known Mesa drivers is RADV: A Vulkan-based driver specifically for AMD’s GPUs running on a Linux operating…
By all accounts, space-dwarf mining sim Deep Rock Galactic has one of the last positive communities left in all of videogames. There’s something about rambunctiously stripping the galaxy of resources as a squad of stout ‘n’ shouty guys that brings out the best in people. That must be why—per developer Ghost Ship Games’ own 2023…
Physical releases to kick off 2024. Last year, Retro-Bit announced it was publishing licenced reissues of Hammerin’ Harry, Hammerin’ Harry 2, El Viento and Sol Deace – and we’ve been lucky enough to get sample copies of them. Released in Japanese arcades in 1990 as Daiku no Gen-san: Beranmechō Sōdōki, Hammerin’ Harry was ported to…
Hyperkin Announces Handheld Console Compatible With Genesis® and Mega Drive Cartridges January 12, 2024 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles-based video game hardware developer, Hyperkin, has announced they are developing a handheld console, the Mega 95, compatible with original Genesis® and Mega Drive cartridges. In the past decade, Hyperkin has released, to much acclaim, the SupaBoy…
“if we only had to send the data, distribution becomes much more doable”. If you’ve been checking the website regularly this week, you’ll know that we’ve been posting some previously unpublished (in English, at least) materials that we had translated while researching various topics related to Nintendo. Well, here’s another one that we had hiding…
Batteries. You could be forgiven for thinking that at some point battery development just sort of stopped, as Lithium-ion has been the preferred type of battery for our devices since its first commercial implementation all the way back in 1991, and work to find a better alternative has often seemed agonisingly slow. That may be…
Minecraft Legends, the self-described “action strategy” game that sees players command Minecraft mobs in a ceaseless war against invading Piglins, is going into maintenance mode around nine months after its release. Developers Mojang and Blackbird announced Tuesday that they had spent their time since launch taking community feedback on board and using it to implement…
“I think it’s the best-designed game we’ve ever made”. Ste and John Pickford have been making video games for decades, starting with humble home micros like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 before graduating to the NES and SNES as the ’90s dawned. Such was the prestigious talent of these skilful siblings that their company…