Vizio has agreed to pay out $3 million to settle a 2018 California class action lawsuit that accused the company of misleading consumers over the refresh rates of its TVs. Vizio had been claiming that black frame insertion technology increased the “effective refresh rate” of its TVs from 60Hz to 120Hz. It also applied the…
Activision-Blizzard’s transfer over to the growing empire of Microsoft has been a bit of a drama, to say the least—but it’s all over now, its curtains called with the departure of the company’s former CEO Bobby Kotick, exiting stage right. Kotick has been a controversial figure in gaming, quickly building up a reputation as a…
Update: Port continues to shape up nicely. Update #2 : Here’s even more footage of Street Fighter Alpha / Zero running on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Update #1 : Davila Games has posted some new footage of their attempt to bring Street Fighter Alpha / Zero to the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis….
Ten years later the fantastic job that Crystal Dynamics’ did with its 2013 Tomb Raider reboot has become even more apparent to me. The mature, 18-rated game took the campy, bright and cartoonish Lara Croft of earlier games and, instead, delivered a dark, hyper violent and at times gripping coming of age origin story with…
What’s up, Doc? Publisher and developer Pichon Games has announced that the gorgeous but gory horror adventure The Bunny Graveyard will be making the jump (heheh) over to Switch at some point in 2024. Originally released on Steam last September, the game sees you playing as a mouse cursor on a computer (yes, really) and…
The “true” kill screen has been reached. NES Tetris might be 35 years old this year, but it’s still a mainstay of the competitive Tetris scene, which has been surprisingly active over the past decade. This is because, during that time, new techniques were discovered that have allowed the world’s best Tetris players to set…
Nabb’dit. The first breakdown of physical sales in the UK for 2024 is here, with Hogwarts Legacy taking the top spot just ahead of Super Mario Bros. Wonder in the final week of 2023. According to GfK (thanks, GamesIndustry), the former is also the biggest boxed game of 2023, supplanting EA’s footballing juggernaut for the…
Yum! Once upon a time, Sony wasn’t the video game behemoth it is today – it was simply an electronics giant which eyed the video game industry with interest. To that end, it launched its own game publishing label – CSG Imagesoft, later Sony Imagesoft – in the late ’80s and planned to release three…
The game originally released in arcades back in 1986. Nichibutsu’s vertical action scroller Mighty Guy is coming to Nintendo Switch and PS4 tomorrow, Famitsu reports. Released back in the arcades in 1986, the game has been described online as a cross between Nichibutsu’s earlier title Ninja Emaki and Capcom’s vertical run-and-gun shooter Commando. Read the…
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