Sim racing can be a sweaty business. I dare say that’s something I can write with experience, but perhaps no more. I went for a test drive in a sim rig over at CES 2025 from Nitro Concepts that included a set of blowers that kept me cool, and more importantly, plenty immersed while racing….
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped the download charts last month. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 held a solidified front on the PS5 charts, remaining in the top five of December’s US and EU lists. Alien: Rogue Incursion burst onto December’s PS VR2 list, landing in the…
Starry-eyed surprise. 2025 brought three new Animal Crossing sets to LEGO’s line of cute critters from Nintendo’s slow-life-sim series, including the cheapest set in the main range so far. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Final Fantasy 14 communities have been in a bit of a commotion lately—as a recent mod stepping into the limelight has exposed a vulnerability in the way Square Enix has handled its new-and-‘improved’ blacklist feature. In essence, this solution to the game’s stalker problem has inadvertently made it very easy for ToS-violating (but currently untraceable)…
TikTok’s lawyers will today appear before the US Supreme Court in a final attempt to prevent a ban of the platform. Last year the US Congress passed a law ordering that the social media company either be split from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or blocked within the US entirely, with the rationale being that it…
Want a super-clean desktop build? Get a motherboard with all the connectors on the rear. The only problem is price. It’s gonna cost you. But perhaps not as much as it once did, thanks to some new “Project Zero” Intel motherboards announced by MSI for CES. Project Zero is of course MSI’s branding for motherboards…
McGeezer has been a name mentioned many times on Indie Retro News, as he has not only released some really amazing games such as the Arcade conversion of Rygar, the Arcade conversion of Turbo Sprint and Bomb Jack Beer Edition (link), but as from May or June he is also going to release the upcoming…
Thermaltake has a handful of new Toughpower PSUs on display at its CES 2025, and I’ve been over there to check them out. First off, the Thermaltake Toughpower D2000, which is quite literally too powerful for use in many American homes. The D2000 is a 2000 W power supply, which is double the recommended capacity…
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the current best CPU for gaming, launched just a little while ago and its impeccable performance has already caused shortages. AMD says the level of demand is partially down to Intel’s launch of the rather underwhelming Arrow Lake. As told to a writer at Tom’s Hardware in a roundtable interview with…
It’s “a broken mess” according to the retro gaming YouTuber. Emulation has unlocked many classic systems for a whole new generation of players, and devices such as handhelds, micro-consoles, Nintendo Switch, emulation boxes and MiSTer FPGA have made connecting with the past easier than ever before. However, it’s wrong to blindly assume that all platforms…