I never cease to be amazed by portals in video games. Even though the tech is nearly two decades old (and older still, if you include the use of portal rendering for hidden environment transitions in Thief and other early 3D games), Portal’s seamless, real-time transitions through holes in space still feel like magic to…
Cruelty Squad is undoubtedly one of the weirdest indie breakthroughs of this decade, a wilfully obtuse and unpleasant immersive sim in which you play a corporate assassin in a lo-fi 3D world painted with vomit. But we dug its counter-cultural (and counter-mechanical) approach and, following its success, the developer has since been working on a…
It does eveything. While modern-day consoles have long since abandoned the idea of storing save data on removable memory cards, we’ve seen new “smart” cards appear for consoles such as the PS1, Dreamcast and GameCube. These devices are the functionality of old-school memory cards but introduce next-gen features such as (almost) limitless storage and cloud…
Nobody could accuse me of being a fan of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It was a serious misfire from a once-exceptional studio, and while I can understand why it resonated with some players—it was pretty, breezy and had fun, snappy combat—after Andromeda and Anthem, it was the third and final strike. Yet I still find…
A fitting farewell. We love it when a studio demonstrates significant growth and improvement with each of its subsequent projects. With Bombservice specifically, the team has always boasted a strong understanding of what makes Metroidvanias ‘click’, and with Momodora: Moonlit Farewell, it’s delivered what may well be its finest game yet. The latest chronological entry…
It’s not actually true that four-time F1 champ Max Verstappen has a racing sim rig in his private plane. But he is a serious racing sim aficionado to the extent of having one in his motorhome at European F1 races and generating controversy over his late-night sim racing antics before actual F1 races. So, when…
Includes fixes for Battle Shark, Jet Wave, and more. At the tail end of last month, the developers behind MAME released MAME version 0.274, introducing a ton of new features and fixes to the open-source emulator that are well worth checking out (h/t: How To Geek). The headline feature of the new update, according to…
It’s time for Switch 2. Our first confirmed Nintendo Direct of 2025 is coming, and it’s a big one. On the day of the Nintendo Switch 2’s reveal, Nintendo also confirmed that there will be a Nintendo Direct focused entirely on the brand new console in April 2025. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
You’d be forgiven for thinking that a company called Advanced Micro Devices would make the majority of its profit from said tech, with coveted high-end graphic cards leading the charge. Though gaming hardware continues to do big business, it’s been completely overshadowed in recent years by an explosion in demand for data centres handling AI….
It’s got its ups and downs, but I rather like Steam early access. Being able to get in on the ground floor of something, watch it develop, and support developers whose ambitions might exceed their initial budgets is a neat thing. The downside, of course, is that sometimes the games just don’t get finished. They…