The main thing I remember about the movie Black Hawk Down, a thoroughly post-Saving Private Ryan slice of gritty military hero worship, is actor Tom Sizemore sauntering around with an almost casual indifference to the bullets whizzing past his head. Even when he gets hit, he treats it as more of an annoyance than anything….
You won’t hear any lectures from me, as I know how hard it is to let go of tech that’s served you well. My last gaming laptop lasted me 10 years before the recovery partition on the hard drive finally said ‘no more!’ True, it had been ailing for some time before then, repeatedly switching…
Video game retailer GameStop has announced plans to “pursue a sale” of its operations in France and Canada, in the latest setback for the company’s international business. According to a brief press release posted to the GameStop website (via the Toronto Star) the move comes in the wake of an “evaluation of its international assets”….
Overwatch 2’s Season 16 began last night, and with it came a load of new features like perks and loot boxes, changes to the UI, and a rank reset. It’s a big update for the start of the season, but one that was very much needed thanks to the new competition that Marvel Rivals has…
Words cannot describe how much I love Avowed’s glossary of, well, words. In case you’ve not been playing Obsidian’s excellent little RPG yet, the game has a “dialogue history and lore” option you can pull up whenever someone’s not actively yapping, which’ll not only let you skim through previous dialogue. It’ll also pull up a…
First one lands next week. Go Go Nintendo Lifers! Digital Eclipse has today announced that a pair of mighty-looking updates will be heading to Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind in the coming months, adding in fresh gameplay features, new moves and an expanded scope for online co-op. The first of these updates is set…
He joins others like the Doom designer John Romero in praising the elusive programmer. The Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has joined fellow gaming legends like Doom designer in heaping praise on the legendary Final Fantasy programmer Nasir Gebelli, describing him as “like a god” to him in a recent interview with JPGames.de (thanks GamesRadar!)….
If it wasn’t a $1,000+ graphics card, I’d feel sorry for the RTX 5080. It’s literally half the GPU of the big boi RTX 5090—Nvidia’s flagship GeForce Blackwell card—and yet suffers from severely limited stock and punitively high pricing. But it’s the second-tier RTX 50-series card, and can at least claim to be the second…
A Skell of a good time. It’s been absolutely ages since we last set foot on Mira, the planet on which humanity seeks refuge from an alien threat in Xenoblade Chronicles X. It was perhaps only a year or two after the game first released on Wii U, in fact, that we last played it,…
The Trump-tariff love fest is clearly going to run and run. But for what it’s worth, the latest PC-relevant development involves a blanket 25% tariff—and rising—on all chips coming into the USA (via Bloomberg). To be clear, nothing official has been announced, but President Trump says the tariff is “likely”. That’s a shift or perhaps…