I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first unboxed the Audio-Technica ATH-R50X. Audio-Technica’s reputation in the professional audio world is rock solid, but open-back reference headphones aren’t exactly a dime a dozen in the gaming space. These aren’t your typical bass-heavy, RGB-infused gaming cans. Instead, the ATH-R50X aims for pure, uncolored audio reproduction—an honest,…
Take-Two Interactive, publisher of Grand Theft Auto 5, is suing PlayerAuctions, a Chinese-owned site known for facilitating the trading and selling of player accounts and digital currencies in online games. That’s as per a report by Polygon late last week, which states that Take-Two is alleging “the website PlayerAuctions.com offers a vast online marketplace containing…
Whether we’re green-teamers, red-teamers, blue-teamers, or no-teamers, PC hardware customisability is one trend I think we can probably all get behind. In which case, I suppose we should all be XFX-teamers because the company’s just opened the doors to a ton of customisability for some of its RX 9070-series cards. As XFX explains on X,…
The Capcom beat ’em up originally debuted back in 1994. A new fanmade reimagining of Capcom’s SNES X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse has just been released for PC & Android, letting players experience a recreation of the classic title with new characters, moves, and the ability to play with up to three friends. According to its creator…
For my sins, much of the work I’ve published here as part of the hardware team has been typed up using the ultra-low-profile keys of a corporate MacBook. I know, I’ve brought shame to this great house and worse still, as I jab away at my wafer thin Apple slices, there’s hardly a satisfying thock…
Alejandro Martin is contesting chargebacks for pre-orders. Hot on the heels of news that the SuperSega project is being refocused to be little more than a glorified MiSTer, we can now reveal that Alejandro Martin is blocking those people who pre-ordered the original console from getting refunds. If you’ve been following this sorry saga from…
The Mission: We bring people together by providing a place to connect through a multigenerational video gaming experience. I was fortunate enough to have met and interviewed the owner of “Arcade 92” in Flower Mound, TX. I will have his full interview published in the May issue of Old School Gamer Magazine. Here is a…
Pikmin Bloom and Monster Hunter Now are also going. It’s official — Niantic, the developer of Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now, has sold its gaming division for a staggering $3.5 billion to Scopely, “a world leader in mobile games”. This acquisition comes just a few weeks after reports emerged that Niantic was…
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In the on-again, off-again saga of TSMC’s supposed designs on Intel’s chip factories, there’s a new twist. Reuters reports that TSMC has pitched Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom with the idea of a joint venture to take control of Intel’s struggling fabs. Immediately, we should point out that the story just a few weeks ago was…