“We want you to make a sequel; we’ll get permission from Sega for you to do it”. For a lot of diehard Dreamcast fans, 2001’s SEGAGAGA ranks as one of the most unique and fascinating titles released for the console. Typically described online as “a role-playing simulation”, it sees players step into the shoes of…
A new study has made the curious finding that memes with AI-generated captions are, generally speaking, found to score higher for creativity, humor, and “shareability” than those captioned by humans only, as well as humans in partnership with AI. The one bright spot: Humans did overall create the most exceptional memes. But not enough, fleshbags….
It has been exactly one year since we published news that Larian was done with Baldur’s Gate 3. You’d be forgiven for forgetting, given that the studio has released one patch and seven hotfixes for the game since then. But wait, there’s more. Yesterday, Larian announced that it’s got a third stress test update for…
There is no single display technology that does everything well. That’s an objective fact and something the stupendous, incredible and delightful new Acer Predator Z57 does absolutely nothing to change. Along with the closely related Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 G95NC, this is one of if not the most spectacular gaming monitors available today. And yet…
As much as I like getting friends sat down around a table, I breathed a deep sigh of relief when it was announced that tactical dungeon crawler Gloomhaven was coming to PC, due to the tabletop version being a terrifyingly huge (and expensive) obelisk full of smaller boxes, each containing innumerable smaller, easily lost pieces….
“A number of overseas developers have said, ‘We want you to make a [Segagaga] sequel’”. The Segagaga director Tetsu “Tez” Okano has had an extraordinary but unconventional career in video games. As a kid growing up in 1970s Japan, he fell in love with arcade games like Space Invaders and Galaxian but never initially considered…
“We are now running production silicon in Arizona.” So says none other than Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Exactly what silicon? How many chips? Hold those thoughts. The term “production silicon” is a significant upgrade from previous confirmations from Nvidia that it merely had plans to make chips at TSMC’s factory in Arizona. Likewise, “production silicon”…
Bad news for Nobunaga and his ambitions: Assassin’s Creed Shadows has parkoured past 1,000,000 players in under 24 hours. Naturally, Ubisoft immediately bragged about it on social media. It’s not even 4PM here in Canada and Assassin’s Creed Shadows has already passed 1 million players!Thank YOU from the bottom of our hearts for joining this…
It’s the 2025 Game Developer’s Conference, and one of this year’s most interesting talks was delivered by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company’s first chief marketing officer. Harrington’s career has been very much on the business side of software development but, way back in Valve’s early days, she suddenly realised “there…
“People think the crash happened in both places. It didn’t”. If you consider yourself to be a budding gaming historian, then the Video Game Crash of 1983 will be an event you’re at least partially aware of. To cut a long story short, Atari created an enormous market in the US for video game consoles,…