Whether you’re one for sipping a cuppa while tuning into your favourite creator’s ‘Just Chatting’ stream, or you simply find being the sole viewer of a small streamer oddly compelling, folks really will watch anything. This apparently includes the determined inching forward of a progress bar for a 100-hour BIOS update. The saga began when…
“It’s time to kick this genre in the head”. The late Bill Kunkel is often referred to as “The Grandfather Of Video Game Journalism”, and with good reason. One of the earliest professional writers to spot the incredible appeal of interactive entertainment, Kunkel served as executive editor of Electronic Games Magazine in the early 1980s….
The game features an in-built randomizer that “splinters” its world “with each defeat”. Dragon Quest fans, take note! A new indie RPG, described as a “love letter” to the series, is launching later this week in Steam Early Access, which aims to pay homage to Enix’s classic while also introducing some exciting new innovations to…
One of the most annoying aspects of using the modern Internet is having to convince every other website that I am, in fact, a human, typically by clicking on little squares of traffic lights and bicycles. The irritation has been compounded since I learned that tools like CAPTCHA don’t really do much to deter online…
Nvidia’s GTC keynote helmed by none other than its great leader Jensen Huang was filled with all kinds of wonders from rack computers with 130 trillion transistors and an exoflop of compute to an actual robot on stage. But arguably the most intriguing detail for the future of the PC was reference to a new…
The Ghoul Update for Fallout 76 went live last night, meaning anyone who’s level 50 or over can now transform themselves into a rad-loving shuffler. This change of face provides players with new perks like not having to eat or drink, getting a rage buff when you ingest loads of radiation, and actually getting healed…
Marvel Rivals’ roster is currently 37 heroes, all from various Marvel comics. There are a healthy mix of icons like Thor, Punisher, and Black Widow, as well as a more niche heroes who’ve never gotten the MCU treatment like Magik, Squirrel Girl, and Jeff the Land Shark. While NetEase plans to keep on adding fan…
Monster Hunter Wilds just released its next set of event quests—which’ll give you a chance to snag some snazzy drip, and a bit of loot, too. In case you’re unfamiliar with the program, event quests are limited-time hunts that give you specific rewards, making for great opportunities to grind (or to just get a stupid-looking…
Every now and then the universe grants me an opportunity to flex either my resentment or my sympathetic joy muscles, to say ‘wow, congratulations’ or ‘why are you so lucky’? This is certainly one of those moments. Yesterday, I was confronted by a Redditor claiming to have received a $1,195 (93%) discount for a gaming…
Ben Starr even has some recommendations. Square Enix has officially launched its latest sale on the eShop, slashing prices on a boatload of fantastic RPGs. Now, this sale technically kicked off last week, though Square has only now started to go ham on its publicity (including a wonderful ad starring Ben Starr) thanks to it…