Personally, I slightly lose interest above 240 Hz when it comes to monitor refresh rates. Of course, I hung up my competitive shooter aspirations a decade or more ago. But if you want to be really, truly competitive, you can’t have too many hertz. Which is why the new Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 is big…
“Highest consolidated sales and operating income in Capcom history”. Capcom has posted its financial results for FY2025, and it’s been another remarkable success for the iconic Japanese publisher. In short, it’s earned record profits across all relevant categories for the eighth consecutive year. It’s also achieved over 10% operating income growth for the tenth consecutive…
Kickstarter launches later this month. The Kickstarter campaign for the Blu-Ray release of the Jeff Minter documentary Heart of Neon is scheduled to launch later this month on May 22nd, 2025. If you’re a fan of the video game studio Llamasoft or its ruminant-loving founder Jeff Minter, then you probably have already heard about the…
Forget about your feeble 140 DPI, 1,000 nit, 4K OLED monitors, Samsung has just announced a new OLED panel with 5,000 pixels per inch capable of 15,000 nits and beyond 8K resolution. Oh, and it measures just 1.4 inches across. It is, of course, aimed at VR headsets, hence the teensy proportions. Samsung says it…
Actor voices Osamu Kashiwagi. After confirming the English voiceover cast for Yakuza 0: Director’s Cut recently, Sega has now shared a quick look at actor David Hayter in the role of Osamu Kashiwagi. In case you’re unaware, Hayter is perhaps best known for his role as Solid/Naked/Old Snake in the Metal Gear Solid series. He’s…
Helldivers, get to your Super Destroyers! In a surprise turn of events that even our top researchers couldn’t predict, the Illuminate have finally revealed their intentions, emerging from the Meridian singularity, and setting a course for Super Earth. It’s now more important than ever that we band together and stop this salvo from destroying our…
Donkey Kong Country composer David Wise is also collaborating on the album. The Mega Man 3 co-composer Harumi Fujita is releasing a new album and has enlisted the help of Mega Man creator Akira Kitamura to do the artwork. Rockmama, as the new release is being called, is Fujita’s debut solo album and contains 14…
Fast and difficult shoot ’em ups, often shortened to “shmups”, were an absolute staple of the arcade era. Space Invaders was a major proponent in the explosion of arcade culture, so it’s no wonder that the genre consistently received countless combinations of spaceships blasting through baddies for decades to come. In 1985, Konami released Gradius,…
AI is an acronym I’m hearing multiple times a day lately, and usually only with a 30% hit rate of being used for the right actual thing. LLMs like ChatGBT and DeepSeek are constantly in the news while we talk about putting AI in everything from our gaming chips to our schools. It’s easy to…
“That’s how they were originally intended to be played”. The Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con controllers include mouse capabilities which opens the new system up to even more games. We’ve already seen how third-party titles like Civilization VII will support this feature when the new device arrives this June, and it seems other developers are just…