We’re just a couple weeks away from 2004: part 2, when Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater hits this August 28. If you’ve just bolted awake from a 9-year coma, that’s the UE5 remake of Metal Gear Solid 3 that marks Konami’s first real attempt to prove to fans it can be trusted to steward…
Summer fun. Mario Kart World is running a Summer Vacation Skill Test event in-game later this month. Announced on social media by Nintendo — and translated by OatmealDome — you’ll be able to participate in 150cc races with others to try and become one of the top 100 players in the world. Read the full…
I’ve been using a Hall effect keyboard for quite a while, and I’m keenly aware that this switch technology is the most popular for gamers right now. However, a while ago I spoke with Razer product manager Dexter Tan about optical keyboards, and he argued that optical is actually better. Both kinds of tech allow…
“Clear PCBs feel illegal”. I’ve been around long enough to have seen the Game Boy modding scene rise from a tiny niche of the retro gaming community to one of its most exciting sectors, but even I’m speechless at how beautiful this new device from @natalie_thenerd has turned out (thanks, Tom’s Hardware). The self-taught modder…
One of the most known marketing lines in videogame history is the absolutely ludicrous promise that Borderlands has 87 bazillion guns. Obviously this is hyperbole—the guns are randomised. It has a lot, but a bazillion is not a real number and thus should not be taken seriously. It was a goof, a gaff. Well, that…
Fighting Everdark Libra in Elden Ring Nightreign is honestly a bit of a nightmare. It’s an exceptionally fun fight with a cool concept, but it’s also just a lot to deal with, and will prove challenging for most players. While Everdark Augur was all about using a specific weapon skill, and Everdark Caligo had frost…
The Autonomous SmartDesk 5 is no more expensive than Ikea’s Utespelare, a non-motorised desk, and yet it does all the tricks. It’ll sit, it’ll stand, it’ll… okay, that’s about it, but that’s not bad for a desk under $300. The SmartDesk 5 is currently $249/CAD 699, though it’s usually $299. It’s not yet available in…
Rock solid. Depending on who you ask, the rhythm game genre — specifically games which utilise instrumental peripherals — is either dead, or, well… nearly dead. If you happen to fall into the latter camp and are sick to death of playing Fortnite Festival with either a bog-standard pad or CRKD’s rather middling NEO S…
The Gravelines nuclear power station in northern France shut down several of its reactors last weekend due to an unusual problem—pumping stations in the non-nuclear part of the facility were clogged up with the ‘massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish.’ The jellyfish were said to be amassed within the filter drums of said pumping stations,…
I have bad news—if you play MMOs, you’re guilty of a crime. As are each and every one of us. We are the thousand knives plunged into the back of the “oldschool MMO”. But who among us (don’t say ‘sus’, it’s not the time) is truly at fault? You may now imagine me in a…