Featuring ActRaiser, Eye of the Beholder, Breath of Fire, & Chrono Trigger. Over the last decade or so, Bitmap Books has established itself as one of the leading publishers of video game books. In the past, the UK-based publisher has released books on a range of retro topics, covering everything from Japanese role-playing games to…
So, Google and Qualcomm are bigging up what’s basically a desktop version of the former’s Android OS for smartphones (via 9to5Google). The idea, apparently, is to fuse “mobile and PC” into a single device. And given Qualcomm is part of this particular conversation, that device would presumably be running an Arm chip rather than a…
AI data centers are some of the largest consumers of electrical energy in the world of computing, and with gigawatt-sized projects currently in development, there is increased demand for sustainable means to power them. It just so happens that there’s one solution that’s entirely off-grid, with apparently zero emissions, and even generates the water required…
Silent Hill f finally releases to the masses tomorrow, but before everyone’s even got their hands on NeoBard’s new take on the Silent Hill series, one modder has managed to completely remove all the fog from the game. Simply named No Fog, this mod, created by Fellow_Demo, strips all the fog from Ebisugaoka, but players…
Helldivers 2 is in the “it’s so over!” part of the chart again, unfortunately. Despite its latest patch being a ton of fun, the entire engine is also buckling and groaning under the weight of extreme technical debt. Crashes, bugs, terrible performance, and an ever-balooning file size are all starting to get the game a…
Meh-ga Evolution. It has felt like a long time coming, but we are finally on the home stretch of the run-up to Pokémon Legends: Z-A. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have been popping up at a handful of public events over the last month or so to give us all a taste of what the…
Monster Hunter Wilds Free Title Update 3 arrives on September 29, featuring a special collaboration with Square Enix’s MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV Online! The update includes the additional monster Omega Planetes, a wide variety of collaboration content from the world of Eorzea, and much more. In early October, Final Fantasy XIV Online will also add…
From time to time, I rely on machine translation. From time to time, machine translation reminds me why it can never truly replace human translators—case in point, referring to this VR glove as having ‘vibrator’ touch panels. Large Language Models are trained on many libraries worth of words, spitting out a statistically likely word vomit…
I’ve just found out by looking through the itch io website, that OzzyOuzo is currently working on a new remake of Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja (a.k.a. Dragonninja) by Data East for the NEO GEO. In fact they have stated that this isn’t just a remake, but a tribute to a cult classic, that would take…
There’s a starman. After being announced just over a week ago during the Japanese Nintendo Direct broadcast, Capcom has shared an updated trailer and a few new details about the upcoming Mega Man Star Force: Legacy Collection. The trailer was shown during Capcom’s TGS 2025 Online Program and, as you’d expect from this compilation of…