“I don’t want to just sleep all the time”. I don’t know about you, but as I grow older, my reaction time appears to be getting worse, and I fear that one day, I’ll suck at video games (well, more than I do already, anyway). However, it has long been argued that interactive entertainment is…
“Everyone’s happy to work for the company”. Super Mario turned 40 last week, and to celebrate, BBC Archive dug into its library to produce a clip from 1990, a time when Nintendo was dominating both Japan and North America (not entirely unlike today, you could argue). Taken from an episode of The Money Programme broadcast…
Not long to go. The latest UK charts data is in and the newly-released Borderlands 4 has performed admirably, hitting the number 1 spot ahead of both Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza. Of course, we still have a couple more weeks or so to wait until the Switch 2 release, with Borderlands 4…
“It’s still far from complete accuracy”. Once upon a time, it was claimed with some degree of confidence that the MiSTer FPGA platform would never host cores for consoles like the PS1, N64 and Sega Saturn, yet in 2025, we have excellent and accurate options for all three. Of that trio, the Saturn core has…
Shake your daily Wordle game up with our fabulous spread of freshly-made help. Kick off with a clue for the September 15 (1549) puzzle to get your guesses off to a great start, and make sure you take a peek at our hints too if you’re not sure where to guess next. Whatever happens, the…
Filmdeg Miniatures is a YouTube channel run by Tom Evans that is full of interviews with gaming luminaries. I know it mainly for unearthing Warhammer history on topics like the early editions of Warhammer Fantasy Battle. Evans also covers videogames, most recently in an eight-hour oral history of Morrowind in which he lets a host…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
I have to admit I played Saints Row 2 on Steam unmodded, all the way through, twice. So if you tell me it’s “unplayable” without a fan patch I’m going to do that thing where I raise one eyebrow at you. Did the PC port have problems, though? Oh, hell yes. Cutscenes were wonky as…
Last night, I was annoying my fiancee by swearing every time I died to the early Silksong boss, Splinter Sister—the boss herself isn’t the problem, it’s the stupid little mooks she summons. Meanwhile, there are people not only no-hitting the game’s hardest bosses, one true student of the needle has no-hit every boss in the…
Netflix has released a “first clip” of Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher Season Four, as distinct from the “first look” we got back in May. This is our first actual scene from the season and not a little teaser, though, with Hemsworth sporting the white locks and leather armor of everyone’s…