Like many folks, I spend a lot of my time plonked on my posterior. Sure, I regularly get up and move around, but with an office-based job and PC gaming as a major hobby, there’s no escaping the fact that much of my daily life revolves around a humble chair. That also means a lot…
The best gaming keyboards provide a genuinely tactile interface with your gaming PC. And, as much as people might like the odd dalliance with a gamepad, it’s the heroic mouse and keyboard combination that makes PC gaming such an involved, fast, and accurate a hobby. And, like us PC gamers, gaming keyboards come in all…
The ‘DS ML’ isn’t an official product, you’ll be shocked to learn. The Nintendo DS family of systems sold in excess of 150 million units and remains one of Nintendo’s most commercially successful products. Initially released as the ‘phat’ DS in 2004, it would be repackaged as the DS Lite in 2006, and it’s this…
“Does this count as any percent Speed Run finish then?”. The Saturn version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night gets a bit of a bum rap these days. Sure, it’s not as technically accomplished as the PS1 original (Konami Nagoya handled porting duties, rather than the original team at KCE Tokyo), but it does have…
The US and Chinese governments have been battling it out once more over trade policies, and the big point of contention this time round is Beijing’s latest raft of rare earth export restrictions, requiring foreign companies to obtain an export license for products containing the vital materials. According to a Reuters report, the Trump administration…
When I started playing Minecraft in 2012 you didn’t have any sort of help or guidance when it came to crafting. You had to rely exclusively on your own knowledge, or constantly tab out of the game to look up crafting recipes. It wasn’t until the in-game recipe book was introduced in 2018 that I…
There are some game premises that are simply irresistible. “Play a sinister game of poker dice against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who’ve trapped you on their mega yacht” is the kind of pitch I cannot turn down. So it is that I find myself sweatily rolling dice against a leering vampire as I go all-in with…
The course of history has a habit of plucking individuals from its stream and making them, by complex processes, tribunes of a class—figureheads onto which the demands of an era are projected and through whom they find voice. Martin Luther, Maximilien Robespierre, Karl Marx: these are less individuals than they are avatars of their epochs….
“The use of AI upscaling is disastrous in this book”. A new book celebrating the art of the Mortal Kombat series has come under fire for allegedly using AI upscaling to “improve” visuals from earlier entries in the franchise. The officially licensed Mortal Kombat: Flawless Victory, written by Ian Flynn, launched recently to decent reviews,…
It’s been a long time coming, but I finally feel I no longer need to carry a Micro USB cable around with me. My travel bag is one cable lighter for the widespread adoption of USB Type-C. I can thank, in part, the European Union for that one. The bloc used its considerable might to…