A publisher nobody’s heard of has ‘unintentionally’ re-released 2006’s Scarface: The World Is Yours early, and I’m not so sure ’bout this one, boss

The year is 2025, and there’s no better indication that we live in an increasingly meaningless and absurdist hellscape than the fact I read the news “They’re re-releasing a 2006 videogame based on a 1984 movie, but with upscaled graphics, but also they might have just bundled mods into it without anyone’s permission” and thought…

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is sitting at Mixed reviews on Steam: ‘It’s not a Bloodlines game’

A decade after Bloodlines 2 was pitched to then-new Vampire: The Masquerade owner Paradox Interactive, we’re finally able to sink our fangs into the undead sequel. Unfortunately absence has not made the heart grow fonder, and it’s currently sitting at Mixed reviews on Steam. The consensus among the user reviews, even the positive ones, is…

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Cooler Master recommends physically tampering with its angled 12V-2×6 GPU power connector to make it fit better. Yes THAT GPU power connector. Even worse, the ‘fix’ doesn’t work

Will the drama ever end for the 12V-2×6 power connector? GPU meltgate still hasn’t really ended and companies are seemingly hellbent on fumbling the ball when it comes to the connector’s design. And then apparently recommending potentially dangerous ‘fixes’ that, er, don’t even work. At least, that seems to be the case with Cooler Master’s…

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Effulgence RPG is a game made entirely of ASCII art where you convert your enemies’ raw parts into new weapons, and if that doesn’t convince you to give its demo a look I don’t know what will

You know what I worry about? I worry about the lost artforms of the early internet. Time was, every game guide out there would come prefaced with some lustrous bit of ASCII art—an unfathomably complex picture made up solely of characters on your keyboard. Now it’s gone the way of ancient basket-weaving and the spinning…

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Scuf Valor Pro review

The wireless version of the Scuf Valor Pro is finally here, offering everything we loved about the wired version, just minus the wire and all of its tangle potential. That means I’m gonna award this a high score, and we can all go home early, right? Unfortunately, even without a wire, the Scuf Valor Pro…

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Taito’s First-Ever Flight Sim Comes In For Landing On Modern Consoles Later This Week

‘Midnight Landing’ originally hit the arcades back in 1987. Hamster, the company behind Arcade Archives, has announced that it will be reissuing Taito’s original flight sim, Midnight Landing, on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S tomorrow (Thursday, October 23rd). Debuting in arcades in 1987, Midnight Landing was the first in a…

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Borderlands 4 Horrors of Kairos dates and rewards

Borderlands is no stranger to limited-time seasonal celebrations, and Borderlands 4‘s Halloween event, Horrors of Kairos, dials up the spookiness and gives you the opportunity to earn some terrifying treats. If you’ve experienced previous Halloween events in the series, then it’ll come as no surprise that you can get a haunting new head—this time a…

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