A couple of months ago, I reported that you can install the Xbox full screen experience (FSE) on other handhelds than just the new Microsoft Xbox/Asus ROG ones. And now, Microsoft is opening up FSE for more than just handhelds, saying it’s “now available in preview for more Windows 11 PC form factors, such as…
What a legend. Once upon a time, video games used to come complete with an instruction manual, and one of the great pleasures of buying a new game was that time spent in the car on the way back from the shop, leafing through said manual to scrub up on things prior to booting up…
Dying in Arc Raiders sucks—it’s the low of extraction shooters. But what’s worse than losing all the stuff you came in and found during your run is losing it all because you did something truly stupid. I’ve been there before, crossing the creek in Dam Battlegrounds ahead of my group, I failed to look both…
Udo Kier—the impossibly prolific German actor that you and I will readily recognise as Yuri from Red Alert 2, Command and Conquer: Yuri’s Revenge, and Hideo Kojima’s upcoming OD—has died aged 81. His partner, Delbert McBride, confirmed the news to Variety. Kier appeared in over 200 films in the course of a long and remarkable…
Since the earliest days of humanity’s experiments with legal systems, we’ve been trying to find a way to make murder less appealing and trickier to pull off. Criminalising weapons, prison time, law enforcement—it turns out all we really needed was an extremely busy toilet. In a talk on proc-gen narratives at AdventureX, Shadows of Doubt…
Maybe it’s time to ask Santa for MicroSD Express cards. Storage-hungry consumers in Japan have been jumping on available stocks of super-fast MicroSD cards as an ongoing memory shortage continues across the computer industry, with no signs of getting better in the immediate future. As reported by Tom’s Hardware, a spiralling issue of rising costs…
“We named him War Machine and got permission from Marvel”. It’s been particularly pleasing to see Capcom and Marvel hook up again in recent years, as I was a massive fan of the many superb one-on-one fighters the pair collaborated on in the ’90s. So much so that any little piece of trivia relating to…
So far we’ve been thoroughly spoiled in Two Point Museum, treated with an abundance of free updates—from staff memorials to the ever-expanding Digiverse expedition map—and its first major paid DLC Fantasy Finds. Having recently completed Fantasy Finds, I was impressed at the sheer breadth of content and the incorporation of light RPG mechanics that let…
Earlier in the year, I got a look at what I called the ideal GPU physique in the form of the Asus ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090. This card was announced as a celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary of selling graphics cards, and it’s now officially launched at a price of, er, $4,000. To…
The Communication Hideout quest in Arc Raiders has a few tricky steps, one of which involves locating a missing battery cell around the Red Tower, while another involves tracking down a terminal concealed around the outside of the building. On the plus side, though, this quest doesn’t require you to extract anything, so you can…