The mid-to-late ‘70s saw the dawn of handheld electronic games and the beginning of my collecting something other than comic books. Console systems like the Fairchild Channel F and Atari 2600 launched in 1976 and 1977 respectively, but their high prices – $250 for an Atari plus $30-$45 per game – were prohibitive for many…
Before we get into offering our perspectives about Ted Price’s long-planned and extremely well-deserved retirement, we want to sincerely thank everyone who has checked in with Insomniac about the state of our employees and Burbank studio during the terrible Los Angeles-area fires. The fires have devastated the communities around us. We continue to focus on…
Flexing that backward compatibility. Prior to the official reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2, one of the late-game leaks revealed that the Joy-Con controllers would now house an optical sensor on the side, leading many to theorise that the console would support mouse functionality. Fast forward to the debut trailer, and yes, it seems that…
Category: Games January 22, 2025 FragPunk Launches on March 6 – and You Can Get Xbox-Exclusive Rewards Jeff HuMarketing Manager, Bad Guitar Studio Summary FragPunk, the 5v5 tactical hero shooter with powerful gameplay modifiers called shard cards launches for free on March 6, 2025. Xbox users can get exclusive cosmetics by unlocking the FragPunk Pioneer…
Almost immediately after the launch of its Arrow Lake desktop CPUs in October 2024, Intel said it would work on producing firmware and software updates to improve its lacklustre performance. The likes of the Core Ultra 9 285K not only ran games slower than Raptor Lake chips, the previous generation of processors, but also worse…
Pika your slot. With the Pokémon European International Championships right around the corner, reservations for London’s pop-up Pokémon Center are now live. The store will be up and running throughout the event at ExCel London from 20th-23rd February 2025 , and, much like previous years, you need to book a slot if you want to…
Prepare to qualify. Namco’s Pole Position is rightly regarded as one of the most influential video games of all time. The first racing game to feature a real-life circuit and a qualifying lap, it was also notable for offering a degree of realism that previously hadn’t been encountered in arcades, combining large sprites viewed from…
The Nvidia RTX 5090 is the graphics card company’s big shiny new toy and, packed with 21,760 CUDA cores and taking up to 575 watts worth of power, it’s a bit of a beast. However, it’s also an expensive beast at $1,999, and that’s if you can even get your hands on one when it…
It’s a good’un. When Astro Bot launched in September 2024 for the PS5, many lauded the game’s quality and compared it favourably to some of Nintendo’s very best 3D platformers. During the recent New York Game Awards 2025 event, ex-president of Nintendo of America offered his own opinion on the game after it won the…
2023 was one hell of a tough year for game developers, with over 16,000 layoffs happening across the industry—but hey, at least things are improving, right? You are now permitted to imagine me laughing nervously and looking very, very tired. 2024 was no stranger to shutdowns and layoffs like, say, the Microsoft carnage at Activision…