Student lounge around. It’s been nearly six weeks since the Switch 2 Direct, and we’re now only three-and-a-half more away from the system’s launch. Overall, we were pretty impressed with the hour-long presentation Nintendo assembled to officially pull back the curtain at the start of April. Yes, some mixed messaging and unanswered questions could —…
The 68000’s heart really is on fire. We’re certainly not short of ‘new’ Mega Drive / Genesis games, but ZPF seems to have captured the imagination of more people than most other examples. Following an incredibly successful crowdfunding campaign and the news that it’s also coming to modern-day systems, this horizontally scrolling shooter has now…
While new, the GTA 6 map isn’t an entirely unfamiliar destination. The Florida-inspired state of Leonida is home to places we’ve visited in Grand Theft Auto before, like Vice City, and other areas inspired by Miami’s neighbors. Sure, it’s been a couple of decades since Rockstar’s last adventure there, but the scale and influence of…
Okay, for strategy games like Civilization or for shooters like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, I can kind of get behind the idea of the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con mouse controls. However, the Nintendo Switch 2, like the original Switch, feels designed with a very minimalist approach in mind, and the mouse controls not only look…
I feel like “Victorian anime detective RPG” is already a phrase manufactured in a lab to have me curiously downloading Silver Palace, a desire that was solidified 40 seconds into its announcement trailer: An unassuming woman is scanned, flashes of red warning text flooding the screen before the protagonist… straight up shoots her and watches…
As the Raptor Lake crashing CPU debacle rumbles on, maybe AMD’s latest Ryzen 9000-series processors suffer from the same or at least a similar problem with spiking voltages causing CPU instability and even death? That’s what YouTube channel Tech YES City is claiming. In a video upload titled, “I think I know why Ryzen 9000…
Stellaris’s recent 4.0 update, which launched alongside the (pretty unpopular) BioGenesis expansion on May 5, finally introduced the concept of babies. Their lack of inclusion previously made plenty of sense, of course. Babies are useless. Especially when it comes to giant space empires. But they are here now, which means a fun new bug has…
It’s a sad truth of the world that there are only so many war crimes you can render in pornographic detail before it all starts to get ho-hum. The electric thrill wears off, the dizzying highs transform into stultifying mids, and even the Red Cross stops calling when you execute your millionth downed opponent. This…
I find myself in the unique position as a recent Pathfinder 2e convert to properly explain to you the most terrifying creature in all of tabletop, a being of absolute and unfathomable violence, contained within the body of a humble boar. It all starts on Archives of Nethys, an officially-sanctioned repository of PF2e’s material that…
From the co-designer and lead programmer of Blood. After Monolith Productions was closed earlier this year, bringing an end to the company’s 30-year history, we’ve been reaching out to different developers who worked at the studio to hear their tales of what it was like working at the company. This has revealed some fascinating stories…