Ask any PC enthusiast ‘What are the best CPUs for gaming?’ and you’ll get a practically unanimous response: one of AMD’s Ryzen X3D processors. They work well in just about any build, from no-expense-spare builds down to compact budget rigs, so if you’re looking to make your own small form factor gaming PC, you’re probably…
New bosses incoming. Inti Creates has today released the first major update for the Castlevania-inspired character-swapping adventure Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark. This one brings the game up to ver. 1.2.1 (a small follow-up accompanied the “major” part of the update) and adds a handful of new features like a fresh ‘Arena’ event, new…
Textures & models from the Xbox version are now being imported. It’s not been that long since a group of Dreamcast fan developers, led by SKMP, banded together to produce unofficial ports of Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. But already, it appears that someone has begun releasing new mods for…
Skin Deep lays bare a truth about the immersive sims we anoint to holiness: Beneath a veneer of grizzled assassins and sunglassed corpo agents, beyond the virtues of player choice and non-linear level design, is a genre by and for goofballs. The allure of a hackable computer or pickable pockets is catnip for troublemakers—a license…
Dear reader, I’m fresh off a week’s holiday—and while I wish I could tell you that I spent it tidying my apartment, getting back into drawing, or socialising with my friends, I instead spent around 50-odd hours glued to my screen playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a game I had no idea was going to…
Historicality. Yum! Now, we’re not sure if you’re aware — or if you’re even cool enough to be aware — of indie horror sensation, Baldi’s Basics, but rest assured that this is one very peculiar slice of PC video-gaming strangeness. Indeed it’s an experience that pairs grungy kids educational games of the 1990s with an…
New visuals, music and transformations. Sega’s classic arcade game Altered Beast has just been remade by a fan, and you can download it for free. Created by LucasJogos2, Altered Beast Remake retools Makoto Uchida’s original 1988 coin-op with improved visuals, a new soundtrack and a host of new beast transformations. It’s available for free on…
Hell hath no fury like a Strategist scorned. It’s been a week since streamer Necros set off a small atomic bomb in the Marvel Rivals community by calling support mains “idiots” and “morons.” Since then, Strategists have been refusing to pick their role in competitive matches. I even came across one player who flexed a…
At the end of May, it will be exactly one year since Microsoft announced its Copilot+ AI PC initiative, an ecosystem for AI-infused Windows installed on Qualcomm Snapdragon X-powered laptops. One of its biggest features was an all-seeing, all-remembering AI database called Recall, but after numerous concerns over safety and security, Recall was recalled into…
Top 10? Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time… We’re back with the latest look at the UK charts, and, as we edge another week closer to the Switch 2 release date, it’s another sleepy week in Nintendo land. Once again, there are no first-party showings for the House of Mario…