Nvidia has dropped a blog post bomb on the Biden administration’s new AI chip export restrictions, announced earlier today and rumoured for some time. Nvidia’s vice president of government affairs, Ned Finkle, denounced the plans as “misguided” and an attempt to “rig” the market. Nvidia also sought to flatter the incoming President, crediting Trump for…
So just don’t, y’know? Square Enix has updated its ‘Group Customer Harrassment Policy’ to ensure that its employees and partners remain protected against unwelcome nuisance and threats from certain customers. As detailed on its official website (thanks, GamesIndustry), the firm stated that if it deems an individual has indeed harassed its employees, then it may…
And its own six-button pad. We reported a while back that the Sega Neptune – an all-in-one Genesis and 32X system – was getting “resurrected” thanks to the efforts of Cosam the Great. The retro tech modder has recreated the functionality of the machine with a new PCB and has even produced one-off prototypes that…
Review catch-up (Image credit: Chasing Carrots) There were a few games last year that we didn’t have time to review, so before 2025 gets too crazy we’re playing review catch-up and rectifying some of these omissions. So if you’re reading this and wondering if you’ve slipped through a wormhole back into 2024, don’t worry, you’ve…
So how about a ‘Switch 2’ reveal, eh? On this day in 2017, Nintendo finally lifted the lid on a little console called the Nintendo Switch, revealing the hybrid’s technical specs, price and all-important release date to the world. Eight years on, we’re desperate to see ‘Switch 2’ get the same treatment. To be clear,…
January 17 will bring Dynasty Warriors: Origins, a thrilling new addition to the Dynasty Warriors series to PlayStation 5, and we recently had the opportunity to play the tactical hack-and-slash action ahead of its release. Play Video The gripping tale of a ‘nameless hero’ Dynasty Warriors: Origins follows the drama surrounding China’s Three Kingdoms period,…
Hitting snooze. Nintendo has announced that it is delaying the availability of Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo for non-Nintendo Switch Online members until early March 2025. This marks a delay of nearly two months after the firm initially confirmed that NSO exclusivity would remain in place until mid-January 2025. Furthermore, its availability in the UK and…
The original Crazy Taxi last appeared at AGDQ 2015. Over the weekend, a Crazy Taxi speedrunner performed with a live band at Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 as a creative to avoid copyright issues with the game’s licensed music (h/t: VGC). Crazy Taxi, as you may already know, is a game that debuted in the…
If I had a nickel for every time a recently-released live service third-person shooter gained hundreds of thousands of players at the start of the year, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice. As the headline suggests, Marvel Rivals is doing very well for itself—garnering a whopping…
It’s been 12 years since the announcement of Star Citizen, the ludicrously ambitious and equally ludicrously overfunded space MMO from developer Cloud Imperium Games and designer Chris Roberts. For some of that time there was a legitimate question of whether there was any kind of game there at all, but that spectre has long been…