Spell checking is such a ubiquitous feature of today’s software that we expect to see it in browsers and basic text editors, and on just about every computing device. However, 50 years ago, it was a significant challenge to implement due to the paucity of memory that affected even the supercomputers of the era. The…
A Minecraft Movie is hitting theatres, and while it’s something I’ve got no real opinion on myself—I’ve got better things to do than eye-roll at a kids movie plenty of little’uns and their parents will enjoy—it’s probably not really the solution to the world’s problems. Or any problem, really, beyond broadly making children happy. Which…
Pick-up bundles are a new form of mini battle pass in Marvel Rivals, giving you yet another challenge to chip away at each time you log in. Plus, they also give you great rewards, including some one-of-a-kind items. But don’t worry, there’s no FOMO here. Unlike in-game events and the battle pass, you won’t miss…
Costume coins are a new currency added to Marvel Rivals, which lets you buy older skins for your favourite heroes for cheap. It’s no secret that looking the part and collecting all the iconic costumes is one of the most fun aspects of Rivals, but it’s also pretty pricey. Costume coins are another way of…
There are multiple ways to divert around Windows 11’s insistence on a Microsoft account for first-time setup. It seems there’ll be one less in the near future, however, as the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build has removed the bypassnro.cmd script, seen by many as the easiest way of sneaking past Microsoft’s account-forcing ways. According…
Minecraft has announced the Vibrant Visuals, which plans to visually overhaul the entire game—it’s basically built-in Minecraft shaders for Bedrock with plans to bring the overhaul to Java edition later. Unlike the Spring to Life update, which was also announced at Minecraft Live, Vibrant Visuals won’t add any new blocks or mobs, but it has…
The Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 is my first taste of the RTX 5080 mobile GPU, and while this might not end up being my favourite gaming laptop of this generation, the Nvidia graphics chip might well be. The GPU itself is capable of delivering the same sort of gaming performance that we’ve seen from the…
Players no longer need the “freeze fix” Canary patch to prevent issues on RPCS3. If you’ve tried to play Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot in the past using the PS3 Emulator RPCS3, you’ll know that the experience is still far from perfect, requiring a bunch of patches to mitigate some of the…
Back in 2023, I had a blast with developer Frogwares’ remake of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. Its blend of detective work and Lovecraftian horror felt like the studio fully in its element. I enjoy its straight Sherlock Holmes games, but increasingly they have this undercurrent of dark strangeness—particularly noticeable in most recent entry Chapter One—as…
Leave a videogame series in a covered, humid environment for long enough and it will, according to some inextricable and mysterious law of nature, become Dark Souls. So, please put your hands together for Doom: The Dark Ages, which swaps out previous games’ emphasis on guns (firearms) for an emphasis on guns (biceps), finally giving…