Rise of the Ronin arrived on Steam this week, a year after its debut on PlayStation 5, and I’m sorry to say it’s not going well, as players are reporting serious performance problems with the game. Koei Tecmo says it’s now “investigating” the reports and working on a patch that will hopefully “fix or improve…
Final Fantasy 14 is one of my favourite videogames, and has been for the better part of a decade now. But when I try and get a vibe check on where the game is at, the one word that constantly pops into my head is: Strange. It’s in a rather odd spot right now, isn’t…
Trion Worlds’ Defiance was an odd duck. It launched in 2013 alongside a TV show tie-in with the same name, set on a future Earth following an alien invasion—during which the planet was aggressively terraformed. Both the game and the show were a mix of grungy post-apocalyptic western and futuristic sci-fi. A neat hook in…
Silicon has dominated the chip industry as its foundational material since, well, forever. But now researchers at Peking University claim to have cooked up a novel approach to integrating transistors using, yup, you didn’t guess it, bismuth. The result (via Interesting Engineering) is said to be 40% more speed in return for a 10% lower…
Be warned. Back in April 2024 you may remember a flurry of excitement when Landfall’s Content Warning released for PC. A first-person co-op horror game which involves capturing footage of scary events and uploading it to ‘SpöökTube’ for likes and clout, it was made free to download for 24 hours at launch and its blend…
Ever since I was a wee sapling, I wanted to be a writer. The goal was originally to become a published fiction author, but then I discovered videogames, and that’s hauled me down a merry little rabbit hole that I’m not in a particular rush to exit–truly, a time honoured tradition for creatives everywhere. Well,…
Last month I reported that Microsoft claims its new quantum chip is powered by an ‘entirely new state of matter’. I said back then that I would leave it to the brainy big wigs to assess whether this new Majorana 1 chip actually represents the breakthrough that’s been claimed. And I’m glad I did, because…
Every McCloud has a silver lining. With the Star Fox series skipping the Switch generation, we’ve seen more than a few imitators step up to fill its space. But none have appeared quite as Star Fox-y as Wild Blue, an upcoming “modern take of the beloved on-rails adventures of the 90s” from Giles Goddard’s indie…
I want my baby back. Hideo Kojima parted company with Konami some time ago, and has been pretty successful via Death Stranding, a series which will get its second outing this year. Death Stranding 2‘s pre-release push is now in full swing, and a recent 10-minute promotional video shows that now more than ever, Kojima…
As Monster Hunter Wilds rises to some absolutely absurd popularity, and the game’s most tryhard of tryhards get to grips with its armoury of systems, the playerbase has already shifted over from ‘how do I hunt monsters?’ to ‘how do I hunt these monsters in the most stylish, braggadocious way possible?’ Among this secret society…