I would describe my default Avowed play speed as “breakneck”. With stuff to find around every corner, I feel compelled to spend most of my time sprinting around the Living Lands grabbing up everything in sight, pausing only to stuff my cheeks with food between battles. What took me probably a bit too long to…
32-bit implementations of PhysX, Nvidia’s physics engine, will finally lose support in RTX 50 series cards, in a move to remove 32-bit CUDA application support on its latest graphics cards. Removing PhysX support means that some games from the 2000s and early 2010s will lose part of the way they implement particle and clothing effects….
Let’s start the pinball talk for the week off with some news out of Stern Pinball. Stern recently informed its distributors that it is using the remaining parts that it has sitting around the factory to do “extremely limited runs” of a number of older titles during the month of December. Specifically, the run includes…
With limited releases, but cool hardware, the PlayStation Vita became a console for weird and unusually quirky games. IguanaBee’s “MonsterBag” is definitely one of them. Hard to describe, the game centers around a little monster that must get from one end of a stage to the other, without being seen by the people he’s jumping…
Digital Eclipse’s ‘Gold Master Series’ Goes Physical. Digital Eclipse has announced that its Gold Master Series will be going physical via publisher Clear River Games, with boxed editions available for The Making of Karateka, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, and Tetris Forever. The crown jewel of the collection is undoubtedly the collector’s edition for Tetris…
Back in January, we reported on a claim from LG that fully 22% of gaming monitors “sold today” are OLED panels. Now LG has put some numbers on that, explaining in a new press release that the market for OLED PC monitors will grow from just $75 million in 2022 to over $1 billion in…
Every Mario golf game, ranked. There’s nary a sport that Mario hasn’t turned his hand to, but beyond the realm of karting, only the plumber’s prowess with a tennis racquet can rival his pro-level golf game. Over the years Mario has managed to squeeze in a round of golf on most Nintendo systems, and today…
The annual gaming harvest is upon us, with February bringing enough big releases to make us consider whether we could keep our homes warm using our gaming rigs. But if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of shiny new things to play this month, with all their preorder bonuses and premium editions and deluxe…
Short of Civilliant. Most games with numbered sequels tend to iterate and grow on their previous instalments. After all, you don’t want to alienate your audience by upending key systems and creating a substantially different experience from what they’re used to, it just makes sound economic sense. Change things just enough so that it rides…
Need to Know What is it? A Yakuza spin-off on the Hawaiian seas that’s a little too reminiscent of Yakuza 8.Release date Feb 20, 2025Expect to pay $60/£55 Developer Ryu Ga Gotoku StudioPublisher SEGAReviewed on Gigabyte G5Steam Deck VerifiedLink Official site My pirate ship is sailing through the Hawaiin seas, pursuing a speedboat. You might…