If you’re one of the 23 people around the world who has managed to snag an RTX 5090, you might be tempted to splash out on a fancy set of power cables to make your new upgrade look the best it can. That got us thinking about what set would be best to use, so…
“Mags are a part of history now”. Julian Rignall is one of the most famous and influential video game journalists of the ’80s and ’90s, having worked on magazines such as Zzap!64, CVG, Mean Machines and Nintendo Magazine System. He would later help to establish IGN as one of the leading video game websites in…
I have a confession: I think I might like Warframe. Although in general I think of myself as a strict adherent to the singleplayer philosophy of Saint Moses of Scetis—to “sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything”—when it comes to videogames, I admit that’s been chipped away over the last couple…
This past weekend saw a bizarre, still largely unexplained outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network service, effectively rendering a bunch of folk unable to access digital games and online servers. As someone who moonlights as a console sicko, I’ll admit it was a real spanner in my weekend plans. It was quite frankly terrible timing, too—as…
MMOs—at least, the big boys that have endured from the massively multiplayer golden age—can sometimes be considered a smidge stale. Many design elements are, in a sense, solved. The Holy Trinity took over years ago, dungeon finders are a must, and heaven forbid if you’re running something suboptimal in a pick-up group of hypervigilant strangers,…
Remember the days when high-refresh gaming meant taking out a new mortgage? Thankfully, they’re gone as the new AOC Gaming C27G4ZXE proves. This is a fully 280 Hz gaming monitor for well under $200. Hooray. Of course, at this price point something has to give. Actually, with the AOC Gaming C27G4ZXE, plenty has to give….
Up to 75% off! Capcom has a new Switch eShop sale on the go in North America, knocking up to 75% off some of its biggest games. Available from now until 17th February 2025, you can bag some bonafide classics from Capcom’s back catalogue, including several mainline Resident Evil entries, Onimusha: Warlords, Monster Hunter: Rise,…
“Ever wondered what Daytona USA might have looked like if it had released earlier…?”. Have you ever wondered what Daytona USA might have looked like if it had been released a few years earlier? Well, that’s the question the homebrew developer Frogbull has sought to answer with their latest video, reimagining the classic 1994 Sega…
In surprising news to me, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman has a blog. And in among the ruminations on traditional blog-like topics like “What I Wish Someone Had Told Me” and “The Strength of Being Misunderstood”, he recently posted three observations on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and its potential uses for the human race….
The most commonly used tech phrase in the PC industry last year was ‘AI PC’ and, according to Intel at least, we were promised that such computers would “save people hours weekly through built-in artificial intelligence.” So far the interest in AI PCs has been somewhat muted so AMD has decided that the best way…