Hytale, up until this point, has been one of gaming’s biggest messes. Announced back in 2018, Hytale looked like it was about to waltz in and start tidily eating Mojang’s lunch. Riot even saw promise in the studio, acquiring it in 2020. Seven years later, scope creep and an apparently ill-advised engine rewrite caused Riot…
A pre-built gaming PC is probably the most exciting purchase you can make. We’re talking about an entirely new system—perhaps even your very first one. But it can be a little daunting, too, seeing component after component, spec after spec, and trying to separate the wheat from the chaff. We’ve all been there. In fact,…
If you’re looking for advice on your first gaming mouse purchase, you’ve come to the right place. While there are so many gaming mice options available on the market, it can be easy to look at something cheap and cheerful and wonder why you might want to spend a bit more on something that looks…
Just about everybody who was online yesterday will have noticed something was wrong with ye olde internet. A major issue at network service provider Cloudflare brought down everything from and X and ChatGPT to order screens at McDonald’s restaurants. Now Cloudflare has posted a full explanation of the outage and it turns out the problem…
So, you’re thinking about buying a gaming headset. Good for you! A great gaming headset is one of the biggest quality-of-life upgrades you can make to any PC, and we spend all year long testing candidates for our best gaming headset guide. However, there are some things you should know before you make your purchase,…
Air force one. Kirby Air Ride, I think it’s fair to say, didn’t receive all that warm a welcome when it launched back in 2003. With lucky GameCubers already marinating in the delicious driving juices of Mario Kart: Double Dash and F-Zero GX, Kirby’s cute and chaotic style of racing just didn’t seem to stick…
Personally, when I hear Honeycomb, I think of ice cream—and then the consequences my lactose intolerant-self would have to face were I to indulge. However, for flight sim fans, there’s only Honeycomb Aeronautical—and lucky for them, they’ve just dropped a brand new gamepad. The Echo Aviation Controller is specifically geared towards playing flight simulators on…
“She was working on amazing stuff right up until the end”. This week has given us the sad news that Rebecca Heineman has lost her battle with cancer at the age of 62. A legend in the world of video game design and development, Heineman won the Space Invaders National Championship in 1980 before moving…
Move over Nvidia—France’s first Exascale Supercomputer will be powered by AMD hardware. Eyponomously named the Alice Recoque, after the French computer scientist who passed away in 2021, the supercomputer is a collaboration between AMD and Eviden. Europe’s second supercomputer to date, the Alice Recoque will be built with next-gen AMD EPYC CPUs, codenamed “Venice,” and…
‘Bomb Bee’ released in 1979. Bomb Bee, Namco’s 1979 arcade sequel to its first in-house designed game, Gee Bee, is this week’s Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2 release. Developed by the Pac-Man creator, Toru Iwatani, Bomb Bee, much like its predecessor, is a brick-breaking arcade game that incorporates elements of pinball. It plays similarly…