“These aren’t just ducks, they’re legacy”. Cyberpunk 2077 has had a remarkable redemption arc, starting off as something of a bug-ridden disaster and transforming into the acclaimed multi-platform epic it is today – and to cap it all off, two of its stars have been immortalised as plastic ducks. Johnny Silverhand and Jackie Welles have…
Part of the appeal of gaming on PC is the sheer breadth of the platform. That hasn’t stopped some pesky console exclusives slipping through the net over the years, but these days most are coming across. Most of the best PlayStation games to play on PC come directly from Sony themselves. You only need to…
“We believe it is quietly living on somewhere in Japan”. Taito, one of the video game industry’s most significant companies, is seeking assistance to locate a crucial piece of its history. The item in question is the Crown 602 crane game machine, released 60 years ago in 1965. This mechanical device is ultimately what set…
Things aren’t looking so hot for Funcom’s sci-fi desert survival MMO Dune: Awakening. After the strongest launch in the Norwegian studio’s history, Funcom announced layoffs at the start of October, citing a shift from “development to long-term operation” as well as an upcoming console launch as the reasons for restructuring. But there may be another…
Only just recently I was talking to a few friends about the original David Braben’s 8-bit space combat trading simulator of Elite, and how we’ve seen a few fan based remakes appear as well as improvements and ports to different 8bit systems. But this latest news may interest you, if you have an Atari XL/XE…
The easiest way to enjoy your first day is to make it deliberately uneventful. Read the stuff that actually matters, set a small plan, and let the platform prove it deserves your time. Do that, and the path from “new account” to “first redemption” is short, calm, and repeatable. Start with the model, not the…
The best casino games today borrow from the roots of good design. The kind that came from the arcade halls, pixel heroes, and side-scrollers that made people fall in love with games in the first place. Casinos look back at those classics to understand what made players stay, lose track of time, and come back…
Last week, Chinese electric vehicle company Xpeng debuted its humanoid robot, Iron. Striding across the stage at the company’s AI Day event, the robot’s movements were impressively smooth—perhaps, some folks on social media suggested, too smooth. In fact, many took to the comments to declare the robot was actually just a person in a suit—after…
REPO launched its monster update on October 31, adding ten new horrifying beasts to the already tense game. However, even though players are still mastering the art of dodging the Birthday Boy’s balloons and outrunning the Loom, semiwork has already uploaded a video to YouTube sharing that preparations for the game’s next update are underway….
TSMC is a huge player in the tech industry. Being the world’s largest producer of semiconductors, it has clients from Apple to Qualcomm, all the way to Nvidia and AMD. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, fresh off the company being valued at $5 trillion, recently went out to Hsinchu County in northwestern Taiwan to acknowledge TSMC’s…