Support is now available in Ares’ nightly builds. Support for NEC LD-ROM² is coming to Ares, and is already available as part of the multi-format emulator’s nightly builds, it’s been announced online. Last month, as you may well be aware, brought the exciting news that Ares would become the first ever emulator to support the…
An AMD patent application for a new spin on DDR5 PC memory has been spotted. The so-called high-bandwidth dual inline memory module or HB-DIMM is designed to boost memory bandwidth courtesy of pseudo channels, buffer chips and intelligent signal routing. It looks very fancy, but we’ll take some convincing it’ll appear in PCs any time…
Developer Illfonic last month announced a game based on 1978 horror classic Halloween, and now we’ve got a look at it. The game looks a lot like the studio’s own (excellent) Friday the 13th adaptation and is set in the small town of Haddonfield, recreated with real period style. It’s primarily an asymmetrical multiplayer horror…
Where Winds Meet is an ambitious free to play open-world ARPG that seeks not just to emulate but to embody the very soul of Wuxia. Wuxia is a captivating genre typically found in fiction and cinema, featuring warriors from ancient China performing superhuman martial arts feats, think Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or House of Flying…
Football video games have come a long way since the blocky players and chiptune sounds of the 8-bit era. What began as simple, arcade-style fun has transformed into hyper-realistic simulations that capture every detail of the sport. Thus, in this article, we’ll explore how football games have evolved through each era and the milestones that…
Waka Waka Waka 2: Much Prettier. I admit it. When this review came along, my gaming patience was being tested to its limit by Silksong’s brutal difficulty. So I rolled pretty enthusiastically towards an alternative I hoped would be more relaxing. (I genuinely regret the hours I spent defeating The Last Judge.) Pac-Man World 2:…
I first got my hands on the Glorious Model O3 Wireless sitting on the floor in the halls of Gamescom as a slapdash 15-minute product demo. I was a little frustrated that I only got a few minutes with it because it’s not often you have a product that tries to genuinely innovate in a…
There’s more to Taito than Space Invaders. Taito may be little more than a sub-brand owned by Square Enix these days, but once upon a time, this prolific Japanese company was one of the most active and influential in arcade gaming. Everybody knows Space Invaders, of course, the 1978 hit that not only birthed the…
Spend those coins. Nintendo is opening an official pop-up store in London this October, Nintendo UK announced today. The limited-time store will be opening on 22nd October until 16th November 2025 and it’ll be located on the ground floor of the Westfield London Shopping Centre in Shepherd’s Bush, opposite the LEGO Store. Read the full…
Qualcomm has announced its second-gen Snapdragon X2 SoC for PCs and with it come some big claims, especially for gaming performance. The new chip has 18 CPU cores, 50% more than the the OG Snapdragon X, and over double the GPU performance. But will this actually translate into usable gaming performance? First, some more details…