PSRetroX is a new tool that is currently in development. If you’ve ever dreamed of playing your favourite PS2 games natively on PC (complete with quality-of-life improvements), then we have some promising news to share. A brand new project is currently in its early stages over on GitHub, which aims to make the process of…
GPU companies, like AMD and Nvidia, spend huge sums of money every year on researching rendering techniques, either to improve the performance of their chips or as part of a future architecture design. One recently approved patent shows that AMD began exploring the use of neural networks in ray tracing at least two years ago,…
“Your secretaries and accountants are all playing at lunchtime and after work”. While Tetris is clearly a work of genius and would have been commercially successful no matter what systems it released on, few would have the courage to argue that, without Nintendo’s seminal Game Boy version, the puzzler’s fame would be quite as far-reaching…
Every time I see a 3D printer in the flesh, I consider buying one. Trouble is, what would I actually use it for? The answer, it seems, is printing off hundreds of musical fidget toys that play classic gaming theme tunes, both for my own amusement and to annoy various members of my family. Yes,…
“Whenever we look at a given game, we just look at what is the experience”. One of the hot talking points of the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal last week was the price of games. And the big launch title, Mario Kart World, has been at the centre of that storm. The first brand new Mario…
As I was digging into just last week, the new US tariffs stand to have a devastating impact on the tabletop gaming industry specifically—so it feels particularly appropriate that the UK’s Channel 4 News has found a way to explain the situation using Warhammer models. The TikTok video (below) helps to illustrate, via placing Space…
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped the download charts last month. March was a good month for sports and action-adventure games on PS5. Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Split Fiction both found success on the US and EU charts, while MLB The Show 25 took top billing on the…
Category: Games April 7, 2025 Celebrating 11 BAFTA Nominations for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II with Ninja Theory Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Each year, the BAFTA Games Awards celebrate the best of gaming, both inside and outside the UK, and it was a delight to see so many games available on Xbox platforms make their…
AI has many uses—or at least that’s what we keep being told—but one area where it might do some good is helping with the notoriously complex legal process. After all, should you find yourself faced with the task of self-representation in an upcoming court case, perhaps an AI may be able to present your arguments…
Preppered: an existential platformer, which releases today (April 7, if you’re reading this from the future), is shaping up to be a fascinating little exercise in interactivity. As you might’ve surmised from the title of the thing, it’s 100% a platformer—the ‘existential’ bit comes from the looming doom that’ll haunt your every step. Especially the…