Could you imagine gaming without handhelds? While that section of the market is still dominated by Nintendo today, that hasn’t always been the case. Way before the Nintendo Game Boy, there was a market for one-off handheld games made by Coleco and even Nintendo’s Game and Watch series that mystified gamers and made them wonder…
Light ’em up. When the Switch launched, its new Joy-Con controllers were dreamy little wonders stuffed with neat tech and surprises. Unfortunately, the biggest surprise was an unwelcome one – with time, the sticks were prone to drifting on their own accord, and the widespread problem caused many a Switch gamer’s opinion to sour. The…
China-based AI startup DeepSeek caused the tech market to wobble earlier this week, as the release of its open-source R1 model led to mass sell-offs in tech shares. It seems Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang may have taken a personal hit from the fallout, equating to a $20.8 billion loss to his net worth. Nvidia was…
Available now. Aspyr has announced that a new update is now available for Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered, introducing a handful of improvements to both titles. The patch notes below include indicators showing which game each fix belongs to, with a couple of generic improvements included at the bottom. It looks…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for February 3 to 7 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published January 31, 2025 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, the Xbox app for Windows PC, and…
Another graphics card launch filled with bots, scalpers, and 300% markups. Nvidia’s hotly anticipated GPUs, the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, went on sale this week and scalpers have bought as many as they can to sell on for higher prices. Yet there are some seemingly looking to stop them from getting away with it….
Fair to say Intel’s GPU plans don’t always go to, er, plan. During Intel’s latest earnings call for highly-remunerated bean counters, the company’s new interim co-CEO let slip that its upcoming next-gen AI GPU has effectively been cancelled. Known as Falcon Shores, it was supposed to replace Intel’s Gaudi 3 chip. But no more. “Based…
The X68000 Z was a tribute to Sharp’s iconic Japanese home computer. ZUIKI, the company behind the X68000 Z, has recently established a new Twitter/X account for the retro machine and has begun teasing a mysterious new model. In case you’re unfamiliar, the X68000 Z was first unveiled back in October 2022 and was designed…
Beyond Citadel is a great indie FPS, and one I played through start to finish in just a couple days. It’s a game that I’d love to recommend to everybody, but also nobody. I feel it’s important to preface even a passing mention of this game with a colossal content warning: Beyond Citadel is a…
Intel has been talking numbers this week with the announcement of some reasonably positive financials for the final quarter of 2024 (you can read the full transcript here). With that comes the usual chat around product and official confirmation that the Panther Lake mobile CPU is still due in the second half of 2024 using…