It’s unclear why Rockstar chose not to pursue an official origin story for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Given the success of Liberty City Stories and its Vice City counterpart—fully-realised prequel offshoots for GTA 3 and its faux Miami-set successor—in the mid-2000s, a return to Grove Street felt inevitable. Fast forward 21 years, and we’ll…
“Escape from the underground labyrinth”. Nihon Falcom’s Brandish originally launched in 1991 on the NEC PC-9801 and FM Towns home computers, and has since become something of a cult classic for JRPG fans all over the world, eventually spawning ports to the SNES and PSP (both of which got released in North America) and the…
Relaxing simulator games have been my go-to genre since I started gaming. It all started with Animal Crossing: Wild World and basically escalated from there. Before I knew it, I’d spent thousands of hours rebuilding communities, cultivating crops, and generally pouring more energy than I realised into these stereotypically cosy and comforting games. Over the…
Sir Alan’s 8-bit computer could be coming to the Next. The latest ZX Spectrum Next campaign on Kickstarter has been a tremendous success so far, raising £1,836,515 against an initial goal of just £200,000 and unlocking a ton of additional stretch goals. As a result, SpecNext Ltd, the company behind the new version of the…
Two Chinese nationals have been arrested on the grounds of allegedly exporting AI chips out of the US to China without the licenses now legally required. The pair are specifically charged with violating the Export Control Reform Act, which could lead to a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. According to the US…
Live service games are a massive gamble. We all know it. I understand this, you understand this, Sony should understand this but isn’t—ah, damnit. In a recent Q&A session, Sony’s CFO Lin Tao (via VGC) talks a lot about the studio’s foibles such as with the public-opinion quagmire that is Marathon and the instant trainwreck…
Facing Everdark Caligo in Elden Ring Nightreign might be a nasty surprise for many who fought the original Fissure in the Fog boss. Similar to Everdark Augur, the ice dragon Caligo has a tendency to fly around all over the arena, making the battle a bit of a chase. You also have to contend with…
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently visited the White House, and after committing an additional $100 billion in US investment, Donald Trump held a press conference where he announced an addendum to his new tariff plan. Last week, Trump announced a whole new set of tariffs, with the likes of Taiwan receiving a 20% tax on…
Plus many more! Nintendo will be making an appearance at this year’s Gamescom, and it looks like the company’s full line-up of games has been revealed (thanks, Games Wirtschaft). It’s a doozy, folks. Included in the selection are the likes of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Pokémon Legends Z-A, Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition, Final Fantasy 7…
If you like the premise of AI doing, well something, in your rig, but don’t much fancy feeding your information back to a data set for future use, a local LLM is likely the answer to your prayers. With OpenAI’s latest model, you can do just that, assuming you have the hardware to power it….