From low-poly animator and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie artist suitNtie. A new N64-inspired adventure has just been announced for PC that will let players become a travelling salesman and embark on a cozy adventure across several towns to build their fledgling business. Merchant 64 is the work of the low-poly animator suitNtie, who recently…
In a press Q&A ahead of today’s Xbox developer direct, id Software creative director Hugo Martin and executive producer Marty Stratton expanded on some of the gameplay changes coming to Doom: The Dark Ages. In particular, they outlined how some of the criticisms of 2020’s Doom Eternal led the team to look for inspiration in…
We’re fast approaching five years since the launch of Doom Eternal, and while Doom: The Dark Ages is shaping up to be a more stripped-back attempt at the Doom formula with its medieval aesthetic, the Doom: The Dark Ages system requirements feel straight out of the future. If you want to run this pulpy shooter…
Final Fantasy 14’s community has been frayed at the edges recently, as widespread awareness of a modding tool that allows stalkers—an issue FF14 has had for a while—to have access to every alternate character on their target’s account. Dawntrail received a more powerful blacklisting system to help fight stalking behaviour, but the mod actually takes…
One of the most unique video game experiences ever crafted. This review was originally published in April 2009. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of the game in the Nintendo Switch Online SNES library. Every so often a game comes along that makes you take your thumb off the fire button and…
“Your Sega Dreamcast can now become an AI-driven sentient being”. When Sega launched Dreamcast in North America, it came up with a memorable slogan for its advertising campaign: “It’s thinking.” Intended to illustrate the technological leap the console was making over the PS1 and N64, the campaign suggested that Dreamcast was so powerful it was…
The Genshin Impact 5.4 codes are just another way you can add a few extra Primogems to your stash in advance of the game’s next update. For those who’ve played the game a while, you know the drill, but for anyone new to the RPG, let me explain. Every six weeks miHoYo hosts a livestream…
Asus offers several alternative GPU-securing mechanisms as part of its Q-release system, and one has been accused of potentially damaging GPU contact pins. If there’s one internal PC component that has caused me repeated physical pain over my many years of DIY builds, it’s the traditional GPU retainer clip. It’s fiddly to get to with…
The project is being led by its original composer Masashi Kageyama. Brave Wave Productions has revealed that it will be releasing a newly arranged version of the soundtrack to Sunsoft’s cult classic Famicom platformer Gimmick, featuring an all-star lineup of musicians from the world of video game music. According to the announcement, the project is…
OpenAI has launched Operator, a largely autonomous AI agent designed to take your simple text prompts and turn them into real-world tasks completed via the internet. In theory, you can ask it to do almost anything that’s possible via a web browser. In practice, early users seem to be finding the results rather hit and…