“Days of getting scolded by Sega-sama”. Esteemed Japanese game studio Treasure – the outfit behind such classics as Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, Gunstar Heroes and Sin & Punishment – appears to be teasing something related to its 1996 Sega Saturn title Guardian Heroes. The social media teasers follow Sega’s announcement of a new retro initiative, Sega…
Samsung announced its “world’s first” 6K gaming monitor back at CES. But now it’s finally gone on sale, listed for pre-order on Samsung’s German website for €1,499. We’d expect a dollar price at around the same figure. So, what exactly would you be getting for your €1,500 from the Samsung Odyssey G8 (G80HS)? The basics…
Arc Raiders‘ new Avian Alarm project is almost just like any other project, demanding you donate a bunch of random materials to complete each stage. However, the first step is actually more like a quest, where you’ll have to lay a bird trap next to buoys in the new Riven Tides map. Once you’ve done…
Completing the Battening Down quest in Arc Raiders took me longer than I expected. Usually I’m pretty good at sussing out locations, but one in particular, the leaking oil pipe you have to repair, is actually very hard to find. While you get directions pointing you towards the correct pipeline, no parts of it are…
Shoring Up Defenses is one of the three starting quests in Arc Raiders‘ Riven Tides update. It’s all about reinforcing key locations across the beach-based map and clearing out the robots that have moved in. And just for accepting the quest, Apollo will give you a Dockmaster’s Detector, which you can use in the Beachcombing…
‘Too bad!’. We’ve seen some pretty wild Super Mario-inspired products in our time, but this has to be one of the highlights. As showcased by Voxel on YouTube, a Brazilian funeral urn and coffin manufacturer by the name of ‘Bignotto’ has advertised a new line of coffins styled after several Mario characters. Read the full…
Crimson Desert’s been having a moment. On April 15, it hit five million sales, and last week the prime minister of South Korea celebrated the achievement, calling it a “new chapter in K-content”. To top it all off, Pearl Abyss has paid its employees a 5 million won bonus, or around $3,392/£2,513. This was reported…
Say hello to the Commodore 64C Ultimate. Commodore International has just announced its next product, which follows in the footsteps of last year’s Commodore 64 Ultimate. The Commodore 64C Ultimate is based on the 1986 original, which took the C64’s internals and placed them in a case design closer to that of 1985’s Commodore 128….
Over four years ago, we were already reporting that Valve was working on a Steam Deck 2. In 2023, Valve said the Deck 2 was at least a couple of years away. So, what the current sitrep? Short answer: still in progress, likely waiting on a decent new chip. Speaking to IGN, Valve rep and…
“I’ve been keeping a secret for 5 years…”. Dustin Holden, the brains behind the Project Stellar Xbox mod, has just revealed how he uncovered a “hidden” USB port on the original Xbox after five years of research. In a lengthy thread on Twitter, Holden explains that the venture began in 2018, when fellow modder @Ryzee119…