What happened Xbox executive vice president and chief content officer Matt Booty has announced another round of layoffs and studio reorganizations as part of the continuing “reset” of Microsoft’s gaming division Xbox has cut an additional 268 employees “across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer,” which Booty says…
Crusader Kings 3 will finally let us play as the pope in the By God Alone expansion, launching on September 30. The power! The pageantry! The blood boys! Wait, what? OK, so history has given us a lot of weird pope stories. One of them relates to the declining health of Pope Innocent VIII. As…
Hi PlayStation players! This is Sylvain from Emeteria, a New Tales studio, the team behind Fading Echo, and we’re excited to share that our fast-paced elemental action-adventure RPG is launching today on PlayStation 5. In Fading Echo, you play as One, a young Legend fighting to save Corel, a fractured world being consumed by a…
The Strong museum in Rochester keeps 108 archival document boxes of Bally, Midway and Williams paperwork. Most of it is pinball: playfield drawings, wiring diagrams, engineering logbooks. The finding aid for the collection also includes parts lists for a five-coin multiple slot from 1969 and a three-reel slot machine from 1972. Arcade histories tend to…
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. If that sequence still comes back without a moment’s thought, you probably remember its appeal: a brutal game suddenly gave you room to breathe. Poker has nothing that adds 30 lives or upgrades the cards in your hand. Its closest equivalent is knowing what to…
“You’re not locked into one emulator or one platform”. If you’re anything like me, then you do your retro gaming across a wide range of platforms. I’ve got the MiSTer FPGA hooked up to my TV, and a SuperStation One in the office. I also emulate retro games on my AYANEO 3, KONKR Pocket Advance…
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More big changes at Xbox. More big news is coming out of Xbox this week as the company looks to continue its reset. There are a few things to go through here, but the headline for us is that Xbox is looking to leverage its purchase of Activision and consolidate more power into the subsidiary….
AMD’s market cap, the measure of the company’s total worth according to its share price, breached $1 trillion on Monday. That’s $1,000 billion, to you and me. AMD’s stock valuation has been on a roll recently. CNBC reports that AMD’s price jumped 10% on Monday, making for a grand total of 25% appreciation in just…
Reviews of Apple’s latest M6 SoC are out, and the new chip looks hella impressive. Sadly, that probably won’t be a huge direct benefit to PC gamers, what with the Mac’s limited library of titles and patchy game optimisation. But wait, because there’s one really important detail regarding the M6 that is highly PC relevant….