Once nothing more than a basic text editor, Windows Notepad has been expanded in recent years to become almost a fully-fledged word processor. For some people, the little tool has become synonymous with Microsoft’s penchant for bloat and unnecessary changes, so one former Redmond coder decided to do something about it. The person in question…
Universal’s 1981 title ‘Lady Bug’ is also joining the Arcade Archives library. If you were hoping for Hamster, the creator of Arcade Archives, to follow up the Tekken announcement from last week with more Namco fighting games, like Soul Edge/Soul Blade or Tekken 2, then I’m afraid you’re unfortunately out of luck. Instead, it has…
When Jack Tramiel left Commodore in January 1984, he started a new company called Tramel Technology with several ex Commodore employees, and his three sons in top executive positions, with the goal of selling a new home computer. When Warner Communications announced on May 8 its intention to sell its Atari division, Tramiel then began…
Capture the lag. I remember thinking that 2023’s Tears of the Kingdom was the perfect bookend for Switch 1, a fitting sign-off for a generation which began with a transformative open-world take on Hyrule. But Switch 2 wouldn’t arrive for another couple of years, which means it’s a very different game that gets the ‘swansong’…
“One more analog stick. That’s all we needed”. Much has been written about why the PS Vita failed, with its high cost, lack of exclusives and pointless features being cited whenever the conversation comes around. What makes its commercial performance all the more puzzling is that its predecessor, the PSP, sold over 75 million units…
After nearly two decades of supporting the PS3 console generation, we wanted to let you know we will be closing the PlayStation Store on PS3, as well as on PS Vita. PlayStation Store on PS3 will close in select markets starting this year, followed by global closures for PS3 and PS Vita next year. That…
As consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift away from physical discs to digital, physical game disc production for all new games releasing on PlayStation consoles will be discontinued starting January 2028. Following this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only. This transition has…
Tune in. Argonaut Games has just posted a little video on social media that has fans anticipating Croc 2’s inevitable remaster. The clip shows a radio in a Croc-style 3D world which is playing a bunch of songs from previous Argonaut titles, including Starglider, King Arthur’s World, Star Fox, Vortex, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos,…
In an update early last month, Battlefield 6 accidentally made a change everyone loved. The in-game description of XP Boosters was changed to say that they would now count down only while you’re actively playing a match, rather than in real time, as they have since launch. Wasting your precious boosts because you’ve had to…
LLMs can be most simply understood as sycophantic, ‘yes, and’ machines. To the surprise of very few, that’s gotten AI companies in hot water when LLM-based chatbots and AI agents attempt to answer users’ more unsavoury requests. So, AI companies have implemented safety guardrails that make fulfilling certain requests off limits. Unfortunately, these have proven…