The Virtual Pinball build officially begins! In Part 1 of this series, I’m unboxing an awesome package from Cleveland Software Design filled with parts that will be used in my custom VPIN cabinet. From controller boards to wiring and other essential components, we’ll take a first look at everything that’s going into this build. Whether…
…but there are more questions than answers. In this job, I’m used to seeing old, defunct companies come back from the dead, typically when some unrelated third party comes along and hoovers up a bunch of rights. But even I don’t really know what to make of this recent post from the publisher Empire Interactive…
We’re yet to see a single drop of gameplay footage, but I can promise you Grand Theft Auto 6 is very real and definitely happening. At least, I certainly hope it is. Rockstar opened the door for pre-orders last week with its $80 and $100 versions, the latter of which I’m not overly jazzed about….
Unless you’ve been living on another planet, orbiting a star light years away, you won’t have missed the fact that memory kits are painfully expensive right now. One of the world’s biggest manufacturers of PCs has warned that the RAMpocalypse will continue for years, but so far, makers of DRAM kits have taken a somewhat…
I’ll admit I’m not a big fighting game person. I enjoy playing the likes of Mortal Kombat casually, but I don’t get giddy for a new release. The one exception to that is Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, which I’ve loved ever since Sony revealed it at its 2025 State of Play. Despite Sony declaring it’s…
The memory supply crisis has been raging since at least last year with no end in sight—some even predict prices will rise by as much as 50% in Q3 of 2026. Supplies are scarce and prices are high in part due to the AI industry scooping up everything it can get its many fingered hands…
“We want to revive the curious spirit of the old internet “. Wes Fenlon, the person behind the utterly superb Read Only Memo newsletter, has announced a new initiative he has created alongside Matt Sayer called Warp Point. “Warp Point is built around simple technologies like RSS with a simple premise: Helping writers connect with…
They say fashion has a habit of repeating itself. What was once deemed gauche and detestable by one generation becomes the next’s “big thing”. Yep, like your grandad’s long socks to Gen Z, and skinny jeans to Millennials, the big beige retro rig has landed square and center on our desks again, at the forefront…
After the stratospheric success of Baldur’s Gate 3, Hasbro was naturally keen for a follow-up. The only problem? Larian wasn’t interested in doing Baldur’s Gate 4. And it turns out the second person Hasbro asked didn’t want the job either. Larian famously decided to move on from Baldur’s Gate and get back to working on…
Released first on the PlayStation 3 and as a launch title for the PlayStation 4, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag has remained a defining entry in the series for more than a decade. When we first explored the idea of bringing Edward Kenway’s journey to modern hardware, it quickly became clear that a traditional remaster…