They say the wheels of industry never stop turning, and it seems that’s true even when the chassis on top has fallen off, because as current-gen SSD prices continue to climb, the next generation is already being spun up. According to ZDNet Korea’s sources, Samsung is “embarking on full-scale preparations” for PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with…
Disney Dreamlight Valley is home to a huge variety of ingredients to cook with, but it’s surprising how hard some of them are to track down. Knowing where to find salt crystals will save you running around the valley on a wild goose chase, but you do need access to the Storybook Vale DLC before…
Capcom really does not want any big spoilers out in the wild ahead of the release of Resident Evil Requiem. It posted a statement last week imploring people to please, please, keep any big leaks and spoilers off the internet in the run up to its release and said it would be chasing after anyone…
Run-and-gun revelation. The Turrican series is the stuff of legend for European home computer owners. Back when the C64 and Amiga ruled supreme, Manfred Trenz’s brilliant run-and-gun action title was considered to be the gold standard – so much so that it would be ported to a wide range of other platforms, including home consoles,…
Those familiar with Intel’s modern processor lines will also be familiar with the idea of Performance and Efficient cores. The Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, for example, is technically a 24-core chip, with eight of those cores being high-powered Performance versions for heavy processing duties, supported by 16 Efficient versions for low-priority tasks. Intel’s processors…
Skatality! The iconic fighting game Mortal Kombat isn’t the first thing that springs to mind when you think about the Winter Olympics, but that didn’t stop it from making a surprise cameo this past weekend, at the figure skating Exhibition Gala. As is tradition, the gala event, which took place at the Milano Ice Skating…
Shenmue Passport’s online leaderboards are finally back online. According to DreamcastLive, Shenmue Passport‘s online rankings are finally back online for the first time in almost 24 years, meaning we can finally find out who the best forklift driver in the world is In case you don’t remember, back when Sega’s groundbreaking open-world action-adventure game Shenmue…
A report from The Financial Times claims that, according to four of its sources, two recent AWS outages were caused by engineers allowing its Kiro AI coding tool to make changes without oversight. According to a senior AWS employee, at least two production outages in the past few months were caused by the AI agent…
“If you entrust this to me, I will absolutely make it work”. One of the mecha games on the original PlayStation was Omega Boost. Affording 360-degrees of gameplay, it was and still is a unique game. So I was elated to be able to talk with the game’s main programmer and game designer, Yuji Yasuhara,…
When Gecko Gods was revealed in 2022, it instantly became one of those games I simply had to play. The very idea of being a little gecko scampering around ancient ruins and using the world as my climbing frame appeals more than I can really express in words, but I didn’t realise just how long…