Before home computers ever had an “adventure game,” there was Colossal Cave Adventure (1976- 1977) by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Often referred to simply as Adventure or ADVENT, it ran on a PDP-10 mainframe, a machine that cost about $150,000 in the 1970s, roughly $1,000,000 in today’s dollars. That kind of setup made sense…
For over 30 years, we’ve continued to look for ways to celebrate our gaming community, which has a vital role in PlayStation’s history and future. Today, we’re excited to offer an opportunity to bring some of our devoted PlayStation fans even closer to the PlayStation experience. We’re introducing‘The Playerbase, a unique opportunity for PlayStation’s biggest…
Movie Star. After a short pause for the Easter Bank Holiday, this week’s UK charts are finally in, and no, it’s not the most surprising ranking this time. The top 10 is much as you might expect, with EA SPORTS FC 26 holding onto the top spot once again, and Switch 2 hits like Mario…
Category: Games April 7, 2026 Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Kiln, Hades II, Vampire Crawlers, and More Megan Spurr, Senior Community Lead, Xbox Game Pass We have a whole pile of games for you to check out coming soon to Game Pass below, including some you might have seen announced in our most recent Partner…
Moving forward, “there will no longer be a release nearly every month”. The developers of the popular multi-purpose emulation framework, MAME, have today announced incoming changes to its system requirements and “the frequency of releases.” The news was shared in a blog published on the emulation framework’s official website earlier today, which revealed that Windows…
Intel’s Bartlett Lake CPU is a bit of a niche offering, mainly aimed at edge, embedded, and networking applications rather than consumer PCs. But what with its pure P-core engineering, it’s kinda intriguing. And yet not compatible with desktop motherboards. Until now, that is. An enterprising modder has managed to get a 12-core Bartlett Lake…
The vast majority of web users click and swipe away at their preferred browser, with nary a thought behind the sheer amount of work that goes on behind the scenes in today’s websites. Web coders do, though, and often have to juggle performance considerations against having everything correctly rendered. But there’s one inspired bit of…
Disney Dreamlight Valley is set to roll out its second update of the year on April 8, Whispers of the Wind. While the main appeal of this update will be the addition of Pocahontas, there’s another feature tucked away in the patch notes which is equally as exciting for any player who actively works through…
If you’re currently playing Crimson Desert on an AMD graphics card, you should hopefully find that the performance has improved with the latest patch. That’s because the game now implements FSR SDK 2.2, which should offer better and more consistent upscaling and frame generation. As shared on April 4, this is part of update 1.02.00,…
It’s been a long and painfully close Race to World First for Team Liquid and Team Echo as both have gone head-to-head on the isle of Quel’Danas for two weeks, to ultimately defeat the World of Warcraft: Midnight’s Season 1 mythic L’ura. Team Echo led the charge with a best-in-world pull of 4.07% at one…