When shopping for extra devices for your rig, it can be tempting to go cheap. Especially for something as simple as, say, a USB hub. However, Dr Gough Lui of Dr Gough’s Techzone has torn a $5 AliExpress-sourced model apart to take a peek at the internals, and the results are pretty shocking. As the…
Category: Games July 16, 2026 Free Play Days – GTA Online, Crisol: Theater of Idols, Planet Zoo, Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports, and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Kyle OceanMarketing Manager, XBOX From chaotic city streets and anime battles to wild sports showdowns, charming zoos, and theatrical action, this week’s Free Play Days lineup has…
Software development, much like making a stew that’s a perfect umami bomb in every bite, is a tricky business. Every major commercial product is touched by many hands, and sometimes the chefs leave cardamom and bay leaves in the mix. Okay, perhaps I’ve overstretched the metaphor—what you need to know is that apparently Microsoft’s Secure…
And Rhythm Heaven Groove continues to dominate. The latest Japanese boxed charts data is in from Famitsu, and golly gosh, there are quite a few new entries this week. Rhythm Heaven Groove is at the top again with another 126,073 copies to its name, taking its running total to over 500,000. Awesome job. Magical Girl…
Xbox’s 1,600 layoffs last week were brutal on the developers impacted, and will have uncertain ripples on the industry for years to come—however, a recent report from Game Developer states that the “reset” itself was chaotically implemented. Speaking with multiple sources, the report shares that employees across Xbox were “informed their jobs were being eliminated…
The life of a pirate is short and dangerous, full of adventures on the high seas, plundering galleons and sticking it to The Man. When you fire up a pirate-themed game, then, you might expect to do a lot of swashbuckling and looting (which should help take your mind off the fact that you’re riddled…
Every year, Call of Duty either tries to reinvent the wheel, or undo the reinvention it tried last time. With the upcoming Modern Warfare 4, it’s attempting the latter—Morgan has played MW4 multiplayer at Infinity Ward recently, and he’s not convinced it’s a leap forward, despite being confident it’ll be the best-playing Call of Duty…
It’s rough, dood! If I asked you to close your eyes and picture a Disgaea game, what images come to mind? Ludicrously high damage number pop-ups? Oodles of customisation menus? A penguin-esque creature enthusiastically exclaiming “DOOD!” perhaps? Any of those answers would be fitting, but chances are you’d also envision some permutation of characters spread…
Alongside ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’, ‘Moby Dick’, and ‘Levi’s Jeans’. The Washington Post has published a list of the 25 most influential works of American culture, featuring DOOM as its selection for the period of 1986-1995 (h/t: PC Gamer). Sitting alongside such influential entries as The Star-Spangled Banner, Moby-Dick, and Levi’s Jeans, DOOM beat out The…
ASML, the company that makes the semiconductor machines that every big Western chipmaker uses to make their chips, has “raised its guidance“—i.e., increased its predictions over how well it’s going to do—for the year. It says this is thanks to being able to keep up with customer demand coming from both memory and processor/accelerator chipmakers….