AMD has added the potential effects of the RAMpocalypse into its risk statements: ‘There is currently an industry-wide memory shortage as the demand for such components has outpaced supply’

A look through AMD’s recently released financial reports shows an interesting addition compared to the previous year. In its list of risk factors to its business (a required part of a Form 10-K filing) and under a section entitled “Economic and market uncertainty may adversely impact our business and operating results”, AMD makes mention of…

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Management sim Manifesto is the first game ever without politics: Grind workers into dust under your bootheel in a carefree romp that is ‘definitely not about the video game industry… stop reading into things that aren’t there’

A paradox: videogames? They’re pretty good. The videogame industry? It’s bad. Like, mondo bad. A brutal parade of layoffs and exploitation, where grinning execs make out like bandits and everyone else is grist for the mill. One day, of course, the revolution will come, sweep away bourgeois society like so much dust, and the era…

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The Fallout TV series’ showrunner and Todd Howard disagree with fans that season 2 messes with Fallout: New Vegas’ canon: ‘Sometimes you’re gonna get conflicting accounts’

That’s a wrap on Amazon’s Fallout season 2, folks. The final episode has now aired, tying up some loose ends. But not everything has an answer—there is a third season after all—and many fans of the series are still left wondering what exactly the events of the second season mean for the game’s canon. Major…

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“Tell Every Castlevania Fan You Know” – Night Hazard Is An Upcoming Action Platformer, Inspired By 3D-Vanias

Castlevania 64 is finally shown some love! While Castlevania has had several 3D outings since the series began in 1987, it’s typically a lot more common today to see game developers drawing influence from the series’s 2D entries; games like the original Castlevania trilogy on the NES, Symphony of the Night, and the portable games…

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