With the RAMpocalypse set to rage for years, memory kit makers are responding in one of two ways: Do nothing or go hell-for-leather

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…

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“The Only Way To Make A Better Internet Is To Build It Ourselves” – Say Hello To The AI- And Algorithm-Free Warp Point

“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…

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Thermaltake Retro 360 TG case review

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…

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Baldur’s Gate 2’s co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur’s Gate 4 after Larian declined: ‘Having to compete against Baldur’s Gate 3? That would be insanity’

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…

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Hands On: R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos – How Does This Turn-Based PSP Pair Hold Up On Switch?

It’s a bold strategy Cotton. With Irem’s video game division being dissolved in 2011 after Japan’s Tōhoku earthquake, some staff went on to found Granzella Inc. Interested in revisiting their most beloved work, Granzella then got hold of the R-Type licence for 2007’s R-Type Tactics, a turn-based strategy affair for Sony’s PSP. A sequel followed…

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