Sinnohs. Pokémon turns 30 on 27th February, and in honour of this momentous anniversary, we’re running a series of polls leading up to the big day, asking you to vote for your favourite Pokémon from each generation. The nine winners will then go head-to-head in a final poll at the end of the month. We’re…
In season two, episode one of Black Mirror—a science fiction show designed to do what good sci-fi always does, satirise and critique the future—Martha, boyfriend of the late Ash Starmer, decides to try out a new service that creates an android from her dead boyfriend’s social media profiles. The episode is about how existentially horrifying…
Around a month ago Rockstar launched an official mod shop for Grand Theft Auto Online, with Cfx Marketplace coming three years after the studio’s 2023 acquisition of Cfx.re, a GTA and Red Dead Redemption modding team. This is obviously something of a dry run for the company before the all-conquering arrival of GTA 6, with…
Windows 11. There’s a lot I could say about Microsoft’s latest operating system, but if I got into it, we’d be here all day. So, let’s focus on the most recent development—namely, how many Windows Insiders have been blocked from downloading the latest preview build ISOs. To be clear, non-Insider builds of Windows 11 are…
Top-level overclocking pushes PC hardware into scenarios that it’s never expected to experience on a day-to-day basis. One exception is MSI’s new $5000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z graphics card, sporting two 600 W 12V-2×6 connectors, 40-phase VRMs, and even an option to use a special BIOS that pushes the card’s limit to a dizzy 2,500…
I’ve always stuck to cloth mouse pads, and given the few plastic hard pads I’ve tried have never gelled with me, I didn’t think I’d ever switch. But the QPAD Obsidian Glass has made me realise there’s a whole class of mouse pads out there that I was overlooking, and that’s glass ones. Of course,…
More & more games are now reaching in-game status. The PS3 emulator RPCS3 is “closer than ever to having all PS3 games not only boot but reach in-game status,” according to a new social media post from its development team, suggesting it could be about to hit a major milestone (thanks retrohandhelds for the spot!)….
If videogames are about anything, it’s solving deep-rooted and overdetermined social problems by hitting them really hard and also sometimes magic. And few games have ever videogamed harder in that regard than Metaphor: ReFantazio, Atlus’ polychromatic RPG from 2024 that puts you in the shoes of a young man on a quest to defeat racism…
Before they were known as Rockstar North, the creators of a little game called Grand Theft Auto, the studio was known as DMA Design. A small team that would go on to change the video game industry forever, the beginning of DMA Design was scrappy, fueled by dreams of hitting it big. Despite the massive…
We’ve recently had a bonanza of Bethesda interviews to mark… well, it feels like they were all done to mark the end of Fallout season two, which is a bit odd. But nevertheless, among them is Game Informer’s excellent oral history of Fallout, in which the great and good from the studio reminisce about bringing…