Walk into any arcade in 1987, and you didn’t need instructions to know what mattered. It was right there at the top of the screen – a number. Sometimes it was a high score. Sometimes it was a bonus counter creeping upward. Sometimes it was a physical jackpot display bolted above a cabinet, glowing like…
The Sanctuary of the Six-Minute Session The modern gaming landscape is, frankly, exhausting. Don’t get me wrong, the technical wizardry of a sprawling open-world epic is a marvel to behold, but there are days when the sheer faff involved is enough to make you put the controller down before you’ve even cleared the loading screen….
Lets go back to the 90’s, a time of violent handball and ice hockey action, in which violence meets goal scoring antics that appeared in our homes on the Acorn Archimedes, Atari ST, Amiga, Amiga CD32, PC, Commodore 64, Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Game Boy and even the Game Boy Advance. Yes it…
Good afternoon. It’s been a long time coming — almost nine years, in fact — but Capcom’s The Disney Afternoon Collection is now finally heading to the Switch and Switch 2 under the stewardship of Atari and developer Digital Eclipse. Not to rub it in the faces of PlayStation and Xbox owners (except that’s exactly…
Here’s another dubious milestone notched up by the memory crisis. The proportion that RAM and storage makes up of the cost of producing an HP PC has doubled this year to 35%. Specifically, HP’s CFO Karen Parkhill was speaking to the usual gathering of highly remunerated bean counters on the company’s quarterly earnings call yesterday…
I love it when a developer takes another swing at an idea they didn’t nail the first time. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has a barren and boring sky to explore, likely because it was made for the humble old Wii. Twelve years and a few hardware upgrades later, Nintendo knocked that same idea…
With a little bit of modding, of course. Remember when Nintendo released a new Game & Watch handheld to celebrate the Zelda series? Sure you do – you’ve probably got one of the units on your shelf right now, gathering dust after you finished its (rather paltry) trio of pre-installed titles. If you’ve been wondering…
Like Water Pumps, the humble Camera Lens is so useless in Arc Raiders that you’ve likely never paid it any attention. Now, though, thanks to the new Weather Monitor project, you suddenly need to find three of the blighters, and you’re understandably stumped trying to remember where you’ve run into them. The good news is…
If you were a leading a tech company with big aspirations, you’d be looking into Linux and Arm right now. Nvidia certainly is. The company already has both in its product stack, namely the DGX Spark, which uses a custom Linux OS and off-the-shelf Arm cores. This chip is also set to launch as the…