Blood, blood, gallons of the stuff. There’s a moment during Resident Evil Requiem — actually, no, several moments — in which I laid the controller on my lap and just stared at the screen in awe. Over the last decade, the series has reclaimed its throne as the king of the survival horror genre, but…
I see custom PC builds pass through my newsfeed all the time, and my usual reaction is “meh”. One I’ve been keeping an eye on for a while now, though, has finally reached its conclusion, and it’s such an extreme build that I’m in absolute awe of its creation. Billet Labs has released a video…
You may never have considered using one of the best VPNs specifically for gaming. After all, latency is key to online gaming, and any VPN you choose will surely just get in the way of you, the servers that you’re connecting to, and the folk you’re trying to frag in-game. But there is more to…
One week after we gave its latest release—Styx: Blades of Greed—a healthy 82% review, French publisher Nacon has filed for insolvency. In a notice earlier today, Nacon declared that it will “as of today, file for insolvency with the Court and request the opening of judicial reorganisation proceedings.” That is to say, it cannot service…
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…