If you’ve bought a gaming PC, or even thought about buying a gaming PC in the last year or so, there’s a good chance you’ve seen them labelled as AI PCs. Turns out the desire for AI is lower than we might have thought, if recent Intel reports prove true. According to Digitimes (machine translated),…
Gaming is an expensive hobby. I mean, don’t get me started on how much you’re expected to shell out for even middling rig upgrades these days, or how full-price game releases are now asking for $70 of your hard-earned cash. In such a landscape, with console prices going up instead of down over time, is…
Support is now available in Ares’ nightly builds. Support for NEC LD-ROM² is coming to Ares, and is already available as part of the multi-format emulator’s nightly builds, it’s been announced online. Last month, as you may well be aware, brought the exciting news that Ares would become the first ever emulator to support the…
Launching next week. Just like clockwork, The Pokémon Company has revealed the next Trading Card Game Pocket expansion, ‘Deluxe Pack ex’, and it’s a blingy one. The upcoming set will arrive in the app on 29th September, and brings new ‘Parallel Foil’ cards to the table. These glistening offerings feature new art for pre-existing cards,…
An AMD patent application for a new spin on DDR5 PC memory has been spotted. The so-called high-bandwidth dual inline memory module or HB-DIMM is designed to boost memory bandwidth courtesy of pseudo channels, buffer chips and intelligent signal routing. It looks very fancy, but we’ll take some convincing it’ll appear in PCs any time…
Developer Illfonic last month announced a game based on 1978 horror classic Halloween, and now we’ve got a look at it. The game looks a lot like the studio’s own (excellent) Friday the 13th adaptation and is set in the small town of Haddonfield, recreated with real period style. It’s primarily an asymmetrical multiplayer horror…
Where Winds Meet is an ambitious free to play open-world ARPG that seeks not just to emulate but to embody the very soul of Wuxia. Wuxia is a captivating genre typically found in fiction and cinema, featuring warriors from ancient China performing superhuman martial arts feats, think Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or House of Flying…
Football video games have come a long way since the blocky players and chiptune sounds of the 8-bit era. What began as simple, arcade-style fun has transformed into hyper-realistic simulations that capture every detail of the sport. Thus, in this article, we’ll explore how football games have evolved through each era and the milestones that…
There’s more to Taito than Space Invaders. Taito may be little more than a sub-brand owned by Square Enix these days, but once upon a time, this prolific Japanese company was one of the most active and influential in arcade gaming. Everybody knows Space Invaders, of course, the 1978 hit that not only birthed the…
I first got my hands on the Glorious Model O3 Wireless sitting on the floor in the halls of Gamescom as a slapdash 15-minute product demo. I was a little frustrated that I only got a few minutes with it because it’s not often you have a product that tries to genuinely innovate in a…