Whether it’s your graphics card, RAM sticks, or SSD, they all contain memory chips that have probably been manufactured by one of two companies: Samsung and SK Hynix. While the majority of their production takes place in their native South Korea, both firms have lots of plants in China. And due to a recent decision…
Tigers and sharks, living together. Toaplan’s Tiger-Heli made quite the impact when it arrived in arcades in 1985. Created by the core team of Masahiro Yuge, Tatsuya Uemura, and Yuichirō Nozawa, it was one of the first games to make use of a screen-clearing bomb and was commercially successful thanks to its intense challenge and…
Mecha for robot-fighting fans? Daemon x Machina: Titanic Scion arrives at an interesting time in these early months after the release of Switch 2. There haven’t been many AAA-styled heavy-hitters to push this system so far, certainly not in terms of action games, at least. And so, Titanic Scion feels like it should give us…
Category: Xbox Game Pass September 2, 2025 Coming to Game Pass: Hollow Knight: Silksong, RoadCraft, I Am Your Beast, and More Megan Spurr, Senior Community Lead, Xbox Game Pass You’ve been asking “when?” and I am so excited to tell you exactly when a certain group of games are coming to Game Pass (looking at…
Graham Greene, Oscar-nominated actor and—around our neck of the woods—voice and mocap performer for Rains Fall in Red Dead Redemption 2, has died in hospital after a long illness, Deadline reports. He was 73. A Canadian First Nations performer, Greene broke ground in the 1970s, first on-stage and then on-screen, with his breakout role coming…
Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Looking into proof-of-human technology and digital ID, on both technology and privacy fronts. Call me a rebel, but I haven’t been best satisfied with the direction Windows 11 has been heading of late. I’m not alone, of course—just ask a bunch of us here…
But is it actually, though? Now, we know that the folks behind big AAA sports game releases — and especially yearly ones where they really have to scrape the barrel and make up new words like ‘TruMotion’ and things of this nature to keep us interested — like to engage the pre-release hype train. It’s…
When it’s time to choose a gaming mouse, it’s important to factor in exactly what kind of gaming you want to be doing with it. If you’re aiming to be a pro sniper with pixel perfect flick shots your needs are likely going to be a little different from the MMO gamer maxing their cooldown…
I once read somewhere—on the internet, so it must be true—that your eyes have a thing called ‘immune privilege.’ In essence, your body’s immune system lets your eyes get away with all sorts of stuff because if it behaved normally, causing swelling and/or high temperatures when your eyes got poorly, there’s a risk it’d interfere…
“I would love to work on one of those”. Atari CEO Wade Rosen has been doing the rounds on the interview circuit recently, not only discussing his company’s recent purchase of a controlling stake in Thunderful but also the performance of the Atari 2600+ and 7800+ systems and future merchandising opportunities. Rosen has also been…