Talking about my generation. I’m fully aware that some people get a bit jumpy when the notion of ‘console generations’ is mentioned, but in the context of Bitmap Books’ latest tome, this kind of terminology makes sense. Leaps + Bounds: a Visual Guide to Nine Console Generations is a book dedicated to charting the various…
Charlie Cox, an actor best known for his work as Matt Murdock otherwise known as Daredevil in Marvel’s TV series Daredevil has recently made his way into the world of videogames. He voiced Gustave, a major part in one of last year’s most successful games, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. He’d made it clear a few…
There are just some things that lend themselves to being great villains. There’s snakes and Brits (aren’t they the same thing, aha!) but there’s also been the long-used theme of an artificial intelligence that gains sentience and then immediately realises that humans suck, and so tries to do away with us all. We’ve had infamous…
More “good” news thanks to the AI craze. The world’s ongoing memory shortage – caused by the tech world’s almost insatiable hunger for a product which, so far, has resulted in precious few rewards – has already hit hardware maker Retroid pretty hard. Earlier this month, Retroid was forced to raise the price of its…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has responded to the widespread criticism of DLSS 5. Nvidia’s new generation of upscaling technology majors on AI-enhanced lighting but also introduces generative AI at the geometry and asset level and can result in dramatic changes to the look of character models in particular. And that has many observers up in…
There’s been a test of loyalty embedded into Overwatch since the new season began. And no, I’m not talking about endorsements. Alongside other limited-time events like the Hello Kitty and friends or Project YorHa, we’ve had the weekly Conquest competition where players either pledged their allegiance to Overwatch or Talon. We went through some highs…
We finally have games taking full advantage of the speed of a solid state drive and, bam! Shader compilation. Games require a whole lot of custom code, in the form of shaders, in order to look as good as they do these days. This code needs to be available at short notice, and often compiled…
With a sweet launch discount. The open-ended alchemy puzzle game Opus Magnum arrived on Steam back in 2017, and it has since gone on to rack up over 3,000 ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ reviews. IGN‘s Tom Marks hailed it as “one of the best puzzle games I’ve ever played”, while PC Gamer described it as “one of…
Another Konami arcade title joins Arcade Archives this week. This week, Hamster, the Japanese company behind Arcade Archives, is continuing its unspoken quest to bring Konami’s arcade library to modern consoles, announcing a reissue of the third-person arcade shoot ’em up, Devastators. Released in 1988, Devastators sees players taking control of a group of commandos…
The full reveal takes place next month. If you like Monopoly and also happen to be a fan of Star Wars, you might want to be on the lookout for this new Ubisoft-published title, Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains. This new crossover will be arriving for the Switch 1 and 2 on 11th June…