Includes “tons of fixes and polish”. The 8BitMods VMU Pro is one of the best accessories we’ve seen released for the Dreamcast in a while, and it has just been blessed with what the company is calling its “biggest update yet.” VMU Pro OS v2.0.4 finally enables the VMUPro Store, which allows you to download…
With the vast majority of PC components, laptops, handheld devices and full-blown consoles all made in China and various SE Asian countries, the fact that the biggest gaming vendors regularly import stuff is hardly newsworthy. But when the vendor in question is Valve, and the items being shipped over are registered as ‘games consoles’, that…
At its core, Battlefield 6 is a great multiplayer shooter. But EA has consistently fumbled it since an explosive launch that should have put the series back in the spotlight—it did for all of a month, give or take. Now BF6 is in its ‘we’ve heard your feedback era‘, adding seven maps this year (including…
“The Unofficial Companion: Generation 1”. The latest addition to Ninty Media’s growing library of quality gaming tomes is around the corner, with Pokebook now live on Kickstarter and aiming for delivery this August. Focusing on Gen 1 Pokémon games and coinciding with the series’ 30th anniversary year, this hardcover book is the first in Ninty…
“Please continue to support me”. The Castlevania series is home to some of the greatest video game music ever composed, and many of the franchise’s aural highlights can be attributed to Michiru Yamane. Yamane joined the series for the Mega Drive / Genesis title Castlevania: Bloodlines, but her crowning glory is arguably the amazing soundtrack…
It just so happens I’ve been daily driving an old school VA panel this week. It’s a budget 34-inch ultrawide and, funnily enough, it provides the perfect foil for Alienware’s new 27-inch QD-OLED monitor, the Alienware AW2726DM. This, too, is a budget offering, albeit in the loftier context of OLED gaming monitors. Yours for $349.99…
If there’s a-love-it-or-hate-it aesthetic for PC components, I’d say it’s probably Noctua’s traditionally beige fans. The company also makes black versions, but they often arrive far later than their pale brown counterparts. There are a lot of very good reasons for that, apparently, and the company has released a breakdown explaining the delay. In essence,…
“We were completely enamoured by One More Win”. Veteran game developer and journalist Andy Roberts has just launched Rocket Books, a new independent UK publishing house specialising in video game-related publications – and the company’s first release will be of particular interest to Ridge Racer fans. It’s reprinting the utterly superb One More Win (which…
“You cheated not only the game, but yourself”. Super Smash Bros. just got a native PC port, but the news hasn’t gone over all that well with many members of the retro community, thanks to the tools used to achieve it. TheWizWiki has been very open and transparent that the port is “100% Al-generated” and…
Canonical, the company behind the most popular Linux distro, says its web infrastructure is currently under a “sustained, cross-border attack.” Affected sites and services seem to run across the entire Ubuntu gamut, from its website to its blog and even potentially its repos. According to what user reports I could gleam from online forums—given official…