And it only took 37 years! I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – despite the passage of time and arrival of superior hardware, the original DMG-01 Game Boy is one of my favourite handhelds, and I still keep mine to hand whenever I fancy a quick game of Tetris or Super Mario…
With AI data centers swallowing up every bit of memory storage around, it should come as no surprise that some creative engineers might be looking at alternatives. Most aren’t going to be considering solutions from the 1950/1960s, of course, but that’s precisely what one self-professed tinkerer did to create the “world’s worst USB device”. Tech…
“Players can finally walk through the places the 1994 version could only imply”. Here’s something that slipped through the cracks that people have literally been begging us to cover over the last few weeks. It appears the third game in Access Software’s Tex Murphy series, the 1994 FMV adventure game Under A Killing Moon, is…
The Entertainment Software Association, in an ongoing attempt to slow the roll of the games conservation movement Stop Killing Games, made a baffling statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over a proposed Protect Our Games Act that goes as follows: “[Private servers are] illegal. They are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft….
I’m told that the youths of today find using animated gif reactions ‘cringe’. As a millennial who misspent her youth on Tumblr, reacting to good game news with a gif of The Arm from Twin Peaks rubbing his hands together has become an unfortunate part of my idiolect. Before I break out the folder of…
It is time to do war crimes in a cool way. Battlefield 6, EA’s big loud military-themed shooter that earned a coveted 82% from PC Gamer FPS czar Morgan Park, is free-to-try for a week. The trial period runs from yesterday, June 30, up until July 6. The trial gives you access to five modes…
You threw off my groove. The final first-party Switch 1 game (as announced at the time of writing) is almost here, with Rhythm Heaven Groove set to launch tomorrow on 2nd July. This one has felt like a long time coming, with the series being notably absent for almost the entirety of the Switch generation,…
Category: Games July 1, 2026 DOOM: The Dark Ages Goes Supersonic With New DLC Chain Spear Will Fulton, XBOX Wire Editor Summary Revelations is the first major DLC for DOOM: The Dark Ages, adding 10-12 hours of demon slaying, including a story campaign, arenas, and new content for the Ripatorium. The expansion’s centerpiece is the…
The lesser of two evils. Sony has announced that it is completely ditching physical media for the PS5 – and presumably PS6 – from January 2028. As a response to “shifting trends”, this move applies to all new games released for the PS5, with digital-only options available via the PlayStation Store and retailers. GTA 6…
Once nothing more than a basic text editor, Windows Notepad has been expanded in recent years to become almost a fully-fledged word processor. For some people, the little tool has become synonymous with Microsoft’s penchant for bloat and unnecessary changes, so one former Redmond coder decided to do something about it. The person in question…