If you’re old enough to remember the NES launch in America, you’re likely old enough to remember residual hand wringing in Washington, D.C. about the so-called Cold War “missile gap.” In the 1950s and ’60s, that doctrine stated that the Soviet Union had a numeric advantage over the U.S. in terms of intercontinental missiles capable…
Set to touch down on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on Thursday, July 9, Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok is a massive new expansion built to significantly evolve the high-flying action RPG that first captivated players in 2024. At a recent press event, we had the chance to experience the new additions coming to…
WHOOOOAH! Since the announcement of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake for Switch 2, the desire to go back and experience the original in preparation has proven overwhelming for some of us. It didn’t take long until I booted the NSO version up again, N64 pad grasped in my mitts, ready to step…
Rpgmakerweb.com is closed to posts from today. Gotcha Gotcha Games has announced that RPG Maker’s official forums are closing this December, taking with them 14 years of community-made guides and resources (thanks, Dexerto). The company is replacing rpgmakerweb.com with RPG MAKER GUILD, a new official RPG Maker forum which it will operate directly. The objective…
Occasionally in hardware and technology reporting, I’m left to wonder if everyone else is in on a joke I’m not privy to. Today is one of those days. Snap, the company behind the instant messaging app Snapchat, has just unveiled its own augmented reality glasses. Called Specs, the frames are pitched partially as an alternative…
Valve’s Steam Hardware survey is no stranger to data anomalies. And yet it remains an undeniable source of interest and intrigue if you’re into PC hardware. So, here’s the latest twist. AMD’s Radeon 9070 XT is subject to an implausibly big upgrade in terms of its user numbers in the latest survey for May, suggesting…
Courtesy of the RAMpocalypse, companies are raising prices for their memory-loaded products left, right, and centre. Apple products, however, had previously remained mostly (though not completely) untouched. No longer, though, as the company CEO Tim Cook tells the Wall Street Journal. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable. We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases…
Adorbz. Nintendo has expanded its ‘My Mario’ range in Japan with a selection of adorable apparel for youngsters (thanks, Go Nintendo). The new items include two dresses designed after Peach and Rosalina, a peach-coloured t-shirt featuring the princess herself, a blue t-shirt featuring Roslina, two additional t-shirts featuring Bowser and Bowser Jr. (the former of…
Final Fantasy 14 will give you a dog (among other rewards) for paying your taxes—if you’re in Japan, that is. There’s really nothing else I can say that isn’t funnier than the truth of the situation, though I’m not pointing and laughing at Square here. It’s a genuinely sweet incentive to have players contributing to…
The demo is available now! A new unofficial port of Sega’s revolutionary isometric shooter Zaxxon is scheduled to release for the Atari 2600 this October, and you can play it right now, thanks to a brand new demo available from the developer’s website. Zaxxon was released in arcades back in 1981, almost 45 years ago,…