I’m Fraser, and I’m a whale. Yesterday saw my current go-to MMO, Star Trek Online, launch a limited loot box for Star Trek’s 60th anniversary, featuring an impressive roster of ships and, for the grand prize, the new Constitution Pilot Multi-Mission Cruiser—the version of the Enterprise seen in Strange New Worlds. I’m too embarrassed to…
Could it join Zero Wing on SNK’s system? The Tokyo Game Show gave us the very welcome news that Toaplan’s Zero Wing is being ported to the Neo Geo, and this has clearly inspired some people to consider other potential conversation candidates. One of these is Earthion, a game made with the Mega Drive hardware…
AMD has filed its latest driver patches for Linux and included within those are the first indication of support for GDDR7. As spotted by Phoronix, the AMDGPU patch specifically adds the identifier “GDDR7” to the driver. It’s only a small change—a single line in a pile of code for the company’s open source GPU driver—yet…
Boo hoo. The Pokémon Trading Card Game 30th Anniversary expansion launched last week on 16th September, and the release was expectedly messy. Launch day saw lengthy queues outside stores in the early hours of the morning, cancelled and delayed pre-orders, and, most infuriating of all, select individuals sitting on huge hoards of stock, preventing anyone…
I wouldn’t take the overtime. The fact that Bryan was forced down this spiral of blood, guts, and tears just because he thought he could make a bit more cash is simultaneously the most realistic and tragic aspect of the new Resident Evil movie. And honestly, I get it. Who doesn’t need a bit of…
“The classic masterpiece Xevious reborn in polygons!”. Over 30 years after its original release in the arcades, Hamster is bringing Xevious 3D/G, Namco’s divisive 3D revival of its 1983 shoot ’em up classic Xevious, to modern consoles this week, as part of Arcade Archives 2. Developed for Namco’s System 11 arcade board, Xevious 3D/G featured…
Not that things are great for anybody at the moment, but I’m not entirely sure how anyone in the videogame industry keeps their head together—Josh Daniels, one of the latest victims in Xbox’s brutal series of resets, has been promoted and then laid off in the same week. For some context, this forms part of…
You’d think the most exciting thing to happen in Counter-Strike 2 today would be its new Rush Hour update, complete with a new “fast-paced” mode, or perhaps the fact that you can now silent reload. But you would be wrong, because Rush Hour has been overshadowed by pet chickens. Chickens aren’t new to CS2, they’ve…
I have made the choice to min-max in WoW: Forever, something which I am starting to regret, because oh no, my hubris. See, Blizzard will be raising the level cap sometime soon to 30, and I decided I’d complete a bunch of quests, but not turn them in. But I’d forgotten that a lot of…
We’re currently polling for the worst graphical effect in games, starting with a fight between depth of field and vignette. I’m already seeing a lot of passionate comments on our post, including from one user who said of the results: “This is crazytown”. Love that. Keep that vibe going throughout our knockout tourny. If you…