In Mouseburg, every mouse has something to hide. With Mouse: P.I. for Hire, I’ve got very little to complain about, so for the sake of balance, first I’ll gently shine a light on its near-absurd mishmash of influences. The striking rubber-hose animation USP hails from the 1920s. The 11-hour story, with its tough, unsentimental protagonist,…
The Steam Controller is the first of three new bits of hardware from Valve this year. It’s designed to let you take control of your PC from the comfort of your couch and without a mouse, which is sure to appeal to a certain type of gamer. The second-generation Steam Controller includes everything one might…
I’ve been using the new Steam Controller for a couple of weeks now and over that time I’ve taken it apart a total of three times. Each time, piece by piece, back to an empty shell. That might sound like a waste of time, but disassembling the Steam Controller only takes around 15 minutes once…
One thing you get from Supermassive Games that you just can’t get from other horror games is a cinematic experience. I like to joke that the premise of these games is simply: ‘What would you do if you were in a horror movie’, and Directive 8020 stays along those lines as it dumps players in…
In light of there currently being a medieval game sale on Steam I decided to check out Sovereign Tower’s demo. It’s a tactical point-and-click game where you run a kingdom while trying to balance the somewhat fragile egos of the knights and nobles that surround you. I’d heard many a great thing about it from…
Most Large Language Models (LLMs) can be simply understood as ‘yes, and’ machines—an example of machine learning that is only ever attempting to predict the word most likely to come next, rather than possessing anything like factual knowledge or an understanding of context. It’s perhaps no surprise then that a recent study suggests some frontier…
One of my most universally derided hot takes is that Mass Effect Andromeda was great, actually. A lot of the criticisms levelled against it at the time were valid, and it definitely shouldn’t have launched in the buggy state it did. But Andromeda’s one of those games where you could almost feel the backlash before…
Windows Update is both a blessing and a curse. Sure, each fix it installs might end up solving whatever issue you might be having with your Windows 11 machine, but the tool itself has been known to be downright obtrusive at times. This is why Microsoft has been busy rolling out some changes, starting with…
With the release of Arc Raiders update 1.26 on April 28, PS5 Pro players will now be able to benefit from the new upgraded version of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR). This machine-learning based upscaling technology analyzes game images pixel by pixel to reconstruct a sharper, higher-quality output. A sharper, more stable image The upgraded…
After plenty of teasers for the new map, Embark has officially revealed Arc Raiders‘ Riven Tides, the single-biggest update yet. It goes without saying that the most exciting addition to the game is the new map of the same name, the first to be added since Stella Montis arrived with the North Line update back…