When it comes to motherboards, it’s quite rare to see manufacturers try something unusual, and if you browse the market, you’ll be swamped by a sea of very familiar layouts and configurations. But for its newest Intel Z890 offering, Gigabyte has chosen to do things rather differently, and you can thank the serious overclocking crowd…
For a long time, setting up any fresh Windows device would incur the time sink of installing all of the latest updates. Windows 11 has garnered a number of these over the last few years, so there’s no choice but to go find something else to do for about 30 minutes (or more, depending on…
Treasure Lacker. The word on the street is that Nintendo has an Arwing in the hangar and it’s ready for takeoff. Of course, rumours are nothing more than, uhh, rumours, until the Big N confirms, but there’s something about the rumblings of a new Star Fox game that feels faintly plausible to me. Mainstream appeal…
Overwatch’s Antarctic Peninsula is back. No, stop booing, it’s been reworked. We have nothing to worry about now—I think. The rework has been in the oven for quite some time, with the map being removed from rotation back in Season 20, and now it’s back with some pretty substantial changes. “The Antarctica Peninsula has been…
If you’re an avid Hello Kitty Island Adventure player like me, the release of the City Town DLC is bound to cause some excitement. Not only will this expansion of Friendship Island add an entirely new setting for us to make our way around, but a new character will be joining the roster too: Usahana….
The Concrete Sutra #1 coming next year. Vadim “Yeo” Gilyazetdinov, the independent developer behind games like the River City Ransom/Street Gangs-inspired titles, The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa, and Fading Afternoon, has just announced his latest beat ’em up RPG. The new project, titled The Concrete Sutra #1 (h/t: Gematsu), is scheduled to arrive on PC…
Terahertz waves have been an exciting area of research in the past few years because they can be used to examine the internal structures of objects without the risks associated with X-rays. Now one research team has used the tiny waves to peer into the inner workings of transistors while they’re operating, and is exploring…
Find Your Words is a heartwarming adventure game that pushed me to discover new means of communication with my fellow campers, and it’s made me realise how much I’ve been taking standard dialogue for granted. When you’re clicking through screens and screens of dialogue and picking responses and options that are listed on the screen,…
Pilotwings 64 hits 100% milestone. A decompilation of the N64 launch title Pilotwings 64 has recently reached 100% matching code, with a static recompilation project also currently being in the works to bring it natively to PC. Pilotwings 64 is the sequel to the Super Nintendo flight simulator, Pilotwings, which had people compete in a…
A fresh report from Charlie Demerjian’s SemiAccurate pegged Nvidia to be negotiating to buy a “large PC oriented company”. Though the GPU company has since denied it in later reporting by Bloomberg. The paywalled report from SemiAccurate suggests that the purchase would “fundamentally change the computing landscape”. The report from the respected outlet was enough…