Not much of a revival. The beat ‘em up genre has experienced something of a renaissance in the last generation, with original titles like Fight’n Rage (2019) and more recently Absolum (2025) finding new ways to move the genre forward, while releases such as Streets of Rage 4 (2020) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s…
New data centre projects in China must use homegrown AI hardware going forward. According to Reuters, new government guidance will soon be passed down, apparently requiring state-funded data centres to only use AI chips manufactured domestically within China. Though data centre projects have drawn $100 billion in state funding since 2021, it is not yet…
For 60 years, Gordon Moore’s observation that transistor counts in integrated circuits would double roughly every two years has been spookily accurate. Ever-smaller transistors and ever-larger chips have made this possible, but with the physical limits of both impacting the growth of computing, new methods are required to continue the growth. One semiconductor research team…
Late in September, EA committed to two months of maintenance for The Sims 4, as its community reported a growing number of bugs afflicting the 12-year-old life sim. The publisher wants the ageing sequel to continue as the primary platform for virtual soap operas for the foreseeable future, rather than replace it and its many…
If Bethesda has a singular passion, it’s releasing updates that break your mods. Last year, the studio released a “next-gen” update for Fallout 4 that sent reams of mods to the phantom zone, and that sent a brand-new mod—one that simply rolled back Bethesda’s update—rocketing to the top of the charts. Now, Bethesda would like…
“A premium collectible for retro gamers”. AYANEO’s work rate is truly remarkable – it seems that not a week goes by without the company announcing something new. Hot on the heels of the revelation that AYANEO is producing its first smartphone, we have more information on its previously-teased vertical handheld, the Pocket VERT. Read the…
AMD has just posted its latest financial results and the message is clear: Things are good. Things are very good. Indeed, CEO Lisa Su summed it all up succinctly: “We delivered an outstanding quarter with record revenue and profitability.” Overall revenue was up 36% to $9.2 billion, while profits grew by 31% to $2.2 billion….
Final Fantasy 14‘s G’raha Tia is the sexiest man. Also, in unrelated news, his English voice actor Jonathan Bailey has been named the sexiest man alive by People Magazine. You might be shocked as I was (appalled as I was, mortified as I was) to discover that People Magazine, a publication for normal, well-adjusted readers,…
While this isn’t exactly PC gaming news, Apple recently launched a new interface for its app store when viewed in a browser. Specifically, it makes the whole shebang work just like the Apps… err… app. Still, while it looks and works as intended, Apple’s web developers forgot to do something important before making it live:…
In early 2024, Turtle Beach bought gamepad and peripherals company PDP for $118 million. Just before that happened, PDP released the Victrix Pro BFG. It was a pro gamepad with some neat customization features: The left stick and the D-Pad, and the right stick and the face buttons, both lived on modules which could be…