PC Gaming
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Compile Released: 1997 Format: Windows 95 (Image credit: Compile) I honestly can’t remember exactly when I first decided to give this colourful slice of simian silliness…
Remember the big 4K update for Fallout 4 that was announced in 2022 as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the original Fallout? The good news is that it’s still happening, but the bad news is that it’s not happening until sometime in 2024. The Fallout 4 “next-gen update” for PC, Xbox Series X-S,…
Last week Rockstar sent gamers absolutely feral when it dropped the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, albeit a little earlier than planned. It was 90 seconds chock-full of prime GTA vibes—we were given a great look at a modern-day Vice City, a whole host of real Florida Man behaviour, and a first peep…
Earlier this week, Hasbro announced that it would be laying off approximately 1,100 employees two weeks before Christmas, as per an internal memo. At the time, I pointed out that the memo announced “the majority of the notifications will happen over the next six months, with the balance occurring over the next year.” While it…
The Epic Games Store has kicked off its 2023 Holiday Sale, and once again the daily free games are back—17 of them in all, beginning today with Destiny 2: Legacy Collection, a bundle of the Witch Queen, Beyond Light, and Shadowkeep expansions for Destiny 2. Destiny 2 is free as a normal thing, by the…
We’ve joined forces up with Loupedeck and Streamlabs for a mighty streaming giveaway. We’ll be handing out a Loupedeck Live S customizable livestream controller and a full year’s Streamlabs Ultra subscription to one lucky winner. The Loupedeck Live S is what we often call a desktop thingumajig, or more accurately a swiss-army knife for shortcuts….
A whopping 19 years ago last week, Obsidian and LucasArts released Knights of the Old Republic 2—a rough, unfinished romp around the Star Wars galaxy. Despite being pushed out the door far too soon, the complex, philosophical yarn spun by Obsidian lifted it above the usual Star Wars fare, exploring the setting and the nebulous…
Ah, MultiVersus. By all accounts, it was a genuinely solid platform fighter with an all-star cast, torn away from us too soon. It was only an “open beta!” What do you mean there were seasons with battle passes? That’s normal for an open beta. To test battle passes you could buy with real money. This…
It’s sometimes hard to believe it’s been 10 years since we were born—alone, naked, with nothing but a rock for company— on a server whose hierarchies and power dynamics were a mystery to us until some player with a gun showed up and started ordering us about (that’s if they didn’t just shoot us first)….
Given that there’s only about two weeks of 2023 left, it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that Read Only Memories: Neurodiver has been pushed back into 2024, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little sad about it. The original Read Only Memories—which somehow turns nine years old next year, god help…