Marvel Tōkon’s first big PC patch has mostly fixed performance woes, though it hasn’t done much for its Steam reviews

Marvel Tōkon—the all-out 4v4 tag fighter from 2D fighting game veteran ArcSystem Works—didn’t get off on the best foot with PC players. Forced PSN logins and frame drops that were leading to a whopping eight frames of rollback in online modes saw the game launch to “Mixed” reviews, before eventually tanking to “Mostly Negative” over…

Read More

Micron’s top brass wins the memory crisis corpo double speak award: ‘We do not have line of sight as to when that supply vector will intersect the demand vector’

A slight bastion of hope for those affected by the memory crisis (ie, anyone who wants to buy new electronics in the next few years) is the planned arrival of new fabrication facilities, pumping out vast amounts of wafers that will be turned into memory modules. According to Micron, though, we shouldn’t hold our breath….

Read More

Asus ROG Swift PG32UCWM review

Every time a new OLED gaming monitor comes out of late, it seemingly poses pretty much the same question. Is this the one, is this the model that effectively “completes” the task of gaming monitors, that represents 2D panel technology perfected? Give it up, therefore, for the latest candidate, the Asus ROG Swift PG32UCWM, a…

Read More

After giving it 2 patches and dropping it like a stone, Bethesda promises to bring Switch 2 optimisations to Oblivion Remastered on other platforms

Oblivion Remastered has led a rather odd post-release life. The closest we’ve got to a new Elder Scrolls since 2011 released in April last year, received a fair amount of acclaim, then essentially went silent. It twitched into activity a couple of times in the months following its release for patches 1.1 and 1.2, but…

Read More

Lego shut down a Bionicle fangame 8 years in the making—1 year later, its developers are back with something legally distinct and arguably cooler

It’s always heartbreaking when fan projects get axed—but one sorrow from last year was Bionicle: Masks of Power, which was shut down by Lego after it had peacefully co-existed with it for eight whole years. The project, a fully-fledged third-person action game by Team Kanohi, had attempted to thread the needle by playing nice with…

Read More

Harry Potter nerds have forced an undersea cable to be moved to avoid Dobby the house elf’s grave, now runs close to Bronze Age remains instead

An undersea power cable linking the UK National Grid to Ireland has been forced to relocate, after Harry Potter fans complained it would go through Dobby’s grave. You know, Dobby the house elf. The fictional character created by J.K. Rowling. Fans became aware of the desecration of Dobby’s memorial after a BBC interview with project…

Read More