The Covid pandemic was a stark reminder as to just how fragile the global supply chain is, and now we have a new one to worry over. Two weeks after China applied an export restriction to the US on any metals critical to the semiconductor industry, prices for the likes of gallium have shot up…
Category: Games December 17, 2024 Philosophy and Duality: Examining the Inspirations Behind the Upcoming Action RPG, Empyreal Joseph Rogers, Co-Founder & Creative Director at Silent Games We recently announced our debut game, Empyreal, coming to Xbox Series X|S in 2025, and we would like to tell you a little more about the game’s setting and…
DLC characters in Tekken 8 have been a hot debate for most players each time an announcement is on the horizon. There have been a lot of mixed messages regarding the first season of DLC fighters since Harada swore that Heihachi was dead before he was resurrected in the first wave, and his tweet stating…
Final Fantasy 14 is no stranger to crossovers. It’s gone all multiverse with Dragon Quest, Yo-kai Watch, GARO, Monster Hunter, Fall Guys, and (naturally) other Final Fantasy games. I think my favourite of the lot are the Nier: Automata raids from Shadowbringers, if only because there’s a scene where a swarm of androids dive-bomb some…
Now including Mythical Island. One of the most complicated parts of a new card game, digital or otherwise, is knowing which cards to pursue en route to building a competitive deck. For Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, what decks you should run highly depends on which cards you’ve pulled as there are so many. To…
Even though the Caffeine hasn’t kicked in yet and I’m still half asleep, I thought I’d give quick a shout out to Kim Fastrup Larsen’s new remake update of ‘Labyrinth’ for the Commodore Amiga. A game in which the developer says “is a remake of a Commodore 64 game published by Commodore in 1983 (not to…
“We were really proud of how much we pushed the hardware, but it really didn’t sell that well”. When Dragon’s Lair was originally released in the arcades back in 1983, it was one of the most visually impressive and technologically advanced titles available. Utilizing the latest in LaserDisc technology, the game was capable of streaming…
On the Vita’s 13th anniversary, no less. Publisher Bandai Namco has released the opening cinematic for the upcoming Freedom Wars Remastered on Switch. Launching on 10th January 2025, the game is a revamped version of the 2014 original on the PS Vita. In what is either a remarkable coincidence or a calculated effort, the reveal…
Marvel Rivals is off to a solid start, considering how many live service shooters have failed to hit the mark this year—and it’s aimed to keep that momentum with its first seasonal event starting December 20, dubbed the “Marvel Rivals Winter Celebration”, for which Netease released a trailer earlier today and, hold on, wait a…
Reapplying a fresh layer of thermal paste to a graphics card’s GPU is quite easy but dealing with its thermal pads is another matter altogether. Thermal Grizzly reckons it has the perfect solution, in the form of a thick putty that you can slap onto the VRAM and VRM chips, instead of worrying about what…