Battlefield 6 seems set up to finally eat Call of Duty’s lunch this year, after an inconsistent decade or so for the franchise. This is because of a sequence of smart moves around optimisation and a pretty hectic beta. Turns out, in an attempt to ensure better performance, the team have opted to entirely skip…
“Enhances detail and clarity”. Analogue has released 3DOS v1.5.0 for its FPGA-based N64 system, the Analogue 3D. The headline news about this update is the introduction of “Internal Graphical Upscaling” which, according to Analogue, “enhances detail and clarity while remaining faithful to the original hardware rendering process.” Read the full article on timeextension.com “Enhances detail…
“I don’t know how to play any of these space alien games”. On a recent episode of Night Dive’s Deep Dive podcast, John Romero stopped by to talk about a range of interesting topics related to his 40-year career in games, but there was one story in particular that stood out to us the most….
National Trust used Double Team! The Pokémon Company has teamed up with just about every brand going at this point, and today, it has announced another partnership for some sweet outdoor activities this summer. It’s the National Trust stepping into the limelight this time, with a new collaboration all about the Pokémon Trading Card Game…
A new report claims that Intel is pushing its client PC customers to buy its latest CPUs built on 18A silicon. It’s said the older Intel 7 node is increasingly being reserved for more profitable server chips and even Intel CPUs made in TSMC’s fabs will be in short supply. Nikkei Asia says Intel’s move…
At this point, it’s probably safe to assume that anything memory-adjacent is going to be a victim of RAM shortage-induced price hikes. But just in case there are some folks out there still hoping all this will soon blow over, and if the point needs driving home, consider the fact that even Raspberry Pi is…
The price of Intel CPUs may be about to increase by a further 10%. Processors, as with almost all things hardware, have been steadily climbing in price since the end of 2025. This latest price increase for Intel CPUs looks set to take effect from October 5, this year. A number of lower-core product lines…
Bungie’s new leadership duo laid out the “next chapter of Bungie” today in a blog post with an accompanying video. The big news is that Bungie has essentially uncanceled Destiny 2, or will at least go the lengths to finally undo its greatest mistake: vaulting a bunch of raids and multiple of its story campaigns….
Death Stranding 2 is now available to preload on Steam, but someone got more than a bundle of encrypted files early Tuesday—a pre-release version of Kojima Productions’ delivery sim has leaked, and is now making the rounds on piracy websites two days before release. According to a piracy-focused subreddit, the leak came via Steam, where…
Original story: It’s the day before Christmas and all through the house, nobody is using Steam, not even a mouse—because, you guessed it, Steam is down. It’s unclear what’s going on, but at a little before 2 pm ET on a Wednesday, we’re guessing this not routine maintenance. Steam appears to be completely gone: The…