Readers of a certain vintage, the sort that are covered in dust and need to be rotated every month to prevent sediment buildup, will remember 4:3 screens. They were the sort of thing that came with your 80286 DOS machine in the form of a 14-inch CRT monitor that had the outward curve of a…
Nintendo has released an overview trailer for Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, as well as a developer interview with Velan Studios. Velan Studios had co-developed the game with Nintendo. Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit launches on the Nintendo Switch in about two weeks. Nintendo of America tweeted out both videos, so check them out down…
Corsair has just announced a new DDR5 memory design that has me wishing we were still living with 2024 prices. It’s called Shugo, and is unfortunately only a limited edition, created “for builders who see the machine as both a performance PC and a personal design statement.” It’s also, erm, $600 (£579) for a 32…
Samsung has divulged some updates on its next generation memory products—including GDDR7 memory—at its annual Memory Tech Day in San Jose. Alongside GDDR7, Samsung announced its Shinebolt HBM3E memory, which is being developed for upcoming AI and compute GPUs. GDDR7 memory has been in development for some time. It’s set to appear in next generation…
You guys. What a show. I’m at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Las Vegas this weekend, where Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida took the stage moments ago to deliver the event’s keynote address and share some amazing news: details on the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Stormblood, due out in early summer 2017!…
As well as modding support for a bunch of games. We have some good news for any Command & Conquer fans that may be reading. Yesterday, in a rare act of generosity, EA announced that it had recovered and published the source code for a bunch of games in the classic real-time strategy series under…
More rabbit than Sainsbury′s. We always find it a bit trite to start a review with comparisons, but humour us. Rusty Rabbit is a bit like SteamWorld Dig 2 mixed with Sylvanian Families. Or, it’s somewhere between Drill Dozer and Star Fox. Umm, Dig Dug mixed with Conker’s Bad Fur Day? We might be losing…
“The fish starts rotting from the head”. ZA/UM, the developer behind the sublime CRPG Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, is reportingly planning to lay off 24 workers after cancelling its next major project, codenamed ‘X7’. This comes via Sports Illustrated’s GLHF, which reports that the 24 workers currently at risk make up roughly a quarter…
Baby Steps was first revealed to the world in June 2023, and upon first viewing it, I didn’t know what to think. Surprises are few and far between when you have been gaming for over 30 years, but the reveal trailer left me with perplexing emotions. I was in a mental tug-of-war between, ‘I’ve never…
In the world of tech, if there’s no competition in a particular sector, you can pretty much charge whatever you like for your product. Which is why AMD has set the official price tag for its new Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor, with 192 MB of L3 cache, at a seemingly outrageous $899. The…