Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
Today’s mice have little eyeballs that stare unblinkingly at the textures of our grubby mousepads—a tragic life—but the first computer mice were delightfully simple mechanical contraptions. A little ball stuck out from a cage on the underside, and when you rolled it around, it spun two wheels, one to register forward and backward movement and…
“Sega is an amazing company for allowing that”. Gunstar Heroes, Treasure’s first release on the Mega Drive, is a wild, chaotic two-player run-and-gun game that stands out as one of the best action games of the era. It is also, according to Masato Maegawa, Treasure’s representative masterpiece and the game that put the company on…
Testing ground for VR Valve is getting ready to unveil a new virtual reality testing ground that will be familiar to anyone who’s played Portal or Portal 2. It’s called “The Lab” and it’s set in a pocket universe of Aperture Science, the scientific research corporation that appeared in both Portal titles. The Lab will…
Zhanjiang Xinjuneng Technology, a firm specialising in high-performance mobile workstations, has decided that you can fit anything in a laptop if you put your mind to it. Cue the Yunguai REV-9, sporting a 64 core AMD EPYC server CPU, a GeForce RTX 4080, a 17.5 inch 2K screen, and a custom liquid cooling system. You’ll…
By the developers of last year’s incredible Lemmings port. The developers behind last year’s incredible fan ports of Lemmings and Empire Strikes Back to the Commodore Plus/4 have reunited to bring Sega’s arcade classic Turbo Outrun to the old home computer (as spotted by Commodore Blog & IndieRetroNews!). Originally released back in 1989, Turbo Outrun…
Complete with a replica ship. Superdeluxe Games has revealed it is producing a special ‘Collector’s Box’ edition of Radiant Silvergun for the Switch. This special edition will come with a metal replica of the Silvergun craft, as well as a selection of other limited edition goodies. Read the full article on timeextension.com Complete with a…
Variety reports that Amazon is developing a Wolfenstein TV series with Patrick Somerville, who made post-apocalyptic miniseries Station Eleven and wrote some of HBO’s The Leftovers (a show with a genuinely good twist), and Kilter Films, the production company behind Amazon’s Fallout TV show. Variety says that the show’s being pitched with the one-sentence description:…
When you buy a copy of the upcoming Nintendo Switch title Pikmin 3 Deluxe from the Nintendo UK Store, you’ll get a couple of free pre-order bonuses. Nintendo are offering consumers a Pikmin branded coffee to go cup and a microfibre cloth. The game is up for pre-order right now on the Nintendo UK Store…
This article was originally published in 2019. It has been edited and updated with new material. The first game I ever bought from in early access on Steam was a survival sandbox called Under the Ocean. I paid $7 for it in June 2013, and I played it, enjoyed it, and tried out new alphas…