“It’s bitterly disappointing to know they’re making a profit from other people’s work”. We’ve been following Obsolete Sony on social media for a while now, and with good reason; the account aims to celebrate the Japanese company’s utterly remarkable impact on the world of consumer tech, from the Walkman to PlayStation and beyond. It’s a…
Choose your fighter(s)! Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment launches on 6th November, and Nintendo and Koei Tecmo have been busy drip-feeding thirsty hack-and-slash fans tidbits of information about the follow-up to 2020’s excellent Age of Calamity. We’ve put together the following guide to all playable characters in Age of Imprisonment (that we know about thus…
Thanks to the memory demands of AI and key manufacturers reducing production, DDR4 RAM prices have been steadily rising over the past few months. However, this rapid rise has now turned into an overwhelming surge, and in the space of just one week, DDR4 modules have almost doubled in price. We were shocked to see…
It’s a beast. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is just around the corner, launching on the Switch 2 on 6th November 2025. It’s yet another arrow in the console’s quiver, but if you’re considering purchasing a digital copy next week, then you might want to take a look at how much storage you have remaining…
Alongside a trial version of Dodonpachi’s 2002 mobile port. We have some good news for Cave fans, to add to the exciting news from earlier this year that a version of the incredibly rare Dodonpachi DaiOuJou DX Reco.ver had been recovered and dumped online. Across social media, the feature phone preservationist RockmanCosmo is now stating…
Mushrooms are the coolest. Not quite flora, not quite fauna, they are a secret third thing—isn’t that neat? Many types of fungi have also been observed to form symbiotic relationships with the root systems of plants. Sometimes mutualistic, sometimes parasitic, this root-meets-fungus network is called ‘Mycorrhiza’—and a similar web of mycelium may one day come…
A star is born. The core gameplay conceit of the Katamari series — rolling up everything you see into a giant ball of wriggling debris, one object at a time — almost feels like it shouldn’t work. Yet Once Upon a Katamari manages to turn mess into something meditative, pulling you into a satisfyingly tactile…
When you think of video games as a tool to teach kids English, horror probably isn’t a genre that immediately springs to mind. You might think of something a bit more narrative-heavy, or perhaps any sort of puzzle game to drill in simple tasks. But no, a fifth grade English class in Niigata prefecture has…
MrTalida delivers a Halloween treat! The Keshigomu collector, MrTalida, has successfully preserved another set of Mario-themed toys, which are now available to download and print, decorate, or animate as you wish. This time around, however, the figures are anything but the run-of-the-mill depictions of the Super Mario Bros. cast, as sculpted by companies such as…
Microsoft has lost an awful lot of goodwill in recent times. Over the last two years, it has laid off over 10,000 workers, closed iconic studios like Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks, and raised the prices of Xbox Game Pass and its consoles multiple times. It seems that Microsoft, in light of this, has had…