Ten years later the fantastic job that Crystal Dynamics’ did with its 2013 Tomb Raider reboot has become even more apparent to me. The mature, 18-rated game took the campy, bright and cartoonish Lara Croft of earlier games and, instead, delivered a dark, hyper violent and at times gripping coming of age origin story with…
Look, we’ve all been dunking on the whole ‘metaverse’ concept for a while now. As Phil Iwaniuk wrote for us back in February of last year, anyone who has played video games knows that the metaverse’s promised digital wonderland has existed since the days of the CRT monitor. Second Life, Everquest, World of Warcraft. Heck:…
Meet the only curved display with G-Sync support Curved monitors aren’t new. Monitor’s supporting Nvidia’s G-Sync technology aren’t new, either. But what is new and so far exclusive to Acer is a curved monitor with G-Sync baked in, the XR341CKA. We have to deduct 250 geek points from Acer for not coming up with a…
Everyone knows the story of Tetris… most everybody. Tetris is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer. It has been published by several companies for multiple platforms, most prominently during a dispute over the appropriation of the rights in the late 1980s. After a significant period of publication…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview releasing to the Alpha ring today. It’s important we note that some updates made to these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We will continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes…
CD Projekt is a game industry powerhouse. After 10 years we still can’t get enough of The Witcher 3, which reached 50 million copies sold in 2023 and it has the world on tenterhooks in anticipation for The Witcher 4. Getting to this point has not been entirely smooth sailing, to say nothing of Cyberpunk…
The latest discourse circulating around the internet has been surprisingly divisive, because no, 100 men couldn’t beat a gorilla in a fight, at least not without tools and coordination. But for those who aren’t convinced, Overwatch 2 has decided to test the query out by pitting 100 Soldier 76s against one Winston—oh, you thought there’d…
Mario Movie and other projects lend a hand. Nintendo has today published its financial report for Q2 FY2024 and it looks like things have been going really rather well. On top of some meaty sales figures for the likes of Tears of the Kingdom, Pikmin 4 and the Switch console itself, the report finds that…
Known Nintendo insider and blogger Emily Rogers has stated on the Reset Era forums that she’s aware Nintendo has two unannounced Wii U ports in development for the Nintendo Switch. You can guess which they are. She also says in the same thread that Nintendo will be focussing on Animal Crossing: New Horizons this first…
A 35-page appetiser. Nintendo has released a 35-page digital sample for its upcoming Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective book ahead of its official release on 28th October 2025. The sample shows off some gorgeous concept art from the original Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. We get a glimpse…