SSD prices are not very stable right now. While not hit anywhere near as bad as memory, we’re seeing price increases on many SSDs on a pretty regular basis. So if the prices here don’t match up when you read this, that’s likely why. We recommend using a price checker tool, such as CamelCamelCamel, to…
Mario Kart! Welcome Tour! Split Fiction! After a pretty quiet couple of months as far as Switch releases are concerned, it will come as no surprise to hear that June is set to be a biggie. You see, a little console called the Switch 2 is arriving later this week (5th June, in case you…
I think most of us would agree that cheating is a scourge upon multiplayer gaming. Anyone who’s seen a blatant wallhacker or obviously-bot-assisted player rampaging their way across the map like Rambo after too much sugar would likely agree that something should be done. Well, Microsoft appears to be doing that something, as it’s laid…
About This Episode For most GenX’ers, board games were a big part of how we played together. In 1981, a new game came along where rolling the dice and moving your piece was secondary to your knowledge of trivia and pop culture. In this Backtrack, we’re going around the board collecting pie pieces as we…
There’s more hell to pay. Hades II has arrived on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles today, and while the game has been out on Switch 1 & 2 for almost seven months, that doesn’t mean we’re being left in the dust. Supergiant Games has released a brand new patch for the game which adds…
Battlefield 6 has a whopping 45 weapons to unlock across all its categories (including sidearms), so you’re spoilt for choice—plus, they can be used on any class in standard Open Weapons playlists. It’s a big improvement over the measly launch offerings of BF1, BF5, and BF2042, and it makes progression significantly more rewarding. With so…
In a January 24 interview with NPR’s All Things Considered, Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone discussed his debut game’s legacy nine years on, including his famous propensity for interrupting development on the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier to put out patches and new content for his 2016 farming RPG. “I do take in a lot of…
It’s a great feeling when you find a new nightly game—something you want to sit down and play for an hour or two every evening after a long day. A couple weeks ago I found my newest obsession: Balatro, a roguelike deckbuilder that uses poker rules (and then utterly shatters those rules). Since I found…
Close your eyes, take a deep breath and let yourself be carried away by the journey of Season, a third-person atmospheric adventure bicycle road trip game. The premise of Season is that you play a traveller recording the last moments of different cultures before they’re washed away. Through the eyes of a young woman from…
You’d be forgiven for thinking that 2024 was a year that Intel would prefer to just forget about. Raptor Lake chips self-destructing, Arrow Lake disappointing, and Pat Gelsinger getting the boot (sorry, retiring) were just some of the low points from last year. However, it wasn’t all gloom and doom as it turns out that…