The end of the world is nearly upon us. Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture now has a release date of August 11th and the team is working exceptionally hard on the final few touches to ensure that the game is as perfect as it can be. As you read this I’m in L.A. with our…
Where has the year gone? Seems like just yesterday the hardware team was all hands on deck for a fresh wave of Nvidia graphics cards that was not exactly the smoothest of sailing. Now we’re already staring down this year’s Computex, set to run between May 20 and 23 in Taipei, Taiwan, potentially setting the…
Get ready for some Commerce Conflict. Back in the early ’90s, when I would have been around 12 or 13, I recall my older sister taking me to a somewhat dubious house in a rather run-down part of a local city. I can’t even recall why we were there, but one of the occupants fascinated…
Every game we scored 9/10 or higher, plus a personal pick. If it feels like a mere matter of days since Nintendo wrapped up its last massive eShop sale, that’s because it is. But an insignificant little detail like time isn’t going to get in the way of a good bargain, and Nintendo is here…
AMD is rumoured to be in talks with Samsung with a view to producing chips on a new 2 nm silicon production node. A new report from SEDaily claims, “the two companies plan to finalize the contract around January of next year after evaluating whether the process can actually achieve the performance level AMD demands.”…
Before a career second act at Nightdive Studios, the recently-retired Larry Kuperman‘s big project was Impulse. It was to be GameStop’s answer to Steam, but it went the way of the dodo in 2014. Kuperman went into his personal history building up Impulse’s catalogue when we spoke at this year’s Game Developers Conference. Kuperman came…
In 2010, at the launch of Star Trek Online, the spacefaring MMO opened on the Klingon War. In typical fashion, the Federation was desperately trying to sue for peace, while a klingon ambassador was doing everything he could to thwart it. STO has always been a massive theme park full of nods to the classic…
Steam is flooded with all manner of weird and wonderful city-builders these days. Yet few of these newer games have laid their foundations in the true heartland of the genre. If you want to build a vast, modern cityscape with intensely simulated traffic and three types of zoning, you’re pretty much stuck with Cities: Skylines…
Does it ever feel like videogames just have you completing random tasks? In Task Time, that’s the whole point. From developer ReadGraves, whose staff includes Fall Guys and Gang Beasts developers, comes a party game that promises more than 500,000 task variations for you and your friends to do. Revealed today for the first time…