Last week, Google announced (via HKEPC) that it managed to fully map the brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly into 3D neural shapes. As you might expect, it took approximately three seconds flat for software engineers to try and get it to play Doom. Google reports that scientists and researchers…
Partners in crime. The rumours all pointed towards a February Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, and now we are mere moments away from it getting underway — who would have thought it! Yes, Nintendo is continuing its hot streak of Direct presentations today, with a 30-minute showcase dedicated to the third-party releases we can expect to…
Randy Smith Evergreen knows his immersive sims. As a designer on Thief: The Dark Project, he was there in the early days of the genre, and his credits include System Shock 2 and Dark Messiah: Might and Magic, as well as Thief 2 and Thief: Deadly Shadows. And he’s pretty sure the genre is a…
Farm simmers already know what day it is: It’s Fields of Mistria 1.0 day. The magical girl-inspired, ’90s anime flashback farm sim has been in early access for two years (to the day) and has just launched its full release version with the conclusion of its main story and, way more importantly, matrimony. To the…
Last month I declared that Cyberpunk 2077’s “Update 2.0” looks so big that you should probably just start a new game to experience it. Allow me to put my money where my mouth is: I spun up a new save with the upcoming 2.0 update installed (but not the Phantom Liberty expansion). What will Cyberpunk…
When old becomes new. With Switch 2 being an evolution of Switch 1, Nintendo is making the transition between consoles as easy as possible. This means that backwards compatibility is a thing, with most of your existing games fully playable on the new console (with some notable exceptions, mind you). So, how do you transfer…
Videogame movies have never really gone away, but it certainly feels like they’ve had a bit of a renaissance in the 2020s. They’re less crap, for starters (at least most of them are, anyway), and generally feel a little more catered to the nerd crowd who love the source material in the first place. It’s…
Graceful ascent. The latest UK boxed charts data is in, and it’s a fairly quiet week with no major new entries for the Switch 1 & 2. PS5 and PC got Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, which debuts at number 6, while Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation launched on PS5, PC, and Xbox, landing at number…
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…
Nine months after Krafton gutted the leadership of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds, leading to an acrimonious legal dispute, a judge has ordered that former CEO Ted Gill be reinstated, and that control over the game’s early access release schedule be returned to him. The judge also extended the $250 million earnout period that was…