Taking things to the Next level. Sir Clive Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum is one of the most talked-about and influential home computers the world has ever seen, despite its commercial reach being mostly limited to the United Kingdom. With around five million units sold during its lifetime – and playing host to almost 2,000 games –…
After several years of uncertainty, job cuts, issues with self-destroying CPUs, and spending billions of dollars on its foundries, Intel has made big strides in moving into a better place. Thanks largely to its latest products and deals with other tech and AI giants. Investors certainly seem to think so, because its market cap is…
The spark that lights the fire. When Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero launched last year on non-Nintendo platforms. I was taken aback at how much time had passed since the last entry in this series. I was a teenager still in school! With the launch of Nintendo Switch 2, a flurry of ports are coming to…
A common lament among cozy game players is that some games commonly considered “cozy” are more stressful than they let on—lookin’ at you Stardew Valley optimizers. But managing your daily energy and getting to bed before 2am has nothing on the overwhelm of looking at a screen filled with thousands of almost identical clovers to…
“decades of prior art” may give developers the upper hand. Nintendo’s recent legal activity has caused quite the commotion online. One patent application relating to the summoning of a so-called ‘sub character’ has proven particularly controversial following its swift approval, with the broad nature of its contents having potentially wide ramifications on the games industry….
Last month at The Game Awards we finally got our first look at Sean Murray’s followup to No Man’s Sky—and it’s a huge one. In its next game, Light No Fire, Hello Games is trading infinite procedural planets for a single world, but that one open world is going to be the size of an…
If you want to do a spot of homebrewed AI on your PC, be it just some generative image making for fun or more serious data research, then you’ve only got two options to do this: use a neural processor built into a CPU or use a graphics card. However, if AMD’s early investigations bear…
Just as Star Wars Zero Company was set to launch earlier this year, developer Bit Reactor furloughed over 80% of its staff over sales uncertainty. In other words, much of its staff were receiving no pay, despite technically being employees, right when players were getting their hands on the game. Earlier this week on Bluesky,…
It’s been five years since the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake first leaked out of the Russian Uplay store, and while plenty has happened since then, one thing that definitely has not happened is the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. It’s basically Skull and Bones redux: Repeated delays, a…
In Marvel’s Spider-Man, launching exclusively on PS4 tomorrow, fans will experience an action-packed narrative that lives up to the legacy of the character’s rich history while traversing an expansive open-world Marvel’s New York using a suite of tightly tuned gameplay mechanics. And, of course, a stunning graphical presentation crafted by the maestros at Insomniac Games….