Of all the various trinkets and doodads that find their way across my desk and into my loving arms, rarely is there one that tidies my workspace. But that’s what this Thermaltake pegboard does, and it does so in a rather simple but stylish way. Smart and sturdy: that’s how I’d describe this pegboard. But…
We chatted to ex-Bullfrog staff about the often-overlooked title. When Populous was first released in 1989 for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST, it became an almost overnight success for its creators: the Guildford-based company Bullfrog Productions. Generally considered to be the very first “god game”, the groundbreaking strategy game transported players to an isometric…
The game turns 25 in Europe. Donkey Kong 64 — not the most beloved of Rare’s titles, but probably the developer’s most ambitious 3D platformer — turns 25 here in Europe today, 6th December 2024. DK and friends have a lot to celebrate lately: the Donkey Kong Land trilogy on Game Boy has trickled onto…
Category: Games December 6, 2024 Season of Xbox: Celebrate with Limited Time Events, Game Pass Ultimate Perks, and More Meredith Ingersoll, Xbox Games Marketing The Season of Xbox is here to brighten your holidays! Embark on thrilling new journeys and adventures with our limited-time collection of special events, fresh content, and exciting game updates. Discover…
It wasn’t that long ago when new gaming PCs shipped with a 256 GB SSD as the main drive and a 2 TB HDD to store all your games on. Now you can easily replace both with a single big solid-state drive. And in the case of this Team Group MP44, with 4 TB of…
Being a CEO is a tough gig, there’s no doubt. The millstone of responsibility can weigh heavy around the neck, especially if you’re held accountable for the livelihoods of hundreds, thousands, even millions of employees—and that’s before I’ve even mentioned the term “shareholder value.” Still, the pay package must be nice. Anyway, according to Yahoo…
Stalker 2 really is a monumental achievement when you take into consideration, well, everything. Even though its devs just didn’t have another delay in them, our own Stalker 2 appreciator Joshua Wolens found its bugs a charming harkening to the original, rather than an insurmountable obstacle, in his Stalker 2 review. During a talk with…
AI is a genie that refuses to go back in the bottle—no matter how much I plead, “Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me!” Enter Google’s Genie 2, another generative model. However, rather than merely guessing which word might come next a la an LLM, or proffering a kind of…
“Video games are meant to be just one thing: fun. Fun for everyone.”. Today, 6th December 2024, marks the late Satoru Iwata’s 65th birthday. The legendary President of Nintendo, who held the position from May 2002 until his passing in July 2015, touched the hearts of many while he was the head of the company,…
When the cold, steely world of the far future has been plunged into perma-war, and hopes for humanity to return to some semblance of order and freedom have dwindled, who do we turn to in our darkest hour? Why, a squad of sassy, stylishly clad anime android girls obviously. With Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium, the…