You could say it’s an Adept. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Alana reflects on playing Golden Sun in 2024, and how it allows players to figure things out for themselves rather than relying on tutorials. Warning —…
“With other first-party titles also under consideration”. Rumours have been circulating recently about Microsoft potentially bringing select games to competitor platforms and Xbox has now confirmed its business update will take place this Thursday. Along with this, a new report from The Verge now claims the first two “Xbox exclusives” appearing on “rival platforms” post-acquisition…
AMD and Nvidia’s GPUs are currently built on 4 nm-class silicon by TSMC. And they’re not exactly cheap. Meanwhile, TSMC has indicated that it would like to put the prices it charges to chip designers up. In that context, the prospect of IBM’s newly announced sub-1 nm silicon is both very exciting and totally terrifying….
Hey PlayStation Nation. We’d like to introduce you to the latest Hero joining our MOBA Paragon. We call this fighter Greystone. He’s a noble force who leads his team into battle. Get your first look at Greystone below. You’ll be able to play Greystone as part of our update on Tuesday, July 12. The TLDR…
The first half of 2024 ain’t looking bad. Nintendo has published its six-month financial report for FY2024 and, as per usual, has also reconfirmed release dates for its upcoming games. Now including the Mario vs. Donkey Kong remake, there are no big surprises in this list of “Primary Nintendo Products,” but Metroid Prime 4 fans…
Bloomberg reports that Compulsion Games isn’t the only Microsoft studio fighting to stay open during the great “Xbox reset” announced last week by new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and “several other studios” are at risk of closure, reports the publication, which cited undisclosed sources who are familiar with Microsoft’s plans. Double…
Battle Monsters secret debug mode has been discovered almost 30 years later. We must admit, Scarab’s fighting game Battle Monsters isn’t a title we have thought about much since we first heard about it back in the 90s. The Sega Saturn title, which was originally released in Japan in 1995, was reviewed quite poorly when…
It’s been a big day for new releases because Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 and DOOM Eternal have both launched today on the Nintendo Switch platform! Up to four players can play Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 and the file-size is 1.3GB. Here’s all the details along with the launch trailer. “Japan’s beloved puzzle game series Puyo…
Though I write a fair amount about AI agents, I do not use them. This is because agentic AI applications often introduce a more than medium-sized headache in terms of cybersecurity. For instance, one security research recently explained how a Word Doc could be leveraged to get Copilot to spread an AI worm. AI researcher…
I loved almost every aspect of Fallout’s first season, but one element that topped all else was how the Wasteland was imagined. Opting for mostly practical sets meant that all the locations that the first season ventured through looked just as I had imagined they should, and with the second season venturing to New Vegas,…