Grabbing an Aqua Sac in Monster Hunter Wilds is important early on if you want to craft a water element weapon from the Balahara tree. Since you’ll find yourself in the fiery Oilwell Basin before too long, there’s no harm in acquiring a weapon that deals water damage for a little extra effectiveness against those…
Looking back, we’ll call this period a renaissance for games that are kind of a pain in the ass. Stalker 2, Kingdom Come, Atomfall on the horizon—the gaming public of 2025 wants nothing more than to die face-down in the mud, victims to clockworld worlds that have their own rules and obey them unsparingly. I…
“I think criticism helps us grow and ultimately become better at what we do”. Those of you with a love of physical media and retro games will no doubt have heard of the name Limited Run. Founded in 2015 by Josh Fairhurst and Douglas Bogart, the company started out publishing games created by Fairhurt’s Mighty…
The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: The Tyrant’s Eye: We scored a critical hit at this year’s CES show with the debut of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: The Tyrant’s Eye! We landed on numerous…
Category: Games February 28, 2025 Monster Hunter Wilds: 6 Tips from the Developers Themselves Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief The Monster Hunter series is packed with detail – from 14 weapon types, each effectively changing what kind of action game you’re playing, to its many items, to the huge range of monsters to take down…
Despite the Jennifer Coolidge cameo. Try to stop it all you can, we are rapidly approaching the Minecraft Movie‘s release date on 4th April and even the new ‘Final Trailer’ hasn’t convinced us about Jack Black’s latest trip into the world of video games. The new trailer does pack in a lot of new content,…
It is also available to buy digitally on Apple Music and other platforms. Update : SEGA Sound Team announced earlier today that it has brought the SEGA RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP – 30th Anniv. Album to digital storefronts like the iTunes Store and Amazon Music, as well as streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. The…
If ever a new GPU family has been all about the money, it’s AMD’s RDNA 4, otherwise known as the new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT. At last we have official pricing from today’s live stream, so here goes. The Radeon RX 9070 will be $549 and the Radeon RX 9070 XT is yours…
AMD has finally taken the wraps off of its long-awaited RDNA 4 graphics cards, the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT. And, to be honest, it feels like a long time coming. Details have been thin on the ground after a somewhat chaotic half-reveal during CES 2025, but now we’ve finally received hard details as…
After months of speculation we’ve finally had our first look at AMD’s next generation RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 GPUs. But the fun doesn’t stop there, as AMD has also taken this opportunity to tell us more about FSR 4, the latest version of its previously compute-based upscaler. The headline news here is that…