“The O.J. trial was a big thing in America, and that just killed the whole thing”. If you were an avid reader of video game magazines back in the late ’90s, you may remember reading about an in-development video game adaptation of The Naked Gun film series that was being developed by Perfect Entertainment (for…
Today, The Pokémon Company International and Nintendo announced more details for the new cloud service app Pokémon HOME. The app enables Trainers to continue their Pokémon adventures beyond a single game system and manage their collection of Pokémon across many of their games. Pokémon HOME will launch in February 2020 for iPhone, iPad, and Android…
A creative mix. Nintendo’s Switch Online Playtest Program struggled to contain leaks when it went live last year and it looks like the inventors behind this concept have now been revealed. According to a new patent doing the rounds, the creative talent leading this playtest includes Yusuke Amano, Tsubasa Sakaguchi, Masaki Wada, and Shinya Yano….
I can’t stop staring at the grass in Lawn Mowing Simulator 2. Maybe it’s because it’s been a long week and I’m tired to the point of practically being in a trance. Maybe it’s because the sun came in the UK for the first time all year this week, and my desire to go outside…
While either Sony or Microsoft will “struggle mightily”. DFC intelligence, a long-standing research and consulting firm for the video game industry, has projected that the upcoming ‘Switch 2’ will be the “clear winner” of the next console generation in its ‘2024 Video Game Market Report and Forecast’ (thanks, wccftech). The report states that the Switch…
In its 22 years since launch, WoW has gradually accumulated an elaborate ecosystem of metrics and simulation tools allowing players to analyze and optimize their combat performance. That ecosystem grew so elaborate, in fact, that Blizzard ultimately opted—with somewhat mixed results—to restrict how much combat data community developers could access so the studio can design…
Ryzen 9 9900X | 12 cores | 24 threads | 5.6 GHz boost | 64 MB L3 cache | 120 W TDP | AM5 socket | $499 $409.99 (save $89.01) In our Ryzen 9 9900X review, our main criticism was the price, with it not majorly outshining the much cheaper Ryzen 9 7900X but, at…
Is it possible for any person with a computer to count the number of times Windows Update has screwed up something that was working perfectly fine the day before? It’s such a bedrock computing experience that last October, when my PC’s notification bleeps suddenly sounded like they were being filtered through a dirty fish tank,…
The US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division has confirmed that it is indeed offering a four-day pass in November to soldiers who reenlist for at least two years, so they can play Grand Theft Auto 6 when it comes out. The “Special Reenlistment Incentive” memo is dated July 28, and came to light via the US…
The Witcher season 4—not to be confused with the also upcoming The Witcher 4 game—is likely headed our way this year. Filming on the season has reportedly wrapped, although all we’ve seen of the next leg of Geralt and Ciri’s continent-trotting adventures so far is a quick teaser of new star Liam Hemsworth taking over…