AMD is rumoured to be in talks with Samsung with a view to producing chips on a new 2 nm silicon production node. A new report from SEDaily claims, “the two companies plan to finalize the contract around January of next year after evaluating whether the process can actually achieve the performance level AMD demands.”…
Puzzling out weapon set passive skill points in Path of Exile 2 is perhaps the most cryptic part of the game I’ve encountered so far, mainly because the UI doesn’t explain it properly. These skill points are a special allotment you can attach to your first or second weapon set, effectively giving you two separate…
In what one might say is a remarkable example of understatement, Warner Bros. Discovery said in a letter to shareholders that 2024 was “a disappointing year” for its games business, which suffered a 53% decrease in revenue compared to 2023. Despite that big hit, Warner has high hopes for 2025 thanks to its recent restructuring,…
Video game industry site Games Industry has rounded up some notable analysts to get their opinions on what they think the state of the gaming industry will be like this year. One of those interviewed is, Dr. Serkan Toto from Kantan Games, who is adamant that we will see a revised higher specification Nintendo Switch…
Mech me reach for my wallet. Back when Sony’s 32-bit PlayStation was yet to hit Japanese store shelves, I vividly recall seeing Pony Canyon’s Metal Jacket being shown off in various video game magazines (you know, those things we all used to read before the internet existed). I loved robots – especially Japanese robots –…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with The Good Old Days developer Tazaki Ryoh about his newest game coming this Fall to the Nintendo Switch. About The Good Old Days: The Good Old Days is a heartfelt tribute to the golden age of youth, blending the charm of 1980s juvenile films with the pixel-perfect style of retro…
Blackfrost: The Long Dark 2 is in development and will hit early access in 2026. The announcement came during the 2024 The Game Awards, with a gorgeous trailer showing a considerably more varied color palette than what we saw in the brilliant original. Better still, this instalment will add co-op. While that early access launch…
Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony to friends, has died at the age of 92. One of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing, he invented the Quicksort algorithm after a bet with his boss, later devised Hoare logic (a system for rigorously assessing the correctness of a program), and was…
Has it already been a year since Marvel’s Spider-Man webbed up our hearts? I’ve been a lifelong fan of the ol’ wall-crawler, so since Insomniac’s acclaimed adventure first point-launched onto PS4 I’ve been beside myself swinging through the city, putting a stop to crimes both big and small… and stopping every five minutes to bust…