If I’m known for anything, it’s my incredible fashion sense. ‘Josh!’ cries the baying mob, ‘tell us where you got that 10-pack of t-shirts of indiscernibly different dark hues for like £15! Tell us how you look so good in all those identical pairs of black jeans! Wearing a jacket today? Daring!’ My fashion secrets…
Wired for sound. The Nintendo Switch 2 brings improved audio and built-in GameChat, making a good gaming headset more useful than ever. Whether you’re chatting with friends or just want to enjoy your games with better sound, the right headset can make all the difference. One of the most welcome additions is the headphone jack…
Back during the hype cycle for Fallout 3, a common refrain of skeptics was that Bethesda had simply made ‘Oblivion with guns’—in effect creating some kind of total overhaul mod for The Elder Scrolls 4 that subtracted the spellcrafting and added in shotguns. Sadly, what we actually got was a game about chasing Liam Neeson…
Ready or Not, the SWAT sim shooter, is known for its brutality. You can blow the head off an enemy combatant, dismember bodies, or just hit them in the back of the head with your gun. It’s certainly not to everyone’s taste but, for those who like it, the gore seems to really matter. But…
Another console port first. Hamster, known for its suite of retro Arcade Archives ports, has revealed its next Switch 2 game as part of the Arcade Archives 2 series. And, just like Ridge Racer, it’s another polygonal arcade-to-home port. This time around, it’s Air Combat 22, which is coming to both Switch 1 and Switch…
Despite not being expected to appear until 2026, rumours and leaks about Intel’s next generation of desktop CPUs continue to come thick and fast. The latest snippet claims that Nova Lake will have “leadership gaming performance” coming from more than 10% better single-threaded (ST) and 60% higher multi-threaded (MT) performance gains. However, it’s not a…
Glitch in the Matrix. Until Then is a visual novel that tells the story of Mark Borja, a high school student who grapples with the usual day-to-day of teenage life while trying to figure out why he’s experiencing weird cases of déjà vu. It’s a slow burn; one that relishes in the quieter, mundane aspects…
‘Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics’ was in development in the early 2000s. A prototype has just been recovered for a previously-lost Animaniacs game that was being developed for the Game Boy Advance, the preservationist group Hidden Palace has announced. Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics was in development at the UK-studio Full Fat Productions back in the early 2000s and…
Forging Clerk Vambraces in Monster Hunter Wilds is one of the necessary steps in Gemma’s New Fashion, Old Feelings quest. This new mission was added in Free Title Update 2 and sees Gemma holding a fashion contest between you and other hunters. She’ll ask you to forge and equip some pieces of gear as layered…
It is, tragically, summer. That means you have to preserve as much money as possible to spend on ice cubes, platoons of fans, air conditioning, and the energy cost that comes from opening the door on your freezer and lying your head on the life-giving ice within. Not a lot of cash left for videogames,…