Tragic news: despite steering Electronic Arts as CEO since 2013, Andrew Wilson hasn’t had a pay rise in the last three years. He’s scraping by on the same $1.3 million annual salary he’s had since fiscal year (FY) 2023 (when it was bumped up from the $1.29 million he earned as salary in FY2022). Times…
Anyone who is interested in realistic real-time graphics, be it in games or animation, will know that dense vegetation can be very costly on GPU resources. They either eat up lots of VRAM or shader time, or both. A team of university researchers and AMD staff have come up with a solution, though, that procedurally…
“Jaffe… had everybody sit down and play Buffy”. We were recently fortunate enough to catch up with video game producer, designer, and project lead Antonio “Tony” Barnes, whose extensive credits include the likes of Desert Strike, Strider (2014) and Killer Instinct (2013), as well as many other titles from the past few decades. One game…
Remedy’s latest multiplayer shooter has… uh, not done particularly well for itself, if the Steam numbers are anything to go by. At the time of writing, the game has a 24-hour peak player count of 169 (no, I did not miss a digit) and a ‘mixed’ rating on Steam. Critically speaking, we gave it 60%…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for June 30 to July 4 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published June 27, 2025 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox PC, and Game Pass! Get…
We see the word Ultra fairly frequently on this website, often tied to graphics cards or other exciting pieces of PC hardware and used to denote improved performance. Here, it’s attached to something as prosaic as a USB SSD, and represents a reduction in something: size. The Ultra Compact is small. There are standard USB…
You know, I was pretty happy with the ending I got in Baldur’s Gate 3 in my (so far) only playthrough. Everything seemed to work out pretty well for everyone. But, and spoilers ahead folks, I guess I was wrong. The end I went with saw exiled Gith prince Orpheus freed from his dimensional time-prison,…
“The response far exceeded our expectations”. Nintendo has today held its 85th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, during which president Shuntaro Furukawa apologised for not being able to meet initial demand for the Switch 2. As highlighted by @NStyles on X, a shareholder asked whether there was a specific reason for the shortage of consoles…
Top-tier protection. Dbrand knows its target audience. Excited new Switch 2 owners are, of course, the perfect consumers to sell a protective cover/skin/case to, with early adopters eager for reliable ways to protect their pricey new handhelds before it accidentally slips out of hand (or in my case, off of lap and onto the floor)….
Again, there’s no English translation sadly. D4 Enterprise has announced it will soon be rereleasing the PC-98 version Microcabin’s action-RPG Fray on Nintendo Switch. Fray is a spin-off to the cult RPG series Xak, taking place pretty much simultaneously to the events of the second game. It was originally launched for MSX computers in 1990,…