It’s time to hit the road. The Sega Nomad wasn’t a commercial success, yet it remains one of the best ways to experience Genesis / Mega Drive games; it can be used in portable form but also connected to the TV—almost like a Nintendo Switch, but two decades ahead of time. The big issue with…
All hail the new king. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced that the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, has been officially launched, which strikes me as a hell of a nervy first boot. You always hold your breath the first few times you fire up a freshly-built gaming PC, don’t you? However,…
Hyte kinda blew up in early 2021; its Y60 chassis changed the game in the world of PC cases in a wild way. As soon as you could blink an eye, every media outlet, influencer, and PC enthusiast had one of those shiny fishbowls strapped to their Instagram page, complete with the latest hardware. And…
NieR, far, wherever you are. Late last year, it was reported that several PlatinumGames veterans had seemingly left the studio. While only Bayonetta Origins‘ Abebe Tinari confirmed this news, it looks increasingly likely that Astral Chain director Takahisa Taura has followed suit, potentially forming a new company in the process (thanks, Nintendo Everything). Initial rumours…
Peripherals specialist Logitech and the repair gurus at iFixit are ganging up to deliver that most noble of pursuits, making your devices last longer. The basic gist is to sell genuine Logitech parts on iFixit along with listing step-by-step repair guides. A quick tally of the guides on the Logitech Repair Hub on iFixit suggests…
Epic Games has for several years now been engaged in a legal war with Apple and Google, centered around the closed ecosystems of iOS and Android: Where developers have no choice but to pay a 30% store fee on all revenue. The massive success of Fortnite seems to have brought this into sharp relief for…
Donkey Kong is an iconic Nintendo character with a storied history, transforming from villain to hero over the course of his existence. Though he made his menacing debut in arcades, Donkey Kong has since become a goofy character prime for comedic relief, so much so that Seth Rogen recently voiced DK in the Super Mario…
The dataminers appear to have struck some hypothetical gold while panning for details in, bemusingly, Cataclysm Classic’s public test realm (PTR) of all places. In case you aren’t in the know, player housing—an oft-requested feature of the 20 year old MMO—is absolutely coming to World of Warcraft in the game’s next expansion, Midnight. The only…
Pocketpair, the developers behind Palworld, has announced its first project as a publisher—a new horror game alongside Surgent Studios. This comes a few months after the studio responsible for Tales of Kenzera: Zau put its team on notice for redundancy. “We noticed a pattern in the entertainment industry, and Pocketpair has given us the opportunity…
From low-poly animator and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie artist suitNtie. A new N64-inspired adventure has just been announced for PC that will let players become a travelling salesman and embark on a cozy adventure across several towns to build their fledgling business. Merchant 64 is the work of the low-poly animator suitNtie, who recently…