The finest games on Commodore’s beloved 16-bit system. While gaming history tends to be dominated by home consoles, it’s important to remember that, at one point, many players got their fix from a home computer. During the ’80s and early ’90s, powerful 16-bit machines like the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga went toe-to-toe with the…
5 Nintendo Gadgets We Wish Existed, Based on Actual Patents They say that the book is humankind’s greatest invention — durable, navigable, versatile and non-reliant on external power sources or connectivity. Perhaps gaming’s equivalent invention is the deck of cards — be they the familiar 52 poker cards, Top Trumps or any other variation. Nintendo…
Nielsen run company SuperData is reporting that the immensely popular Among Us, which is now available on the Nintendo Switch, is currently the most popular video game ever in terms of monthly players. The company reports that the game had around half a billion monthly active users in November, which is a gargantuan amount. The…
Free blades if you’ve played TOTK or AoC. It’s not too long now until we finally get our hands on Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment on Switch 2, with that 2nd November release date rapidly approaching. To sate our appetites in the interim, Nintendo has dropped a new teaser trailer showing off Koei Tecmo’s very…
The promised and much-delayed Joy Ride update is now available in the popular shooter and Battle Royale game, Fortnite. The new update allows you to race around the map in a variety of car models and the cars even have radio stations, so you can blast the tunes. You can check out the new Fortnite…
Ignoring the teensy tiny issue of burn-in, there’s one remaining limitation afflicting large OLED displays including PC monitors. Yup, it’s full-screen brightness. But now there’s a new OLED panel tech that promises to fix that with a full-screen capability of fully 500 nits. The new OLED panel is from Chinese manufacturer TCL CSOT and is…
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’s story DLC, Order of the Giants, has gotten an official release date of September 4 via a new “launch trailer” on YouTube. Is it really a “launch” trailer if we’re still over a week away from launch? And is the full title then “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle…
For years, software was distributed on cartridges, cassette tapes, or diskettes. While programs were available via modem from BBSes, downloading in general wasn’t as ubiquitous as it is today. As 8-bit microcomputers gained popularity, one of their big selling points, the built-in BASIC interpreter, eventually led to another avenue of software distribution: the type-in program…
HGiG or not HGiG, that is the question. If you’ve been feeling (as this writer has) that your Switch 2 graphics look a little washed out on your TV set in docked mode, guess what? It seems a bunch of other folk have too. What’s more, there’s an actual reason for it, and it can…
Doctor, heal thyself. Or, in this case, malware, self-destruct. A joint press release from the US Justice Department and the FBI has announced a multi-month law enforcement operation involving multiple international partners that has succeeded in removing malware from over 4,000 US computers—by telling it to delete itself. The malware in question is known as…