Samsung announced this morning that customers can now pre-order the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR headset here in the United States. Costing a meager $100, Gear VR can be purchased from online retailers including Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, and Samsung.com. Shipping will begin on November 20, and Best Buy stores are slated to get the VR headset sometime…
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has got a lot of attention over the past year for their game master-driven plot. To commemorate the first anniversary of Helldivers 2‘s release, extremely private game master J.O.E.L. is doing his first real public appearance in a video talking about the game master’s favorite moment of the first…
Dominions is one of those “If you know, you know” game series. Across 22 years, it remains untroubled by the usual quest for ever-greater graphics fidelity or conceptual execution. Dominions is instead the product of two people focused intensely on game mechanics and a sprawling game world. The premise is that the god-of-gods is dead…
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has dropped a third entry into its sequence of insider episodes with a big reveal—in the game’s first season, you’ll get to play as da Joker, baby. As posted to the Warner Bros. Games YouTube Channel, the diary goes into a few notable bits of information—like three seasons that’ll…
Netgear on Thursday expanded its ReadyNAS 200 Series of Network Attached Storage (NAS) products with the launch of two new units: the ReadyNAS 212 (RN212) and the ReadyNAS 214 (RN214). Both are ideal for the home and home office, packed with a quad-core ARM Cortex A15-based processor clocked at 1.4GHz and real-time 1080p high-definition video…
Jacob Ridley, senior hardware editor (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been at CES 2024: Stomping around Vegas for a week has left my feet sore, but it was worth it to get a first look at so many new products. This year, there were an overwhelming number of products brandishing AI abilities, and I’m…
This one’s for the Neo Geo freaks. The Video Game History Foundation’s free digital archive of game magazines has passed 5,000 issues, a major milestone. More importantly, the archive is now expanding beyond English to support Japanese mags, starting with Neo Geo Freak (1995-2000), which require a unique approach to preserve: “Professional archivists in Japan…
Dear reader, I want to entreat you to read the rest of this spotlight with an open mind. I have a bit of a history on this site for advocating for the underdog—or the horndog, one might say. I do this because I think it’s funnier to try and empathise with the abyss than it…
Ubisoft’s intriguing action-adventure title Immortals: Fenyx Rising is due to be released on Nintendo Switch this December and it has now been rated by the Australian Classification Board. The greek mythology inspired adventure has been rated by the board as a Mature title and the listing also reveals that the game will feature in-game purchases….
Vampire Survivors has dropped a new patch—and you’d think, considering Halloween is fast approaching, that they might, oh, I don’t know, lean into their already-present spooky themes a little? You’d think. Instead, they’ve gone and swept the rug out from under just about everybody and released Patch 1.7.0, named “Whiteout“, which is coincidentally what’s happening…