Some games change everything. Over the last several decades, video games have evolved rapidly, thanks to developers who kept finding new ways to surprise us with the tools they had. Their ideas gave us the franchises we still celebrate and the genre landmarks that continue to influence what games look like today. Old School Gamer…
A couple weeks back, we sent you swinging back into Marvel’s Spider-Man to celebrate Peter’s latest suits: the Upgraded and Stealth suits. While you swung from skyscrapers and fought off iconic villains, you shared your greatest moments using #PS4share and #PSBlog. Here are this week’s friendly neighborhood highlights: @DarkLink1987 shared Spidey chasing helicopter in the…
Get Hyper. Cave, a shoot-’em-up developer assembled from the ashes of Toaplan, was preparing to fold in 2001. The arcade scene was moving in new directions, relying on increasingly ostentatious Taikan cabinets to compete with the emerging technology of home consoles. For Cave, the 2D shoot ’em up, no matter how unerringly creative, was struggling…
This article was published in the December 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Will XPoint technology shake up the storage industry? Reader surveys indicate that most Maximum PC readers are using SSDs as boot drives. You’re apparently still using large hard drives for mass storage, however, creating…
Who would have thought it? Famitsu has shared its rundown of 2025’s best-selling games in Japan, and it’ll come as a surprise to no one to hear that it was yet another good year for Nintendo. You might recall that Nintendo revealed the most-downloaded eShop titles in the region at the end of last year,…
XA couple weeks after its early access launch, things are going mostly pretty well for the steampunk-mechs-in-the-desert game Sand: Raiders of Sophie. An update that rolled out on July 2 caused some surprise headaches and had to be rolled back, which isn’t great, but on the brighter side the game looks to be a legitimate…
Microsoft cordially invites you to have a crack at tipping its new AI-powered Bing search tools into existential meltdown. And it will pay you up to $15,000 for your trouble. Well, it will if you manage to bait AI Bing in just the right way. Yup, AI Bing has joined Microsoft’s bug bounty program (via…
Deciding whether to free Doctor Garrow in Atomfall is a bit of a headscratcher. On one hand, this scientist says she can help you escape the zone and provide some answers about what the hell’s going on. On the other hand, though, Captain Sims sent you to interrogate the rogue researcher and will, understandably, be…
Watching paint dry is drab. Tired. Boring. Watching half a dozen virtual lil’ guys chisel away at a big hunk of stone to turn it into a statue? Now that’s entertainment, baby. Crimson Desert is a lot of game, both good and bad—it’s ambition and scale cut with frustration and bizarre design choices. For every…
Nintendo Switch 2 Game Card Coming Soon. Red Art Games, in collaboration with Konami, has released physical editions of Super Bomberman Collection, which launched digitally on PC and console platforms back in February of this year. Super Bomberman Collection features eight games from the frantic multiplayer blaster, pulled from the franchise’s Nintendo years. The set…