Forget about your feeble 140 DPI, 1,000 nit, 4K OLED monitors, Samsung has just announced a new OLED panel with 5,000 pixels per inch capable of 15,000 nits and beyond 8K resolution. Oh, and it measures just 1.4 inches across. It is, of course, aimed at VR headsets, hence the teensy proportions. Samsung says it…
Actor voices Osamu Kashiwagi. After confirming the English voiceover cast for Yakuza 0: Director’s Cut recently, Sega has now shared a quick look at actor David Hayter in the role of Osamu Kashiwagi. In case you’re unaware, Hayter is perhaps best known for his role as Solid/Naked/Old Snake in the Metal Gear Solid series. He’s…
Helldivers, get to your Super Destroyers! In a surprise turn of events that even our top researchers couldn’t predict, the Illuminate have finally revealed their intentions, emerging from the Meridian singularity, and setting a course for Super Earth. It’s now more important than ever that we band together and stop this salvo from destroying our…
Donkey Kong Country composer David Wise is also collaborating on the album. The Mega Man 3 co-composer Harumi Fujita is releasing a new album and has enlisted the help of Mega Man creator Akira Kitamura to do the artwork. Rockmama, as the new release is being called, is Fujita’s debut solo album and contains 14…
Fast and difficult shoot ’em ups, often shortened to “shmups”, were an absolute staple of the arcade era. Space Invaders was a major proponent in the explosion of arcade culture, so it’s no wonder that the genre consistently received countless combinations of spaceships blasting through baddies for decades to come. In 1985, Konami released Gradius,…
AI is an acronym I’m hearing multiple times a day lately, and usually only with a 30% hit rate of being used for the right actual thing. LLMs like ChatGBT and DeepSeek are constantly in the news while we talk about putting AI in everything from our gaming chips to our schools. It’s easy to…
“That’s how they were originally intended to be played”. The Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con controllers include mouse capabilities which opens the new system up to even more games. We’ve already seen how third-party titles like Civilization VII will support this feature when the new device arrives this June, and it seems other developers are just…
“I’d enter the national lottery but the odds are just too good” – if this sounds like you, I’ve got good news. Now you can purchase a new high-tech kind of lottery ticket with even worse odds of mining a bitcoin than you do of winning your country’s lottery. Truly we are living in a…
Forever physical, kind of… Physical distributor Limited Run Games recently announced a Switch 2 game-key card collector’s edition of the Atlus release RAIDOU Remastered – stating in fine print how this was not part of the company’s “numbered release” line. We mentioned at the time how it could take a different approach with other releases…
AI might be king of the tech zeitgeist, but a little further down the road, just out of sight, quantum computing is growing. As a technology AI is a lot easier to understand and far more tangible than quantum computing. We see it all the time, be it a standard update to our device, or…