No Rest for the Wicked has had a bumpy ride through early access so far. While I thought the initial release was an impressive overhead blend of Diablo-ish action RPG systems and Souls-like tropes, it was held back by performance issues and limited scope, and only saw one major update after release (the Crucible patch)…
Forever. Well, we’ve come to the end of a week that’s seen the end of two gaming institutions as we’ve known them for many years. The departure of Dan Ryckert and Jeff Grubb from Giant Bomb on Thursday was swiftly followed by news of layoffs at Polygon following the site’s sale to Valnet (owner of…
Last week, we asked to set off on the broken road of Days Gone Remastered and share epic moments of survival using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: calisarah1998 shares Deacon standing in the middle of a desolate street itsRyanUnicomb shares a look up at Deacon’s motorcycle and the night sky tulippooh3 shares Deacon…
Nvidia and AI firm Anthropic are currently embroiled in a back-and-forth around claims the former’s chips are being smuggled into China, and the concerns that smuggling raises. Where Anthropic cites a systemic problem, Nvidia argues Anthropic is telling “tall tales”. In a recent blog post, Anthropic warned of the ‘major threat’ that is chip smuggling….
Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week: I spent hours emptying my office to make room to build a new desk. Then I spent hours building said desk. Finally, I spent hours looking at the ruin wrought upon my apartment as my various office gubbins sit tucked into every nook and cranny, all…
Good news: AMD has finally announced the specs of the much-rumoured RX 9070 GRE. The bad news? It appears to be a China-only card for now, leaving those of us in the rest of the world to stare in wonder. Or at the very least, mild interest. Not that this is a particularly big surprise,…
I’ve written so much hagiography for Morrowind on this website that I’m even starting to annoy myself. You’d think that means I’m not going to spend yet another article gushing about Morrowind. You’d be wrong. You should play Morrowind: it’s the best Elder Scrolls game and, quite frankly, one of the best games of all…
A couple of weeks ago, a mooted high-end variant of Intel’s Battlemage gaming graphics architecture was spotted in a shipping manifest. That was labelled for “R&D” purposes, but still had me hoping Intel was cooking something up that might compete with Nvidia’s RTX 5070 on performance but radically undercut it on price. This latest spot…
Don’t you just love how buying one of the best graphics cards is impossible right now? The latest cards are either out of stock or just priced up to a ludicrous degree, and the last-gen GPUs are in such tight supply their prices are far from a comfort, either. And just when we all thought…
“I’m hoping WavePhoenix gives a second life to WaveBirds”. Nintendo’s WaveBird wireless controller for the GameCube is considered to be one of the best pads ever made, but as time goes on, finding a controller with its all-important receiver is getting harder and harder—within a reasonable budget, at least. James Smith (AKA loopj) has created…