The 90s was a great decade. It introduced us to The X-Files, the Internet, polygon-based first-person shooters, and the dedicated GPU. The 90s also saw the dramatic transformation of Microsoft’s Windows platform, taking the DOS-heavy operating system and painting it with a slick interface and a new Start Menu. Enter Windows 95, the beginning of…
Going into Dededetail. Gosh, well that was a deep dive and a half! Masahiro Sakurai has just wrapped up his detailed rundown of Kirby Air Riders in the latest spotlight Direct, and it was absolutely crammed with information. Sakurai spilled the beans on everything from character rosters to controls, so we’ve assembled the following breakdown…
Google published a whitepaper yesterday that dramatically pulled in the horizon on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Google Quantum AI researchers claim that cracking the cryptography protecting many major coins, including bitcoin and ether, could require a quantum computer with fewer than 500,000 physical qubits, something in the order of 20 times lower than previous estimates,…
I was pretty excited about Helskate—though after trying its Steam Next Fest demo, I’m not sure it’s really pulled its disparate parts together in the way it needs to. Not yet, anyway—it’s a pre-early access glimpse at what its devs have been cooking, so there’s still room for improvement. I had a big soft spot…
aT A GLANCE (+) Outdoor Camping Fast; customizable; solid build quality; TPM support. (-) FPS Camping Expensive; somewhat bulky; mediocre battery life. This article was published in the October 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. One year later, Nvidia’s GM204 is still the king of mobile GPUs…
At least, according to Kadokawa’s latest financial report. If everything goes to plan, FromSoftware is poised to have a big 2026 on the Nintendo Switch 2. Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition and The Duskbloods were announced at the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct in April 2025, but things have been pretty quiet for both games since. However,…
Hey all! Usually creators drop by PlayStation.Blog to announce one exciting thing, but we’re actually announcing two side-by-side (That’s cool, right?). First off: Cartoon Network is launching the brand new animated television series OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, created by fan-favorite Ian Jones-Quartey (Steven Universe, Adventure Time, Secret Mountain Fort Awesome). It’s a bonkers cartoon…
PlayStation Now players, prepare to perform super heroic feats this month as a trio of PS4 titles join the service. Protect Marvel’s New York by battling Super Villains in Marvel’s Spider-Man, survive weaponized superstorms and hi-tech mercenaries in South America with Just Cause 4… and get a hole in one at TPC Scottsdale’s No.16 hole…
Infamous racer ‘Spirit of Speed 1937’ finally goes online. Fans within the Dreamcast community have brought a lot of old multiplayer games back online over the years, but one title that most people never expected to be able to play online was Broadsword Interactive’s 2000 Dreamcast port of Spirit of Speed 1937. This is not…
The upcoming Core i9 14900KS CPU has shown up at several European retailers. Intel’s latest binned KS model is sure to be its fastest gaming chip. Though it’s likely to use a lot of power and pump out volcanic amounts of heat, the price looks to be within expectations, if only going by i9 13900KS…