Overseas returns are capped at 200 units. GoRetroid has acknowledged an unfixable issue with its Retroid Pocket Mini handheld. The issue affects screen-scaling on the device, with the device reportedly not scaling correctly to a full 980p. This is particularly noticeable when using certain CRT and pixel effect shaders and is an issue with the…
Pity the poor studio who dares release day-and-date with Grand Theft Auto 6. If you thought the countless indies who scrambled out of the way of Silksong’s launch in August was eye-opening, imagine the feeling of doom that would arise from having GTA 6 suddenly land in your release window. For studios planning a November…
Baldur’s Gate 3 proved that the rules of Dungeons & Dragons, with some tweaks, make a brilliant framework for a videogame RPG. And yet Wizards of the Coast seems intent on making games that don’t use that framework. Last year the publisher announced Invoke, one of its internal videogame studios, was making Warlock, a third-person…
Just in time for the 40th anniversary. Nintendo recently kicked off Mario’s 40th anniversary, and it appears other companies are joining in on the celebrations. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Futuristic racer has been in development for a while. Nintendo’s F-Zero launched alongside the Super Famicom / SNES and gave players a taste of what the system was capable of thanks to its smoothly-rotating Mode 7 tracks. While the Amiga can’t replicate this graphic mode, it’s getting an F-Zero-style racer which at least aims to…
The release of Valve’s Steam Deck has supercharged the portable PC gaming scene. It harkened changes to Steam that have allowed it to flourish in the Switch-like form factor, welcoming in a new generation of handheld gaming computers and now the Steam Deck OLED. With more competition on the rise, Valve has remained committed to…
When I was first approached about working on a new God of War comic, a prequel to this year’s PS4 game, I was both intrigued and intimidated. Intrigued, because I knew from the early promotional stuff I’d seen that the new game would move Kratos away from his roots in Greek mythology and transplant him…
Getting hit with ransomware is seldom short of a nightmare situation. Finding out the call might just be coming from inside the house definitely kicks both the fear and the frustration up a notch. Three men who had previously worked in the cybersecurity industry have pleaded guilty to conspiring to deploy ransomware. Between April 2023…
One of this year’s most interesting GDC talks was delivered by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company’s first chief marketing officer, who went over her history with the company that brought us Half-Life and Steam. There’s so much in Harrington’s career and memories to pick out, but a notable anecdote which…
It seems Nintendo isn’t done with the lucrative Poke Ball Plus as a new patent has emerged online showing a revised edition. The new Poke Ball Plus aims to provide players with the following “properly organise the components of a spherical controller, to allow various operations using a game control; to improve the degree of…