With the appearance of the role-playing game on video consoles, a genre less about actual role-playing and more about navigating enemy dungeons via numbers rather than reflexes, we also saw the appearance of grinding. How grinding works is simple enough. If your statistics aren’t good enough to defeat an enemy boss, just defeat enough…
US-based companies have been at the forefront of the AI revolution, but now it looks like a new challenger has emerged. China-based DeepSeek is just over a year old, but the startup has released an open-source AI model called R1 that seems to have the rest of the industry worried. DeepSeek was founded in 2023…
Need to Know What is it?: A third-person snipe ’em up with tense combat and fun stealthExpect to pay: £44.99 / $49.99Developer: Rebellion Publisher: RebellionReviewed on: NVIDIA RTX 4080, AMD Ryzen 7 5800x 8-core processor, 32GB RamMultiplayer?: Yes, co-op and adversarial Link: Official Site Nazis are pretty much the definitive bad guys. They’re perfect videogame…
Violent vermin. After releasing the first Tails of Iron in 2021, developer Odd Bug Studio seemingly hasn’t taken a moment to rest, returning to its bleak world of anthropomorphic rats, frogs, and bats with a sequel that looks to offer fans a slightly expanded experience in Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter. And while…
Signal – Shortwave Transmission recreates the Signalis’s original Steam demo. The survival horror title Signalis, which is available for PC and modern platforms, has just received a surprising new unofficial Game Boy demake from a talented member of the game’s community (h/t: RetroDodo!). The new demake, which is called Signal – Shortwave Transmission, is a…
The best gaming monitors are engineering marvels, packed with millions of pixels, that can change colour quicker than you can imagine. You do need a decent graphics card to push them all around, though, but one inspired coder has a solution to this in the form of a game that just uses your monitor’s subpixels….
Smells like a stunt. As Nintendo continues to take its good old time revealing details about its upcoming console, other companies have been quick to cash in on everyone’s desperation for Switch 2 news. The price point is a key talking point right now and Italian site Games And Movies has taken a punt and…
With Nvidia’s RTX 50 series launch at CES earlier this month and all the subsequent reviews of the RTX 5090, especially in-depth ones like our Dave’s, laying out all the specifications, we all know that the biggest Blackwell chip is one seriously big GPU. And thanks to a new die shot of the processor, we…
Last week, a Marvel Rivals player known as NoDmgRocket announced that they managed to climb all the way up to GrandMaster without dealing a single shred of damage. But just before they reached the next rank, Celestial, a tragic accident happened: they dealt damage. Marvel Rivals tier list: Best characters for each roleMarvel Rivals ranks:…
Alongside the homebrew titles Wormhole 2000 & SpideX. Songbird Productions has announced it will be releasing new reprints of three Atari Jaguar games, including the Super Mario Kart clone Atari Karts. Atari Karts was developed by Miracle Designs, and published by the Atari Corporation in 1995 in North America (Europe would have to wait until…