In news only nerds like me will care about (which is pretty much my raison d’être at this point), the world record for the highest 3DMark Port Royal score has been smashed. Shattered. Thrown into the mud. Soundly beaten. Okay, so it’s not by a huge amount over the previous record. But the new top…
“This level of performance was previously impossible on these models”. A new PS3 mod has just been revealed that promises “previously impossible” levels of performance on PS3 Super Slim, Slim 3000 and late 2504 models of Sony’s third PlayStation console. As highlighted by Polish modder @Modyfikator89, this method deploys a full-working Quasi-Custom Firmware / qCFW…
Chalk up a win for small business! The Seattle offices of Valve Corporation—a plucky upstart company co-founded by Washington businessman Gabe “Gaben” Newell—must have been abuzz recently, when its videogame storefront Steam pipped a steamy milestone in its concurrent user metrics. Sorry, I’ve written so many articles about Steam’s concurrent user records that I decided…
As the Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks continue to flow, Take-Two Interactive has begun the hunt for the people behind them. A Kotaku report says the GTA publisher has filed subpoenas with Microsoft and Discord, requesting user data and records of accounts that were involved in sharing the leaks. Take-Two “has submitted a sworn declaration…
Review catch-up (Image credit: Coal Supper) There were a few games last year that we didn’t have time to review, so before 2025 gets too crazy we’re playing review catch-up and rectifying some of these omissions. So if you’re reading this and wondering if you’ve slipped through a wormhole back into 2024, don’t worry, you’ve…
Is that a Kangaroo in your pocket or are you just ‘hoppy’ to see me? InFocus is kind of breaking new ground with what it’s dubbed Kangaroo, a mobile desktop PC running Windows 10. Kangaroo is smaller than a NUC or any number of mini PCs on the market, and more flexible than a stick…
Prepare to have your minds blown , especially if you have an Atari 7800! As we have just found through Liqmatrix, that during Jan of this year, OldStyle and Bobby Clark had released an update to their incredible work in progress Atari 7800 conversion/port of the Arcade game of ‘Bubble Bobble’. A game that has infuriated…
The latest edition of EDGE magazine has arrived with subscribers and it’s a bumper issue packed with high profile reviews of the latest video games. There are reviews for titles such as Streets of Rage 4, Final Fantasy VII Remake and Resident Evil 3 Remake, amongst others. The highest rated video game this month is…
“We all agree that the Speccy is the superior platform”. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is perhaps the most famous home computer to come out of the British Isles. Launched in 1982, it is credited with creating an entire generation of designers, artists and developers, and continues to attract adoration and attention more than 40 years…