Mark Darrah was a programmer on the original Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate 2, along with Neverwinter Nights and Jade Empire, and served as executive producer of the Dragon Age series from Origins through Inquisition before leaving in 2020—and coming back in 2023 to kick in on The Veilguard. He knows a thing or two…
Chipmaking is an incredibly complex process that only gets more so to meet the needs of smaller, more intricate chips. It requires lithography machines to print and scale these silicon thinking machines. High Numerical Aperture Extreme Ultraviolet, or High NA EUV, lithography tools are among some of the newest and most cutting-edge methods of making…
After a few teasers, Minecraft has shared the name for its next drop in a blog post. Now known as “The Copper Age”, this one plans to add a huge amount of new content from weapons to mobs, alongside improvements to make your life as an adventurer a lot easier. According to the announcement ,…
Shell grabbing! Backwards scrolling! P-Switches! A team of ROM hackers led by AleFunky has just released Super Ale Bros. Redux, a new hack for the original 1985 Super Mario Bros. which drastically modifies the game in a bunch of cool ways. This ASM hack (which means it has been written in Assembly) introduces elements which…
Nintendo has announced via Twitter that the Winter Tour will be the next tour in the free-to-play smartphone game, Mario Kart Tour. You’ll be able to sign up to the Winter Tour when it kicks off on 19th November and it is set to feature plenty of cosy snow scenes. You’ll need your snow tyres…
Let’s be real, the weird, vaguely villainous and nonhuman fantasy races in RPGs are the most fun way to play. Half-Orcs, Dragonborn, Tieflings, they’re just more fun, especially in a game as reactive as Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s felt like only a matter of time until modders started opening up options for BG3’s unplayable NPC…
The mouse has gone gold. Yacht Club Games has been pretty tight-lipped about its upcoming Game Boy-inspired, Zelda-style adventure Mina the Hollower, which is due to launch in spring 2026. But the developer has revealed today that the game has finally gone Gold. So while we’re approaching the end of that spring 2026 window, it…
Po-TATE-oh? I’ve long said that the handheld emulation sector is saturated with devices which all basically do the same thing, with only minor increases in processing power setting them apart – well, that and design inspiration, which usually involves cloning the look of a famous portable from decades ago, like the GBA or GBA SP….
A new project from G-Mode and Red Art Games. Retro game collections are all the rage nowadays and following in the footsteps of classic mascots like Gex and Bubsy are now Joe and Mac. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
What do they do with you when you die in Skyrim? The draugr would suggest you get interred in some kind of big tomb to murder future adventurers, but aren’t those all Nords? What if you’re playing a Dunmer, or a Breton, or some other non-native culture in Skyrim’s snow-capped peaks? You presumably get stuck…