Harvest Dew. If the ‘Uncanny Valley’ is the term for something being almost-human-but-not-quite, then Harvest Moon: Winds of Anthos is in the Uncanny Stardew Valley. It’s so close to being a really good farming sim game, but doesn’t quite manage to hit the mark. However, for the first time in the turbulent and confusing history…
We’re only a couple of months off the back of Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 ‘Panther Lake’ laptop chips, which our Andy called “fast, feisty, and fabulous” after extensive testing, and now we’ve got some concrete specs for a new generation of Intel mobile chips—assuming X user Jaykihn’s leaked table is legit, that is. As…
Creating the music and sound effects for Battlezone was both an honor and a treat for our Audio Lead Graham Gatheral. The 1980s was a formative time for him, and he and the audio team are still very much into video games, music, and film from that era, such as Blade Runner, Tron, and —…
Top Deal: Does Patriot’s addition of 64GB and 128GB DDR4 Viper 4 memory kits have you wanting to thumb your noise at prudence while you run way past the point of diminishing returns? Or maybe you’re looking to build a more modest dream machine, one that doesn’t go overboard on RAM, saving you some coin…
Cutting open some Cold Ones with the boys. While the world continues to wait in vain for Konami to release another 2D Castlevania, plenty of indie game developers have stepped up to try filling the gap with their own take on the famed formula. Some of these games have almost copied the gameplay beat for…
Jack of all trades. One of the Switch’s greatest strengths is that it knows exactly what it is. You’ve got a small handful of streaming apps, sure, but there’s no denying that Nintendo Switch is a game console, through and through. Could its eventual successor be more, though? Back in 2013 when Microsoft revealed the…
There’s been just a little confusion surrounding the upcoming hardcore sci-fi shooter Fragmentary Order, in that while Escape from Tarkov’s creator, Nikita Buyanov, is involved it was not known to what extent, and whether it would have an impact on Tarkov. But this has now been cleared up by Buyanov himself. “Frago (Fragmentary Order) is…
I’m not sure when this became a thing, but AI firm Anthropic has released the ads it intends to show during the Super Bowl. Which is in two days, and obviously has as big a live audience as you get, which is why you’re paying up to $10 million per 30 seconds of airtime. Anthropic’s…
Turns out, the game features two secret debug menus with a range of different features. The software engineer Bo Bayles (@memory_fallen) has recently taken a deeper look at the cult Sega Dreamcast role-playing simulation SEGAGAGA, and in the process has released a new patch that unlocks two of the game’s hidden debug menus. SEGAGAGA, in…
The official website for the upcoming New Pokemon Snap for the Nintendo Switch system has confirmed that over 200 Pokemon will be available to snap in the highly anticipated game. While the full list has yet to be revealed, here are the Pokemon which have been announced or shown off in promotional footage that have…